By James CrookSeptember 27 - Germany's two-time Olympic champion swimmer Britta Steffen has announced her retirement at the age of 29 following medal-less campaigns at London 2012 and the FINA World Championships earlier this year.

in the same event.Two-time Olympic gold medallist Britta Steffen has announced her retirement from swimming

By Duncan MackaySeptember 27 - South African swimmer Natalie du Toit is to receive one of Britain's highest honours in recognition of her outstanding career, which saw her compete at both the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

As a teenager, du Toit was a rising star of South African swimming when in 2001 she was hit by a

car while riding her scooter back to school after swimming practice, which resulted in her left leg

By Duncan Mackay at the Grand Hotel Baglioni in FlorenceSeptember 25 - London will host the 2016 Track World Championships on the Velodrome built for last year's Olympics and Paralympics, it was announced by the International Cycling Union (UCI) here today.

Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Championships to the Olympic Stadium in 2017 and the 2016 European Swimming

the 800 metres freestyle alongside Scotland’s Caitlin McClatchy winning the women’s 400m freestyle swimming

his 200 metre backstroke and medley titles at Glasgow 2014, after he announced his retirement from swimming

I'm 30-years-old now and there's a lot of good talent coming through who are swimming really well," he

There are some really young swimmers coming through within British Swimming."

All elite sport is tough but swimming is especially tough at the moment and the fact these guys are coming

Three-time Commonwealth gold medallist James Goddard has retired from swimming at the age of 30 "I've

British Swimming head coach Bill Furniss paid tribute to Goddard for his years of service."

By Gary AndersonSeptember 25 - Commonwealth Games Scotland (CGS) has today named the first 27 athletes that will wear the blue and white at Glasgow 2014, as the countdown continues with just over 300 days to go until the start of the Games.

at [email protected] StoriesSeptember 2013: England and Scotland unveil swimming

By Nick ButlerSeptember 24 - The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has announced that the Sochi 2014 and Rio 2016 Paralympics will receive 116 hours of combined coverage on American television station NBC and its sports network (NBCSN) in a partnership with the United States Olympic Committee (USOC).

will be particularly for those events which are particularly popular in the USA such as athletics, swimming

breaststroke champion Rūta Meilutytė, and Graham Wardell have been named to lead the English and Scottish swimming

Plymouth Leander Swimming Club head coach Rudd, who guided Ben Proud to breaking the British 50m breaststroke

There is something very special about being part of an England team in swimming as we almost always compete

Graham Wardell will coach the Scottish swimming team at next year's home Commonwealth GamesMeanwhile

hold dear to my heart so it is a huge honour to have been given this opportunity to lead the Scottish Swimming

medallist Kate Allenby took her through the rigours of the five-event modern pentathlon - horse riding, swimming

to dabble, or be dismissed as a dilettante, Offord says water polo was the hardest, and synchronised swimming

By Nick ButlerSeptember 23 - London 2012 Paralympic champion Richard Whitehead has proved his remarkable versatility across the athletics spectrum by completing an "epic journey" covering 40 marathons in 40 days in the most grueling of 1,000 mile runs spanning the length of Britain.

thrower Dan Greaves and four time cycling champion Dame Sarah Storey as well as the four-time Olympic swimming

By Gary AndersonSeptember 23 - British Swimming has announced that Rob Greenwood has been appointed as

the new head coach of British Para-Swimming with the former Olympic swimmer taking up his new role in

Cycling Paralympic lead coach Chris Furber as British Swimming's National Performance Director of Para-Swimming

For swimming at the Games there are a huge number of medal opportunities and I am looking forward to

Amy Marren won six medals at the 2013 IPC Swimming World Championships in Montreal including four golds

It's great that British Para-Swimming can attract a coach of Rob's pedigree to this position and I look

Prior to Rio in 2016, the squad will be competing at next year's IPC European Swimming Championships

By Gary AndersonSeptember 20 - Four-time Paralympic sprint champion Jason Smyth has helped to launch visually impaired sports organisation Vision Sports Ireland (VSI) at an official ceremony in Dublin today.

communities where possible.The organisation offers a range of sports, including tandem cycling, football, swimming

By James CrookSeptember 19 - Four Canadian Olympians have been inducted into the British Columbia Sports Hall of Fame, including former world and Commonwealth-champion swimmer Brent Hayden (pictured left) and gold medal-winning ice hockey coach Pat Quinn.

gold medal at the Salt Lake City Games in 2002The 29-year-old Hayden announced his retirement from swimming

By James CrookSeptember 18 - New Zealand swimmer Sophie Pascoe has been named as the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Athlete of the Month for August after taking five golds at the World Championships in Montreal.

Sophie Pascoe won five gold medals at the 2013 World Swimming Championships in MontrealAt just 20 years

Emily GoddardSeptember 18 - This year's Duel in the Pool will take place at Tollcross International Swimming

Centre, the host venue for the swimming events at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games, on December 20

-21, British Swimming announced today.

The biennial USA Swimming competition, which this year will be co-hosted by British Swimming, Glasgow

finishing touches on their performances ahead of next year's Games as they face the world's number one swimming

There's no doubt it will be a very tough event as the USA are the strongest nation in world swimming

nation in the world, the USA," British Swimming chief executive David Sparkes said."

We look forward to seeing some great swimming with the potential for world records in what we anticipate