2009 IPC Swimming World Championships 25 m
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The 2009 IPC Swimming World Championships 25 m are being held from 29 November – 5 December in Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro
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, Brazil
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. It is the first ever world-level short course
Short course
In Swimming, the term Short Course is used to identify a pool that is 25 metres in length. The term is also often included in meet names when conducted in a short course pool...

 paralympic swimming
Paralympic swimming
Paralympic swimming is an adaptation of the sport of swimming for athletes with disabilities. Paralympic swimming is contested not only at the Summer Paralympic Games, but at disabled sports competitions throughout the world...

 competition organised by the International Paralympic Committee
International Paralympic Committee
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 (IPC).

Medal table

1 25 11 7 43
2 21 17 17 55
3 18 7 16 41
4 17 19 9 45
5 17 17 12 46
6 8 25 19 52
7 6 2 7 15
8 4 4 2 10
9 4 1 5
10 3 3 7 13
11 3 3 6 12
12 3 2 7 12
13 2 7 6 15
14 2 4 6 12
15 2 4 5 11
16 2 2 2 6
17 2 1 3 6
18 1 3 1 5
19 1 2 1 4
20 1 1 2
21 1 1 2
22 2 2 4
23 2 1 3
=24 1 1
=24  Chinese Taipei 1 1
=26 1 1
=26 1 1
Total 143 141 139 423

Men's events

50 m freestyle S3 Curtis Lovejoy
55.77
WR (S2)
Gabriel Feiten
58.41 Mikael Fredriksson
1:00.12
50 m freestyle S4 Richard Oribe Lumbreras
38.26
WR
David Smétanine
David Smétanine
David Smétanine is a French swimmer.He represented France at the 2008 Summer Paralympics, winning gold in the 100 metre freestyle event and gold in the 50m freestyle, as well as two silver, in the 50m backstroke and 200m freestyle.As of 2008, he was the European record holder in the 50m, 100m and...


38.48 Christoffer Lindhe
41.08
50 m freestyle S5 Daniel Dias
Daniel Dias
Daniel de Faria Dias is a Brazilian swimmer.He has Laureus Award for Sportsperson with a Disability of the Year, winning in 2009....


32.01
WR
Sebastian Rodriguez Veloso
33.06 Hayri Simsek
36.87
50 m freestyle S6 Daniel Vidal Fuster
30.10
WR
Anders Olsson
Anders Olsson (swimmer)
Anders Olsson is a Swedish swimmer and triathlete.Olsson is paralysed from the waist down and has barely 50 per cent lung capacity left after the injury.-Career:...


30.17 Adriano Gomes De Lima
32.67
50 m freestyle S7 Matthew Walker
Matt Walker (swimmer)
Matthew Benedict Walker MBE is a British swimmer who has participated in three Paralympic Games, winning eleven medals...


27.28
WR
Matthew Levy
28.03 Wagner Pires Da Silva
30.98
50 m freestyle S8 Peter Leek
Peter Leek
Peter Leek is a disabled swimmer from Australia. He competed in the 2010 IPC Swimming World Championships, held in Eindhoven, Netherlands where he won six gold medals and one silver medal. One of the medals was in the men's 4x100m freestyle relay event. Leek's medals helped Australia's national...


26.36
WR
Maurice Deelen
26.65 Charles Rozoy
26.67
50 m freestyle S9 Matthew Cowdrey
Matthew Cowdrey
Matthew John Cowdrey OAM is an Australian swimmer and holder of numerous world records. He lives in South Australia and swims for the Norwood Swimming Club. He has a congenital amputation of his left arm; it stops at the elbow. Cowdrey competed at the 2004 Paralympic Games, 2006 Commonwealth...


24.45
WR
Tamas Sors
25.18 Mauro Luis Brasil Da Silva
26.11
50 m freestyle S10 André Brasil
Andre Brasil
Andre Brasil is a swimmer who won gold for Brazil at the 2008 Summer Paralympics. He also broke a Paralympic record. He had poliomyelitis as a child.- References :...


22.44
WR
Benoît Huot
Benoit Huot
Benoit Huot is a Canadian Paralympic swimmer of the 21st century, who has won six gold medals for Canada, primarily in the freestyle and butterfly strokes....


23.78 David Levecq Vives
23.95
50 m freestyle S11 Konstantin Tychkov
27.70
WR
Grzegorz Edward Polkowski
27.91 Keiichi Kimura
27.96
50 m freestyle S12 Alexander Nevolin-Svetov
23.86
WR
Tucker Dupree
24.00 Omar Font Jimenez
24.28
50 m freestyle S13 Daniel Simon
24.24
WR
Daniel Sharp
24.46 Carlos Alonso Farremberg
24.67
100 m freestyle S4 Richard Oribe Lumbreras
1:22.98
WR
David Smétanine
David Smétanine
David Smétanine is a French swimmer.He represented France at the 2008 Summer Paralympics, winning gold in the 100 metre freestyle event and gold in the 50m freestyle, as well as two silver, in the 50m backstroke and 200m freestyle.As of 2008, he was the European record holder in the 50m, 100m and...


1:25.00 Christoffer Lindhe
1:28.66
100 m freestyle S5 Daniel Dias
Daniel Dias
Daniel de Faria Dias is a Brazilian swimmer.He has Laureus Award for Sportsperson with a Disability of the Year, winning in 2009....


1:08.17
WR
Sebastian Rodriguez Veloso
1:14.95 Hayri Simsek
1:22.60
100 m freestyle S6 Anders Olsson
Anders Olsson (swimmer)
Anders Olsson is a Swedish swimmer and triathlete.Olsson is paralysed from the waist down and has barely 50 per cent lung capacity left after the injury.-Career:...


1:03.93
WR
Adriano Gomes De Lima
1:11.39 Jefferson Da Silva Amaro
1:18.03
100 m freestyle S7 Matthew Levy
1:00.37
WR
Matthew Walker
Matt Walker (swimmer)
Matthew Benedict Walker MBE is a British swimmer who has participated in three Paralympic Games, winning eleven medals...


1:01.04 Michael Ardern
1:04.64
100 m freestyle S8 Peter Leek
Peter Leek
Peter Leek is a disabled swimmer from Australia. He competed in the 2010 IPC Swimming World Championships, held in Eindhoven, Netherlands where he won six gold medals and one silver medal. One of the medals was in the men's 4x100m freestyle relay event. Leek's medals helped Australia's national...


