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List of Paralympic records in swimming. The International Paralympic Committee recognises the fastest performances in swimming events at the Paralympic Games. Swimming has been part of at every Summer Paralympic Games. Races are held in four swimming strokes: freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke and butterfly over varying distances and in either ...
100 metre freestyle. 200 metre freestyle. 150 metre individual medley. S5/SB4/SM5. Swimmers with short stature and an additional impairment with loss of control over one side of their body (hemiplegia) or with paraplegia. Sebastián Rodríguez (ESP) (8-3-4) Béatrice Hess (FRA) (20-5-0) 50 metre backstroke.
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.
NANTERRE, France — American para swimmer Morgan Stickney dominated the field in the 400-meter freestyle SM7 final, winning by a stunning 17 seconds and setting a Paralympic record time of 4:53.88.
In Paralympic athletics competitions, athletes are given a class depending on the type and extent of their disability. The classes are as follows: [1] 11–13: Blind and visually impaired. 20: Intellectually disabled. 32–38: Athletes with cerebral palsy; classes 32–34 compete in wheelchairs, while 35–38 are ambulant.
4x100m freestyle relay 34 pts. Jessica Tatiana Long PLY (born February 29, 1992) is a Russian-American Paralympic swimmer from Baltimore, Maryland, who competes in the S8, SB7 and SM8 category events. She has held many world records and competed at six Paralympic Games, winning 30 medals (17 of them gold). She has won over 50 world championship ...
Paralympic Swimming. ← 1968. 1976 →. Swimming at the 1972 Summer Paralympics consisted of 56 events, 28 for men and 28 for women.
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. [1] The 2020 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games were postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. They kept the 2020 name and were held from ...