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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 ...
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.
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.
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.
2014. 2018. 2022. The United States of America (USA), represented by the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee, has participated in every Summer and Winter Paralympic Games and is currently first on the all-time medal table. The nation used to be a dominant Paralympic power in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, but has steadily declined since ...
Swimmingat the XVI Paralympic Games. 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.
2022 Madeira →. The 2019 World Para Swimming Championships was the tenth edition of the World Para Swimming Championships run by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). The championships were held from February to June in seven countries across five continents and served as a qualifying event for Paralympic swimming at the 2020 Summer ...