2013 IPC Swimming World Championships
5th IPC Swimming World Championships | |
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Date(s) | 12 – 18 August |
Venue(s) | Parc Jean Drapeau Aquatic Complex |
Nations participating | 57 |
Athletes participating | 530 |
The 2013 IPC Swimming World Championships was the seventh
Venue
The Championship was staged at the Parc Jean Drapeau Aquatic Complex in the Parc Jean-Drapeau located in the east of Montreal. The complex contains three outdoor swimming pools, all renovated shortly before the staging of the competition.[1]
Coverage
As with the 2013 IPC Athletics World Championships, the IPC will continue to show live streaming of the evening finals on ParalympicSport.TV.[3] In the United Kingdom Channel 4 continued their commitment to parasport with their own live streaming Paralympics website with pool-side commentary and a daily one-hour highlights television show the following morning on Channel 4.[4] In Brazil coverage was provided by Globo-Sport TV while some European Broadcasting Union countries would also air the championships.[5]
Events
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 → | 12 Aug | 13 Aug | 14 Aug | 15 Aug | 16 Aug | 17 Aug | 18 Aug | |
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50 m freestyle | Men Details |
S4 | S9 S11 |
S6 S7 S3 |
S12 S13 |
S5 S8 S10 | ||
Women Details |
S4 | S9 S11 |
S6 S7 S3 |
S12 S13 |
S5 S8 S10 | |||
100 m freestyle | Men Details |
S12 S9 S10 |
S1 S4 S11 |
S2 S3 S7 |
S5 S8 |
S6 S13 | ||
Women Details |
S12 S9 S10 |
S4 S11 |
S2 S3 S7 |
S5 S8 |
S6 S13 | |||
200 m freestyle | Men Details |
S3 S14 |
S5 | S4 | ||||
Women Details |
S3 S14 |
S5 | S4 | |||||
400 m freestyle | Men Details |
S6 S7 |
S10 | S8 S11 |
S9 S12 S13 |
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Women Details |
S6 S7 |
S10 | S8 S11 |
S12 S13 |
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50m backstroke | Men Details |
S1 | S4 | S2 S5 |
S3 | |||
Women Details |
S4 | S2 S5 |
S3 | |||||
100 m backstroke | Men Details |
S11 | S14 | S7 | S10 S12 S13 S6 |
S9 | ||
Women Details |
S11 | S14 | S7 | S10 S12 S13 S6 |
S9 | |||
50 m breaststroke | Men Details |
SB2 | SB3 | |||||
Women Details |
SB2 | |||||||
100m breaststroke | Men Details |
SB7 SB13 SB4 SB6 |
SB9 | SB8 | SB5 SB14 |
SB11 | SB12 | |
Women Details |
SB7 SB13 SB4 SB6 |
SB9 | SB8 | SB5 SB14 |
SB11 | SB12 | ||
50 m butterfly | Men Details |
S5 | S4 | S6 S7 |
S3 | |||
Women Details |
S5 | S6 S7 |
S3 | |||||
100m butterfly | Men Details |
S12 | S13 | S8 S10 S11 |
S9 | |||
Women Details |
S12 | S13 | S8 S10 S11 |
S9 | ||||
150m medley | Men Details |
SM3 SM4 |
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Women Details |
SM3 SM4 |
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200m medley | Men Details |
SM13 | SM9 SM8 |
SM12 | SM10 SM5 SM6 |
SM7 SM11 SM14 | ||
Women Details |
SM13 | SM9 SM8 |
SM12 | SM10 SM5 SM6 |
SM7 SM11 SM14 | |||
4×50m freestyle relays | Men Details |
20 pts |
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Women Details |
20 pts |
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4×50m medley relays | Men Details |
20 pts |
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Women Details |
20 pts |
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4 × 100 m freestyle relays | Men Details |
34 pts |
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Women Details |
34 pts |
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4 × 100 m medley relays | Men Details |
34 pts
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Women Details |
34 pts
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Medal table
The medal table at the end of the championship.
