One Month to go to IPC Swimming World Championships

With less than one month before the 2010 International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Swimming World Championships begin, athletes from all around the globe are making their last minute preparations for the big competition.

To further promote the event, the IPC has just launched an official IPC Swimming Facebook Page. The brand new Facebook page has been launched for the IPC Swimming community, and includes the latest news on IPC Swimming, such as results and rankings from various international events and official information on subjects of interest like classification.

Over the next few weeks, the focus of the new Facebook page will be the upcoming 2010 IPC Swimming World Championships, with full coverage, biographies of athletes, photos and videos. The page will be ideal for not only athletes and coaches, but also Paralympic fans who want to experience the anticipation of the World Championships in the Netherlands.

For more information, visit the IPC Swimming Facebook page and become a fan at www.facebook.com/IPCSwimming.

A total of 659 athletes from 55 different countries will be participating in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, competing for the gold, silver and bronze medal in their respective event. The number of participating athletes and countries in Eindhoven will be one of the largest of any previous Swimming World Championships.

The 2010 IPC Swimming World Championships will take place from 15-21 August inside the Pieter van den Hoogenband Swimming Stadium. Many of the athletes competed previously at the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games, 2009 IPC Swimming European Championships in Iceland, 2009 IPC Swimming World Championships Short Course in Brazil, and the 2010 BT Paralympic World Cup in Great Britain.

Coverage of the competitions will be available on the IPC’s official internet TV channel www.ParalympicSport.TV, as well as on Great Britain’s Channel Four, the official broadcaster of the London 2012 Paralympic Games, and in Australia, Brazil and Spain.

For more information about the 2010 IPC Swimming World Championships and to purchase tickets to the event, please visit www.wcswimming2010.com.

For more information about IPC Swimming, please visit the official website at www.ipc-swimming.org.

To find the qualification rankings for IPC Swimming, please visit http://www.ipc-swimming.org/rankings/.