57.21
WR
Maurice Deelen
57.69 Charles Rozoy
58.08
100 m freestyle S9 Matthew Cowdrey
Matthew Cowdrey
Matthew John Cowdrey OAM is an Australian swimmer and holder of numerous world records. He lives in South Australia and swims for the Norwood Swimming Club. He has a congenital amputation of his left arm; it stops at the elbow. Cowdrey competed at the 2004 Paralympic Games, 2006 Commonwealth...


53.75
WR
Tamas Sors
55.82 Jesus Collado
56.25
100 m freestyle S10 André Brasil
Andre Brasil
Andre Brasil is a swimmer who won gold for Brazil at the 2008 Summer Paralympics. He also broke a Paralympic record. He had poliomyelitis as a child.- References :...


48.70
WR
Benoît Huot
Benoit Huot
Benoit Huot is a Canadian Paralympic swimmer of the 21st century, who has won six gold medals for Canada, primarily in the freestyle and butterfly strokes....


51.73 Phelipe Andrews Melo Rodrigues
51.78
100 m freestyle S11 Keiichi Kimura
1:00.65
WR
Philip Scholz
Philip Scholz
Philip Scholz is an American Paralympic swimmer. Being completely blind, he is classified in the S11 category of blind swimmers. Originally from Munich, Germany, Scholz came on to the international stage in December 2007 in College Park, Maryland.-Early life:Philip Scholz was born on April 12,...


1:01.24 Grzegorz Edward Polkowski
1:02.65
100 m freestyle S12 Alexander Nevolin-Svetov
51.99
WR
Sergey Punko
53.76 Tucker Dupree
53.98
100 m freestyle S13 Carlos Alonso Farremberg
53.52
WR
Stepan Smagin
54.61 Brian Hill
54.66
200 m freestyle S4 Richard Oribe Lumbreras
2:59.37 David Smétanine
David Smétanine
David Smétanine is a French swimmer.He represented France at the 2008 Summer Paralympics, winning gold in the 100 metre freestyle event and gold in the 50m freestyle, as well as two silver, in the 50m backstroke and 200m freestyle.As of 2008, he was the European record holder in the 50m, 100m and...


3:05.60 Christoffer Lindhe
3:09.68
200 m freestyle S5 Daniel Dias
Daniel Dias
Daniel de Faria Dias is a Brazilian swimmer.He has Laureus Award for Sportsperson with a Disability of the Year, winning in 2009....


2:29.85
WR
Cameron Leslie
Cameron Leslie
Cameron Leslie born 1973 in New Zealand co-founded London nightclub Fabric, with Keith Reilly in 1999.-References:* * * * * *...


3:02.22 Takayuki Suzuki
3:03.70
400 m freestyle S6 Anders Olsson
Anders Olsson (swimmer)
Anders Olsson is a Swedish swimmer and triathlete.Olsson is paralysed from the waist down and has barely 50 per cent lung capacity left after the injury.-Career:...


4:42.64 Igor Plotnikov
5:33.81 Adriano Gomes De Lima
5:43.15
400 m freestyle S7 Matthew Levy
4:51.54
WR
Alex Dionne
5:06.45 Ronaldo Souza Santos
5:15.90
400 m freestyle S8 Samuel Hynd
4:20.18
WR
Peter Leek
Peter Leek
Peter Leek is a disabled swimmer from Australia. He competed in the 2010 IPC Swimming World Championships, held in Eindhoven, Netherlands where he won six gold medals and one silver medal. One of the medals was in the men's 4x100m freestyle relay event. Leek's medals helped Australia's national...


4:27.24 Christoph Burkard
4:36.25
400 m freestyle S9 Brenden Hall
Brenden Hall
Brenden Hall is a disabled swimmer from Australia. He competed in the 2010 IPC Swimming World Championships, held in Eindhoven, Netherlands where he won a gold medal in the 5km open water swim.- Bibliography :...


4:11.32
WR
Jesus Collado
4:11.38 Kristijan Vincetic
4:15.59
400 m freestyle S10 André Brasil
Andre Brasil
Andre Brasil is a swimmer who won gold for Brazil at the 2008 Summer Paralympics. He also broke a Paralympic record. He had poliomyelitis as a child.- References :...


3:54.57
WR
Robert Welbourn
Robert Welbourn
Robert Welbourn is a British Paralympian swimmer. He was born in Chesterfield. He began his swimming career at Deeping Swimming Club in Deeping St. James....


4:02.76 Joe Wise
Joe Wise
Joe Wise is a member of the U.S. Paralympic Swim Team and is a 16-time American Record Holder. He competed in the 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games and is currently training for Paralympic Games in the 2012 London Summer Olympics....


4:07.99
400 m freestyle S12 Sergey Punko
4:06.42
WR
Enrique Floriano Millan
4:11.81 Tucker Dupree
4:20.27
400 m freestyle S13 Stepan Smagin
4:18.88 Carlos Alonso Farremberg
4:19.50 Daniel Holt
4:20.48
50 m backstroke S4 David Smétanine
David Smétanine
David Smétanine is a French swimmer.He represented France at the 2008 Summer Paralympics, winning gold in the 100 metre freestyle event and gold in the 50m freestyle, as well as two silver, in the 50m backstroke and 200m freestyle.As of 2008, he was the European record holder in the 50m, 100m and...


47.19
WR
Arnost Petracek
48.32 Mikael Fredriksson
59.44
50 m backstroke S5 Daniel Dias
Daniel Dias
Daniel de Faria Dias is a Brazilian swimmer.He has Laureus Award for Sportsperson with a Disability of the Year, winning in 2009....


35.06
WR
Ricardo Ten Argiles
41.83 Xavier Torres Ramis
45.98
100 m backstroke S6 Igor Plotnikov
1:14.52
WR
Mateusz Piotr Michalski
1:21.06 Jefferson Da Silva Amaro
1:25.98
100 m backstroke S7 Mihovil Spanja
1:11.14
WR
Daisuke Ejima
1:14.13 Michael Ardern
1:15.32
100 m backstroke S8 Konstantin Lisenkov
1:04.56
WR
Thomas Young
1:05.80 Peter Leek
Peter Leek
Peter Leek is a disabled swimmer from Australia. He competed in the 2010 IPC Swimming World Championships, held in Eindhoven, Netherlands where he won six gold medals and one silver medal. One of the medals was in the men's 4x100m freestyle relay event. Leek's medals helped Australia's national...


1:06.75
100 m backstroke S9 Matthew Cowdrey
Matthew Cowdrey
Matthew John Cowdrey OAM is an Australian swimmer and holder of numerous world records. He lives in South Australia and swims for the Norwood Swimming Club. He has a congenital amputation of his left arm; it stops at the elbow. Cowdrey competed at the 2004 Paralympic Games, 2006 Commonwealth...


