The event will likely take place between August 8 and 20, and a host city will be confirmed by October.

Pierre Lafontaine, the chief executive of Swimming Canada, said there are six cities in the running to host the competition – Victoria, Edmonton, Calgary, Winnipeg, Québec City and Montreal.

Montreal has recent experience of staging the World Aquatics Championships in 2005 – which may give it a significant advantage in the race to host next year's event.

The competition will last for seven days, with a few more than the 600 athletes who competed in Eindhoven expected to compete for the 180 medals on offer.

From 2013, the IPC World Swimming Championships will follow the same cycle as the able-bodied events.

The able-bodied World Aquatics Championships take place every two years; the last was held in Shanghai in 2011.

The last IPC World Swimming Championships was staged in Eindhoven, the Netherlands in 2010.

"We are very happy to announce we will hold the 2013 World Championships in Canada," IPC chief executive Xavier Gonzalez announced here today, at the venue where the London 2012 Paralympic swimming events are taking place.

"This is our sixth World Championships after the previous successful one in Eindhoven.

"Thanks to the support in Canada in allowing us to the do the World Championships next year we are changing our calendar to follow the FINA World Championships."

IPC chief executive Xavier Gonzalez announced that Canada will host the 2013 IPC Swimming World Championships

Lafontaine added: "For us the ability to host this event is not just an honour, but also an opportunity to keep Paralympic sport and Para-swimming in Canada and North America.

"With the world coming to the Americas in 2015 for the Pan American Games this is for us to develop a model of development for officials, coaches, classifiers.

"We want to use this to become not necessarily better, but to keep growing."

The IPC World Championships will provide Canadian athletes with vital preparation for the 2015 Parapan American Games, being hosted in Toronto.

Among the other sports events coming to Canada in the years ahead is the FIFA Women's World Cup in 2015.

The IPC World Alpine Ski Championships is also being hosted by Canada in the same year.

That will be the first such championship held in the country for either alpine or Para-alpine skiing as it grows its Paralympic programmes and global profile.

"It's a fantastic opportunity for us," Canadian Paralympic Committee (CPC) President David Legg told insidethegames.

"One of the challenges we face in Canada is access to international competitions.

"When we can bring the world to us, first of all it is cost effective.

"It is also a chance for some of our younger athletes to see the very best compete and it is a very good opportunity for our Paralympic hopefuls.

"We are making a deliberate attempt to try to ramp up our development programme."

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