* Host nation (Canada)
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | ![]() | 33 | 22 | 29 | 84 |
2 | ![]() | 19 | 22 | 13 | 54 |
3 | ![]() | 18 | 22 | 15 | 55 |
4 | ![]() | 12 | 1 | 2 | 15 |
5 | ![]() | 11 | 13 | 9 | 33 |
6 | ![]() | 11 | 9 | 6 | 26 |
7 | ![]() | 11 | 4 | 12 | 27 |
8 | ![]() | 6 | 5 | 7 | 18 |
9 | ![]() | 6 | 5 | 3 | 14 |
10 | ![]() | 6 | 2 | 2 | 10 |
11 | ![]() | 5 | 10 | 9 | 24 |
12 | ![]() | 5 | 6 | 6 | 17 |
13 | ![]() | 5 | 6 | 5 | 16 |
14 | ![]() | 4 | 14 | 9 | 27 |
15 | ![]() | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
16 | ![]() | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 |
17 | ![]() | 2 | 4 | 3 | 9 |
18 | ![]() | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
19 | ![]() | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
20 | ![]() | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 |
![]() | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 | |
22 | ![]() | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 |
![]() | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | |
24 | ![]() | 1 | 1 | 6 | 8 |
25 | ![]() | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
26 | ![]() | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
27 | ![]() | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
28 | ![]() | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
![]() | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
30 | ![]() | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
31 | ![]() | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
![]() | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
![]() | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
![]() | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
![]() | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
36 | ![]() | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
37 | ![]() | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
![]() | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
![]() | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Totals (39 entries) | 172 | 173 | 172 | 517 |
Multiple medallists
Many competitors won multiple medals at the 2013 Championships. The following athletes won five gold medals or more.
Highlights
Day 1 (12 August)
The first medal of the 2013 World Championships was won by Ireland's
The afternoon session witnessed five new world records. Ihar Boki of Belarus, one of the stand-out athletes of the championships, broke the world record in the final of the SM13 200m individual medley. Then within the hour two more records fell as Lisenkov's record in the 100m backstroke S8, set in the morning, failed to last a day as he took 0.70 seconds of his own time to secure gold; while Britain's Josef Craig added the World title of the 400m freestyle S7 to his Paralympic title with a winning time of 4:39.13.[8] The final two new world records were set in the last three races of the day. New Zealand's Sophie Pascoe swam 1:00.15 in the 100m freestyle S10 while British athlete Jessica-Jane Applegate recorded a time of 2:09.88 in the 200m freestyle to just freeze out Ireland's Bethany Firth.[6]
Of the other medals, several of the big stars of the games took their first gold medals on the first day. Ukraine's
Participating nations
Below is the list of countries who agreed to participate in the Championships and the requested number of athlete places for each.[9]
Argentina (11)
Armenia (1)
Australia (20)
Austria (1)
Belarus (3)
Belgium (3)
Brazil (29)
Canada (28)
Chile ( 1)
China (21)
Chinese Taipei (1)
Colombia (10)
Croatia (3)
Cyprus (1)
Czech Republic (8)
Denmark (4)
Estonia (2)
Finland (2)
France (7)
Georgia (1)
Germany (12)
Great Britain (35)
Greece (12)
Hong Kong (3)
Hungary (18)
Iceland (4)
India (1)
Iraq (1)
Ireland (7)
Israel (7)
Italy (19)
Japan (13)
Kazakhstan (2)
Latvia (1)
Lithuania (2)
Malaysia (1)
Mexico (14)
Namibia (2)
Netherlands (12)
New Zealand (7)
Norway (4)
Poland (7)
Portugal (6)
Romania (2)
Russia (46)
Singapore (2)
Slovakia (3)
Slovenia (3)
South Africa (11)
South Korea (5)
Spain (20)
Sweden (6)
Turkey (1)
Ukraine (52)
Uruguay (1)
United States (30)
Venezuela (1)
Footnotes
- Notes
- References
- ^ a b "IPC Swimming World Championships – About us". paralympic.org. Retrieved 13 August 2013.
- ^ "Forty-three records smashed at IPC Swimming Worlds". paralympic.org. 19 August 2013. Retrieved 26 August 2013.
- ^ "Montreal 2013 IPC Swimming World Championships". disabled-world.com. 4 August 2013. Retrieved 15 August 2013.
- ^ "IPC Swimming World Championships 2013 on Channel 4". sport-onthebox.com. 5 August 2013. Retrieved 15 August 2013.
- ^ Crook, James (2 August 2013). "IPC Swimming World Championships in Montreal to be screened live on ParalympicTV". insidethegames.biz. Retrieved 15 August 2013.
- ^ a b c d "Montreal 2013 - Day one review". paralympic.org. 13 August 2013. Retrieved 28 August 2013.
- ^ "Men's 100M Backstroke S8 - Heats" (PDF). paralympic.org. 12 August 2013. Retrieved 28 August 2013.
- ^ a b "Daily Competition Schedule". paralympic.org. 12 August 2013. Retrieved 28 August 2013.
- ^ "Number of countries by NPC: PDF report" (PDF). paralympic.org. 11 August 2013. Retrieved 13 August 2013.