2009 IPC Swimming European Championships
1st IPC Swimming European Championships | |
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Date(s) | 18–24 October |
Venue(s) | Laugardalslaug |
Nations participating | 37 |
Athletes participating | 650 |
The 2009 IPC Swimming European Championships was an international swimming competition. It was held in Reykjavík, Iceland and ran from 18 to 24 October. Around 650 athletes from 37 different countries attended.[1] Great Britain finished top of the medal tables with 39 golds and 94 medals, both greater than any other country.[2]
The 2009 Championships was the first IPC-run event where intellectual disability athletes were allowed to compete since the 2000 Summer Paralympic controversy.[3] In the 2000 Sydney Games cheating by the Spanish basketball team resulted in the banning of all events for athletes with intellectual disabilities.[3]
Venue
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![Reykjavík](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Disc_Plain_red.svg/8px-Disc_Plain_red.svg.png)
The Championship was staged at the Laugardalslaug located in the north of Reykjavík.
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 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
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Finals |
Medal table
Great Britain led the 2009 Championships in both medals won and number of gold medals.[4]
Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total 1 Great Britain
39 32 23 94 2 Ukraine
29 15 17 61 3 Spain
16 19 16 51 4 Russia
14 20 10 44 5 Germany
9 15 14 38 6 Sweden
8 0 4 12 7 France
6 4 8 18 8 Poland
5 12 6 23 9 Hungary
5 4 4 13 10 Netherlands
4 5 8 17 11 Czech Republic
4 2 3 9 12 Israel
4 0 1 5 13 Croatia
3 3 1 7 14 Greece
2 5 10 17 15 Denmark
2 1 1 4 16 Italy
1 1 4 6 17 Estonia
1 0 0 1 18 Belarus
0 2 4 6 Portugal
0 2 4 6 20 Norway
0 2 3 5 21 Hong Kong
0 2 1 3 22 Ireland
0 2 0 2 23 Belgium
0 1 0 1 Iceland*
0 1 0 1 25 Slovakia
0 0 3 3 26 Switzerland
0 0 2 2 27 Austria
0 0 1 1 Faroe Islands
0 0 1 1 Lithuania
0 0 1 1 Totals (29 entries) 152 150 150 452
Multiple medallists
Participating nations
Below is the list of countries who agreed to participate in the Championships and the requested number of athlete places for each.
Austria
Azerbaijan
Belarus
Belgium
Croatia
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia
Faroe Islands
Finland
France
Germany
Great Britain
Greece
Hungary
Iceland
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Latvia
Lithuania
Malta
Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Russia
Serbia
Slovenia
Slovakia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey
Ukraine
Footnotes
- Notes
- References
- ^ "IPC Swimming European Championships Declared Open". paralympic.org. 18 October 2009. Retrieved 26 August 2015.
- ^ "Medal Standings As of 24 Oct 2009" (PDF). ifsport.is. Archived from the original (pdf) on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 27 August 2015.
- ^ a b "Intellectual disability ban ends". BBC News. 21 November 2009. Retrieved 26 September 2015.
- ^ "Medal Standings" (PDF). IPC. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 31 August 2015.
External links
- Official web-site
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- 2009 Reykjavik
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- 2014 Eindhoven
- 2016 Funchal
- 2018 Dublin
- 2020 Funchal
- 2024 Funchal
- List of medalists