57.93
WR
Jesus Collado
1:01.57 David Hill
1:04.82
100 m backstroke S10 André Brasil
Andre Brasil
Andre Brasil is a swimmer who won gold for Brazil at the 2008 Summer Paralympics. He also broke a Paralympic record. He had poliomyelitis as a child.- References :...


57.29
WR
Kardo Ploomipuu
Kardo Ploomipuu
Kardo Ploomipuu is an Estonian swimmer.He is the current IPC world record holder in 50 m backstroke .-Achievements:-References:...


58.05 Michael Anderson
Michael Anderson (swimmer)
Michael Anderson is a Paralympic swimming competitor from Australia. He won a silver medal at the 2008 Beijing Games in the Men's 100 m Backstroke S10 event.-References:...


58.69
100 m backstroke S12 Alexander Nevolin-Svetov
57.54
WR
Tucker Dupree
1:00.73 Albert Gelis Juanola
1:02.31
100 m backstroke S13 Brian Hill
59.30
WR
Daniel Simon
1:04.37 Michel Tielbeke
1:07.44
50 m breaststroke SB3 Takayuki Suzuki
48.25
WR
Miguel Luque Avila
51.76 Xavier Torres Ramis
54.35
100 m breaststroke SB4 Daniel Dias
Daniel Dias
Daniel de Faria Dias is a Brazilian swimmer.He has Laureus Award for Sportsperson with a Disability of the Year, winning in 2009....


1:31.49
WR
Ricardo Ten Argiles
1:31.66 Ivanildo Alves De Vasconcelos
1:50.33
100 m breaststroke SB6 Christoph Burkard
1:22.44
WR
Mihovil Spanja
1:23.73 Artem Zakharov
1:33.25
100 m breaststroke SB7 Blake Cochrane
Blake Cochrane
Blake Cochrane is an Australian Paralympic swimmer.-Swimming:Cochrane won a silver medal at the 2008 Beijing Games in the Men's 100 m Breaststroke SB7 event. He won two gold medals at the 2010 IPC Swimming World Championships, which were held in Eindhoven, Netherlands. Cochrane's medals helped...


1:17.91
WR
Sascha Kindred
Sascha Kindred
Sascha Kindred OBE is a British swimmer who competed in the Paralympic Games on four occasions, winning eleven medals.-Early life:...


1:22.48 Thomas Young
1:25.38
100 m breaststroke SB8 Krzystof Parerka
1:10.52
WR
Alejandro Sanchez Palomero
1:10.80 Andreas Onea
1:12.91
100 m breaststroke SB9 Pavel Poltavtsev
1:03.59
WR
Matthew Cowdrey
Matthew Cowdrey
Matthew John Cowdrey OAM is an Australian swimmer and holder of numerous world records. He lives in South Australia and swims for the Norwood Swimming Club. He has a congenital amputation of his left arm; it stops at the elbow. Cowdrey competed at the 2004 Paralympic Games, 2006 Commonwealth...


1:07.22 Rick Pendleton
Rick Pendleton
Rick Pendleton is a Paralympic swimming competitor from Australia. He won a gold medal at the 2004 Athens Games in the Men's 4x100 m Medley 34 pts event.-References:...


1:07.94
100 m breaststroke SB13 Daniel Sharp
1:06.34
WR
Sergey Punko
1:07.73 Edgard Quiros Baltanas
1:08.07
50 m butterfly S5 Daniel Dias
Daniel Dias
Daniel de Faria Dias is a Brazilian swimmer.He has Laureus Award for Sportsperson with a Disability of the Year, winning in 2009....


34.02
WR
Ricardo Ten Argiles
40.06 Cameron Leslie
Cameron Leslie
Cameron Leslie born 1973 in New Zealand co-founded London nightclub Fabric, with Keith Reilly in 1999.-References:* * * * * *...


43.76
50 m butterfly S6 Sascha Kindred
Sascha Kindred
Sascha Kindred OBE is a British swimmer who competed in the Paralympic Games on four occasions, winning eleven medals.-Early life:...


31.38
WR
Daniel Vidal Fuster
31.94 Igor Plotnikov
35.31
50 m butterfly S7 Matthew Levy
31.70
WR
Ruslan Sadvakasov
31.94 Matthew Walker
Matt Walker (swimmer)
Matthew Benedict Walker MBE is a British swimmer who has participated in three Paralympic Games, winning eleven medals...


32.18
100 m butterfly S8 Charles Rozoy
1:00.56
WR
Peter Leek
Peter Leek
Peter Leek is a disabled swimmer from Australia. He competed in the 2010 IPC Swimming World Championships, held in Eindhoven, Netherlands where he won six gold medals and one silver medal. One of the medals was in the men's 4x100m freestyle relay event. Leek's medals helped Australia's national...


1:00.79 Alejandro Sanchez Palomero
1:05.00
100 m butterfly S9 Tamas Sors
58.30
WR
Matthew Cowdrey
Matthew Cowdrey
Matthew John Cowdrey OAM is an Australian swimmer and holder of numerous world records. He lives in South Australia and swims for the Norwood Swimming Club. He has a congenital amputation of his left arm; it stops at the elbow. Cowdrey competed at the 2004 Paralympic Games, 2006 Commonwealth...


59.46 Kristijan Vincetic
59.90
100 m butterfly S10 André Brasil
Andre Brasil
Andre Brasil is a swimmer who won gold for Brazil at the 2008 Summer Paralympics. He also broke a Paralympic record. He had poliomyelitis as a child.- References :...


54.76
WR
David Levecq Vives
56.61 Mike van der Zanden
Mike van der Zanden
Mike van der Zanden is a Dutch paraplegic swimmer.Van der Zanden represented the Netherlands at the 2004 and 2008 Summer Paralympics in Athens and Beijing. In Athens he won the bronze medal at the 100 m freestyle in the S10 class...


57.69
100 m butterfly S11 Keiichi Kimura
1:07.02
WR
Philip Scholz
Philip Scholz
Philip Scholz is an American Paralympic swimmer. Being completely blind, he is classified in the S11 category of blind swimmers. Originally from Munich, Germany, Scholz came on to the international stage in December 2007 in College Park, Maryland.-Early life:Philip Scholz was born on April 12,...


1:08.62 André Luis Meneghetti
1:12.73
100 m butterfly S12 Tucker Dupree
58.29
WR
Sergey Punko
58.85 Albert Gelis Juanola
59.69
100 m butterfly S13 Brian Hill
57.04
WR
Daniel Simon
59.14 Michel Tielbeke
59.64
100 m individual medley SM5 Daniel Dias
Daniel Dias
Daniel de Faria Dias is a Brazilian swimmer.He has Laureus Award for Sportsperson with a Disability of the Year, winning in 2009....


