The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has revealed four winners of the 2023 International Women's Day Recognition Awards.

the first female athlete to represent Malta at a Paralympic Games since 1980 as she competed in the swimming

The Russian Artistic Gymnastics Federation (FSGR) has said it will consider "all the possible legal consequences" of appealing a two-year ban issued against Irina Viner who has been honoured by Russia's President Vladimir Putin.

presented the prizes that included the "Order of Friendship" being awarded to Russian Synchronised Swimming

Three-time Olympic swimming gold medallist Petria Thomas has been named as Australia's Chef de Mission

mark her ninth consecutive appearance at the Games as an athlete or official.The former Australian swimming

Organisers of Paris 2024 have described many of their preparations for the Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympics as "revolutionary."

events open to women were increased to include fencing but only in the foil.There was also tennis, swimming

Cauldron.Watching alongside the IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch, was Dawn Fraser, quadruple Olympic swimming

after the Games in the Japanese capital when she received a 10-year ban from the Australian Amateur Swimming

Polish organisers of the 2023 European Games in Kraków-Małopolska have reached an agreement with Likom to be able to host canoe sprint in the Kryspinow Waterway, a lake in Piaski, it has been announced.

technical infrastructure and parking lots.The Kryspinow Waterway is capable of hosting events such as swimming

Swimming Australia have announced Kate Sparkes and Harley Connolly as the new head coaches of the Australian

aiming to improve sustainability for the 4.3 million citizens who are disabled.Sparkes coached the men's swimming

Tokyo 2020 Paralympics and is the current head coach of premier male and female sprinters in world Para swimming

Tamara Sheppard, Swimming Australia high performance director, expressed her excitement on the hiring

Australia look to add to their success in Paris 2024, with the Paralympic swimming team securing 136

Geelong’s Deputy Mayor Anthony Aitken has warned that the Australian city "cannot afford" to fund the staging of the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Victoria due to growing financial pressures.

Geelong is set to host swimming, Para swimming, diving, triathlon, Para triathlon, weightlifting, Para

Despite the Mayor of London’s plans for a "comprehensive renovation" of the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre the future of one of the world’s most affectionately regarded athletics stadiums remains in serious doubt.

with local athletes who now use the stadium only able to train during daylight hours.The Olympic-sized swimming

Obstacle laser run is being proposed as the new format to feature at next year’s International University Sports Federation (FISU) World University Pentathlon Championships.

student-pentathletes the chance to compete in the new obstacle event.The move would mean that riding, fencing and swimming

would not be on the programme for the biennial FISU event.Laser run, fencing, riding and swimming all

with obstacle racing as modern pentathlon's fifth discipline ©UIPMThe format of fencing, obstacle, swimming

Two current and two honorary Russian International Olympic Committee (IOC) members have been sanctioned by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

members or honorary members sanctioned by Ukraine's Government ©Getty ImagesPopov is a multiple Olympic swimming

More than 150 Asian Games-bound athletes joined the community in the Singapore edition of the Hangzhou Fun Run set around the Singapore Sports Hub.

butterfly event at the 2006 and 2010 Asian Games and remains the only Singaporean woman to make an Olympic swimming

This year's African Games, due to take place in Ghana from August 4 to 19, have been moved to 2024 because of economic pressures, delays in preparations and acrimony amongst key stakeholders.

Accra, Kumasi and Cape Coast.Construction works at the Borteyman Sports Complex, earmarked to host the swimming

Thirty years ago, I had to leave my hometown in Abkaziya, Georgia. I was just 5 years old, so it is difficult to fully remember the events.

 Such cities had football fields, sports halls, and swimming pools.

Organisers in Cambodia have today marked 100 days to go until the 2023 Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Para Games in Cambodia.

badminton, boccia, chess, goalball, seven-a-side football, five-a-side football, judo, powerlifting, swimming

The major Olympic Hub at Long Beach is to receive $30 million (£24.8 million/€28.2 million) to help the city re-align the shoreline in time for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics when the area will host eight Olympic sports.

Long Beach Waterfront is scheduled to host BMX, water polo, triathlon and open water swimming during