Swimming at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Swimming at the XIII Paralympic Games
Paralympic Swimming
Venue	Beijing National Aquatics Center
Dates	7–15 September 2008

Women's Freestyle swimming

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. Paralympic records were broken in 122 events, of which the records in 108 events were also world records.

Classifications

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
• 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.

Events

Due to the classification process, there will be more than one set of medals in each of the traditional swimming events. The following events will be held in the various classifications.

Men

Event	S1	S2	S3	S4	S5	S6	S7	S8	S9	S10	S11	S12	S13
50 m freestyle		X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
100 m freestyle		X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
200 m freestyle		X	X	X	X
400 m freestyle						X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
50 m backstroke	X	X	X	X	X
100 m backstroke						X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
50 m butterfly					X	X	X
100 m butterfly								X	X	X	X	X	X

Event	SB3	SB4	SB5	SB6	SB7	SB8	SB9	SB11	SB12	SB13
50 m breaststroke	X
100 m breaststroke		X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X

Event	SM4	SM5	SM6	SM7	SM8	SM9	SM10	SM12	SM13
150 m individual medley	X
200 m individual medley		X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X

Event	20pts	34pts
4×50 m freestyle relay	X
4 × 100 m freestyle relay		X
4×50 m medley relay	X
4 × 100 m medley relay		X

Women

Event	S2	S3	S4	S5	S6	S7	S8	S9	S10	S11	S12	S13
50 m freestyle		X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
100 m freestyle			X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
200 m freestyle				X
400 m freestyle					X	X	X	X	X			X
50 m backstroke	X	X		X
100 m backstroke					X	X	X	X	X			X
50 m butterfly					X	X
100 m butterfly							X	X	X		X	X

Event	SB4	SB5	SB6	SB7	SB8	SB9	SB12
100 m breaststroke	X	X	X	X	X	X	X

Event	SM4	SM6	SM7	SM8	SM9	SM10	SM12	SM13
150 m individual medley	X
200 m individual medley		X	X	X	X	X	X	X

Qualification

There will be 560 athletes (330 male, 230 female) taking part in this sport.

Medal summary

Medal table

This ranking sorts countries by the number of gold medals earned by their swimmers (in this context a country is an entity represented by a National Paralympic Committee). The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze medals. If, after the above, countries are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically.

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	17	14	13	44
2	China (CHN)	13	22	17	52
3	Ukraine (UKR)	13	10	20	43
4	Great Britain (GBR)	11	12	18	41
5	Russia (RUS)	11	9	7	27
6	Spain (ESP)	10	12	9	31
7	Australia (AUS)	9	11	9	29
8	Brazil (BRA)	8	7	4	19
9	South Africa (RSA)	8	0	1	9
10	Canada (CAN)	7	7	9	23
11	Mexico (MEX)	5	1	2	8
12	Greece (GRE)	4	5	3	12
13	New Zealand (NZL)	4	2	0	6
14	Belarus (BLR)	3	2	1	6
15	Poland (POL)	2	5	3	10
16	France (FRA)	2	4	0	6
17	Netherlands (NED)	2	2	2	6
18	Czech Republic (CZE)	2	1	4	7
19	Sweden (SWE)	2	0	1	3
20	Germany (GER)	1	3	5	9
21	Japan (JPN)	1	2	2	5
22	Italy (ITA)	1	2	0	3
23	Singapore (SIN)	1	1	0	2
24	Hungary (HUN)	1	0	4	5
25	Cyprus (CYP)	1	0	1	2
25	Denmark (DEN)	1	0	1	2
25	Norway (NOR)	1	0	1	2
28	Israel (ISR)	0	3	0	3
29	South Korea (KOR)	0	1	1	2
30	Ireland (IRL)	0	1	0	1
31	Argentina (ARG)	0	0	1	1
31	Colombia (COL)	0	0	1	1
31	Estonia (EST)	0	0	1	1
31	Portugal (POR)	0	0	1	1
Total		141	139	142	422

