PARA SWIMMING NEWS

Tokyo 2020: Top 10 Para swimming moments
Legends, newcomers and first-time gold medallists make it to the list voted by fans on World Para Swimming social media channels

Ellie Simmonds confirms retirement from the pool
Five-time Paralympic champion and nine-time world champion, British Para swimming legend inspired a generation of young athletes in her country

Tokyo 2020 wrap-up: Best Para swimming quotes
From teenage medallists reflecting on their first Games to how a Japanese food diet helped a swimmer to get to the podium

Emotional Keiichi Kimura saves best for last on final day
Japanese takes his first gold in his fourth Games while Jessica Long and Maksym Krypak top the podium once again as Para swimming wraps up in Tokyo

'I couldn't have asked for more,' Ellie Cole
Australia's Para swimming icon takes her 17th medal in her final Paralympic race at 'very unique' Games before retiring from the pool

Araujo, Martin wrap up Paralympic debut with more gold
Ukraine's Maksym Krypak wins his 14th Paralympic medal while Talisson Glock and Zsofia Konkoly notch their first golds on day nine

Daniel Dias looks to continue to inspire
Para swimming legend says the last of his career was 'quicker than hoped for' and reveals his future plans after retiring with 27 Paralympic medals in Tokyo

Multiple medal winner Jessica Long reveals 'extra vertebra' so swims in pain
Olympic legend Michael Phelps sent good luck message to his friend before Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games

Pelendritou returns to the top 13 years later
Teenage talent Taliso Engel denies Ihar Boki's six-gold plan while Paralympic legend Daniel Dias makes his last appearance in the pool in Tokyo

Spain's Fernandez adds gold to her Paralympic debut
RPC celebrates three wins on day seven while New Zealand's legend Sophie Pascoe takes first victory and Ukraine's Trusov tops the podium for fifth time

Dominant China remain on track to top swimming medal tally
Sixteen-year-old Jiang Yuyan takes her first gold in her Games debut on a day with another Chinese clean podium sweep in the men's S5

Day five: First triumph for Barlaam, Boki unstoppable
Day five at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre sees first Paralympic victory of the Italian star and fourth gold for Belarus Para swimming icon

Brazil’s Carneiro twins share same tattoo and almost the podium
Debora Borges Carneiro just missed out on joining Beatriz among the medals

Al Hussein carries message of hope in Tokyo
Refugee Paralympic Team athlete proves that nothing can stop him from competing in Tokyo and delivering "a message to the 12 million refugees with a disability around the world"

Five gold for Ukraine, first for Long on day four
Paralympic icon takes her 25th medal in an evening with Ukrainian dominance and another podium sweep for China at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre

Tao Zheng leads China's clean sweep in the pool
Chinese swimmers set two new world records on day three at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre and USA's Jessica Long takes her 24th Paralympic medal