Swimming at the 2016 Summer Paralympics explained

See also: Swimming at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Event:	Swimming
Games:	2016 Summer
Venue:	Olympic Aquatics Stadium
Dates:	8–17 September
Competitors:	595
Nations:	80
Prev:	2012
Next:	2020

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.

Events

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 :

Swimming at the 2016 Summer Paralympics - Events (152)

Classification → Event ↓	Motor and physical impairments										Visual impairments			ID
	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
	colspan="14"
50 metre freestyle			●<	--S4-->	● - o<	--S5-->	● - o<	--S6-->	● - o<	--S7-->	● - o<	--S8-->	● - o<	--S9-->	● - o<	--S10-->	● - o<	--S11-->	● - o<	--S12-->	● - o<	--S13-->	● - o<	--S14-->
100 metre freestyle			o<	--S4-->	● <	--S5-->	● - o<	--S6-->	● - o<	--S7-->	● - o<	--S8-->	● - o<	--S9-->	● - o<	--S10-->	● - o<	--S11-->	● - o<	--S12-->		● - o<	--S14-->
200 metre freestyle		●<	--S3-->	●<	--S4-->	● <	--S5-->	● - o<	--S6-->									● - o
400 metre freestyle						● - o<	--S7-->	● - o<	--S8-->	● - o<	--S9-->	● - o<	--S10-->	● - o<	--S11-->	● - o<	--S12-->		● - o<	--S14-->
	colspan="14"
50 metre backstroke	● <	--S2-->	● - o<	--S3-->	● - o<	--S4-->	● - o<	--S5-->	● - o<	--S6-->
100 metre backstroke	●<	--S2-->	● - o<	--S3-->				● - o<	--S7-->	● - o<	--S8-->	● - o<	--S9-->	● - o<	--S10-->	● - o<	--S11-->	● - o<	--S12-->	● - o<	--S13-->	● - o<	--S14-->	● - o
	colspan="14"
50 metre butterfly					● - o<	--S6-->	● - o<	--S7-->	● - o<	--S8-->
100 metre butterfly								● - o<	--S9-->	● - o<	--S10-->	● - o<	--S11-->	●<	--S12-->		● - o<	--S14-->
	colspan="14"
50 metre breaststroke		●<	--S3-->	● - o<	--S4-->
100 metre breaststroke				● - o<	--S5-->	● - o<	--S6-->	● - o<	--S7-->	● - o<	--S8-->	● - o<	--S9-->	● - o<	--S10-->		● - o<	--S12-->	●<	--S13-->	● - o<	--S14-->	● - o
	colspan="14"
150 metre Individual Medley			●<	--S4-->	● - o<	--S5-->
200 metre individual medley					o<	--S6-->	● - o<	--S7-->	● - o<	--S8-->	● - o<	--S9-->	● - o<	--S10-->	● - o<	--S11-->	● - o<	--S12-->		● - o<	--S14-->	● - o
	colspan="14"
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:

• ID : Intellectual impairments
• S : Freestyle, butterfly and backstroke classification -
• SB : breaststroke classification -
• SM : Medley classification
• ● : men's event in this classification -
• o : women's event in this classification
• ●●●● : men's relay event across these classifications -
• oooo : women's relay event across these classifications
• ●o●o : mixed relay event across these classifications

Event schedule

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
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