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
50 m freestyle S2	Georgios Kapellakis  Greece	Dmitrii Kokarev  Russia	James Anderson  Great Britain
50 m freestyle S3	Dmytro Vynohradets  Ukraine	Du Jianping  China	Byeong-Eon Min  South Korea
50 m freestyle S4	David Smétanine  France	Richard Oribe  Spain	Jan Povysil  Czech Republic
50 m freestyle S5	Dmytro Kryzhanovskyy  Ukraine	Daniel Dias  Brazil	Sebastián Rodríguez  Spain
50 m freestyle S6	Xu Qing  China	Tang Yuan  China	Anders Olsson  Sweden
50 m freestyle S7	David Roberts  Great Britain	Matt Walker  Great Britain	Lantz Lamback  United States
50 m freestyle S8	Xiaofu Wang  China	Peter Leek  Australia	Konstantin Lisenkov  Russia
50 m freestyle S9	Matthew Cowdrey  Australia	Zhi Guo  China	Xiaoming Xion  China
50 m freestyle S10	André Brasil  Brazil	Phelipe Rodrigues  Brazil	Benoit Huot  Canada
50 m freestyle S11	Enhamed Enhamed  Spain	Junichi Kawai  Japan	Alexander Chekurov  Russia
50 m freestyle S12	Maksym Veraksa  Ukraine	Alexander Nevolin-Svetov  Russia	Sergii Klippert  Ukraine
50 m freestyle S13	Oleksii Fedyna  Ukraine	Charalampos Taiganidis  Greece	Andrey Strokin  Russia
100 m freestyle S2	Dmitrii Kokarev  Russia	Georgios Kapellakis  Greece	James Anderson  Great Britain
100 m freestyle S3	Du Jianping  China	Dmytro Vynohradets  Ukraine	Li Hanhua  China
100 m freestyle S4	David Smétanine  France	Richard Oribe  Spain	Jan Povysil  Czech Republic
100 m freestyle S5	Daniel Dias  Brazil	Dmytro Kryzhanovskyy  Ukraine	Roy Perkins  United States
100 m freestyle S6	Anders Olsson  Sweden	Yuan Tang  China	Yuanrun Yang  China
100 m freestyle S7	David Roberts  Great Britain	Lantz Lamback  United States	Matt Walker  Great Britain
100 m freestyle S8	Xiaofu Wang  China	Konstantin Lisenkov  Russia	Peter Leek  Australia
100 m freestyle S9	Matthew Cowdrey  Australia	Zhi Guo  China	Tamas Sors  Hungary
100 m freestyle S10	André Brasil  Brazil	Phelipe Rodrigues  Brazil	Benoit Huot  Canada
100 m freestyle S11	Enhamed Enhamed  Spain	Bozun Yang  China	Grzegorz Polkowski  Poland
100 m freestyle S12	Maksym Veraksa  Ukraine	Sergii Klippert  Ukraine	Alexander Nevolin-Svetov  Russia
100 m freestyle S13	Charalampos Taiganidis  Greece	Oleksii Fedyna  Ukraine	Danylo Chufarov  Ukraine
200 m freestyle S2	Dmitrii Kokarev  Russia	James Anderson  Great Britain	Georgios Kapellakis  Greece
200 m freestyle S3	Dmytro Vynohradets  Ukraine	Li Hanhua  China	Du Jianping  China
200 m freestyle S4	Richard Oribe  Spain	David Smétanine  France	Jan Povysil  Czech Republic
200 m freestyle S5	Daniel Dias  Brazil	Sebastián Rodríguez  Spain	Anthony Stephens  Great Britain
400 m freestyle S6	Anders Olsson  Sweden	Darragh McDonald  Ireland	Matthew Whorwood  Great Britain
