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12-18 August

Montreal 2013 - Media Centre

News - Swimming

Man with medal around his neck standing on a podium
Swimming

Portugal’s top para-swimmers will try for selection for the national team that will compete at their home European Championships in Funchal.

Marc Evers and Scott Quin competing in the Men's 100m Breaststroke SB14 at the 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships in Glasgow
Swimming

Team Manager assesses what the 100m backstroke champion needs to do to retain his Paralympic title.

A swimmer says thank you to the crowds at the para-swimming World Championships in 2015
Swimming

Ahead of the IPC Swimming European Championships, Paralympic champion Marc Evers speaks about Russian rival.

Andrew Mullen of Great Britain competes at the 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships Glasgow, Great Britain
Swimming

Organisers of the competition in Madeira, Portugal, are offering tickets to download to celebrate 100 days to go to the Championships.

A female swimmer doing breaststroke
Swimming

Elizabeth Marks showed good form, setting a new world record in the women’s 50m breaststroke SB7 in Colorado Springs.

Jessica Long competes at the 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships in Glasgow, Great Britain
Swimming

Three reigning world champions, including 12-time Paralympic champion Jessica Long will look to gain a place for the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.

A visually impaired athlete swims
Rio 2016

At the start of a Paralympic Games year, here are swimmers to follow in 2016.

Man in swimming pool, celebrating after finishing a race. Camera filming him.
Swimming

The athletes to look out for at September’s Paralympic Games include six judoka and 31 swimmers.

Backside of a woman with no lower legs at a swimming pool
Swimming

The International Federation for para-swimming will begin a review into the physical and visual impairment classification systems to strengthen compliance with the revised IPC Athlete Classification Code.

British swimmer Stephanie Slater comes up for a breath of air.
Swimming

The event will be held in Funchal, Madeira, between 30 April – 7 May.

close up shot of Daniel Dias swimming and winning gold
Swimming

Brazilian Paralympic champion Daniel Dias won seven world titles and eight gold medals at the Toronto 2015 Parapan American Games.

Ukrainian Yelyzaveta Mereshko
Swimming

Ukrainian newcomer storms to three World Championships gold medals, including in the women’s 400m freestyle S6 where she beat Great Britain’s Eleanor Simmonds.

Swimmer doing backstroke in the water
Swimming

Jessica-Jane Applegate, Bethany Firth and Eleanor Simmonds are amongst those to set world, European and British records in Manchester.

Swimmer doing backstroke in the water
Swimming

Great Britain’s best swimmers will be at the Aquatics Centre as part of their road to Rio 2016.

Top 50 moments 2015 - No. 25
Swimming

Canada’s Aurelie Rivard had an incredible 2015, winning two world titles, six Parapan Am medals and a new world record in the women’s S10.

2016 IPC Swimming European Open Championships in Funchal, Portugal
Swimming

Organisers are looking for 200 volunteers to help run the last major swimming competition ahead of Rio 2016 in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal.

Tully Kearney, Great Britain, at the 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships Glasgow, Great Britain.
Swimming

Many new faces emerged in the year before the next Paralympic Games.

Anna-Carin Ahlquist
Table Tennis

Two players and one team were confirmed by the National Paralympic Committee to represent Sweden at the upcoming Paralympics.

Sarai Gascon of Spain
Swimming

Technical officials and classifiers will have the chance to take part in training courses in Singapore and the USA.

Jessica-Jane Applegate
Swimming

The London 2012 Paralympic champion hopes to inspire athletes with similar intellectual impairments to compete in sport.