Swimming at the XVI Paralympic Games
Swimming pictogram of the 2020 Summer Paralympics
Venue	Tokyo Aquatics Centre
Dates	25 August to 4 September, 2021
Competitors	620 in 146 events
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Swimming at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
Freestyle
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
Backstroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
Breaststroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
Butterfly
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
Individual medley
150 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Relays
	freestyle	medley

Swimming at the 2020 Summer Paralympics was held at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre. There were 146 events (76 male, 67 female, 3 mixed relay events) - six fewer events than the 2016 Summer Paralympics. Swimming is the second largest sport: behind athletics and ahead of table tennis.^[1]

The 2020 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games were postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. They kept the 2020 name and were held from 24 August to 5 September 2021.^[2][3]

Qualification starts from 1 October 2018 and finishes on 1 August 2021.^[4]

There are three swimming sport class prefixes for swimming strokes:

• S is for freestyle, butterfly and backstroke events.
• SB is for breaststroke
• SM is for individual medley events.

As well as swimming strokes, they are also divided into ten different categories:^[5]

• S1/SB1: swimmers who may have tetraplegia or some form of loss of muscular power in their legs, arms and hands. These swimmers would regularly use a wheelchair.
• S2/SB1: swimmers who may have limited function in their hands, but no use of trunk and legs and mainly rely on their arms to swim.
• S3/SB2: swimmers who have leg and arm amputations, have severe coordination problems in their limbs or are able to swim with their arms but don't use their trunk or legs.
• S4/SB3: swimmers who have function in their hands and arms but can't use their trunk or legs to swim or they have three amputated limbs.
• S5/SB4: swimmers who have hemiplegia, paraplegia or short stature.
• S6/SB5: swimmers who have short stature or arm amputations or some form of coordination problem on one side of their body.
• S7/SB6: swimmers who have one leg and one arm amputation on opposite side or paralysis on one side of their body. These swimmers have full control of their arms and trunk but variable function in their legs.
• S8/SB7: swimmers who have a single amputation or restrictive movement in their hip, knee and ankle joints.
• S9/SB8: swimmers who have joint restrictions in one leg or double below-the-knee amputations.
• S10/SB9: swimmers who have minor physical impairments, for example, loss of one hand.
• S11/SB11: swimmers who have severe visual impairments and have very low or no light perception, such as blindness, they are required to wear blackened goggles to compete. They use tappers when competing in swimming events.
• S12/SB12: swimmers who have moderate visual impairment and have a visual field of less than 5 degrees radius. They are required to wear blackened goggles to compete. They may wish to use a tapper.
• S13/SB13: swimmers who have minor visual impairment and have high visual acuity. They are required to wear blackened goggles to compete. They may wish to use a tapper.
• S14/SB14: swimmers who have intellectual impairment.

For relay races, the sum of their individual swimmers' classes must not exceed the stated points total. For example, three S8 swimmers and an S10 swimmer is a valid combination for 34-point freestyle relay (8 + 8 + 8 + 10 = 34).

As of March 2020.^[6]

Swimming at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
Men's events
50 m freestyle	S3	S4	S5	S7	S9
	S10	S11	S13
100 m freestyle	S4	S5	S6	S8	S10
	S12
200 m freestyle	S2	S3	S4	S5	S14
400 m freestyle	S6	S7	S8	S9	S10
	S11	S13
50 m backstroke	S1	S2	S3	S4	S5
100 m backstroke	S1	S2	S6	S7	S8
	S9	S10	S11	S12	S13
	S14
50 m breaststroke	SB2	SB3
100 m breaststroke	SB4	SB5	SB6	SB7	SB8
	SB9	SB11	SB12	SB13	SB14
50 m butterfly	S5	S6	S7
100 m butterfly	S8	S9	S10	S11	S12
	S13	S14
150 m medley	SM3	SM4
200 m medley	SM6	SM7	SM8	SM9	SM10
	SM11	SM13	SM14
Freestyle relays	4 × 100 m (34pts)
Medley relays	4 × 100 m (34pts)

