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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 individual or relay race events.
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.
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.
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.
The 2024 Summer Paralympics was an international parasports event held in Paris, France from 28 August to 8 September 2024. The event featured around 4400 atheletes across 22 different sports. [1] In total, 80 World records and 120 Paralympic records have been broken in the event. [2]
The light-hearted pre-race singing and dancing worked out for Pergolini, who earned the first American gold medal of the 2024 Paralympics with a time of 1:04.93 — just short of her world record ...
The world records in disability swimming are ratified by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). These are the fastest performances in swimming events at meets sanctioned by the IPC. Races are held in four swimming strokes: freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke and butterfly over varying distances and in either individual or relay race events.
August 26, 2021 at 12:15 PM. Anastasia Pagonis' entrance on the international swimming stage is one for the history books. The 17-year-old broke her own world record in the 400m freestyle S11 to ...