British Swimming news

The government’s energy relief for swimming pools, leisure centres and gyms is scheduled to end on 31 March leaving thousands set for closure or service ... More

Donald Insall Associates have completed restoration work of Edwardian architecture at Grade II listed heritage swimming baths that are being converted for use as an ... More

Chelsea Warr, the UK Sport performance director, has stepped down from her role to join the Queensland Academy of Sport as chief executive later this ... More

British Basketball Federation (BBF) has appointed highly experienced sports governance veteran Maurice Watkins CBE as its new chair. Watkins is the current chair of both ... More

Swim England, the national governing body for swimming in England, has announced plans to open five performance centres nationwide to nurture young talent. The body ... More

The number of accidental drownings in the UK fell by 15 per cent last year. Figures from the National Water Safety Forum's Water Incident Database ... More

National governing body Swim England has revealed plans to establish a new network of swimming performance centres across the country. Under the Performance Centre Programme, ... More

British Triathlon Federation chief executive Jack Buckner is moving on to become CEO of British Swimming. Buckner will replace retiring chief executive David Sparkes in ... More

“Isolated” incidents of alleged bullying and duty of care failures within some Olympic sports are not a consequence of an “obsession” with winning medals, according ... More

Elite sports funding body UK Sport has left four Olympic sports – archery, badminton, fencing and weightlifting - without funding for the 2020 Games in ... More

British Swimming has made changes to the way its National Centres operate in an attempt to capitalise on a strong Rio 2016 Olympic Games. From ... More

Fifteen swimming coaches from around the country have been chosen to take part in a new development programme devised by the Amateur Swimming Association (ASA). ... More

Eighty talented young British swimmers have been invited to a four-day camp to give them the experience of being in a national squad environment ahead ... More

The London Aquatic Centre – designed by the late Zaha Hadid – has become the first London 2012 venue to achieve an ‘excellent’ rating in ... More

England football under-21 coach Gareth Southgate is among 11 professional coaches who will receive UK Sport investment to take part in its Elite Programme. Southgate ... More

Progress made by British Swimming since its management restructure in 2013 has given the sport a real chance of success at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, ... More

British swimming greats Rebecca Adlington, Mark Foster and Steve Parry joined sports minister Tracey Crouch yesterday (10 November) to celebrate 125 years of school swimming ... More

High performance sports agency UK Sport has revealed details of its Annual Investment Review, with 11 Olympic sports and seven paralympic sports seeing an increase ... More

Swim Wales has chosen the Wales National Pool in Swansea to become the new Welsh Swimming National Performance Centre. The pool will act as a ... More

The architects who designed the pool at Sheffield's Ponds Forge have said that comments made by British Swimming – that the pool is 'too fast' ... More

A report released by Ofsted recommends the government develop a new national strategy on PE and sports in schools, with teaching in more than a ... More

British Swimming has axed Stockport's Metro Swimming Club from its network of intensive training centres (ITC). In a statement, the governing body said the decision ... More

The swimming pool access system Poolpod is set to continue with further installations following the London 2012 Games. London 2012 Paralympic swimmer Susie Rodgers launched ... More

287 swimmers who participated in Swimathon 2012 at two pools in Islington, London, and four in Bath and North East Somerset have raised an impressive ... More