1:18.99 Ivanildo Alves De Vasconcelos
1:43.59 Ariel Marcelo Quassi
1:46.32
100 m individual medley SM6 Sascha Kindred
Sascha Kindred
Sascha Kindred OBE is a British swimmer who competed in the Paralympic Games on four occasions, winning eleven medals.-Early life:...


1:14.67
WR
Anders Olsson
Anders Olsson (swimmer)
Anders Olsson is a Swedish swimmer and triathlete.Olsson is paralysed from the waist down and has barely 50 per cent lung capacity left after the injury.-Career:...


1:21.40 Tadhg Slattery
1:25.48
100 m individual medley SM7 Matthew Levy
1:11.32
WR
Mihovil Spanja
1:13.40 Matthew Walker
Matt Walker (swimmer)
Matthew Benedict Walker MBE is a British swimmer who has participated in three Paralympic Games, winning eleven medals...


1:15.20
100 m individual medley SM8 Peter Leek
Peter Leek
Peter Leek is a disabled swimmer from Australia. He competed in the 2010 IPC Swimming World Championships, held in Eindhoven, Netherlands where he won six gold medals and one silver medal. One of the medals was in the men's 4x100m freestyle relay event. Leek's medals helped Australia's national...


1:04.66
WR
Blake Cochrane
Blake Cochrane
Blake Cochrane is an Australian Paralympic swimmer.-Swimming:Cochrane won a silver medal at the 2008 Beijing Games in the Men's 100 m Breaststroke SB7 event. He won two gold medals at the 2010 IPC Swimming World Championships, which were held in Eindhoven, Netherlands. Cochrane's medals helped...


1:07.92 Samuel Hynd
1:08.16
100 m individual medley SM9 Matthew Cowdrey
Matthew Cowdrey
Matthew John Cowdrey OAM is an Australian swimmer and holder of numerous world records. He lives in South Australia and swims for the Norwood Swimming Club. He has a congenital amputation of his left arm; it stops at the elbow. Cowdrey competed at the 2004 Paralympic Games, 2006 Commonwealth...


59.07
WR
Tamas Sors
1:04.58 Takuro Yamada
1:05.71
100 m individual medley SM10 André Brasil
Andre Brasil
Andre Brasil is a swimmer who won gold for Brazil at the 2008 Summer Paralympics. He also broke a Paralympic record. He had poliomyelitis as a child.- References :...


57.68
WR
Benoît Huot
Benoit Huot
Benoit Huot is a Canadian Paralympic swimmer of the 21st century, who has won six gold medals for Canada, primarily in the freestyle and butterfly strokes....


59.77 Lucas Ludwig
1:00.62
100 m individual medley SM12 Alexander Nevolin-Svetov
59.43
WR
Sergey Punko
1:00.67 Albert Gelis Juanola
1:02.63
100 m individual medley SM13 Michel Tielbeke
1:02.76 Kevin Mendez Martinez
1:03.84 Keiichi Kimura
1:09.38
150 m individual medley SM3 Genezi Alves De Andrade
3:37.29 Mikael Fredriksson
3:45.02 Michael Demarco
4:10.48
150 m individual medley SM4 Cameron Leslie
Cameron Leslie
Cameron Leslie born 1973 in New Zealand co-founded London nightclub Fabric, with Keith Reilly in 1999.-References:* * * * * *...


2:34.60
WR
Takayuki Suzuki
2:39.69 Xavier Torres Ramis
2:39.73
200 m individual medley SM5 Daniel Dias
Daniel Dias
Daniel de Faria Dias is a Brazilian swimmer.He has Laureus Award for Sportsperson with a Disability of the Year, winning in 2009....


2:45.94
WR
Pablo Cimadevilla Alvarez
3:35.74 Ivanildo Alves De Vasconcelos
3:38.70
200 m individual medley SM6 Sascha Kindred
Sascha Kindred
Sascha Kindred OBE is a British swimmer who competed in the Paralympic Games on four occasions, winning eleven medals.-Early life:...


2:41.24
WR
Anders Olsson
Anders Olsson (swimmer)
Anders Olsson is a Swedish swimmer and triathlete.Olsson is paralysed from the waist down and has barely 50 per cent lung capacity left after the injury.-Career:...


2:54.73 Tadhg Slattery
3:10.94
200 m individual medley SM7 Mihovil Spanja
2:34.31
WR
Matthew Levy
2:35.40 Rudy Garcia-Tolson
Rudy Garcia-Tolson
Rudy Garcia-Tolson is an athlete on the United States Paralympic team. He competed at the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens and in the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing in swimming.-Biography:...


2:44.68
200 m individual medley SM8 Peter Leek
Peter Leek
Peter Leek is a disabled swimmer from Australia. He competed in the 2010 IPC Swimming World Championships, held in Eindhoven, Netherlands where he won six gold medals and one silver medal. One of the medals was in the men's 4x100m freestyle relay event. Leek's medals helped Australia's national...


2:20.38
WR
Samuel Hynd
2:24.31 Alejandro Sanchez Palomero
2:26.32
200 m individual medley SM9 Matthew Cowdrey
Matthew Cowdrey
Matthew John Cowdrey OAM is an Australian swimmer and holder of numerous world records. He lives in South Australia and swims for the Norwood Swimming Club. He has a congenital amputation of his left arm; it stops at the elbow. Cowdrey competed at the 2004 Paralympic Games, 2006 Commonwealth...


2:11.83 Takuro Yamada
2:18.35 Tamas Sors
2:19.59
200 m individual medley SM10 André Brasil
Andre Brasil
Andre Brasil is a swimmer who won gold for Brazil at the 2008 Summer Paralympics. He also broke a Paralympic record. He had poliomyelitis as a child.- References :...


2:04.05
WR
Benoît Huot
Benoit Huot
Benoit Huot is a Canadian Paralympic swimmer of the 21st century, who has won six gold medals for Canada, primarily in the freestyle and butterfly strokes....


2:11.02 Rick Pendleton
Rick Pendleton
Rick Pendleton is a Paralympic swimming competitor from Australia. He won a gold medal at the 2004 Athens Games in the Men's 4x100 m Medley 34 pts event.-References:...


