2015 IPC Swimming World Championships


The 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships was an international swimming competition for athletes with a disability. It was held in Glasgow, United Kingdom and took place from 13 to 19 July. Around 580 athletes from around 70 different countries competed at the games, with Russia topping the tables with most gold medals and medals won. The event was held at the Tollcross International Swimming Centre located within Tollcross Park in Glasgow. Initially awarded as the IPC Swimming European Championships, the event was upgraded to a World Championship after a change to the IPC calendar.
This proved to be the final event branded as the "IPC Swimming World Championships". On 30 November 2016, the IPC, which serves as the international federation for 10 disability sports, including swimming, adopted the "World Para" brand for all 10 sports. The world championship events in all of these sports were immediately rebranded as "World Para" championships. Accordingly, future IPC swimming championship events will be known as the "World Para Swimming Championships".

Venue

The Championship was staged at the Tollcross International Swimming Centre located at Tollcross, Glasgow. The venue possesses a 10 lane competition class swimming pool, and after a £13.7 million upgrade in 2013, a six lane 50 meter warm-up pool was added.

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:
Classifications run from S1 to S10 for athletes with physical disabilities, and S11 to S13 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 2015 Championships. The following athletes won five gold medals or more.
NameCountryMedalEvent








50m freestyle - S5
100m freestyle - S5
200m freestyle - S5
50m backstroke - S5
100m breaststroke - SB4
Mixed 4x50m freestyle relay 20pts
50m butterfly - S5
4x100m freestyle relay 34pts







100m backstroke - S13
100m butterfly - S13
100m freestyle - S13
200m medley - SM13
400m freestyle - S13
50m freestyle - S13
100m breaststroke - SB13





100m butterfly - S8
100m freestyle - S8
50m freestyle - S13
4x100m freestyle relay 34pts
4x100m medley relay 34pts

Records

Multiple world and continental records were broken during the competition. The below table lists the number of records broken by country.
Legend

Footnotes

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