The 2014

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was an international swimming competition held in

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, also held the

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Venue

The Championship was staged at the

located in the south of Eindhoven. 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 finals on ParalympicSport.TV. In the United Kingdom Channel 4 continued their commitment to parasport with their own live streaming Paralympics website with pool-side commentary and live action shown daily on their sister channel More4.

Events

Classification

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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 (

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, backstroke and butterfly) **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) 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

Multiple medallists

Many competitors won multiple medals at the 2014 Championships. The following athletes won five gold medals or more.

Highlights

Day 1 (4 August)

Ukraine finished the first day of the championship at the top of the medals table with six golds. The first record of the day fell to

Summer Mortimer Summer Ashley Mortimer (born April 22, 1993) is a Canadian-Dutch former paraswimmer who competed internationally for Canada, and later the Netherlands national paralympic team, an artist, a performing artist, and CBC Sports personality. Morti ...

who broke the European record for the women's 50m freestyle in the S10 category. This was Mortimer's first major international competition since switching to the Netherlands teams after a successful career as a Canadian swimmer. Germany's

Elena Krawzow Elena Krawzow (born 26 October 1993) is a blind German Paralympic swimmer who specializes in breaststroke and freestyle. She has macular degeneration, leaving her with only 3% vision. Early life and career Born in Mergen, a village in southern ...

also set a new European record, set when she won the women's 100m backstroke SB13. who set a new European record for the Women's 100 metre breastroke S13.

Sarai Gascón Moreno Sarai Gascón Moreno (born 16 November 1992 in Terrassa, Province of Barcelona) is a Spanish paralympic swimmer. Personal life Gascón was born 16 November 1992 in Terrassa, Province of Barcelona. She has a disability in that she was born wi ...

of Spain shaved a hundredth of a second off her own European record to equal South Africa's Natalie du Toit's 50m freestyle S9 world record in the last swim of the morning session. In the afternoon session records continued to fall. The Netherlands'

Marc Evers Marc Evers (born 17 July 1991) is a Dutch Paralympic swimmer. He swims in S14 and SB14 classification events, specializing in both backstroke and breaststroke competitions. He is a Paralympic, World and European champion in the 100m breaststrok ...

broke his own World record, set at last year's World Championships in Montreal, while winning the 100m backstroke S14 final.

Oleksii Fedyna Oleksii Fedyna (born 8 October 1987) is a visually impaired Paralympic swimmer from Ukraine competing in S13 events. Career Oleksii competed in seven events at the 2008 Summer Paralympics The 2008 Summer Paralympic Games (), the 13th Summ ...

of Ukraine set a new world record in the 100m breaststroke SB12, taking nearly two seconds of Uladzimir Izotau's old record, while beating the Belarusian into second place. In the very next heat, Fedyna's fellow countryman

Serhii Palamarchuk Serhii Palamarchuk ( uk, Сергій Павлович Паламарчук, born 4 March 1989) is a Ukrainian Paralympic swimmer. Career He participated at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in the swimming competition, being awarded the bronze meda ...

recorded a European record in the S2 100m freestyle. Before the end of the day, two new European records were set, both in the 50m freestyle. They were made by Dmityr Grigorev of Russia in the men's S10 while Summer Mortimer beat her own record set in the morning session in the women's S10.

Day 2 (5 August)

Oliver Hynd Oliver William Hynd MBE, known as Ollie, (born 27 October 1994 in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire) is a British swimmer. He competed in the Paralympics as a class 8 swimmer, having neuromuscular myopathy and associated limb deformities. In 2018, foll ...

of Great Britain won the first medal of the day, in the men's 400m freestyle S8. Hynd would see his team mates collect another four gold medals throughout the day, a total bettered only by Ukraine, who won another six to double their tally. Further successes in the morning session included

Amalie Vinther Amalie Østergaard Vinther (born 24 December 1995) is a Danish Paralympic swimmer who competes in international level events. Biography Vinther is a double European champion and a four-time World bronze medalist in freestyle swimming. She has ...

collecting Denmark's first medal of the Championship, winning the women's 400m freestyle S8. While there was double Italian success with gold medals for

Federico Morlacchi Federico Morlacchi (born 11 November 1993) is an Italian paralympic swimmer who was flagbearer for Italy at the 2020 Summer Paralympics open ceremony ensemble with Bebe Vio. Biography He is boyfriend of the Italian paralympic swimmer Giulia Gh ...

