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Double Commonwealth gold medallist heads British swimming squad for Kazan 2013

  • Kazan 2013

CrookJuly 3 - Double Commonwealth Games gold medallist Caitlin McClatchey is included in Great Britain's swimming

Britain in three freestyle events, hoping to follow in the footsteps of her mother, who was a Universiade swimming

well as the relay on the back of her silver and bronze medal winning performances at the British Gas Swimming

Universiade debut in Kazan at the magnificent Aquatics Palace, which will also host the 2015 International Swimming

from Manchester Metropolitan and Craig Hamilton of Louisiana State completes the squad .The British swimming




Gwangju 2015 and United Nations collaborate for Youth Leadership Programme

  • Gwangju 2015

By James CrookJune 28 - Gwangju 2015 will host the seventh Youth Leadership Programme (YLP) this summer in collaboration with the United Nations Office on Sport for Development and Peace (UNOSDP) to aid the development of next generation leaders.

education, sports activities led by professional coaches in sports such as taekwondo, football and swimming



Paralympic champion Caironi heads Italy squad for Lyon World Championships

  • Athletics News

By James CrookJune 27- Martina Caironi, the T42 100 metres Paralympic champion, is the stand-out name in a strong squad of thirteen Italian athletes heading to the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) World Championships in Lyon next month.

to the squad, having competed in every Paralympic Games since Seoul 1988, where he won gold in the swimming


Norfolk and Goddard join students to unveil revolutionary Parasport equipment

  • Paralympics

By Emily Goddard at Imperial College LondonJune 27 - British double Paralympic wheelchair tennis champion Peter Norfolk and Paratriathlete Jimmy Goddard, a medal hope for Rio 2016, joined students here today to unveil a range of innovations for athletes with a disability that have the potential to revolutionise the future of Parasport.

The athletes themselves are being inventive and doing things like for the swim, swimming is a big Paralympic

sport but open water swimming is a wet sport is not so we are having to adapt our wetsuits for wheelchair


ESPN to provide first Universiade coverage in United States for Kazan 2013

  • Kazan 2013

By James CrookJune 26 - World university sport governing body FISU have secured a deal with sports network ESPN which will see Kazan 2013 become the first Universiade to be broadcast live in the United States.

win in the women's 4x200m freestyle relayThe coverage will focus mainly on basketball, water polo, swimming


British Swimming look to Adlington to pull them from doldrums as major changes are promised

  • Aquatics

By James CrookJune 26 - British Swimming national performance director Chris Spice and head coach Bill

British Swimming had their funding cut after failing to meet their target of five medals in the pool,

as national performance director at the same time as Furniss took over his role, knows that British Swimming

The Great Britain team will travel to Barcelona for the International Swimming Federation (FINA) World

career at 23February 2013: Furniss and Spice chosen to lead British Swimming to Rio 2016Jannuary

debate" with AdlingtonDecember 2012: British Swimming does not need "radical" overhaul review into


London 2012's iconic Aquatic Centre gets glass facelift

  • London 2012

25 - Reconstruction work is continuing at pace to London's Aquatic Centre, which staged all the swimming

Aquatics Centre, we can start counting down the months to the grand opening of a world class public swimming

Centre in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park Once work is completed, the centre, which has two 50m swimming

have cafe and crèche, a dry dive training area and a full programme of aquatics activities from lane swimming

and lessons to aqua-aerobics, water polo and synchronised swimming."

Once complete the Aquatics Centre will be a public swimming pool as well as an elite training facility



USA Synchro partners Riverside Aquatics Complex to create National Development Training Centre

  • Aquatics

By Gary AndersonJune 24 - A new National Development Training Centre has been created by USA Synchro at the Riverside Aquatics Centre in California, which will see junior and age teams use the facility.

We thank them for their hard work in supporting the youth of the synchronized swimming community."

Located at Riverside City College, the Complex contains a 65 metre all deep swimming pool and a diving

The eSynchro Age Group Synchronised Swimming Championships are currently takig place at the complex and

competing in four events; solo, duo, trio and team, at the Championships, the largest synchronised swimming



Dubai chosen to host 2014 men's Under-17 basketball World Championships

  • Basketball

By James CrookJune 21 - Dubai has been selected to host next year's International Basketball Federation (FIBA) men's Under-17's World Championships, being elected by a unanimous vote at FIBA's newly-opened headquarters in Mies.

Dubai has committed to hosting various youth events in the future, including the 4th International Swimming

Federation (FINA) World Junior Swimming Championships in August this year and also hosting matches at