The 2017 World Para Swimming Championships was the ninth edition of the World Para Swimming Championships, an international swimming competition for athletes with a disability. It was held in Mexico City, Mexico and took place from 2 to 7 December. Around 304 athletes from around 70 different countries competed at the games, with China topping the tables with most gold medals and medals won. The event was held at the Alberca Olímpica Francisco Márquez located in Mexico City. However, due to safety concerns, both Great Britain and Russia withdrew from the rearranged championships.[1]
| 2017 World Para Swimming Championships | |
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| Date(s) | 2 – 7 December |
| Venue(s) | Alberca Olímpica Francisco Márquez |
| Nations participating | 70 |
| Athletes participating | 580 |
Venue edit
The Championship was staged at the Alberca Olímpica Francisco Márquez located at Mexico City, Mexico.
Events edit
Classification edit
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 edit
| Finals |
| Date → | 2 Dec | 3 Dec | 4 Dec | 5 Dec | 6 Dec | 7 Dec | |
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| 50 m Freestyle | Men |
S10 | S7 | S3 | |||
| Women |
S10 | S7 | |||||
| 100 m Freestyle | Men |
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| Women |
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| 200 m freestyle | Men |
S3 | S14 | ||||
| Women |
S14 | S1-5 | |||||
| 400 m freestyle | Men |
S6 | S11 | ||||
| Women |
S6 | S10 | |||||
| 50m backstroke | Men |
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| Women |
S5 | ||||||
| 100 m backstroke | Men |
S11 | S14 | ||||
| Women |
S11 | S14 | |||||
| 50 m breaststroke | Men |
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| Women |
SB3 | ||||||
| 100m breaststroke | Men |
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| Women |
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| 50 m butterfly | Men |
S7 | S6 | ||||
| Women |
S5 | ||||||
| 100m butterfly | Men |
S14 | |||||
| Women |
S12-13 | S14 | |||||
| 150m medley | Men |
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| Women |
SM3-4 | ||||||
| 200m medley | Men |
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| Women |
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| 4×50m freestyle relays | Mixed |
20pts | |||||
| 4 × 100 m freestyle relays | Men |
34pts | |||||
| Women |
34pts | ||||||
| 4 × 100 m medley relays | Men |
34pts | |||||
| Women |
34pts | ||||||
Medal table edit
The medal table at the end of the championship. Host nation (Mexico)
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  China (CHN) | 30 | 16 | 10 | 56 |
| 2 |  United States (USA) | 21 | 20 | 13 | 54 |
| 3 |  Italy (ITA) | 20 | 10 | 8 | 38 |
| 4 |  Brazil (BRA) | 18 | 9 | 9 | 36 |
| 5 |  Belarus (BLR) | 11 | 7 | 2 | 20 |
| 6 |  Spain (ESP) | 10 | 16 | 19 | 45 |
| 7 |  Colombia (COL) | 9 | 2 | 2 | 13 |
| 8 |  Mexico (MEX)* | 6 | 14 | 14 | 34 |
| 9 |  Germany (GER) | 4 | 6 | 2 | 12 |
| 10 |  Poland (POL) | 3 | 4 | 3 | 10 |
| 11 |  Norway (NOR) | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 |
| 12 |  Greece (GRE) | 2 | 7 | 10 | 19 |
| 13 |  South Korea (KOR) | 2 | 4 | 1 | 7 |
| 14 |  Sweden (SWE) | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 |
| 15 |  Kazakhstan (KAZ) | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
| 16 |  Czech Republic (CZE) | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 |
| 17 |  Argentina (ARG) | 1 | 4 | 5 | 10 |
| 18 |  France (FRA) | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
| 19 |  Iceland (ISL) | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| 20 |  Hungary (HUN) | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 |
| 21 |  Finland (FIN) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 22 |  Cuba (CUB) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 23 |  Lithuania (LTU) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 24 |  Turkey (TUR) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 25 |  Austria (AUT) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
 Cyprus (CYP) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
 India (IND) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 28 |  Vietnam (VIE) | 0 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 29 |  South Africa (RSA) | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 30 |  Egypt (EGY) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
 Estonia (EST) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
 Slovakia (SVK) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| 33 | Independent Para Athlete | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 Portugal (POR) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 35 |  Chile (CHI) | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
 Israel (ISR) | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | |
| 37 |  Belgium (BEL) | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 38 |  Croatia (CRO) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 39 |  Ecuador (ECU) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
 Kenya (KEN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (40 entries) | 156 | 150 | 144 | 450 | |
Multiple medallists edit
Many competitors won multiple medals at the 2017 Championships. The following athletes won five gold medals or more.[2]
Records edit
Multiple world and continental records were broken during the competition. The below table lists the number of records broken by country.
Legend
- WR: World record, CR: Championship record, AF: Africa record, AM: Americas record, AS: Asian record, EU: European record, OS: Oceania record
| New Records[3] | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nation | WR | CR | AF | AM | AS | EU | OC |
 Australia
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3 | 19 | |||||
| Belarus
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4 | ||||||
| Brazil
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1 | 4 | 5 | ||||
 Canada
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1 | 7 | |||||
| China
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3 | 4 | 17 | ||||
| Colombia
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1 | 4 | |||||
| Egypt
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1 | ||||||
| Kazakhstan
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1 | ||||||
| Italy
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1 | 2 | |||||
 Indonesia
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1 | ||||||
| Israel
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1 | ||||||
 Japan
|
3 | ||||||
| Germany
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1 | ||||||
 Great Britain
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2 | 2 | 6 | ||||
| Greece
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1 | ||||||
| Mexico
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1 | 1 | 5 | ||||
 Mauritius
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1 | ||||||
 Netherlands
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4 | 1 | |||||
| Norway
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2 | ||||||
 New Zealand
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4 | 3 | |||||
| Poland
|
1 | ||||||
 Russia
|
10 | 4 | |||||
| South Africa
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1 | 5 | |||||
| South Korea
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2 | ||||||
| Sweden
|
1 | ||||||
| United States
|
3 | 5 | |||||
 Ukraine
|
3 | 5 | 5 | ||||
 Uzbekistan
|
5 | ||||||
| Vietnam
|
2 | ||||||
| Total | 36 | 44 | 6 | 21 | 25 | 14 | 22 |
Footnotes edit
- Notes
- References
- ^ "GB withdraw from Para-swimming Worlds". BBC Sport.
- ^ "Multi Medallists". IPC.
- ^ "Record Broken by Event" (PDF). IPC. Retrieved 11 December 2015.