Medalists

Men's events

50 m backstroke	S1
100 m backstroke
200 m freestyle	S2
50 m backstroke
100 m backstroke
50 m freestyle	S3
200 m freestyle
50 m backstroke
50 m breaststroke	SB2
150 m individual medley	SM3
50 m freestyle	S4
100 m freestyle
200 m freestyle
50 m backstroke				nowrap
50 m breaststroke	SB3
150 m individual medley	SM4
50 m freestyle	S5
100 m freestyle
200 m freestyle
50 m backstroke
50 m butterfly
100 m breaststroke	SB4
50 m freestyle	S6
100 m freestyle
400 m freestyle
100 m backstroke
50 m butterfly
100 m breaststroke	SB5
200 m individual medley	SM6
50 m freestyle	S7
100 m freestyle			nowrap
400 m freestyle
100 m backstroke
50 m butterfly
100 m breaststroke	SB6
200 m individual medley	SM7
50 m freestyle	S8
100 m freestyle
400 m freestyle
100 m backstroke
100 m butterfly
100 m breaststroke	SB7
200 m individual medley	SM8
50 m freestyle	S9
100 m freestyle
400 m freestyle
100 m backstroke
100 m butterfly
100 m breaststroke	SB8
200 m individual medley	SM9
50 m freestyle	S10
100 m freestyle
400 m freestyle
100 m backstroke
100 m butterfly
100 m breaststroke	SB9
200 m individual medley	SM10
50 m freestyle	S11
100 m freestyle
400 m freestyle
100 m backstroke				shared silver
100 m butterfly
100 m breaststroke	SB11
200 m individual medley	SM11
50 m freestyle	S12
100 m backstroke
100 m breaststroke	SB12
50 m freestyle	S13
100 m freestyle
400 m freestyle
100 m backstroke
100 m butterfly
100 m breaststroke	SB13		shared gold
		nowrap
200 m individual medley	SM13
200 m freestyle	S14
100 m backstroke
100 m breaststroke	SB14
nowrap	200 m individual medley	SM14
nowrap	4 × 100 m freestyle relay	34 pts	Oleksandr Komarov Maksym Krypak Bohdan Hrynenko Denys Dubrov	Daniel Dias André Brasil Ruiter Silva Phelipe Rodrigues	Song Maodang Xu Haijiao Lin Furong Huang Yinan
4 × 100 m medley relay	Zhou Cong Lin Furong Song Maodang Wang Yinan		Iurii Bozhynskyi Denys Dubrov Maksym Krypak Ievgenii Bogodaiko	Daniel Dias Ruan de Souza André Brasil Phelipe Rodrigues

Women's events

50 m backstroke	S2
100 m backstroke
100 m freestyle	S3
50 m backstroke
50 m freestyle	S4
50 m backstroke
50 m breaststroke	SB3
150 m individual medley	SM4
50 m freestyle	S5
100 m freestyle
200 m freestyle
50 m backstroke
50 m butterfly
100 m breaststroke	SB4
200 m individual medley	SM5
50 m freestyle	S6
100 m freestyle
400 m freestyle
100 m backstroke
50 m butterfly
100 m breaststroke	SB5
200 m individual medley	SM6
50 m freestyle	S7
100 m freestyle
400 m freestyle
100 m backstroke
50 m butterfly
100 m breaststroke	SB6		nowrap
200 m individual medley	SM7
50 m freestyle	S8
100 m freestyle
400 m freestyle
100 m backstroke
100 m butterfly
100 m breaststroke	SB7
200 m individual medley	SM8
50 m freestyle	S9
100 m freestyle
400 m freestyle
100 m backstroke
100 m butterfly
100 m breaststroke	SB8
200 m individual medley	SM9
50 m freestyle	S10
100 m freestyle
400 m freestyle
100 m backstroke
100 m butterfly
100 m breaststroke	SB9
200 m individual medley	SM10
50 m freestyle	S11
100 m freestyle
400 m freestyle
100 m backstroke
100 m breaststroke	SB11
200 m individual medley	SM11
50 m freestyle	S12
100 m backstroke
50 m freestyle	S13			nowrap
100 m freestyle
400 m freestyle
100 m backstroke
100 m butterfly
100 m breaststroke	SB13
200 m individual medley	SM13
200 m freestyle	S14
100 m backstroke
100 m breaststroke	SB14	nowrap
200 m individual medley	SM14
nowrap	4 × 100 m freestyle relay	34 pts	Ellie Cole Lakeisha Patterson Maddison Elliott Ashleigh McConnell	McKenzie Coan Elizabeth Smith Jessica Long Michelle Konkoly	Song Lingling Chen Yi Lin Ping Xu Jialing
4 × 100 m medley relay	Alice Tai Claire Cashmore Stephanie Slater Stephanie Millward		Ellie Cole Madeleine Scott Maddison Elliott Lakeisha Patterson	Hannah Aspden Elizabeth Marks Elizabeth Smith Michelle Konkoly

Mixed events

nowrap

4 × 50 m freestyle relay

20 pts

Peng Qiuping Jiang Shennang Huang Wenpan Xu Qing

Clodoaldo Silva Joana Neves Susana Ribeiro Daniel Dias

Andrii Derevinskyi Viktoriia Savtsova Olga Sviderska Ievgenii Bogodaiko

Notes and References

1. Web site: Paralympic Swimming. Rio 2016 Summer Paralympics. 22 August 2016. 13 November 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20161113211338/https://www.rio2016.com/en/paralympics/swimming. dead.
2. http://www.rio2016.com/sites/default/files/users/rio2016_files/paralympicsticketing_guide_rio2016.pdf Rio 2016 Paralympic ticketing guide and schedule