The 2013

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

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. It was held in

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, Canada and lasted from 12 to 18 August. Around 530 athletes competed from 57 different countries. The event was held in the Parc Jean Drapeau Aquatic Complex located at the

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in Montreal. 172 events were contested with 43 new world records set.

Venue

The Championship was staged at the Parc Jean Drapeau Aquatic Complex in the

located in the east of Montreal. The complex contains three outdoor swimming pools, all renovated shortly before the staging of the competition.

Coverage

As with the

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, the IPC will continue to show live streaming of the evening finals on ParalympicSport.TV. In the United Kingdom

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continued their commitment to parasport with their own live streaming Paralympics website with pool-side commentary and a daily one-hour highlights television show the following morning on Channel 4. In Brazil coverage was provided by Globo-Sport TV while some

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countries would also air the championships.

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 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

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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 ...

) **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 ...

) 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

Medal table

The medal table at the end of the championship.

Multiple medallists

Many competitors won multiple medals at the 2013 Championships. The following athletes won five gold medals or more.

Highlights

Day 1 (12 August)

The first medal of the 2013 World Championships was won by Ireland's

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who took gold in the 400m freestyle S6 class. The first world record of the games came much earlier in the day when at 9:18AM on only the fourth heat of the championships,

Konstantin Lisenkov Konstantin Sergeyevich Lisenkov (russian: Константин Сергеевич Лисенков; born 22 June 1989) is a Paralympic swimmer from Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spannin ...

of Russia recorded a time of 1:04.12 to beat his own record set three years earlier in

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Olga Sviderska Olga Sviderska (born 2 October 1989) is a Ukrainian Paralympic swimmer. She won two silver medals at the Swimming at the 2012 Summer Paralympics, 2012 Summer Paralympics and one bronze medal at the Swimming at the 2016 Summer Paralympics, 2016 S ...

(Ukraine) in the Women's 200m freestyle S3. The afternoon session witnessed five new world records.

Ihar Boki Ihar Boki ( be, Ігар Аляксандравіч Бокій; born 28 June 1994) is a visually impaired Belarusian Paralympic swimmer. He competed at the 2012, 2016 and 2020 Paralympics and won 16 gold medals. , he holds the S13 long course wo ...

of Belarus, one of the stand-out athletes of the championships, broke the world record in the final of the SM13 200m individual medley. Then within the hour two more records fell as Lisenkov's record in the 100m backstroke S8, set in the morning, failed to last a day as he took 0.70 seconds of his own time to secure gold; while Britain's Josef Craig added the World title of the 400m freestyle S7 to his Paralympic title with a winning time of 4:39.13. The final two new world records were set in the last three races of the day. New Zealand's

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swam 1:00.15 in the 100m freestyle S10 while British athlete Jessica-Jane Applegate recorded a time of 2:09.88 in the 200m freestyle to just freeze out Ireland's

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. Of the other medals, several of the big stars of the games took their first gold medals on the first day. Ukraine's

Dmytro Vynohradets Dmytro Vynohradets (born 25 May 1985) is a Paralympic swimmer from Ukraine. He competes in S3, SB2 (breaststroke) and SM3 (individual medley) events. Career history Vynohradets competed in the 2008 Summer Paralympics The 2008 Summer Paralym ...

took the first of his seven gold medals with success in the Men's 200m freestyle S3, while his teammate Olga Sviderska took the equivalent title in the women's race but well outside her morning's record finish. Australia's Matthew Cowdrey picked up the first of five championship golds in the 100m freestyle S9 while the women's race Stephanie Millward of Britain secured the first of her four golds. New Zealand saw further success on Day one when Mary Fisher started her rung of gold medals with a win in the 100m backstroke S11. Brazil's Andre Brasil became a double Paralympic and World Champion taking the 100m Freestyle S10, a title he has held in those two world championships since 2008 in Beijing. The USA also achieved success on day one, collecting three medals from Roy Perkins (50m butterfly S5), Rebecca Anne Meyers (200m medley SM13) and

Cortney Jordan Cortney Jordan (born June 24, 1991 in Las Vegas Valley, Las Vegas, Nevada) is an American swimmer. Swimming career Jordan broke onto the international swimming scene when she won bronze medal, bronze in the 50, 100, and 400 metre freestyles at 2 ...

(400m freestyle S7), though it was the Ukraine who topped the medal table at the day with six golds.

Participating nations

Below is the list of countries who agreed to participate in the Championships and the requested number of athlete places for each. * (11) * (1) * (20) * (1) * (3) * (3) * (29) * (28) * ( 1) * (21) * (1) * (10) * (3) * (1) * (8) * (4) * (2) * (2) * (7) * (1) * (12) * (35) * (12) * (3) * (18) * (4) * (1) * (1) * (7) * (7) * (19) * (13) * (2) * (1) * (2) * (1) * (14) * (2) * (12) * (7) * (4) * (7) * (6) * (2) * (46) * (2) * (3) * (3) * (11) * (5) * (20) * (6) * (1) * (52) * (1) * (30) * (1)

Footnotes

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External links

Official web-site
World Para Swimming Championships Sports competitions in Montreal International aquatics competitions hosted by Canada Swimming competitions in Canada

August 2013 sports events in Canada 2010s in Montreal 2013 in Quebec