2:13.14
200 m individual medley SM12 Sergey Punko
2:10.63
WR
Enrique Floriano
2:11.44 Alexander Nevolin-Svetov
2:15.76
200 m individual medley SM13 Michel Tielbeke
2:16.80 Kevin Mendez Martinez
2:19.39 Edgard Quiros Baltanas
2:25.19
4×50 m freestyle relay 20 pts
Richard Oribe Lumbreras
Ricardo Ten Argiles
Sebastian Rodriguez Veloso
Daniel Vidal Fuster
2:21.35
WR

Jefferson Da Silva Amaro
Genezi Alves De Andrade
Adriano Gomes De Lima
Daniel Dias
Daniel Dias
Daniel de Faria Dias is a Brazilian swimmer.He has Laureus Award for Sportsperson with a Disability of the Year, winning in 2009....

2:41.98
Michael Demarco
Alex Dionne
Curtis Lovejoy
Rudy Garcia-Tolson
Rudy Garcia-Tolson
Rudy Garcia-Tolson is an athlete on the United States Paralympic team. He competed at the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens and in the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing in swimming.-Biography:...

3:31.75
4×100 m freestyle relay 34 pts
Michael Anderson
Michael Anderson (swimmer)
Michael Anderson is a Paralympic swimming competitor from Australia. He won a silver medal at the 2008 Beijing Games in the Men's 100 m Backstroke S10 event.-References:...


Peter Leek
Peter Leek
Peter Leek is a disabled swimmer from Australia. He competed in the 2010 IPC Swimming World Championships, held in Eindhoven, Netherlands where he won six gold medals and one silver medal. One of the medals was in the men's 4x100m freestyle relay event. Leek's medals helped Australia's national...


Matthew Levy
Matthew Cowdrey
Matthew Cowdrey
Matthew John Cowdrey OAM is an Australian swimmer and holder of numerous world records. He lives in South Australia and swims for the Norwood Swimming Club. He has a congenital amputation of his left arm; it stops at the elbow. Cowdrey competed at the 2004 Paralympic Games, 2006 Commonwealth...

3:46.38
WR

Mauro Luis Brasil Da Silva
Daniel Dias
Daniel Dias
Daniel de Faria Dias is a Brazilian swimmer.He has Laureus Award for Sportsperson with a Disability of the Year, winning in 2009....


Phelipe Andrews Melo Rodrigues
André Brasil
Andre Brasil
Andre Brasil is a swimmer who won gold for Brazil at the 2008 Summer Paralympics. He also broke a Paralympic record. He had poliomyelitis as a child.- References :...

3:48.63
Matthew Walker
Matt Walker (swimmer)
Matthew Benedict Walker MBE is a British swimmer who has participated in three Paralympic Games, winning eleven medals...


Samuel Hynd
David Hill
Graham Edmunds
Graham Edmunds
Graham Edmunds is a British swimmer who has competed in two Paralympic Games, winning two gold medals in world record times...

3:54.23
4×100 m freestyle relay 49 pts
Alexander Pikalov
Stepan Smagin
Sergey Punko
Alexander Nevolin-Svetov
3:35.92
Albert Gelis Juanola
Kevin Mendez Martinez
Omar Font Jimenez
Enrique Floriano Millan
3:46.67
Rodrigo Machado De Sousa Robeiro
Renato Nunes Da Silva
André Luis Meneghetti
Carlos Alonso Farremberg
4:21.01
4×50 m medley relay 20 pts
Xavier Torres Ramis
Ricardo Ten Argiles
Daniel Vidal Fuster
Sebastian Rodriguez Veloso
2:35.48
WR

Daniel Dias
Daniel Dias
Daniel de Faria Dias is a Brazilian swimmer.He has Laureus Award for Sportsperson with a Disability of the Year, winning in 2009....


Moises Domingues Batista
Jefferson Da Silva Amaro
Adriano Gomes De Lima
2:43.03 None
4×100 m medley relay 34 pts
Matthew Cowdrey
Matthew Cowdrey
Matthew John Cowdrey OAM is an Australian swimmer and holder of numerous world records. He lives in South Australia and swims for the Norwood Swimming Club. He has a congenital amputation of his left arm; it stops at the elbow. Cowdrey competed at the 2004 Paralympic Games, 2006 Commonwealth...


Rick Pendleton
Rick Pendleton
Rick Pendleton is a Paralympic swimming competitor from Australia. He won a gold medal at the 2004 Athens Games in the Men's 4x100 m Medley 34 pts event.-References:...


Peter Leek
Peter Leek
Peter Leek is a disabled swimmer from Australia. He competed in the 2010 IPC Swimming World Championships, held in Eindhoven, Netherlands where he won six gold medals and one silver medal. One of the medals was in the men's 4x100m freestyle relay event. Leek's medals helped Australia's national...


Blake Cochrane
Blake Cochrane
Blake Cochrane is an Australian Paralympic swimmer.-Swimming:Cochrane won a silver medal at the 2008 Beijing Games in the Men's 100 m Breaststroke SB7 event. He won two gold medals at the 2010 IPC Swimming World Championships, which were held in Eindhoven, Netherlands. Cochrane's medals helped...

4:08.37
WR

Jesus Collaod
Alejandro Sanchez Palomero
David Levecq Vives
Daniel Vidal Fuster
4:21.17
Igor Plotnikov
Denis Dorogaev
Pavel Poltavtsev
Konstantin Lisenkov
4:21.26
4×100 m medley relay 49 pts
Alexander Nevolin-Svetov
Mikhail Zimin
Sergey Punko
Alexander Pikalov
4:00.99
WR

Albert Gelis Juanola
Edgard Quiros Baltanas
Enrique Floriano Millan
Omar Font Jimenez
4:07.74
Renato Nunes Da Silva
Rodrigo Machado De Sousa Ribeiro
André Luis Meneghetti
Carlos Alonso Farremberg
4:54.53

Legend: WRWorld record

Women's events

50 m freestyle S4 Cheryl Angelelli
52.26 Jennie Ekstrom
52.84 Karolina Hamer
56.55
50 m freestyle S5 Bela Hlavackova
40.41 Lisette Desirre Teunissen
44.40 Karina Lauridsen
46.39
50 m freestyle S6 Eleanor Simmonds
Eleanor Simmonds
Eleanor Simmonds MBE is a British Paralympian swimmer who has achondroplasia.Simmonds competed at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, China in the 50 m, 100 m and 400 m freestyle, 50 m butterfly, and 200 m individual medley. She swims in the S6 disability category...