400 m freestyle S7	David Roberts  Great Britain	Lantz Lamback  United States	Jay Dohnt  Australia
400 m freestyle S8	Sam Hynd  Great Britain	Peter Leek  Australia	Jiachao Wang  China
400 m freestyle S9	Jesús Collado  Spain	Matthew Cowdrey  Australia	Tamas Sors  Hungary
400 m freestyle S10	André Brasil  Brazil	Robert Welbourn  Great Britain	Benoit Huot  Canada
400 m freestyle S11	Enhamed Enhamed  Spain	Bozun Yang  China	Donovan Tildesley  Canada
400 m freestyle S12	Sergei Punko  Belarus	Enrique Floriano  Spain	Sergii Klippert  Ukraine
400 m freestyle S13	Charl Bouwer  South Africa	Danylo Chufarov  Ukraine	Charalampos Taiganidis  Greece
50 m backstroke S1	Christos Tampaxis  Greece	Andreas Katsaros  Greece	João Martins  Portugal
50 m backstroke S2	Dmitrii Kokarev  Russia	Jim Anderson  Great Britain	Georgios Kapellakis  Greece
50 m backstroke S3	Du Jianping  China	Min Byeong-Eon  South Korea	Dmytro Vynohradets  Ukraine
50 m backstroke S4	Juan Reyes  Mexico	David Smétanine  France	Huabin Zeng  China
50 m backstroke S5	Daniel Dias  Brazil	Junquan He  China	Zsolt Vereczkei  Hungary
100 m backstroke S6	Igor Plotnikov  Russia	Yuanrun Yang  China	Yuan Tang  China
100 m backstroke S7	Lantz Lamback  United States	Jon Fox  Great Britain	Guillermo Marro  Argentina
100 m backstroke S8	Konstantin Lisenkov  Russia	Peter Leek  Australia	Sean Fraser  Great Britain
100 m backstroke S9	Matthew Cowdrey  Australia	Zhi Guo  China	Jarrett Perry  United States
100 m backstroke S10	Justin Zook  United States	Michael Anderson  Australia	Kardo Ploomipuu  Estonia
100 m backstroke S11	Bozun Yang  China	Damian Pietrasik  Poland	Viktor Smyrnov  Ukraine
100 m backstroke S12	Alexander Nevolin-Svetov  Russia	Sergii Klippert  Ukraine	Maksym Veraksa  Ukraine
100 m backstroke S13	Charalampos Taiganidis  Greece	Oleksii Fedyna  Ukraine	Dmytro Aleksyeyev  Ukraine
50 m breaststroke SB3	Takayuki Suzuki  Japan	Vicente Gil  Spain	Miguel Luque  Spain
100 m breaststroke SB4	Ricardo Ten  Spain	Daniel Dias  Brazil	Moisés Fuentes  Colombia
100 m breaststroke SB5	Pedro Rangel  Mexico	Thomas Grimm  Germany	Tadhg Slattery  South Africa
100 m breaststroke SB6	Alexey Fomenkov  Russia	Gareth Duke  Great Britain	Matt Whorwood  Great Britain
100 m breaststroke SB7	Sascha Kindred  Great Britain	Blake Cochrane  Australia	Rudy Garcia-Tolson  United States
100 m breaststroke SB8	Andriy Kalyna  Ukraine	Xiaofu Wang  China	Alejandro Sánchez  Spain
100 m breaststroke SB9	Kevin Paul  South Africa	Furong Lin  China	Denis Dorogaev  Russia
100 m breaststroke SB11	Oleksandr Mashchenko  Ukraine	Bozun Yang  China	Viktor Smyrnov  Ukraine
100 m breaststroke SB12	Maksym Veraksa  Ukraine	Sergei Punko  Belarus	Sergii Klippert  Ukraine
