2015 IPC Swimming World Championships

7th IPC Swimming World Championships
Date(s)	13 – 19 July
Venue(s)	Tollcross International Swimming Centre
Nations participating	70
Athletes participating	580
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The 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships was the eighth IPC Swimming World Championships, an international swimming competition for athletes with a disability. It was held in Glasgow, United Kingdom and took place from 13 to 19 July. Around 580 athletes from around 70 countries competed at the games, with Russia topping the tables with most gold medals and medals won. ^[1] The event was held at the Tollcross International Swimming Centre located within Tollcross Park in Glasgow. ^[1] Initially awarded as the IPC Swimming European Championships, the event was upgraded to a World Championship after a change to the IPC calendar. ^[2]

This proved to be the final event branded as the "IPC Swimming World Championships". On 30 November 2016, the IPC, which serves as the international federation for 10 disability sports, including swimming, adopted the "World Para" brand for all 10 sports. The world championship events in all of these sports were immediately rebranded as "World Para" championships. Accordingly, future IPC swimming championship events will be known as the "World Para Swimming Championships". ^[3]

Venue

Glasgow

The Championship was staged at the Tollcross International Swimming Centre located at Tollcross, Glasgow. The venue possesses a 10 lane competition class swimming pool, and after a £13.7 million upgrade in 2013, a six lane 50 meter warm-up pool was added. ^{[4] [5]}

Events

Classification

Main article: Disability sport classification

Athletes are allocated a classification for each event based upon their disability to allow fairer competition between athletes of similar ability. The classifications for swimming are:

• Visual impairment
  • S11-S13
• Intellectual impairment
  • S14
• Other disability
  • S1-S10 (Freestyle, backstroke and butterfly)
  • SB1-SB9 (breaststroke)
  • SM1-SM10 (individual medley)

Classifications run from S1 (severely disabled) to S10 (minimally disabled) for athletes with physical disabilities, and S11 (totally blind) to S13 (legally blind) for visually impaired athletes. Blind athletes must use blackened goggles.

Schedule

Finals

Date →		13 Jul	14 Jul	15 Jul	16 Jul	17 Jul	18 Jul	19 Jul
50m Freestyle	Men Details	S13 S10	S4		S9 S6 S3	S11 S5	S12	S8 S7
	Women Details	S13 S10	S4		S9 S6	S11 S5	S12	S8 S7
100m Freestyle	Men Details	S7 S11	S9		S8 S4		S10 S13	S6 S5
	Women Details	S7 S11	S9 S3		S8		S10 S13	S6 S5
200m freestyle	Men Details	S3 S4		S5 S14			S2
	Women Details			S5 S14
400m freestyle	Men Details	S6	S11	S7	S13	S8	S9	S10
	Women Details	S6	S11	S7	S13	S8	S9	S10
50m backstroke	Men Details	S5			S1		S3	S2 S4
	Women Details	S5					S3	S2 S4
100m backstroke	Men Details	S9	S1 S2	S11 S13 S12	S10		S6 S7 S8	S14
	Women Details	S9	S2	S11 S13 S12	S10		S6 S7 S8	S14
50m breaststroke	Men Details					SB2 SB3
	Women Details					SB3
100m breaststroke	Men Details	SB14	SB5 SB6 SB7 SB8	SB9	SB12	SB13	SB4 SB11
	Women Details	SB14	SB5 SB6 SB7 SB8	SB9		SB13	SB4 SB11
50m butterfly	Men Details			S6	S5	S7
	Women Details			S6	S5	S7
100m butterfly	Men Details	S8				S10 S9		S13 S11
	Women Details	S8				S10 S9		S13
150m medley	Men Details			SM3 SM4
	Women Details			SM4
200m medley	Men Details		SM13 SM10	SM8	SM11 SM7	SM6 SM14		SM9
	Women Details		SM13 SM10	SM8	SM11 SM7	SM6 SM14	SM5	SM9
4×50m freestyle relays	Mixed Details	20pts
4 × 100 m freestyle relays	Men Details					34pts
	Women Details				34pts
4 × 100 m medley relays	Men Details						34pts
	Women Details							34pts

Medal table

The medal table at the end of the championship.

