Representatives from the Barbados National Olympics Committee have paid a fact-finding mission to Wandsworth to inspect training facilities ahead of the 2012 London Games.

The BNOC president Steve Stoute and general secretary Erskine Simmons were looking at potential training camp facilities for their athletes. Wandsworth has been approved as a potential home of a pre-games training camp because of its many excellent sporting facilities.

Council facilities that could be used include the Barn Elms Sports Centre for archery, the Millennium Arena in Battersea Park and the Tooting Bec athletics track for a full range of track and field athletics and the Battersea Youth Sport Centre for fencing, judo and wrestling. Ernest Bevin College in Tooting, which has been a specialist college for sport since 2000, has facilities for badminton, basketball, judo, table tennis, tae kwondo, indoor volleyball, wrestling, boccia, goalball, sitting volleyball, wheelchair basketball and wheelchair rugby.

And the Roehampton Club, which is set in 100 acres of parkland close to Richmond Park, has been approved for tennis and wheelchair tennis.

Accommodation for visiting athletes could be provided at the student quarters at Tooting's St George’s University Hospital and also on the Roehampton University site.

Wandsworth is keen to encourage competing nations to set up training camps in the borough for the boost this will give the local economy.

The council's executive member for environment and leisure Cllr Sarah McDermott said: "With the range and quality of the sporting facilities we have in this borough, we are very confident that we can attract an ambitious and high-achieving team.

"Our two athletics tracks are both top quality, and they can cater for the full range of track and field events, from javelin to high jump.

"We have other venues that could provide an excellent training base for all types of competitors, in sports ranging from judo to volleyball. We also have great accommodation available in Tooting and Roehampton.

"We believe the 2012 Games could be of great economic and cultural benefit to the borough, which is why we are giving it our full backing."

For more information on how the borough is preparing for the 2012 London Games, and details of the training camp facilities available, visit wandsworth.gov.uk/olympics.