Britain's Paralympic swimming champion Ollie Hynd fhas won an appeal against his reclassification from S8 to S9 but team-mate Matt Wylie announced we would retire because he would had been moved up to a different category.
This year's International Federation for Athletes with Intellectual Impairments (INAS) Americas Swimming Open Championships has been cancelled at the request of local organisers.
Triple Paralympic swimming champion Cameron Leslie has backed a health and safety campaign run by New Zealand's largest fishing company Sanford.
Mexico's Diego Lopez and Elena Krawzow of Germany both broke world records on their way to victory on the final day of the World Para Swimming World Series finale at the Berlin Schwimm-und Sprunghalle Europasportpark.
Another day of racing produced more world records at the World Para Swimming World Series finale at the Berlin Schwimm-und Sprunghalle Europasportpark (SSE) today.
Ihar Boki of Belarus produced one of the outstanding performances of day two in the World Para Swimming World Series at the Berlin Schwimm-und Sprunghalle Europasportpark (SSE) today, breaking the world record in both heats and final.
Canada's Aurelie Rivard broke the S10 200 metres freestyle world record on the opening day of the World Para Swimming World Series in Berlin today.
Colombian duo Carlos Serrano and Nelson Crispin are hoping to overhaul Brazil's Daniel Dias in the overall World Para Swimming World Series standings when the final leg begins in Berlin tomorrow.
Brazil’s 14-time Paralympic champion Daniel Dias claimed his second title of the competition on the final day of the World Para Swimming World Series in Sheffield.
British Paralympic champion Alice Tai claimed victory in a world record time in the women’s 100 metre backstroke and led the home goldrush on the third day of action of the World Para Swimming World Series leg in Sheffield
Fourteen-time Paralympic champion Daniel Dias of Brazil was among the gold medallists on day two of the World Para Swimming World Series leg in Sheffield, winning the men’s 50 metres freestyle event in a world record-breaking time.
Britain’s Alice Tai achieved a world record on the opening day of the World Para Swimming World Series event in Sheffield.
Brazil's Daniel Dias will hope to move closer to defending the World Para Swimming World Series title when he takes to the pool in Sheffield tomorrow.
Carlotta Gilli and Efrem Morelli both won their A-finals on a gold medal-laden closing day for hosts Italy at the World Para Swimming World Series leg in Lignano Sabbiadoro.
Arjola Trimi and Simone Barlaam each gained Italian victories in home water at the World Para Swimming World Series-leg in the Lignano Sabbiadoro today.
At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Iranian judoka Arash Miresmaeili was disqualified for weighing in at nearly four pounds above the limit for his weight class of his under-66 kilograms match against an Israeli opponent Ehud Vaks in the first round. It was claimed Miresmaeili had gone on an eating binge to protest the International Olympic Committee's recognition of the state of Israel. Iran does not recognise the state of Israel, and Miresmaeili's actions won praise from high-ranking Iranian officials. Mohammad Khatami, the country's President at the time, was quoted as saying Miresmaili's actions would be "recorded in the history of Iranian glories". He was later awarded $125,000 by the Government - the same amount given to Olympic gold medallists.
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Alisher Usmanov, the Uzbek-born President of the International Fencing Federation, has positioned himself as one of the most influential figures in all of sport. With the World Championships beginning in China this week, Mike Rowbottom profiles the powerful billionaire.
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