Rowing Australia have announced that Para-athletes are now eligible to receive the same performance based funding as their able-bodied counterparts.
Para-athlete Victoria Aggar, the chair of the British Athletes' Commission and a double world rowing champion, has been given an honorary degree by her former university Leeds Beckett.
Britain have named a squad full of Paralympic winners for the World Rowing Championships in Plovdiv in September.
Ukraine's Paralympic champion Roman Polianskyi secured his second PR1 men's single sculls title in two days on the final day of action at the Para Rowing International Regatta in Gavirate in Italy.
Ukrainian Paralympic champion Roman Polianskyi kept up his form from qualification to claim gold in the PR1 men's single schulls competition on day two of the Para Rowing International Regatta in Gavirate in Italy.
Ukraine's reigning Paralympic champion Roman Polianskyi was among heat winners before weather intervened today at the Para Rowing International Regatta in Gavirate in Italy.
Gavirate in Italy will host the first Para Rowing International Regatta of the season, starting tomorrow.
USRowing has received an adaptive sports grant of $250,000 (£191,000/€215,000) from the United States Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) to support the Freedom Rows programme, which assists veterans and armed forces members with disabilities.
Great Britain's Rio 2016 mixed four Paralympic champions claimed gold at the first event of the 2017 Para rowing season in Gavirate in Italy today.
The 2017 Para rowing season is due to begin tomorrow in Gavirate in Italy, where the first major international regatta will take place.
US Rowing's "Freedom Rows" project, which provides adaptive opportunities in the sport for disabled veterans and members of the armed forces, has received a cash boost of $250,000 (£193,000/€223,000).
Great Britain won three of the four medal races held as rowing finals began at the Rio 2016 Paralympics today.
The five athletes nominated to represent Canada in rowing at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games have been announced.
Itaken Timoi Kipelian of Kenya believes competing in the rowing event at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games will help improve the profile of the sport in his country.
Reigning world champions Grace Clough, Daniel Brown, Pamela Relph, James Fox and cox Oliver James have been named in the British Paralympic Association’s (BPA) rowing team for this year's Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Iranian judoka Arash Miresmaeili was disqualified for weighing in at nearly four pounds above the limit for his weight class of his under-66 kilograms match against an Israeli opponent Ehud Vaks in the first round. It was claimed Miresmaeili had gone on an eating binge to protest the International Olympic Committee's recognition of the state of Israel. Iran does not recognise the state of Israel, and Miresmaeili's actions won praise from high-ranking Iranian officials. Mohammad Khatami, the country's President at the time, was quoted as saying Miresmaili's actions would be "recorded in the history of Iranian glories". He was later awarded $125,000 by the Government - the same amount given to Olympic gold medallists.
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FINA is facing an unprecedented threat with the top swimmers taking legal action against them after they were barred from competing in the new International Swimming League. But FINA President Julio Maglione claims the new concept would represent a threat to the future well-being of the sport, as he tells Mike Rowbottom.
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