36.68
WR
Natalie Jones
37.69 Casey Johnson
38.99
50 m freestyle S7 Mallory Weggemann
32.17
WR
Cortney Jordan
33.28 Kirsten Bruhn
33.39
50 m freestyle S8 Cecilie Drabsch Norland
31.74
WR
Jessica Long
Jessica Long
-Early life:Long was born in Siberia and was adopted from a Russian orphanage at the age of 13 months. Because of lower leg anomalies , her legs were amputated when she was 18 months old. She learned to walk with prostheses. Long has been involved in many sports including gymnastics, cheerleading,...


32.37 Jacqueline Rose Freney
32.46
50 m freestyle S9 Irina Grazhdanova
28.82
WR
Louise Watkin
Louise Watkin
Louise Watkin is a British Paralympic swimmer. She came to the UK in 1996. She was born with Upper Limb Deficiency, and is missing her left hand...


28.86 Annabelle Williams
Annabelle Williams
Annabelle Williams is a Paralympic swimming competitor from Australia. She won a bronze medal at the 2008 Beijing Games in the Women's 100 m Butterfly S9 event. She was born in 21 July 1988.-References:...


28.87
50 m freestyle S10 Esther Morales Fernandez
28.38
WR
Susan Beth Scott
29.44 Viera Mikulasikova
29.58
50 m freestyle S11 Chantal Cavin
32.35
WR
Olga Sokolova
33.37 Irina Larova
34.51
50 m freestyle S12 Oxana Savchenko
26.54
WR
Anna Efimenko
27.51 Joanna Mendak
28.58
50 m freestyle S13 Prudence Watt
28.38 Begona Curero Sastre
29.07 Teigan Anne Van Roosmalen
29.83
100 m freestyle S4 Cheryl Angelelli
1:47.04 Jennie Ekstrom
1:55.03 Karolina Hamer
1:58.45
100 m freestyle S5 Bela Hlavackova
1:27.84 Karina Lauridsen
1:30.61 Lisette Desirre Teunissen
1:34.89
100 m freestyle S6 Eleanor Simmonds
Eleanor Simmonds
Eleanor Simmonds MBE is a British Paralympian swimmer who has achondroplasia.Simmonds competed at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, China in the 50 m, 100 m and 400 m freestyle, 50 m butterfly, and 200 m individual medley. She swims in the S6 disability category...


1:17.61
WR
Natalie Jones
1:21.18 Erika Nara
1:21.85
100 m freestyle S7 Mallory Weggemann
1:08.56
WR
Cortney Jordan
1:10.63 Kirsten Bruhn
1:11.90
100 m freestyle S8 Jessica Long
Jessica Long
-Early life:Long was born in Siberia and was adopted from a Russian orphanage at the age of 13 months. Because of lower leg anomalies , her legs were amputated when she was 18 months old. She learned to walk with prostheses. Long has been involved in many sports including gymnastics, cheerleading,...


1:08.10
WR
Jacqueline Rose Freney
1:08.98 Cecilie Drabsch Norland
1:11.45
100 m freestyle S9 Stephanie Millward
1:01.95
WR
Sarai Gascon Moreno
1:02.44 Louise Watkin
Louise Watkin
Louise Watkin is a British Paralympic swimmer. She came to the UK in 1996. She was born with Upper Limb Deficiency, and is missing her left hand...


1:02.50
100 m freestyle S10 Susan Beth Scott
1:02.48
WR
Esther Morales Fernandez
1:02.66 Sophie Pascoe
Sophie Pascoe
Sophie Frances Pascoe, MNZM, is a New Zealand paralympics swimmer, most notable for her performance at the 2008 Summer Paralympics, winning a gold and a silver medal for the 100 m breaststroke and 100 m butterfly respectively and later a gold for the women's 200 m individual medley...


1:03.34
100 m freestyle S12 Oxana Savchenko
58.60
WR
Anna Efimenko
1:00.83 Maike Naomi Schnittger
1:02.94
100 m freestyle S13 Rhiannon Henry
1:00.02
WR
Prudence Watt
1:02.37 Teigan Anne Van Roosmalen
1:04.85
200 m freestyle S5 Lisette Desirre Teunissen
3:21.34 Cheryl Andelelli
3:47.10 Karolina Hamer
4:03.82
400 m freestyle S6 Eleanor Simmonds
Eleanor Simmonds
Eleanor Simmonds MBE is a British Paralympian swimmer who has achondroplasia.Simmonds competed at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, China in the 50 m, 100 m and 400 m freestyle, 50 m butterfly, and 200 m individual medley. She swims in the S6 disability category...


5:32.45 Sarah Louise Rung
5:53.68 Erika Nara
6:32.36
400 m freestyle S7 Mallory Weggemann
5:08.53
WR
Cortney Jordan
5:13.69 Erin Popovich
Erin Popovich
Erin Popovich is a three-time United States Paralympic swimmer. She has won 14 career Paralympic gold medals, and 19 total.- Personal life :...


5:19.98
400 m freestyle S8 Jessica Long
Jessica Long
-Early life:Long was born in Siberia and was adopted from a Russian orphanage at the age of 13 months. Because of lower leg anomalies , her legs were amputated when she was 18 months old. She learned to walk with prostheses. Long has been involved in many sports including gymnastics, cheerleading,...


4:46.56
WR
Jacqueline Rose Freney
5:02.93 Lisa den Braber
5:35.64
400 m freestyle S9 Stéphanie Dixon
Stéphanie Dixon
Stéphanie Dixon is a Canadian swimmer. Prior to the 2008 Paralympic Games in Beijing, Dixon had accumulated fifteen Paralympic medals and is considered to be one of the best swimmers with a disability in the world....


4:38.84
WR
Stephanie Millward
4:39.18 Ellie Victoria Cole
4:42.48
400 m freestyle S10 Susan Beth Scott
4:38.10
WR
Samantha Louise Gandolfo
4:45.67 Sophie Pascoe
Sophie Pascoe
Sophie Frances Pascoe, MNZM, is a New Zealand paralympics swimmer, most notable for her performance at the 2008 Summer Paralympics, winning a gold and a silver medal for the 100 m breaststroke and 100 m butterfly respectively and later a gold for the women's 200 m individual medley...


4:50.70
400 m freestyle S13 Anna Efimenko
4:41.28
WR
Amaya Alonso Alvarez
4:47.66 Maike Naomi Schnittger
4:53.11
50 m backstroke S4 Edenia Nogueira Garcia
55.48 Karolina Hamer
1:02.50 Jennie Ekstrom
1:05.02
50 m backstroke S5 Bela Hlavackova
42.64
WR
Karina Lauridsen
44.91 Lisette Desirre Teunissen
51.46
100 m backstroke S7 Kirsten Bruhn
1:21.72
WR
Cortney Jordan
1:22.65 Katrina Porter
Katrina Porter
Katrina Porter is a Paralympic swimming competitor from Australia. She won a gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Games in the Women's 100 m Backstroke S7 event. She was born on 29 November 1988.-References:...


