2025 World Para Swimming Championships – Women's 150 metre individual medley

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The women's 150m individual medley events at the 2025 World Para Swimming Championships will be held at the Singapore Aquatic Centre between 21 and 27 September 2025. ^[1] There are two events in this discipline, both for lower classification swimmers

Schedule

The 150 metre individual medley events for women will be held across the following schedule: ^[1]

women's 150m ind. medley

Day	Date	Classifications
Day 1	21 Sept
Day 2	22 Sept [2] [3]	#SM3
Day 3	23 Sept	#SM4
Day 4	24 Spt
Day 5	25 Sept
Day 6	26 Sept
Day 7	27 Sept

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
SM3	Tanja Scholz   Germany	Leanne Smith   United States	Ellie Challis   Great Britain
SM4	Mira Larionova   Individual Neutral Athletes	Hanna Polishchuk   Ukraine	Gina Böttcher   Germany

Race summaries

SM3

The women's 150 metre individual medley SM3 event will be held on the 22nd of September. Eight swimmers will take part in a direct final. ^[1] Although SM2 swimmers are eligible, none have entered SM3.

The relevant records at the beginning of the event were as follows: ^[4]

Record	Athlete	Time	City	Country
World	Leanne Smith  (USA)	2:49.80	Indianapolis	United States
Championship	Tanja Scholz  (GER)	2:53.18	Manchester	United Kingdom
Americas	Leanne Smith  (USA)	02:49.8	Indianapolis	United States
Asian	Zulfiya Gabidullina  (KAZ)	03:24.8	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil
European	Tanja Scholz  (GER)	02:51.3	Paris	France

Final

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Class	Result	Notes
	4	Tanja Scholz  (GER)	SM3	2:54.47
	5	Leanne Smith  (USA)	SM3	3:04.48
	3	Ellie Challis  (GBR)	SM3	3:16.50
4	2	Zoia Shchurova  (AIN)	SM3	3:25.50
5	6	Delia Fontcuberta Cervera  (ESP)	SM3	3:29.77
6	5	Veronika Guirenko  (ISR)	SM3	4:19.55
7	8	Aly van Wyck-Smart  (CAN)	SM3	4:33.13

SM4

The women's 150 metre individual medley SM4 event will be held on the 23rd of September. Thirteen swimmers will take part, with the top eight progressing to the final. ^[1]

The relevant records at the beginning of the event were as follows: ^[4]

Record	Athlete	Time	City	Country
World	Liu Yu  (CHN)	2:39.39	Tokyo	Japan
Championship	Monica Boggioni  (ITA)	2:41.52	Mexico City	Mexico
African	Kat Swanepoel  (RSA)	02:51.4	Manchester	United Kingdom
Americas	Lídia Vieira da Cruz  (BRA)	02:57.2	Paris	France
Asian	Liu Yu  (CHN)	02:39.4	Tokyo	Japan
European	Monica Boggioni  (ITA)	02:41.5	Mexico City	Mexico
Oceania	Marayke Jonkers  (AUS)	03:28.9	Beijing	China

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Athlete	Class	Result	Notes
1	1	6	Mira Larionova  (AIN)	SM4	2:51.24	Q
2	1	4	Nataliia Butkova  (AIN)	SM4	2:54.89	Q
3	1	5	Lídia Vieira da Cruz  (BRA)	SM4	3:01.58	Q
4	2	3	Gina Böttcher  (GER)	SM4	3:04.06	Q
5	2	6	Maryna Verbova  (UKR)	SM4	3:04.37	Q
6	2	4	Hanna Polishchuk  (UKR)	SM4	3:04.79	Q
7	2	5	Patricia Pereira  (BRA)	SM4	3:05.69	Q
8	1	3	Nely Miranda  (MEX)	SM4	3:11.97	Q
9	2	2	Anastasiia Goncharova  (AIN)	SM4	3:20.89
10	1	2	Yuliia Safonova  (UKR)	SM4	3:34.98
11	1	7	Jordan Tucker  (CAN)	SM4	3:44.25
12	2	7	Zulfiya Gabidullina  (KAZ)	SM4	3:45.44

Final

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Class	Result	Notes
	4	Mira Larionova  (AIN)	SM4	2:48.48
	7	Hanna Polishchuk  (UKR)	SM4	2:54.17
	6	Gina Böttcher  (GER)	SM4	2:59.26
4	3	Lídia Vieira da Cruz  (BRA)	SM4	3:00.01
5	1	Patricia Pereira  (BRA)	SM4	3:01.37
6	8	Nely Miranda  (MEX)	SM4	3:09.53
7	2	Maryna Verbova  (UKR)	SM4	3:11.01
	5	Nataliia Butkova  (AIN)	SM4		DSQ

References

1. Singapore 2025 Event guide
2. Frodyma, Terin (2025-09-22). "Records Continue to Fall as Jiang, Hance, Engel, and Araujo Break WRs: Para Worlds Day 2 Recap". SwimSwam. Retrieved 2025-09-22.
3. "All-British top three in World Para Swimming Championships". BBC Sport. 2025-09-22. Retrieved 2025-09-24.
4. "Para Swimming Records". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 2025-09-12.