2015 IPC Swimming World Championships
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| 7th IPC Swimming World Championships | |
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| Host city | Glasgow, United Kingdom |
| Date | 13 – 19 July |
| Venue | Tollcross International Swimming Centre |
| Nations | 70 |
| Athletes | 580 |
The 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships was the eighth IPC Swimming World Championships, an international swimming competition for athletes with a disability. It was held in Glasgow, United Kingdom and took place from 13 to 19 July. Around 580 athletes from around 70 countries competed at the games, with Russia topping the tables with most gold medals and medals won.[1] The event was held at the Tollcross International Swimming Centre located within Tollcross Park in Glasgow.[1] Initially awarded as the IPC Swimming European Championships, the event was upgraded to a World Championship after a change to the IPC calendar.[2]
This proved to be the final event branded as the "IPC Swimming World Championships". On 30 November 2016, the IPC, which serves as the international federation for 10 disability sports, including swimming, adopted the "World Para" brand for all 10 sports. The world championship events in all of these sports were immediately rebranded as "World Para" championships. Accordingly, future IPC swimming championship events will be known as the "World Para Swimming Championships".[3]
The Championship was staged at the Tollcross International Swimming Centre located at Tollcross, Glasgow. The venue possesses a 10 lane competition class swimming pool, and after a £13.7 million upgrade in 2013, a six lane 50 meter warm-up pool was added.[4][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 |
Medal table
The medal table at the end of the championship.
* Host nation (Great Britain)
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Russia (RUS) | 32 | 19 | 20 | 71 |
| 2 |  Ukraine (UKR) | 21 | 27 | 15 | 63 |
| 3 |  United States (USA) | 11 | 11 | 8 | 30 |
| 4 |  Brazil (BRA) | 11 | 8 | 4 | 23 |
| 5 |  Great Britain (GBR)* | 10 | 12 | 10 | 32 |
| 6 |  China (CHN) | 10 | 11 | 8 | 29 |
| 7 |  Australia (AUS) | 9 | 8 | 13 | 30 |
| 8 |  New Zealand (NZL) | 8 | 6 | 2 | 16 |
| 9 |  Belarus (BLR) | 7 | 1 | 1 | 9 |
| 10 |  Netherlands (NED) | 6 | 3 | 6 | 15 |
| 11 |  Spain (ESP) | 4 | 7 | 11 | 22 |
| 12 |  Norway (NOR) | 4 | 2 | 3 | 9 |
| 13 |  Italy (ITA) | 3 | 6 | 2 | 11 |
| 14 |  Canada (CAN) | 2 | 5 | 5 | 12 |
| 15 |  Germany (GER) | 2 | 4 | 5 | 11 |
| 16 |  Japan (JPN) | 2 | 4 | 1 | 7 |
| 17 |  Mexico (MEX) | 2 | 3 | 5 | 10 |
| 18 |  Colombia (COL) | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
 South Korea (KOR) | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | |
| 20 |  Sweden (SWE) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 21 |  South Africa (RSA) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 22 |  Cyprus (CYP) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
 Thailand (THA) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 24 |  Azerbaijan (AZE) | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 25 |  France (FRA) | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 26 |  Israel (ISR) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 27 |  Poland (POL) | 0 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| 28 |  Greece (GRE) | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 29 |  Vietnam (VIE) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 30 |  Czech Republic (CZE) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 Iceland (ISL) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 32 |  Hungary (HUN) | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
 Kazakhstan (KAZ) | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | |
| 34 |  Ireland (IRL) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 35 |  Argentina (ARG) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
 Austria (AUT) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Croatia (CRO) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Portugal (POR) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Turkey (TUR) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Uzbekistan (UZB) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (40 entries) | 152 | 153 | 152 | 457 | |
Multiple medallists
Many competitors won multiple medals at the 2015 Championships. The following athletes won five gold medals or more.[6]
| Name | Country | Medal | Event |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daniel Dias | Brazil |  Gold Gold Gold Gold Gold Gold Gold Silver | 50m freestyle - S5 100m freestyle - S5 200m freestyle - S5 50m backstroke - S5 100m breaststroke - SB4 Mixed 4x50m freestyle relay 20pts 50m butterfly - S5 4 × 100 m freestyle relay 34pts |
| Ihar Boki | Belarus | Gold Gold Gold Gold Gold Gold Silver | 100m backstroke - S13 100m butterfly - S13 100m freestyle - S13 200m medley - SM13 400m freestyle - S13 50m freestyle - S13 100m breaststroke - SB13 |
| Denis Tarasov | Russia | Gold Gold Gold Gold Gold | 100m butterfly - S8 100m freestyle - S8 50m freestyle - S13 4 × 100 m freestyle relay 34pts 4 × 100 m medley relay 34pts |
