Three-time Olympic champion Stephanie Rice and world champions Marieke Guehrer, Jessicah Schipper and Brenton Rickard will spearhead a 48-strong Australian Swimming team for the Commonwealth Games in Delhi

Claeys quits pool for comedian career. Aniene wins Italian Team title at Coppa Brema Trophy. Swimming Australia signs contract with Singapore Airlines

Leigh Nugent was today named head coach of Swimming Australia for the next four years

Michael Phelps has set the men's 200-yard fly national record at the Maryland State Championships held in Annapolis

One of Austria's most senior and respected coaches is reported to have attempted suicide after being questioned over allegations that he filmed two teenage swimmers watching pornography

Melissa Ingram and Kane Radford won the 2.8km Corsair Classic in Christchuch, New Zealand

Australian swimming star Stephanie Rice, could not defend her Commonwealth titles she won in Melbourne 2006

Great racing and a plus for both nations - but no doubting the winners of the first GBR - GER duel for 37 years; Tancock brings hosts home to victory with a 48.6 split in the 4x100m relay

Clarke Scholes, a Michigan State University swimmer who won a gold medal in the 100 metres freestyle at the Helsinki Games in 1952, has died. He was 79

Brazilian swimmer Vinicius Rocha Barbosa Waked tested positive to banned substance during the Troféu Open de Natação last December

Britta Steffen will not be attending the Germany Vs Great Britain duel in the pool this weekend

Ohio State’s men’s swimming coach Bill Wadley has been appointed Interim FISU Technical Swimming Chairman

World champions Britta Steffen and Paul Biedermann head the German squad heading for the duel with Britain in Swansea on February 20-21

Open water, FINA 10km Marathon and Swimming Grand Prix. Libby Trickett could make a comeback for London 2012. Swimming Taiwan

Stoychev and Nunez won the 37th edition of open water marathon "Rio Coronda" in Argentina, Ana Marcela Cunha and Evgeny Drattsev won 10k in Santos

In 1966 an airplane crashed to the ground while landing in Bremen. In the accident died 46 persons including 6 Italian athletes

Cecilia Biagioli of Argentina and Simone Ercoli of Italy won the first race of the 2010 FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix, which has been held in Rosario, Argentina

George Bovell and Kimberlee John-Williams were named male and female swimmers of the year by Amateur Swimming Association of Trinidad and Tobago

Auckland’s Cameron Gibson retired Wednesday from competitive swimming

The FINA Bureau, at its meeting in Bangkok, considered some anti-doping issues and a couple of innovation in open water discipline