Canadian Paralympic swimming head coach looking to take team of 40 to London 2012
By Tom Degun
August 18 - Craig McCord, Canada's Paralympic swimming head coach, has revealed that it is his goal to take a team of 40 disabled swimmers to London 2012, doubling the number which competed at Beijing in 2008.
August 18 - Craig McCord, Canada's Paralympic swimming head coach, has revealed that it is his goal to take a team of 40 disabled swimmers to London 2012, doubling the number which competed at Beijing in 2008.
August 15 - Australian swimmers swept to glory at the Pan Pacific Para (PPP) Swimming Championships in Edmonton, laying down a marker for Londo 2012.
August 8 - The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has announced that all of the samples collected and analysed for banned substances from its European Swimming Championships in Berlin last month returned as negative.
July 20 - Bismarck in North Dakota will stage next year's United States swimming trials for the London 2012 Paralympics, it was announced today.
July 20 - Britain's double Beijing 2008 Paralympic swimming champion Ellie Simmonds has revealed that her entire focus has now shifted to London 2012 following a superb performance at the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) European Swimming Championships in Berlin.
July 9 - Britain rounded off a fine display at the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) European Swimming Championships in Berlin with victory in the women's 34 point 4x100 metre medley relay to claim a total of 27 gold medals and finish second on the overall medal table.
July 8 - Britain's Susie Rodgers sealed her fourth gold medal on the penultimate day of competition at the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Swimming European Championships in Berlin as she claimed a European record of 36.74sec with victory in the S7 50 metres butterfly.
July 7 - World champion Jonathan Fox claimed his second gold medal and second world record of at the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) European Swimming Championships in Berlin as cruised to victory in the men's S7 100 metres backstroke as Britain claimed three gold medals on day five of the event.
July 6 - Double Paralympic champion Ellie Simmonds lowered her own world record in the women's SM6 200 metres individual medley at the International Paralympic Champion (IPC) Swimming European Championships in Berlin to claim her second gold medal of the competition on day four on the event.
July 5 - Paralympic champion Sam Hynd led a superb British clean sweep in the men's S8 400 metres freestyle on a successful day three of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Swimming European Championships for the team that saw them claim four gold medals for the third successive day running in Berlin.
July 4 - Britain's world champion Louise Watkin sealed her first 2011 International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Swimming European Championship gold medal in a European record of 2min 35.99sec after a superb finish in the women's SM9 individual medley on day two of the competition.
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January 22 - Natalie Du Toit will be the target this year for British swimmer Stephanie Millward (pictured), who has today left for a three-week altitude training trip to Spain to prepare herself for the new season.
January 21 - Paralympic hopeful Eleni Papadopoulos (pictured), the swimmer rated as one of Britain’s hottest prospects for London 2012, claimed that she is fully focused on competing at the Games despite a heavy academic workload.
December 27 - Canadian swimmer Chelsey Gotell (pictured), winner of 12 Paralympic medals during a career that started as a 14-year-old in Sydney in 2000, has revealed that she may quit the pool before London 2012.
December 22 - Dutch nsurance company Univé has been announced as a sponsor of the 2010 IPC Swimming World Championships, which will take place in the Pieter van den Hoogenband Swimming Stadium in Eindhoven next August.
