The 2013 IPC Swimming World Championships was the seventh IPC Swimming World Championships, an international swimming competition, the biggest meet for athletes with a disability since the 2012 Summer Paralympics. It was held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and lasted from 12 to 18 August. Around 530 athletes competed from 57 different countries. The event was held in the Parc Jean Drapeau Aquatic Complex located at the Parc Jean-Drapeau in Montreal. 172 events were contested with 43 new world records set.

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.

Coverage As with the 2013 IPC Athletics World Championships, the IPC will continue to show live streaming of the evening finals on ParalympicSport.TV. 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. In Brazil coverage was provided by Globo-Sport TV while some European Broadcasting Union countries would also air the championships.

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 Aug13 Aug14 Aug15 Aug 16 Aug 17 Aug18 Aug 50 m freestyle MenDetails S4 S9S11 S6S7S3S12S13 S5S8S10 WomenDetails S4 S9S11S6S7S3 S12S13 S5S8S10 100 m freestyle MenDetails S12S9S10 S1S4S11 S2S3S7 S5S8 S6S13 WomenDetails S12S9S10 S4S11 S2S3S7 S5S8 S6S13 200 m freestyle MenDetails S3S14 S5 S4 WomenDetails S3S14 S5 S4 400 m freestyle MenDetails S6S7 S10 S8S11 S9S12S13 WomenDetails S6S7 S10 S8S11 S12S13 50m backstroke MenDetails S1 S4 S2S5S3 WomenDetails S4 S2S5 S3 100 m backstroke MenDetails S11 S14 S7 S10S12S13S6 S9 WomenDetails S11 S14 S7 S10S12S13S6S9 50 m breaststroke MenDetails SB2 SB3 WomenDetails SB2 100m breaststroke MenDetails SB7SB13SB4SB6 SB9SB8SB5SB14 SB11 SB12 WomenDetails SB7SB13SB4SB6 SB9 SB8 SB5SB14 SB11 SB12 50 m butterfly MenDetails S5 S4 S6S7 S3 WomenDetails S5 S6S7 S3 100m butterfly MenDetails S12 S13 S8S10S11 S9 WomenDetails S12 S13 S8S10S11 S9 150m medley MenDetails SM3SM4 WomenDetails SM3SM4 200m medley MenDetailsSM13 SM9SM8 SM12 SM10SM5SM6 SM7SM11SM14 WomenDetails SM13 SM9SM8 SM12 SM10SM5SM6 SM7SM11SM14 4×50m freestyle relays MenDetails 20 pts WomenDetails 20 pts 4×50m medley relays MenDetails 20 pts WomenDetails 20 pts 4 × 100 m freestyle relays MenDetails 34 pts WomenDetails 34 pts 4 × 100 m medley relays MenDetails 34 pts WomenDetails 34 pts

Medal table The medal table at the end of the championship.

Multiple medallists Many competitors won multiple medals at the 2013 Championships. The following athletes won five gold medals or more. Name Country Medal Event 50m freestyle - S3 100m freestyle - S3200m freestyle - S3 150m medley - SM350m backstroke - S350m butterfly - S34x50m medley relay 20pts 4x50m freestyle relay 20pts50m breaststroke - SB2 50m freestyle - S3 100m freestyle - S3200m freestyle - S3 150m medley - SM350m backstroke - S3 4x50m freestyle relay 20pts 4x50m medley relay 20pts 50m freestyle - S5100m freestyle - S5 200m freestyle - S550m backstroke - S5 200m medley - SM5 4x50m freestyle relay 20pts50m butterfly - S54x50m freestyle relay 34pts 50m freestyle - S11 100m freestyle - S11100m backstroke - S11 200m medley - SM11100m butterfly - S11400m freestyle - S11 50m freestyle - S12 100m freestyle - S12400m freestyle - S12 200m medley - SM12100m butterfly - S12100m backstroke - S12 50m freestyle - S9 100m freestyle - S9100m backstroke - S9 200m medley - SM94x50m freestyle relay 34pts100m butterfly - S9 100m backstroke - S13 100m butterfly - S13100m freestyle - S13 200m medley - SM13400m freestyle - S13 50m freestyle - S10 100m freestyle - S10100m backstroke - S10 100m breaststroke - SB9100m butterfly - S10

Highlights

Day 1 (12 August) The first medal of the 2013 World Championships was won by Ireland's Darragh McDonald who took gold in the 400m freestyle S6 class. The first world record of the games came much earlier in the day when at 9:18AM on only the fourth heat of the championships, Konstantin Lisenkov of Russia recorded a time of 1:04.12 to beat his own record set three years earlier in Eindhoven in the 100m backstroke S8. This was one of three world records to fall in the morning heats, the others going to Nely Miranda Herrera (Mexico) in the 50m Women's freestyle S4 and Olga Sviderska (Ukraine) in the Women's 200m freestyle S3.

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. 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.

Of the other medals, several of the big stars of the games took their first gold medals on the first day. Ukraine's Dmytro Vynohradets took the first of his seven gold medals with success in the Men's 200m freestyle S3, while his teammate Olga Sviderska took the equivalent title in the women's race but well outside her morning's record finish. Australia's Matthew Cowdrey picked up the first of five championship golds in the 100m freestyle S9 while the women's race Stephanie Millward of Britain secured the first of her four golds. New Zealand saw further success on Day one when Mary Fisher started her rung of gold medals with a win in the 100m backstroke S11. Brazil's Andre Brasil became a double Paralympic and World Champion taking the 100m Freestyle S10, a title he has held in those two world championships since 2008 in Beijing. The USA also achieved success on day one, collecting three medals from Roy Perkins (50m butterfly S5), Rebecca Anne Meyers (200m medley SM13) and Cortney Jordan (400m freestyle S7), though it was Ukraine who topped the medal table at the day with six golds.

Participating nations Below is the list of countries who agreed to participate in the Championships and the requested number of athlete places for each. (11) (1) (20) (1) (3) (3) (29) (28) ( 1) (21) (1) (10) (3) (1) (8) (4) (2) (2) (7) (1) (12) (35) (12) (3) (18) (4) (1) (1) (7) (7) (19) (13) (2) (1) (2) (1) (14) (2) (12) (7) (4) (7) (6) (2) (46) (2) (3) (3) (11) (5) (20) (6) (1) (52) (1) (30) (1)

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References

External links Official web-site