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. 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.

Qualification

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 impairmentsVisual impairmentsIDS1S2S3S4S5S6S7S8S9S10S11S12S13S14SB1SB2SB3SB4SB5SB6SB7SB8SB9SB10SB11SB12SB13SB14SM1SM2SM3SM4SM5SM6SM7SM8SM9SM10SM11SM12SM13SM14 colspan="14" 50 metre freestyle

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|align="center" bgcolor=#bbddff|● - o 400 metre freestyle

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| 100 metre butterfly

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| 100 metre breaststroke

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| 200 metre individual medley

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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 dayRio 2016 Paralympic ticketing guide and schedule , from Rio2016.org, official site of the 2016 Summer Paralympic Games.

Date → 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 50 m freestyle MenDetails S7S10 S6 S11S5 S9S3 S13 S8 S12S4 WomenDetails S7S10 S6 S11S5 S9 S13 S8 S12S4 100 m freestyle MenDetails S4 S8 S9 S10 S11 S7S13 S6S5 WomenDetails S3 S8 S9 S10 S11 S7S13 S6S5 200 m freestyle MenDetails S5 S14S2 S4 S3 WomenDetails S5 S14 400 m freestyle MenDetails S8 S9 S11 S13 S6 S7 S10 WomenDetails S8 S9 S11 S13 S6 S7 S10 50 m backstroke MenDetails S3 S1S2 S4S5 WomenDetails S3 S2 S4S5 100 m backstroke MenDetails S6S14S7 S1S2S11 S10 S8 S12 S9 S13 WomenDetails S6S14S7 S2S11 S10 S8 S12 S9 S13 50 m breaststroke MenDetails SB2SB3 WomenDetails SB3 100 m breaststroke MenDetails SB9 SB7 SB5SB13SB4 SB11SB12 SB8SB14 SB6 WomenDetails SB9 SB7 SB5SB13SB4 SB11 SB8SB14 SB6 50 m butterfly MenDetails S6 S5 S7 WomenDetails S6 S5 S7 100 m butterfly MenDetails S13 S8 S10 S11 S9 WomenDetails S13 S8 S10 S9 150 m individual medley MenDetails SM4 SM3 WomenDetails SM4 200 m individual medley MenDetails SM13 SM9SM10 SM6 SM7 SM11 WomenDetails SM13 SM9SM10 SM6 SM7 SM5 SM11 SM8SM14 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

Medal table

Medalists Multiple 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 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 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 200 m individual medley SM13 200 m freestyle S14 100 m backstroke 100 m breaststroke SB14 200 m individual medley SM14 4 × 100 m freestyle relay 34 pts Oleksandr KomarovMaksym KrypakBohdan HrynenkoDenys Dubrov Daniel DiasAndré BrasilRuiter SilvaPhelipe Rodrigues Song MaodangXu HaijiaoLin FurongHuang Yinan 4 × 100 m medley relay Zhou CongLin FurongSong MaodangWang Yinan Iurii BozhynskyiDenys DubrovMaksym KrypakIevgenii Bogodaiko Daniel DiasRuan de SouzaAndré BrasilPhelipe 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 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 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 200 m individual medley SM14 4 × 100 m freestyle relay 34 pts Ellie ColeLakeisha PattersonMaddison ElliottAshleigh McConnell McKenzie CoanElizabeth SmithJessica LongMichelle Konkoly Song LinglingChen YiLin PingXu Jialing 4 × 100 m medley relay Alice TaiClaire CashmoreStephanie SlaterStephanie Millward Ellie ColeMadeleine ScottMaddison ElliottLakeisha Patterson Hannah AspdenElizabeth MarksElizabeth SmithMichelle Konkoly

Mixed events

4 × 50 m freestyle relay 20 pts Peng QiupingJiang ShennangHuang WenpanXu Qing Clodoaldo SilvaJoana NevesSusana RibeiroDaniel Dias Andrii DerevinskyiViktoriia SavtsovaOlga SviderskaIevgenii Bogodaiko

References