  *   Host nation (Great Britain)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia  (RUS)	32	19	20	71
2	Ukraine  (UKR)	21	27	15	63
3	United States  (USA)	11	11	8	30
4	Brazil  (BRA)	11	8	4	23
5	Great Britain  (GBR)*	10	12	10	32
6	China  (CHN)	10	11	8	29
7	Australia  (AUS)	9	8	13	30
8	New Zealand  (NZL)	8	6	2	16
9	Belarus  (BLR)	7	1	1	9
10	Netherlands  (NED)	6	3	6	15
11	Spain  (ESP)	4	7	11	22
12	Norway  (NOR)	4	2	3	9
13	Italy  (ITA)	3	6	2	11
14	Canada  (CAN)	2	5	5	12
15	Germany  (GER)	2	4	5	11
16	Japan  (JPN)	2	4	1	7
17	Mexico  (MEX)	2	3	5	10
18	Colombia  (COL)	2	2	0	4
	South Korea  (KOR)	2	2	0	4
20	Sweden  (SWE)	1	1	2	4
21	South Africa  (RSA)	1	0	2	3
22	Cyprus  (CYP)	1	0	0	1
	Thailand  (THA)	1	0	0	1
24	Azerbaijan  (AZE)	0	2	3	5
25	France  (FRA)	0	2	2	4
26	Israel  (ISR)	0	2	1	3
27	Poland  (POL)	0	1	5	6
28	Greece  (GRE)	0	1	3	4
29	Vietnam  (VIE)	0	1	1	2
30	Czech Republic  (CZE)	0	1	0	1
	Iceland  (ISL)	0	1	0	1
32	Hungary  (HUN)	0	0	3	3
	Kazakhstan  (KAZ)	0	0	3	3
34	Ireland  (IRL)	0	0	2	2
35	Argentina  (ARG)	0	0	1	1
	Austria  (AUT)	0	0	1	1
	Croatia  (CRO)	0	0	1	1
	Portugal  (POR)	0	0	1	1
	Turkey  (TUR)	0	0	1	1
	Uzbekistan  (UZB)	0	0	1	1
Totals (40 entries)		152	153	152	457

Multiple medallists

Many competitors won multiple medals at the 2015 Championships. The following athletes won five gold medals or more. ^[6]

Name	Country	Medal	Event
Daniel Dias	Brazil	Gold  Gold  Gold  Gold  Gold  Gold  Gold  Silver	50m freestyle - S5 100m freestyle - S5 200m freestyle - S5 50m backstroke - S5 100m breaststroke - SB4 Mixed 4x50m freestyle relay 20pts 50m butterfly - S5 4 × 100 m freestyle relay 34pts
Ihar Boki	Belarus	Gold  Gold  Gold  Gold  Gold  Gold  Silver	100m backstroke - S13 100m butterfly - S13 100m freestyle - S13 200m medley - SM13 400m freestyle - S13 50m freestyle - S13 100m breaststroke - SB13
Denis Tarasov	Russia	Gold  Gold  Gold  Gold  Gold	100m butterfly - S8 100m freestyle - S8 50m freestyle - S13 4 × 100 m freestyle relay 34pts 4 × 100 m medley relay 34pts

Records

Multiple world and continental records were broken during the competition. The below table lists the number of records broken by country.

Legend

WR: World record, CR: Championship record, AF: Africa record, AM: Americas record, AS: Asian record, EU: European record, OS: Oceania record

New Records [7]
Nation	WR	CR	AF	AM	AS	EU	OC
Australia	3						19
Belarus	4
Brazil	1	4		5
Canada		1		7
China	3	4			17
Colombia	1			4
Egypt			1
Kazakhstan		1
Italy		1				2
Indonesia					1
Israel		1
Japan		3
Germany		1
Great Britain	2	2				6
Greece		1
Mexico	1	1		5
Mauritius		1
Netherlands	4	1
Norway		2
New Zealand		4					3
Poland						1
Russia	10	4
South Africa		1	5
South Korea		2
Sweden	1
United States	3	5
Ukraine	3	5				5
Uzbekistan					5
Vietnam					2
Total	36	44	6	21	25	14	22

Footnotes

Notes

References

1. "IPC Swimming World Championships – About us". paralympic.org. Retrieved 17 June 2015.
2. "Glasgow IPC event to be World Championships". bbc.co.uk. 13 December 2012. Retrieved 21 June 2015.
3. "The IPC to rebrand the 10 sports it acts as International Federation for" (Press release). International Paralympic Committee. 30 November 2016. Retrieved 13 December 2016.
4. "Glasgow to Host 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships". paralympic.org. 1 March 2013. Retrieved 21 June 2015.
5. "Tollcross International Swimming Centre". glasgow2014.com. Archived from the original on 21 July 2014. Retrieved 21 June 2015.
6. "Multi Medallists". IPC . Archived from the original on 25 July 2015. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
7. "Record Broken by Event" (PDF). IPC . Retrieved 18 August 2015.^{[ permanent dead link ‍]}

External links

• Official web-site