100 m breaststroke SB13	Oleksii Fedyna  Ukraine	Daniel Sharp  New Zealand	Uladzimir Izotau  Belarus
50 m butterfly S5	Roy Perkins  United States	Daniel Dias  Brazil	Junquan He  China
50 m butterfly S6	Xu Qing  China	Kyosuke Oyama  Japan	Sascha Kindred  Great Britain
50 m butterfly S7	Rong Tian  China	Matt Walker  Great Britain	Mang Pei  China
100 m butterfly S8	Peter Leek  Australia	Wei Yanpeng  China	Wang Xiaofu  China
100 m butterfly S9	Tamas Sors  Hungary	Matthew Cowdrey  Australia	Guo Zhi  China
100 m butterfly S10	André Brasil  Brazil	David Julian Levecq  Spain	Mike van der Zanden  Netherlands
100 m butterfly S11	Enhamed Enhamed  Spain	Oleksandr Mashchenko  Ukraine	Junichi Kawai  Japan Viktor Smyrnov  Ukraine
100 m butterfly S12	Raman Makarau  Belarus	Sergei Punko  Belarus	Anton Stabrovskyy  Ukraine
100 m butterfly S13	Dzmitry Salei  Belarus	Charalampos Taiganidis  Greece	Andrey Strokin  Russia
150 m individual medley SM4	Cameron Leslie  New Zealand	Vicente Javier Torres  Spain	Takayuki Suzuki  Japan
200 m individual medley SM5	Daniel Dias  Brazil	Junquan He  China	Pablo Cimadevila  Spain
200 m individual medley SM6	Sascha Kindred  Great Britain	Yang Yuanrun  China	Xu Qing  China
200 m individual medley SM7	Rudy Garcia-Tolson  United States	Tian Rong  China	Matt Walker  Great Britain
200 m individual medley SM8	Peter Leek  Australia	Jiachao Wang  China	Sam Hynd  Great Britain
200 m individual medley SM9	Matthew Cowdrey  Australia	Andriy Kalyna  Ukraine	Cody Bureau  United States
200 m individual medley SM10	Rick Pendleton  Australia	André Brasil  Brazil	Benoit Huot  Canada
200 m individual medley SM12	Maksym Veraksa  Ukraine	Alexander Nevolin-Svetov  Russia	Sergii Klippert  Ukraine
200 m individual medley SM13	Oleksii Fedyna  Ukraine	Charalampos Taiganidis  Greece	Dmytro Aleksyeyev  Ukraine
4×50 m freestyle 20pts	China (CHN) Jianping Du Yuan Tang Junguan He Yuanrun Yang	Spain (ESP) Richard Oribe Daniel Vidal Jordi Gordillo Sebastián Rodríguez	Brazil (BRA) Clodoaldo Silva Joon Seo Daniel Dias Adriano Lima
4×100 m freestyle 34pts	Great Britain (GBR) Matt Walker Graham Edmunds David Roberts Robert Welbourn	Australia (AUS) Ben Austin Peter Leek Sam Bramham Matthew Cowdrey	China (CHN) Xiaoming Xiong Yanpeng Wei Xiaofu Wang Zhi Guo
4×50 m medley 20pts	China (CHN) Du Jianping Tang Yuan Xu Qing Yang Yuanrun	Brazil (BRA) Daniel Dias Ivanildo Vasconcelos Luis Silva Clodoaldo Silva	Spain (ESP) Pablo Cimadevila Vicente Gil Daniel Vidal Sebastián Rodríguez
4×100 m medley 34pts	Australia (AUS) Matthew Cowdrey Rick Pendleton Peter Leek Ben Austin	China (CHN) Guo Zhi Lin Furong Wang Xiaofu Wei Yanpeng	Ukraine (UKR) Ievgen Poltavskyi Andriy Kalyna Andriy Sirovatchenko Taras Yastremskyy

