SYDNEY — Nick D'Arcy has been kicked off Australia's team for the swimming world championships in July after being convicted of causing grievous bodily harm in an incident that also cost him a spot at the 2008 Olympics.

Swimming Australia released a statement Tuesday saying D'Arcy's selection for the world championships in Rome had been terminated. He had been preselected on March 24 after winning the 200-meter butterfly at the national trials.

On March 27, D'Arcy was convicted of recklessly causing grievous bodily harm to former Commonwealth Games medalist Simon Cowley on March 30, 2008, but his sentence of 14 months and 12 days in jail was suspended. That means he will not serve time in prison unless he breaches certain conditions.

The 21-year-old swimmer was kicked off Australia's Olympic team for Beijing last year after being charged by police in the incident that left Cowley with fractures to his jaw, eye socket, cheekbone and nose.

D'Arcy pleaded guilty to the charges last November and returned to swimming in the hope of restarting an international career. He qualified for the world championships last month.

But the Swimming Australia board met Monday and decided to revoke his place on the squad because a conviction meant he'd breached terms and conditions for selection.

"As a condition of membership on the Australian swim team, Nicholas D'Arcy agreed to be bound by the Swimming Australia Limited Team By-Laws," a Swimming Australia statement said. "Following Nicholas D'Arcy's conviction, the Board of Swimming Australia met and unanimously resolved that Nicholas D'Arcy's membership of the Australian swim team ... be terminated immediately.

"Swimming Australia notes that the decision to exclude Nicholas D'Arcy from the 2008 Australian Olympic Team was made by the Australian Olympic Committee and not Swimming Australia."

Swimming Australia said it would make no further comment.

D'Arcy's coach, Brian Stehr, questioned why Swimming Australia had allowed D'Arcy to believe he could compete at the world championships if a conviction meant he would be ineligible.

"Nick was always going to be convicted because he pleaded guilty," Stehr said. "Why did they allow him to be selected on the team only to take it away from him again — it just amazes me."

Stehr said it felt like D'Arcy had been "indefinitely" suspended.

"He's been kicked off the Olympic team, given a criminal conviction, now this — how long does it go on for?" he said. "I've just got off the phone to him. He's obviously devastated, yet again."