Swimming at the XV Paralympic Games | |
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Venue | Olympic Aquatics Stadium |
Dates | 8–17 September |
Competitors | 595 from 80 nations |
Swimming at the 2016 Summer Paralympics | ||
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Freestyle | ||
50 m | men | women |
100 m | men | women |
200 m | men | women |
400 m | men | women |
Backstroke | ||
50 m | men | women |
100 m | men | women |
Breaststroke | ||
50 m | men | women |
100 m | men | women |
Butterfly | ||
50 m | men | women |
100 m | men | women |
Individual medley | ||
150 m | men | women |
200 m | men | women |
Relays | ||
4×100 m freestyle | men | women |
4×200 m medley | men | women |
4 x 50 m freestyle | mixed | |
Swimming at the 2016 Paralympic Games was held from 8 to 17 September 2016 at Rio Olympic Aquatics Stadium. The competition consisted of 152 events, across multiple classifications, and all swum in a long course (50-metre) pool. [1] Up to 600 swimmers (340 males, 260 females) competed in the Games. With 152 events, swimming came second only to athletics as the largest sport at the 2016 Games.
152 events over two genders (with one mixed relay), across 14 classification and four strokes were contested during the Games. Below is a summary of the events that were contested at the 2016 Games :
Classification → Event ↓ | Motor and physical impairments | Visual impairments | ID | |||||||||||
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S1 | S2 | S3 | S4 | S5 | S6 | S7 | S8 | S9 | S10 | S11 | S12 | S13 | S14 | |
SB1 | SB2 | SB3 | SB4 | SB5 | SB6 | SB7 | SB8 | SB9 | SB10 | SB11 | SB12 | SB13 | SB14 | |
SM1 | SM2 | SM3 | SM4 | SM5 | SM6 | SM7 | SM8 | SM9 | SM10 | SM11 | SM12 | SM13 | SM14 | |
Freestyle | ||||||||||||||
50 metre freestyle | ● | ● - o | ● - o | ● - o | ● - o | ● - o | ● - o | ● - o | ● - o | ● - o | ● - o | |||
100 metre freestyle | o | ● | ● - o | ● - o | ● - o | ● - o | ● - o | ● - o | ● - o | ● - o | ||||
200 metre freestyle | ● | ● | ● | ● - o | ● - o | |||||||||
400 metre freestyle | ● - o | ● - o | ● - o | ● - o | ● - o | ● - o | ● - o | |||||||
Backstroke | ||||||||||||||
50 metre backstroke | ● | ● - o | ● - o | ● - o | ● - o | |||||||||
100 metre backstroke | ● | ● - o | ● - o | ● - o | ● - o | ● - o | ● - o | ● - o | ● - o | ● - o | ● - o | |||
Butterfly | ||||||||||||||
50 metre butterfly | ● - o | ● - o | ● - o | |||||||||||
100 metre butterfly | ● - o | ● - o | ● - o | ● | ● - o | |||||||||
Breaststroke | ||||||||||||||
50 metre breaststroke | ● | ● - o | ||||||||||||
100 metre breaststroke | ● - o | ● - o | ● - o | ● - o | ● - o | ● - o | ● - o | ● | ● - o | ● - o | ||||
Medley | ||||||||||||||
150 metre Individual Medley | ● | ● - o | ||||||||||||
200 metre individual medley | o | ● - o | ● - o | ● - o | ● - o | ● - o | ● - o | ● - o | ● - o | |||||
Relays | ||||||||||||||
4 × 100 metre freestyle relay 34 points | ●●●● - oooo | |||||||||||||
4 × 100 metre medley relay 34 points | ●●●● - oooo | |||||||||||||
4 × 50 metre freestyle relay 20 points | ●o●o |
Key:
Men's events | |||||
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50 m freestyle | S3 | S4 | S5 | S6 | S7 |
S8 | S9 | S10 | S11 | S12 | |
S13 | |||||
100 m freestyle | S4 | S5 | S6 | S7 | S8 |
S9 | S10 | S11 | S13 | ||
200 m freestyle | S2 | S3 | S4 | S5 | S14 |
400 m freestyle | S6 | S7 | S8 | S9 | S10 |
S11 | S13 | ||||
50 m backstroke | S1 | S2 | S3 | S4 | S5 |
100 m backstroke | S1 | S2 | S6 | S7 | S8 |
S9 | S10 | S11 | S12 | S13 | |
S14 | |||||
50 m breaststroke | SB2 | SB3 | |||
100 m breaststroke | SB4 | SB5 | SB6 | SB7 | SB8 |
SB9 | SB11 | SB12 | SB13 | SB14 | |