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
50 m freestyle S3	Patricia Valle  Mexico	Pin Xiu Yip  Singapore	Fran Williamson  Great Britain
50 m freestyle S4	Nely Miranda  Mexico	Cheryl Angelelli  United States	Edênia Garcia  Brazil
50 m freestyle S5	Maria Teresa Perales  Spain	Bela Hlavackova  Czech Republic	Olena Akopyan  Ukraine
50 m freestyle S6	Mirjam De Koning-Peper  Netherlands	Doramitzi González  Mexico	Natalie Jones  Great Britain
50 m freestyle S7	Cortney Jordan  United States	Erin Popovich  United States	Kirsten Bruhn  Germany
50 m freestyle S8	Cecilie Drabsch Norland  Norway	Amanda Everlove  United States	Jacqueline Freney  Australia
50 m freestyle S9	Natalie du Toit  South Africa	Irina Grazhdanova  Russia	Louise Watkin  Great Britain
50 m freestyle S10	Anne Polinario  Canada	Katarzyna Pawlik  Poland	Katrina Lewis  Australia
50 m freestyle S11	Maria Poiani Panigati  Italy	Cecilia Camellini  Italy	Fabiana Sugimori  Brazil
50 m freestyle S12	Oxana Savchenko  Russia	Anna Efimenko  Russia	Deborah Font  Spain
50 m freestyle S13	Kelley Becherer  United States	Valerie Grand'Maison  Canada	Iryna Balashova  Ukraine
100 m freestyle S4	Nely Miranda  Mexico	Cheryl Angelelli  United States	Aimee Bruder  United States
100 m freestyle S5	Maria Teresa Perales  Spain	Inbal Pezaro  Israel	Bela Hlavackova  Czech Republic
100 m freestyle S6	Eleanor Simmonds  Great Britain	Mirjam De Koning-Peper  Netherlands	Doramitzi González  Mexico
100 m freestyle S7	Erin Popovich  United States	Cortney Jordan  United States	Kirsten Bruhn  Germany
100 m freestyle S8	Jessica Long  United States	Heather Frederiksen  Great Britain	Jacqueline Freney  Australia
100 m freestyle S9	Natalie du Toit  South Africa	Louise Watkin  Great Britain	Stephanie Dixon  Canada
100 m freestyle S10	Ashley Owens  United States	Katarzyna Pawlik  Poland	Anna Eames  United States
100 m freestyle S11	Qing Xie  China	Cecilia Camellini  Italy	Daniela Schulte  Germany
100 m freestyle S12	Oxana Savchenko  Russia	Anna Efimenko  Russia	Joanna Mendak  Poland
100 m freestyle S13	Valerie Grand'Maison  Canada	Chelsey Gotell  Canada	Kelley Becherer  United States
200 m freestyle S5	Maria Teresa Perales  Spain	Inbal Pezaro  Israel	Olena Akopyan  Ukraine
400 m freestyle S6	Eleanor Simmonds  Great Britain	Mirjam De Koning-Peper  Netherlands	Maria Goetze  Germany
400 m freestyle S7	Erin Popovich  United States	Cortney Jordan  United States	Kirsten Bruhn  Germany
400 m freestyle S8	Jessica Long  United States	Heather Frederiksen  Great Britain	Jacqueline Freney  Australia
400 m freestyle S9	Natalie du Toit  South Africa	Stephanie Dixon  Canada	Ellie Cole  Australia
400 m freestyle S10	Katarzyna Pawlik  Poland	Ashley Owens  United States	Susan Beth Scott  United States
400 m freestyle S13	Valerie Grand'Maison  Canada	Anna Efimenko  Russia	Kelley Becherer  United States Chelsey Gotell  Canada
50 m backstroke S2	Ganna Ielisavetska  Ukraine	Iryna Sotska  Ukraine	Sara Carracelas  Spain
50 m backstroke S3	Yip Pin Xiu  Singapore	Fran Williamson  Great Britain	Xia Jiangbo  China
50 m backstroke S5	Bela Hlavackova  Czech Republic	Maria Teresa Perales  Spain	Karina Lauridsen  Denmark
