Sackville Waver Danial Murphy is headed to Europe for final preparations for the 2010 IPC World Swimming Championships with coach Kevin Ross. We are pleased to provide everyone with a link to Danial's blog: http://danialmurphy.wordpress.com/ so you can keep up to date with his training and racing this month!

The IPC will also be providing highlight clips that will be made available on the IPC YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/paralympicsporttv.

The 2010 IPC Swimming World Championships 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.

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 World Championships are organized with the help of the Foundation WC Swimming 2010, the NPC the Netherlands, Disabled Sports the Netherlands, the city of Eindhoven, and the Dutch Swimming Federation (KNZB).

For more information about the 2010 IPC Swimming World Championships please visit www.wcswimming2010.com