(men's 400m freestyle S9) and Cecilia Camellini (women's 100m backstroke S11). Records continued to fall on day two with Russia's Dmitrii Kokarev setting a new world record in the men's 50m freestyle S2 with a time of 58.43 and making him the first European to swim under a minute in this class. In the women's 50m freestyle S4 Italy's Arjola Trimi secured her country's third gold of the day. In the same race

Olga Sviderska Olga Sviderska (born 2 October 1989) is a Ukrainian Paralympic swimmer. She won two silver medals at the 2012 Summer Paralympics and one bronze medal at the 2016 Summer Paralympics. She won seven gold medals, including five individual golds, at ...

of Ukraine, unable to compete at her own classification due to the absence of an S3 race, set a new world record in her class when she took bronze. In the final three races of the day, two European records fell. Dmitry Grigorev broke his second European record of the games with a time of 56.84 in men's 100m butterfly S10, this was followed the very next race when 17-year-old Polish athlete Oliwia Jablonska also broke the European record in the women's race, also in the S10 class.

Day 3 (6 August)

The morning session on day 3 started with a new world record in the first final; Great Britain's Stephanie Slater picked up her second gold of the Championships, when she took off more than a second from

Jessica Long Jessica Tatiana Long (born February 29, 1992) is a Russian-American Paralympic swimmer from Baltimore, Maryland, who competes in the S8, SB7 and SM8 category events. She has held many world records and competed at five Paralympic Games, winnin ...

's record in the 100m butterfly S8. The host nation picked up their third gold of the tournament when Chantalle Zijderveld broke the European record in the women's 100m Butterfly S8. Ukraine continued their strong championship with a further gold medal in the morning, a third win for Dmytro Vynohradets who finished the session with the 200m Freestyle S3 title. Russia won three further gold medals completing their first clean sweep of the games, when

Pavel Poltavtsev Pavel (Bulgarian, Russian, Serbian and Macedonian: Павел, Czech, Slovene, Romanian: Pavel, Polish: Paweł, Ukrainian: Павло, Pavlo) is a male given name. It is a Slavic cognate of the name Paul (derived from the Greek Pavlos). Pa ...

, Dmitry Grigorev and

Dmitry Bartasinskiy Dmitri (russian: Дми́трий); Church Slavic form: Dimitry or Dimitri (); ancient Russian forms: D'mitriy or Dmitr ( or ) is a male given name common in Orthodox Christian culture, the Russian version of Greek Demetrios (Δημήτριο ...

took gold, silver and bronze in the 100m breaststroke SB9. In the afternoon session, Russia began with their fourth and final gold of the day when Dimitrii Kokarev broke the world record in the 200m freestyle S2. A second world record fell in the afternoon, Spain's

Michelle Alonso Morales Michelle Alonso Morales (born 29 March 1994, in Tenerife) is a swimmer competitor from Spain. She has been dubbed by the media as ''"The Little Mermaid of the Canary Islands"''. She is also considered one of the most important personalities of ...

taking a second off her own record in the 100m Breaststroke SB14 that she set two years previously in the London Paralympics. Both Italy and Ukraine added two further gold medals, Arjola Trimi (200m freestyle S4) and

(200m freestyle S9) for Italy and Yelyzaveta Mereshko (50m freestyle S6) and Yevheniy Bohodayko (200m individual medley SM12). The day ended as it started with success for Great Britain with Stephanie Slater winning the 200m individual medley SM8. Britain finished as the day's most successful country with five golds in total, which also included a new European record for Andrew Mullen in the men's 50m butterfly S5.

Participating nations

Below is the list of countries who agreed to participate in the Championships and the requested number of athlete places for each. * (2) * (2) * (4) * (5) * (9) * (1) * (3) * (6) * (7) * (4) * (9) * (19) * (30) * (21) * (16) * (4) * (5) * (8) * (15) * (1) * (3) * (3) * (16) * (9) * (17) * (10) * (2) * (51) * (1) * (2) * (4) * (23) * (7) * (1) * (6) * (51)

Footnotes

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External links

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