1:23.90
100 m backstroke S8 Mariann Vestbestad
1:20.08 Jacqueline Rose Freney
1:25.11 Anastasia Diodorova
1:28.73
WR (S6)
100 m backstroke S9 Stéphanie Dixon
Stéphanie Dixon
Stéphanie Dixon is a Canadian swimmer. Prior to the 2008 Paralympic Games in Beijing, Dixon had accumulated fifteen Paralympic medals and is considered to be one of the best swimmers with a disability in the world....


1:07.83
WR
Stephanie Millward
1:09.66 Ellie Victoria Cole
1:10.05
100 m backstroke S10 Sophie Pascoe
Sophie Pascoe
Sophie Frances Pascoe, MNZM, is a New Zealand paralympics swimmer, most notable for her performance at the 2008 Summer Paralympics, winning a gold and a silver medal for the 100 m breaststroke and 100 m butterfly respectively and later a gold for the women's 200 m individual medley...


1:07.87
WR
Shireen Sapiro
Shireen Sapiro
Shireen Sapiro is a South African paralympics swimmer, most notable for her performance at the 2008 Summer Paralympics, winning a gold medal for the 100 m backstroke.- Biography :...


1:08.87 Esther Morales Fernandez
1:11.82
100 m backstroke S13 Anna Efimenko
1:09.73 Karina Petrikovicova
1:12.62 Teigan Anne Van Roosmalen
1:13.93
50 m breaststroke SB3 Karina Lauridsen
59.30 Jennie Ekstrom
1:20.20
WR (SB2)
None
100 m breaststroke SB4 Bela Hlavackova
2:02.63 Alice Hsiao Hung Luo
 Chinese Taipei
2:08.45 Ana Clara Carneiro Grillo Cruz
2:12.47
100 m breaststroke SB6 Elizabeth Johnson
1:38.82
WR
Katrina Porter
Katrina Porter
Katrina Porter is a Paralympic swimming competitor from Australia. She won a gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Games in the Women's 100 m Backstroke S7 event. She was born on 29 November 1988.-References:...


1:53.40 Marianne Maeland
1:53.46
100 m breaststroke SB7 Jessica Long
Jessica Long
-Early life:Long was born in Siberia and was adopted from a Russian orphanage at the age of 13 months. Because of lower leg anomalies , her legs were amputated when she was 18 months old. She learned to walk with prostheses. Long has been involved in many sports including gymnastics, cheerleading,...


1:26.85
WR
Erin Popovich
Erin Popovich
Erin Popovich is a three-time United States Paralympic swimmer. She has won 14 career Paralympic gold medals, and 19 total.- Personal life :...


1:31.58 Kirsten Bruhn
1:35.30
WR (SB5)
100 m breaststroke SB8 Olesya Vladykina
1:15.54
WR
Claire Cashmore
1:19.96 Paulina Kamila Wozniak
1:21.69
100 m breaststroke SB9 Nina Ryabova
1:21.00
WR
Kate Grey
1:21.14 Sophie Pascoe
Sophie Pascoe
Sophie Frances Pascoe, MNZM, is a New Zealand paralympics swimmer, most notable for her performance at the 2008 Summer Paralympics, winning a gold and a silver medal for the 100 m breaststroke and 100 m butterfly respectively and later a gold for the women's 200 m individual medley...


1:21.16
100 m breaststroke SB12 Karolina Pelendritou
1:14.38
WR
Carla Casals Sole
1:18.01 Oxana Savchenko
1:20.46
100 m breaststroke SB13 Prudence Watt
1:20.31 Begona Cuero Sastre
1:22.86 Marta Maria Gomez Batelli
1:26.62
50 m butterfly S6 Anastasia Diodorova
38.86
WR
Casey Johnson
40.67 Natalie Jones
41.40
50 m butterfly S7 Mallory Weggemann
35.17
WR
Erin Popovich
Erin Popovich
Erin Popovich is a three-time United States Paralympic swimmer. She has won 14 career Paralympic gold medals, and 19 total.- Personal life :...


36.62 Veronica Mauadie De Almeida
38.47
100 m butterfly S9 Sarai Gascon Moreno
1:07.21
WR
Annabelle Williams
Annabelle Williams
Annabelle Williams is a Paralympic swimming competitor from Australia. She won a bronze medal at the 2008 Beijing Games in the Women's 100 m Butterfly S9 event. She was born in 21 July 1988.-References:...


1:08.78 Stephanie Millward
1:09.24
100 m butterfly S10 Sophie Pascoe
Sophie Pascoe
Sophie Frances Pascoe, MNZM, is a New Zealand paralympics swimmer, most notable for her performance at the 2008 Summer Paralympics, winning a gold and a silver medal for the 100 m breaststroke and 100 m butterfly respectively and later a gold for the women's 200 m individual medley...


1:08.94
WR
Shireen Saprio
1:12.68 Samantha Louise Gandolfo
1:15.64
100 m butterfly S11 Jessica Long
Jessica Long
-Early life:Long was born in Siberia and was adopted from a Russian orphanage at the age of 13 months. Because of lower leg anomalies , her legs were amputated when she was 18 months old. She learned to walk with prostheses. Long has been involved in many sports including gymnastics, cheerleading,...


1:12.24
WR
Jacqueline Rose Freney
1:20.55 Chantal Cavin
1:36.76
100 m butterfly S13 Joanna Mendak
1:05.10
WR (S12)
Rhiannon Henry
1:06.12
WR (S13)
Prudence Watt
1:06.83
100 m individual medley SM6 Natalie Jones
1:30.85 Eleanor Simmonds
Eleanor Simmonds
Eleanor Simmonds MBE is a British Paralympian swimmer who has achondroplasia.Simmonds competed at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, China in the 50 m, 100 m and 400 m freestyle, 50 m butterfly, and 200 m individual medley. She swims in the S6 disability category...


1:31.59 Elizabeth Johnson
1:32.69
100 m individual medley SM8 Olesya Vladykina
1:12.27 Jessica Long
Jessica Long
-Early life:Long was born in Siberia and was adopted from a Russian orphanage at the age of 13 months. Because of lower leg anomalies , her legs were amputated when she was 18 months old. She learned to walk with prostheses. Long has been involved in many sports including gymnastics, cheerleading,...


