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Swimming at the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris, France took place between 29 August and 7 September 2024. There were 71 male, 64 female and 6 mixed open relays, this was five fewer events than in the 2020 Summer Paralympics. [1] Medals are awarded to top finishers in each disability classification.
Women's 100 metre freestyle S3: Leanne Smith United States: PR: Marta Fernández Infante Spain: Rachael Watson Australia [270] Women's 100 metre backstroke S9: Christie Raleigh Crossley United States: PR: Núria Marquès Spain: Mariana Ribeiro Brazil [271] Women's 100 metre butterfly S10: Faye Rogers Great Britain: Callie-Ann Warrington Great ...
Swimming at the 2020 Summer Paralympics was held at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre. There were 146 events (76 male, 67 female, 3 mixed relay events) - six fewer events than the 2016 Summer Paralympics . Swimming is the second largest sport: behind athletics and ahead of table tennis .
Swimming has been contested at every Summer Paralympics. At the first games, the 1960 Paralympics , 62 swimming events were held in distances of 25 and 50 metres, plus a 3×50 metre relay for men. Since then, swimming at the Paralympics has grown to 140 events covering distances from 50 to 400 metres, plus 4×50 and 4×100 metre relays.
She will also be competing in the women’s 100 freestyle S11 on Sept. 7. This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Swimmer Gia Pergolini wins USA's first Paralympic gold in Paris Show comments
The 2024 Australian Swimming Trials was a sports event that is being held from 10 to 15 June 2024 at the Brisbane Aquatic Centre to determine Australia's swimming team to the 2024 Summer Olympics and 2024 Paralympics.
Swimming at the 2016 Paralympic Games was held from 8 to 17 September 2016 at Rio Olympic Aquatics Stadium. The competition consisted of 152 events, across multiple classifications, and all swum in a long course (50-metre) pool. [ 1 ]
The Women's 400 metre freestyle swimming events for the 2020 Summer Paralympics took place at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre from 25 August to 2 September 2021. A total of seven events were contested over this distance.