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2016 IPC Swimming European Championships

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Host city
  
Funchal, Madeira

Nations participating
  
51

Date(s)
  
30 April – 7 May

Events
  
13

Venue(s)
  
Complexo Olímpico de Piscinas da Penteada

The 2016 IPC Swimming European Championships was an international swimming competition. It was held in Funchal, Madeira running from 30 April to 7 May. Around 450 athletes from 50 different countries attended the competition. This was the last major swimming tournament for disabled athletes prior to the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio, and acted as a qualifying event for the Rio Games. To increase the possibility of qualification for top swimmers, the championships was made an Open tournament allowing competitors from countries outside Europe to compete.

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Venue

The Championship was staged at the Complexo Olimpico de Piscinas da Penteada, which also held the 2005 Multi-nations Youth Meet and the 2015 Winter International Masters Open. The complex contains an Olympic sized swimming pool, a 25-metre pool, a diving pool and a training pool.

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.

    Freestyle

    50m Freestyle
    100m Freestyle
    200m Freestyle
    400m Freestyle

    Backstroke

    50m Backstroke
    100m Backstroke

    Breaststroke

    50m Breaststroke
    100m Breaststroke

    Butterfly

    50m Butterfly
    100m Butterfly

    Individual medley

    150m Individual Medley
    200m Individual Medley

    Relay

    4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay
    4 × 100 m Medley Relay

    Freestyle

    50m Freestyle
    100m Freestyle
    200m Freestyle
    400m Freestyle

    Backstroke

    50m Backstroke
    100m Backstroke

    Breaststroke

    50m Breaststroke
    100m Breaststroke

    Butterfly

    50m Butterfly
    100m Butterfly

    Individual medley

    150m Individual Medley
    200m Individual Medley

    Relay

    4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay
    4 × 100 m Medley Relay

    Relay

    4x50 m Freestyle Relay
    4x50 m Medley Relay

    Medal table

      Host nation (Portugal)

    Multiple medallists

    Many competitors won multiple medals at the 2016 Championships. The following athletes won five gold medals or more.

    Participating nations

    Below is the list of countries who participated in the Championships and the requested number of athlete places for each. As this was an Open Championship the countries are split between Europe and the Rest of the World.

    References

    2016 IPC Swimming European Championships Wikipedia