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Masters among Paralympians nominated for 2023 Laureus Sports Awards

  • Paralympics

Beijing 2022 Paralympic champion Oksana Masters of the United States is among the six Paralympians nominated for the 2023 Laureus World Sportsperson of the Year with a Disability Award.

four gold.Leslie made it to the list after winning a gold and three silvers at the 2022 World Para Swimming


BUCS Nationals to return to Sheffield for 10-year anniversary

  • Universiade

British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) is set to host their yearly multi-sport Nationals in Sheffield, to celebrate 10 years since the event was last held there.

The event will occur from February 24 to 26, and will have four different sports, including swimming,

;"BUCS allowed me to progress year on year, to the point where I took it more seriously and decided swimming

coming away with a gold," said Efoloko.The BUCS Nationals will have the climbing finals, long course swimming


Israel to host World Aquatics Junior Swimming Championships for first time

  • Swimming

Netanya in Israel has been selected as the host of this year’s World Aquatics Junior Swimming Championships

the event.Israeli swimmer Anastasia Gorbenko, who claimed two gold medals at the Abu Dhabi 2021 World Swimming

Championships (25m), said she was delighted that her country had been awarded the World Junior Swimming

Coming from Israel, it’s pretty cool to hear that Netanya will hold the World Aquatics Junior Swimming

Gorbenko said she was thrilled by World Aquatics' decision to select Israel as host of the World Junior Swimming

The most recent edition of the World Junior Swimming Championships was held last year in Lima in Peru.Russian


Hodge and Jincheng claim triple golds at opening Para Swimming World Series round in Australia

  • Swimming News

swimmer Timothy Hodge and China’s Guo Jincheng both claimed triple gold at the opening round of the Para Swimming

things to work on returning home but I’m very happy with where I’m at in my schedule going into the Para Swimming

The second round of the Para Swimming World Series is scheduled to be held in Lignano Sabbiadoro, Italy

to be finalised, although points from each round will be calculated using a standardised World Para Swimming


Exclusive: French believes new 90-minute format can increase interest in modern pentathlon

  • Modern Pentathlon

Britain’s reigning Olympic champion Kate French believes modern pentathlon’s new 90-minute format can bring more people to the sport as it looks set to feature at this year’s Modern Pentathlon World Championships in English city Bath.

will involve an equestrian leg lasting 20 minutes, followed by 15 minutes of fencing, 10 minutes of swimming

at an outdoor arena as part of the University of Bath’s Team Bath Sports Training Village (STV).The swimming


Dadon and Cheroni named athletes of the year at Israeli Paralympic awards

  • Paralympics

Ami Dadon and Julia Cheroni have been named sportsman and sportswoman of the year, respectively, at Israel's Awards for the Outstanding Paralympic Athletes from 2022.

Rassabi.Double Olympic champion swimmer Dadon won three gold medals at the Madeira 2022 World Para Swimming


Ecuadorian Olympic Committee President welcomes National Federations before three-city tour

  • PASO

Ecuadorian Olympic Committee (COE) President Jorge Delgado has begun the year by updating National Federations on initiatives being undertaken by the organisation.

handball, baseball, bowling, diving, canoeing, soccer, gymnastics, field hockey, karate, weightlifting, swimming

results," said Ecuadorian Triathlon Federation President Kerly Mora.Delgado, a double Pan American Games swimming


One year on from the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the IOC has shifted its field of operations

  • The Big Read

This Friday (February 24) will mark the anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, with Belarus allowing additional access via its border.

to tougher positions due to the weight of opinion within their sports.On March 8, the International Swimming

behaviour", said he would have done the same again if he had the choice.On March 18 double Olympic swimming


IWF's new communications chief aims to raise profile of weightlifters

  • Weightlifting

Raising the global profile of weightlifting, and especially its athletes, is the aim of the International Weightlifting Federation's (IWF) newly-appointed communications manager, Pedro Adrega.

has worked at six Olympic Games and 20 World Championships.In 22 years at FINA, the governing body of swimming



Fürjes steps down as World Aquatics Bureau member

  • Aquatics

State Secretary for Budapest Balázs Fürjes has decided to step down from his role as a Bureau member for World Aquatics with Olympic champion Sándor Wladár nominated to replace him.

I have suggested to the Hungarian Swimming Association (MÚSZ) and the Hungarian Water Polo Association

Hungarian Swimming Association Sándor Wladár has been nominated to replace Balázs Fürjes on the World

It is really an honour to work for swimming and water polo for years with our Olympic champions with

He has indelible merits in that the wonderful new home of swimming, the Duna Arena, was born, and the

Császár-Komjád and Hajós Alfréd National Sports Swimming Pools were renovated."




International School Sport Federation Bahrain 2024 Gymnasiade logo unveiled

  • Latest

The 2024 International School Sports Federation (ISF) Gymnasiade logo was displayed for the first time at the Bahrain National Theatre as the tournament is set to be held in the Gulf nation.

taking part in 25 different sports.The sports programme for the Gymnasiade will include athletics, swimming


UK Sport announces additional funding to aid Paris 2024 preparations

  • Paris 2024

British Olympic and Paralympic athletes training for Paris 2024 have been given extra funding with one year to go.

fencing, skateboarding, surfing, table tennis and weightlifting make up the progression sports.Artistic swimming

cycling, diving, equestrian, gymnastics, hockey, judo, modern pentathlon, rowing, sailing, shooting, swimming