50 m butterfly | S5 | S6 | S7 | ||
100 m butterfly | S8 | S9 | S10 | S11 | S13 |
150 m medley | SM3 | SM4 | |||
200 m medley | SM6 | SM7 | SM8 | SM9 | SM10 |
SM11 | SM13 | SM14 | |||
Freestyle relays | 4 × 100 m (34pts) | ||||
Medley relays | 4 × 100 m (34pts) | ||||
Women's events | |||||
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50 m freestyle | S4 | S5 | S6 | S7 | S8 |
S9 | S10 | S11 | S12 | S13 | |
100 m freestyle | S3 | S5 | S6 | S7 | S8 |
S9 | S10 | S11 | S13 | ||
200 m freestyle | S5 | S14 | |||
400 m freestyle | S6 | S7 | S8 | S9 | S10 |
S11 | S13 | ||||
50 m backstroke | S2 | S3 | S4 | S5 | |
100 m backstroke | S2 | S6 | S7 | S8 | S9 |
S10 | S11 | S12 | S13 | S14 | |
50 m breaststroke | SB3 | ||||
100 m breaststroke | SB4 | SB5 | SB6 | SB7 | SB8 |
SB9 | SB11 | SB13 | SB14 | ||
50 m butterfly | S5 | S6 | S7 | ||
100 m butterfly | S8 | S9 | S10 | S13 | |
150 m medley | SM4 | ||||
200 m medley | SM6 | SM7 | SM8 | SM9 | SM10 |
SM11 | SM13 | SM14 | |||
Freestyle relays | 4 × 100 m (34pts) | ||||
Medley relays | 4 × 100 m (34pts) | ||||
The schedule for the swimming events in the 2016 Summer Paralympics is reproduced below; in all cases, heats in each event were held in the morning, and the finals and victory ceremonies of the events were held on the evenings of the same day [2]
Date → | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | |
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50 m freestyle | Men Details | S7 S10 | S6 | S11 S5 | S9 S3 | S13 | S8 | S12 S4 | |||
Women Details | S7 S10 | S6 | S11 S5 | S9 | S13 | S8 | S12 S4 | ||||
100 m freestyle | Men Details | S4 | S8 | S9 | S10 | S11 | S7 S13 | S6 S5 | |||
Women Details | S3 | S8 | S9 | S10 | S11 | S7 S13 | S6 S5 | ||||
200 m freestyle | Men Details | S5 | S14 S2 | S4 | S3 | ||||||
Women Details | S5 | S14 | |||||||||
400 m freestyle | Men Details | S8 | S9 | S11 | S13 | S6 | S7 | S10 | |||
Women Details | S8 | S9 | S11 | S13 | S6 | S7 | S10 | ||||
50 m backstroke | Men Details | S3 | S1 S2 | S4 S5 | |||||||
Women Details | S3 | S2 | S4 S5 | ||||||||
100 m backstroke | Men Details | S6 S14 S7 | S1 S2 S11 | S10 | S8 | S12 | S9 | S13 | |||
Women Details | S6 S14 S7 | S2 S11 | S10 | S8 | S12 | S9 | S13 | ||||
50 m breaststroke | Men Details | SB2 SB3 | |||||||||
Women Details | SB3 | ||||||||||
100 m breaststroke | Men Details | SB9 | SB7 | SB5 SB13 SB4 | SB11 SB12 | SB8 SB14 | SB6 | ||||
Women Details | SB9 | SB7 | SB5 SB13 SB4 | SB11 | SB8 SB14 | SB6 | |||||
50 m butterfly | Men Details | S6 | S5 | S7 | |||||||
Women Details | S6 | S5 | S7 | ||||||||
100 m butterfly | Men Details | S13 | S8 | S10 | S11 | S9 | |||||
Women Details | S13 | S8 | S10 | S9 | |||||||
150 m individual medley | Men Details | SM4 | SM3 | ||||||||
Women Details | SM4 | ||||||||||
200 m individual medley | Men Details | SM13 | SM9 SM10 | SM6 | SM7 | SM11 | |||||
Women Details | SM13 | SM9 SM10 | SM6 | SM7 | SM5 | SM11 | SM8 SM14 | ||||
Freestyle relays | Men | 4×50 m 20pts | 4×100 m 34pts | ||||||||
Women | 4×100 m 34pts | ||||||||||
Medley relays | Men | 4×100 m 34pts | |||||||||
Women | 4×100 m 34pts |
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | China (CHN) | 37 | 30 | 25 | 92 |
2 | Ukraine (UKR) | 25 | 24 | 25 | 74 |
3 | Great Britain (GBR) | 16 | 16 | 15 | 47 |
4 | United States (USA) | 14 | 14 | 9 | 37 |
5 | Australia (AUS) | 9 | 10 | 10 | 29 |
6 | Belarus (BLR) | 7 | 0 | 1 | 8 |
7 | Spain (ESP) | 6 | 8 | 3 | 17 |
8 | New Zealand (NZL) | 6 | 2 | 2 | 10 |
9 | Brazil (BRA) | 4 | 7 | 8 | 19 |
10 | Netherlands (NED) | 4 | 6 | 11 | 21 |
11 | Canada (CAN) | 4 | 2 | 2 | 8 |
12 | South Korea (KOR) | 4 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
