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Sainsbury's announce London 2012 Paralympic Games legacy project

  • Sponsor News

By Tom Degun at Chiswick School in LondonSeptember 14 - Supermarket giant Sainsbury's, a Tier One sponsor of the London 2012 Paralympics, has today announced its Games legacy project, which will see it invest £1 million ($1.61 million/€1.25 million) over the next four years to get more disabled children in school involved in sport.

was announced at Chiswick School in London where a star-studded cast including four-time Paralympic swimming



Aussies set sights high for Rio 2016 Paralympics

  • Rio 2016 Paralympics

By David GoldSeptember 13 - Following a superb performance by their athletes at London 2012, Australia is already aiming to beat its Paralympic Games medal haul in Rio de Janeiro in four years' time.

in wheelchair rugby, after finishing as runners up at Beijing 2008.Most of their medals came in the swimming



Barcelona to receive economic boost from hosting 2013 FINA World Championships

  • Aquatics

By David GoldSeptember 12 - Barcelona should reap the economic rewards of hosting the FINA World Aquatics Championships next year, according to Mercè Vallès, the communications director of the competition's Organising Committee.

it will increase the number of people practising the sport, the same as in the case of synchronised swimming

Championships.Barcelona 2013 will be using the same four venues that staged the 2003 FINA event and the swimming


Intellectual Disability

  • Classification

Swimming Classification is divided into three groups:S1 to S10 are those with Physical Impairment


Les Autres

  • Classification

Swimming Classification is divided into three groups:S1 to S10 are those with Physical Impairment


Visually Impaired

  • Classification

Swimming Classification is divided into three groups:S1 to S10 are those with Physical Impairment


Amputee

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Swimming Classification is divided into three groups:S1 to S10 are those with Physical Impairment


Cerebral Palsy

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Swimming Classification is divided into three groups:S1 to S10 are those with Physical Impairment


2008 - Beijing

  • Summer Paralympics History

became the youngest ever individual Paralympic gold medalist when she won the 100m freestyle S6 event in swimming


1976 - Toronto

  • Summer Paralympics History

the top of the medal table, the Netherlands, who finished second in the medal table, dominated the swimming


1968 - Tel Aviv

  • Summer Paralympics History

were introduced.Changes were also made in the classification systems for Athletics, Basketball and Swimming

  These were athletics, basketball, dart archery, fencing, lawn bowls, snooker, swimming, table

Tokyo 1964 Games, won an astonishing nine gold medals in Tel Aviv, three in field events, three in swimming


The History of Parasport

  • Paralympics History

Javelin and Precision Javelin, Shot Put, Indian Club Throwing (throwing a baton), Men's Basketball and Swimming

Games were: Table Tennis (singles and doubles), Archery, Dart Archery and the Pentathlon (Archery, Swimming


Phelps' coach to help British Swimming review into London 2012 disappointment

  • Aquatics

By Duncan MackaySeptember 11 - Michael Phelps' coach, Bob Bowman, has joined the panel which is hoping to find out why Britain's swimmers did so badly during the London 2012 Olympics.

Swiss-based international consulting firm which specialises in sport, as a consultant and helping British Swimming

turning talent and hard work into medal success," said David Sparkes, the chief executive of British Swimming

 Phelps recently won his fifth American Swimming Coaches Association (ASCA) Coach of the Year

I hope to make a positive contribution to the development of swimming worldwide, and I am especially

London 2012 performanceAugust 2012: Review into London 2012 British swimming flop to be completed