100 m backstroke S6	Mirjam De Koning-Peper  Netherlands	Nyree Lewis  Great Britain	Fuying Jiang  China
100 m backstroke S7	Katrina Porter  Australia	Kirsten Bruhn  Germany	Chantal Boonacker  Netherlands
100 m backstroke S8	Heather Frederiksen  Great Britain	Jessica Long  United States	Mariann Vestbostad  Norway
100 m backstroke S9	Stephanie Dixon  Canada	Elizabeth Stone  United States	Ellie Cole  Australia
100 m backstroke S10	Sophie Pascoe  New Zealand Shireen Sapiro  South Africa		Esther Morales  Spain
100 m backstroke S13	Chelsey Gotell  Canada	Valerie Grand'Maison  Canada	Anna Efimenko  Russia
100 m breaststroke SB4	Bela Hlavackova  Czech Republic	Inbal Pezaro  Israel	Maria Teresa Perales  Spain
100 m breaststroke SB5	Kirsten Bruhn  Germany	Rachel Lardiere  France	Gitta Raczko  Hungary
100 m breaststroke SB6	Elizabeth Johnson  Great Britain	Sarah Bowen  Australia	Deborah Gruen  United States
100 m breaststroke SB7	Erin Popovich  United States	Min Huang  China	Jessica Long  United States
100 m breaststroke SB8	Olesya Vladykina  Russia	Paulina Wozniak  Poland	Claire Cashmore  Great Britain
100 m breaststroke SB9	Sophie Pascoe  New Zealand	Sarai Gascón  Spain	Louise Watkin  Great Britain
100 m breaststroke SB12	Karolina Pelendritou  Cyprus	Sandra Gomez  Spain	Yaryna Matlo  Ukraine
50 m butterfly S6	Fuying Jiang  China	Anastasia Diodorova  Russia	Olena Akopyan  Ukraine
50 m butterfly S7	Min Huang  China	Erin Popovich  United States	Verônica Almeida  Brazil
100 m butterfly S8	Jessica Long  United States	Amanda Everlove  United States	Jin Xiaoqin  China
100 m butterfly S9	Natalie du Toit  South Africa	Ellie Cole  Australia	Annabelle Williams  Australia
100 m butterfly S10	Anna Eames  United States	Sophie Pascoe  New Zealand	Shuai Wang  China
100 m butterfly S12	Joanna Mendak  Poland	Ana García-Arcicollar  Spain	Yuliya Volkova  Ukraine
100 m butterfly S13	Valérie Grand'Maison  Canada	Kirby Cote  Canada	Chelsey Gotell  Canada
150 m individual medley SM4	Karina Lauridsen  Denmark	Marayke Jonkers  Australia	Patricia Valle  Mexico
200 m individual medley SM6	Miranda Uhl  United States	Maria Goetze  Germany	Natalie Jones  Great Britain
200 m individual medley SM7	Erin Popovich  United States	Huang Min  China	Cortney Jordan  United States
200 m individual medley SM8	Jessica Long  United States	Amanda Everlove  United States	Heather Frederiksen  Great Britain
200 m individual medley SM9	Natalie du Toit  South Africa	Stephanie Dixon  Canada	Louise Watkin  Great Britain
200 m individual medley SM10	Sophie Pascoe  New Zealand	Elodie Lorandi  France	Katarzyna Pawlik  Poland
200 m individual medley SM12	Oxana Savchenko  Russia	Joanna Mendak  Poland	Karolina Pelendritou  Cyprus
200 m individual medley SM13	Chelsey Gotell  Canada	Kirby Cote  Canada	Valérie Grand'Maison  Canada

See also

• List of Paralympic records in swimming
• 2008 in swimming

References

• "Schedules and Results - Swimming". The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad. Retrieved 2008-09-08.

External links

• Official Site of the 2008 Summer Paralympics