1:16.76 Lisa Den Braber
1:28.33
100 m individual medley SM9 Claire Cashmore
1:11.83
WR
Stephanie Millward
1:12.61 Kate Grey
1:12.78
100 m individual medley SM10 Sophie Pascoe
Sophie Pascoe
Sophie Frances Pascoe, MNZM, is a New Zealand paralympics swimmer, most notable for her performance at the 2008 Summer Paralympics, winning a gold and a silver medal for the 100 m breaststroke and 100 m butterfly respectively and later a gold for the women's 200 m individual medley...


1:10.04
WR
Maud Diddier
1:15.83 Hannah Katherine MacDougall
1:17.31
100 m individual medley SM12 Oxana Savchenko
1:08.90 Karolina Pelendritou
1:09.77 Carla Casals Sole
1:11.43
100 m individual medley SM13 Prudence Watt
1:11.60
WR
Teigan Anne Van Roosmalen
1:14.04 Begona Curero Sastre
1:15.83
200 m individual medley SM6 Eleanor Simmonds
Eleanor Simmonds
Eleanor Simmonds MBE is a British Paralympian swimmer who has achondroplasia.Simmonds competed at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, China in the 50 m, 100 m and 400 m freestyle, 50 m butterfly, and 200 m individual medley. She swims in the S6 disability category...


3:08.80
WR
Natalie Jones
3:09.88 Elizabeth Johnson
3:17.47
200 m individual medley SM7 Erin Popovich
Erin Popovich
Erin Popovich is a three-time United States Paralympic swimmer. She has won 14 career Paralympic gold medals, and 19 total.- Personal life :...


2:53.07
WR
Cortney Jordan
3:06.92 Brianna Nicole Nelson
3:11.65
200 m individual medley SM8 Olesya Vladykina
2:35.83
WR
Jessica Long
Jessica Long
-Early life:Long was born in Siberia and was adopted from a Russian orphanage at the age of 13 months. Because of lower leg anomalies , her legs were amputated when she was 18 months old. She learned to walk with prostheses. Long has been involved in many sports including gymnastics, cheerleading,...


2:42.88 Mariann Vestbestad
3:06.84
200 m individual medley SM9 Stephanie Millward
2:33.18 Claire Cashmore
2:34.35 Ellie Victoria Cole
2:36.01
200 m individual medley SM10 Sophie Pascoe
Sophie Pascoe
Sophie Frances Pascoe, MNZM, is a New Zealand paralympics swimmer, most notable for her performance at the 2008 Summer Paralympics, winning a gold and a silver medal for the 100 m breaststroke and 100 m butterfly respectively and later a gold for the women's 200 m individual medley...


2:32.27
WR
Viera Mikulasikova
2:40.86 Susan Beth Scott
2:41.36
200 m individual medley SM12 Oxana Savchenko
2:29.61
WR
Joanna Mendak
2:31.52 Amaya Alonso Alvarez
2:34.78
200 m individual medley SM13 Prudence Watt
2:31.69 Teigan Anne Van Roosmalen
2:36.11 Begona Curero Sastre
2:49.94
4×50 m freestyle relay 20 pts
Kayla Wheeler
Casey Johnson
Cheryl Angelelli
Mallory Weggemann
3:50.55 None None
4×100 m freestyle relay 34 pts
Stephanie Millward
Eleanor Simmonds
Eleanor Simmonds
Eleanor Simmonds MBE is a British Paralympian swimmer who has achondroplasia.Simmonds competed at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, China in the 50 m, 100 m and 400 m freestyle, 50 m butterfly, and 200 m individual medley. She swims in the S6 disability category...


Lauren Steadman
Louise Watkin
Louise Watkin
Louise Watkin is a British Paralympic swimmer. She came to the UK in 1996. She was born with Upper Limb Deficiency, and is missing her left hand...

4:26.20
WR

Susan Beth Scott
Cortney Jordan
Jessica Long
Jessica Long
-Early life:Long was born in Siberia and was adopted from a Russian orphanage at the age of 13 months. Because of lower leg anomalies , her legs were amputated when she was 18 months old. She learned to walk with prostheses. Long has been involved in many sports including gymnastics, cheerleading,...


Erin Popovich
Erin Popovich
Erin Popovich is a three-time United States Paralympic swimmer. She has won 14 career Paralympic gold medals, and 19 total.- Personal life :...

4:35.61
Annabelle Williams
Annabelle Williams
Annabelle Williams is a Paralympic swimming competitor from Australia. She won a bronze medal at the 2008 Beijing Games in the Women's 100 m Butterfly S9 event. She was born in 21 July 1988.-References:...


Jacqueline Rose Freney
Katrina Porter
Katrina Porter
Katrina Porter is a Paralympic swimming competitor from Australia. She won a gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Games in the Women's 100 m Backstroke S7 event. She was born on 29 November 1988.-References:...


Ellie Victoria Cole
4:37.04
4×50 m medley relay 20 pts
Cheryl Angelelli
Erin Popovich
Erin Popovich
Erin Popovich is a three-time United States Paralympic swimmer. She has won 14 career Paralympic gold medals, and 19 total.- Personal life :...


Casey Johnson
Kayla Wheeler
4:06.71 None None
4×100 m medley relay 34 pts
Stephanie Millward
Claire Cashmore
Elizabeth Simpkin
Eleanor Simmonds
Eleanor Simmonds
Eleanor Simmonds MBE is a British Paralympian swimmer who has achondroplasia.Simmonds competed at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, China in the 50 m, 100 m and 400 m freestyle, 50 m butterfly, and 200 m individual medley. She swims in the S6 disability category...

4:56.23
WR

Nina Ryabova
Olesya Vladykina
Irina Grazhdanova
Oxana Guseva
4:57.92
Rachel Lardiere
Emilie Gral
Extitxu Vivanco
Maud Didier
5:22.52

Legend: WRWorld record

Paricipating nations

Competitors representing thirty-one National Paralympic Committee
National Paralympic Committee
National Paralympic Committees are the national constituents of the worldwide Paralympic movement. Subject to the controls of the International Paralympic Committee , they are responsible for organizing their people's participation in the Paralympic Games.The Paralympic Games are a major...

s (NPCs) attended the championships.

See also

  • 2009 in swimming
    2009 in swimming
    2009 in swimming documents the highlights of competitive international swimming during 2009.-World records this year:The tables below lists all world records broken or equalled during 2009. Records are listed in each section in date order, with records which were subsequently broken later in the...

  • Swimming at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
    Swimming at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
    The swimming events of the 2008 Summer Paralympics were held in the Beijing National Aquatics Center between September 7 and September 15, 2008. A total of 140 gold medals were expected to be distributed.-Classifications:...

  • 2010 IPC Swimming World Championships
  • List of IPC world records in swimming
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