2015 IPC Swimming World Championships explained

Host City:	Glasgow, United Kingdom
7th IPC Swimming World Championships
Venues:	Tollcross International Swimming Centre
Dates:	13 – 19 July
Nations:	70
Athletes:	580
Previous:	2013 Montreal
Next:	2017 Mexico City

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

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

See 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				S9 S6 S3			S8 S7
50m Freestyle	Women Details							S8 S7
100m Freestyle	Men Details				S8 S4			S6 S5
100m Freestyle	Women Details							S6 S5
200m freestyle	Men Details						S2
200m freestyle	Women Details
400m freestyle	Men Details						S9	S10
400m freestyle	Women Details		S11			S8		S10
50m backstroke	Men Details						S3	S2 S4
50m backstroke	Women Details						S3	S2 S4
100m backstroke	Men Details				S10			S14
100m backstroke	Women Details							S14
50m breaststroke	Men Details
50m breaststroke	Women Details
100m breaststroke	Men Details			SB9
100m breaststroke	Women Details
50m butterfly	Men Details
50m butterfly	Women Details
100m butterfly	Men Details							S13 S11
100m butterfly	Women Details
150m medley	Men Details
150m medley	Women Details
200m medley	Men Details			SM8		SM6 SM14		SM9
200m medley	Women Details							SM9
4×50m freestyle relays	Mixed Details
freestyle relays	Men Details
freestyle relays	Women Details
medley relays	Men Details
medley relays	Women Details							34pts

Medal table

The medal table at the end of the championship.

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
			50m freestyle - S5 100m freestyle - S5 200m freestyle - S5 50m backstroke - S5 100m breaststroke - SB4 Mixed 4x50m freestyle relay 20pts 50m butterfly - S5 freestyle relay 34pts
			100m backstroke - S13 100m butterfly - S13 100m freestyle - S13 200m medley - SM13 400m freestyle - S13 50m freestyle - S13 100m breaststroke - SB13
			100m butterfly - S8 100m freestyle - S8 50m freestyle - S13 freestyle relay 34pts 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
	3						19
	4
	1	4		5
		1		7
	3	4			17
	1			4
			1
		1
		1				2
					1
		1
		3
		1
	2	2				6
		1
	1	1		5
		1
	4	1
		2
		4					3
						1
	10	4
		1	5
		2
	1
	3	5
	3	5				5
					5
					2
Total	36	44	6	21	25	14	22

Footnotes

Notes

References

External links

Official web-site

Notes and References

Web site: IPC Swimming World Championships – About us. 17 June 2015. paralympic.org .
Web site: Glasgow IPC event to be World Championships. 21 June 2015. 13 December 2012. bbc.co.uk .
The IPC to rebrand the 10 sports it acts as International Federation for . International Paralympic Committee . 30 November 2016 . 13 December 2016.
Web site: Glasgow to Host 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships. 21 June 2015. 1 March 2013. paralympic.org.
Web site: Tollcross International Swimming Centre. 21 June 2015. glasgow2014.com.
Web site: Multi Medallists . 20 August 2015 . . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150725142338/http://85.17.198.3/static/info/glasgow-2015/eng/zz/ZZM195B_GL2015SW%40%40%40%40%40%40%40ENG.htm . 25 July 2015 .
Web site: Record Broken by Event. IPC. 18 August 2015.