The 2010
IPC Swimming World Championships
The World Para Swimming Championships, known before 30 November 2016 as the IPC Swimming World Championships, are the world championships for swimming where athletes with a disability compete. They are organised by the International Paralympic C ...
was an international swimming competition, the biggest meet for athletes with a disability since the
2008 Summer Paralympics
The 2008 Summer Paralympic Games (), the 13th Summer Paralympic Games, took place in Beijing, China from September 6 to 17, 2008. As with the 2008 Summer Olympics, equestrian events were held in Hong Kong and sailing events in Qingdao. It was ...
. It was held in
Eindhoven
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and lasted from 14 to 21 August.
Venue
The Championship was staged at the
Pieter van den Hoogenband Swimming Stadium
Pieter is a male given name, the Dutch form of Peter. The name has been one of the most common names in the Netherlands for centuries, but since the mid-twentieth century its popularity has dropped steadily, from almost 3000 per year in 1947 to ...
located in the south of Eindhoven. The complex contains three outdoor swimming pools.
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
*Other disability
**S1-S10 (
Freestyle,
backstroke
Backstroke or back crawl is one of the four Swimming (sport), swimming styles used in competitive events regulated by FINA, and the only one of these styles swum on the back. This swimming style has the advantage of easy breathing, but the disa ...
and
butterfly
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**SB1-SB9 (
breaststroke
Breaststroke is a swimming style in which the swimmer is on their chest and the torso does not rotate. It is the most popular recreational style due to the swimmer's head being out of the water a large portion of the time, and that it can be s ...
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**SM1-SM10 (
individual medley
Medley is a combination of four different swimming styles—backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly, and freestyle—into one race. This race is either swum by one swimmer as individual medley (IM) or by four swimmers as a medley relay.
Individual ...
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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.
Medalists
Men
Women
Participating nations
Below is the list of countries which participated in the Championships.
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Footnotes
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External links
2010 IPC Swimming World Championships, Eindhoven
World Para Swimming Championships
2010 in swimming
2010 in Dutch sport
Sports competitions in Eindhoven
International aquatics competitions hosted by the Netherlands
August 2010 sports events in Europe
21st century in Eindhoven