13 | Italy (ITA) | 2 | 8 | 3 | 13 |
14 | Uzbekistan (UZB) | 2 | 4 | 6 | 12 |
15 | Norway (NOR) | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
16 | Singapore (SIN) | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
17 | Colombia (COL) | 1 | 4 | 2 | 7 |
18 | Hungary (HUN) | 1 | 2 | 5 | 8 |
19 | Sweden (SWE) | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
20 | Czech Republic (CZE) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
21 | Cuba (CUB) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
22 | Greece (GRE) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Hong Kong (HKG) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Kazakhstan (KAZ) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
South Africa (RSA) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
26 | Azerbaijan (AZE) | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
27 | Japan (JPN) | 0 | 2 | 5 | 7 |
28 | Germany (GER) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
29 | France (FRA) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
30 | Poland (POL) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
31 | Vietnam (VIE) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
32 | Mexico (MEX) | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
33 | Austria (AUT) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Denmark (DEN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Ireland (IRL) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Israel (ISR) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Totals (36 entries) | 153 | 152 | 152 | 457 |
Rank | Athlete | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | Ihar Boki (BLR) | 6 | 0 | 1 | 7 |
2 | Maksym Krypak (UKR) | 5 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
3 | Huang Wenpan (CHN) | 5 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
4 | Daniel Dias (BRA) | 4 | 3 | 2 | 9 |
Yelyzaveta Mereshko (UKR) | 4 | 3 | 2 | 9 | |
Ievgenii Bogodaiko (UKR) | 4 | 3 | 2 | 9 | |
7 | Zhang Li (CHN) | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
8 | Denys Dubrov (UKR) | 3 | 3 | 2 | 8 |
9 | Maddison Elliott (AUS) | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
Sophie Pascoe (NZL) | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 | |
11 | McKenzie Coan (USA) | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
12 | Anna Stetsenko (UKR) | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
Bradley Snyder (USA) | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 | |
Aurelie Rivard (CAN) | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 | |
Zou Liankang (CHN) | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 | |
Bethany Firth (GBR) | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 | |
Rebecca Meyers (USA) | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 | |
18 | Wang Yinan (CHN) | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
19 | Pan Shiyun (CHN) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Cheng Jiao (CHN) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
Jo Gi-seong (KOR) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
Xu Qing (CHN) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
Totals (22 entries) | 77 | 27 | 13 | 117 |
Event | Class | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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4 × 50 m freestyle relay | 20 pts | China Peng Qiuping Jiang Shennang Huang Wenpan Xu Qing | Brazil Clodoaldo Silva Joanna Maria Silva Susana Ribeiro Daniel Dias | Ukraine Andrii Derevinskyi Viktoriia Savtsova Olga Sviderska Ievgenii Bogodaiko |
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