Swimming at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
Women's events
50 m freestyle	S4	S6	S8	S10	S11
	S13
100 m freestyle	S3	S5	S7	S9	S10
	S11	S12
200 m freestyle	S5	S14
400 m freestyle	S6	S7	S8	S9	S10
	S11	S13
50 m backstroke	S2	S3	S4	S5
100 m backstroke	S2	S6	S7	S8	S9
	S10	S11	S12	S13	S14
50 m breaststroke	SB3
100 m breaststroke	SB4	SB5	SB6	SB7	SB8
	SB9	SB11	SB12	SB13	SB14
50 m butterfly	S5	S6	S7
100 m butterfly	S8	S9	S10	S13	S14
150 m medley	SM4
200 m medley	SM5	SM6	SM7	SM8	SM9
	SM10	SM11	SM13	SM14
Freestyle relays	4 × 100 m (34pts)
Medley relays	4 × 100 m (34pts)

All heat events take place during the morning sessions from 9:00 to 11:45 and the finals take place during the evening sessions from 17:00 to 21:00 on the same day.

Event	Class	Gold	Silver	Bronze
50 m	S3	Diego López Díaz	Zou Liankang	Denys Ostapchenko
	S4	Ami Omer Dadaon	Takayuki Suzuki	Luigi Beggiato
	S5	Zheng Tao	Yuan Weiyi	Wang Lichao
	S7	Andrii Trusov	Carlos Serrano Zárate	Yevhenii Bohodaiko
	S9	Simone Barlaam	Denis Tarasov	Jamal Hill
	S10	Rowan Crothers	Maksym Krypak	Phelipe Rodrigues
	S11	Wendell Belarmino	Hua Dongdong	Edgaras Matakas
	S13	Ihar Boki	Illia Yaremenko	Maksym Veraksa
100 m	S4	Takayuki Suzuki	Luigi Beggiato	Roman Zhdanov
	S5	Francesco Bocciardo	Wang Lichao	Daniel Dias
	S6	Antonio Fantin	Nelson Crispín	Talisson Glock
	S8	Ben Popham	Andrei Nikolaev	Dimosthenis Michalentzakis
	S10	Maksym Krypak	Rowan Crothers	Stefano Raimondi
	S12	Raman Salei	Maksym Veraksa	Stephen Clegg
200 m	S2	Gabriel Araújo	Alberto Abarza	Vladimir Danilenko
	S3	Denys Ostapchenko	Diego López Díaz	Jesús Hernández Hernández
	S4	Ami Omer Dadaon	Takayuki Suzuki	Roman Zhdanov
	S5	Francesco Bocciardo	Antoni Ponce Bertran	Daniel Dias
	S14	Reece Dunn	Gabriel Bandeira	Viacheslav Emeliantsev
400 m	S6	Talisson Glock	Antonio Fantin	Viacheslav Lenskii
	S7	Mark Malyar	Andrii Trusov	Evan Austin
	S8	Andrei Nikolaev	Alberto Amodeo	Matthew Torres
	S9	William Martin	Ugo Didier	Alexander Tuckfield
	S10	Maksym Krypak	Bas Takken	Thomas Gallagher
	S11	Rogier Dorsman	Uchu Tomita	Hua Dongdong
	S13	Ihar Boki	Kyrylo Garashchenko	Alex Portal

Event	Class	Gold	Silver	Bronze
50 m	S1	Iyad Shalabi	Anton Kol	Francesco Bettella
	S2	Gabriel Araújo	Alberto Abarza	Vladimir Danilenko
	S3	Zou Liankang	Denys Ostapchenko	Diego López Díaz
	S4	Roman Zhdanov	Arnošt Petráček	Ángel de Jesús Camacho [es]
	S5	Zheng Tao	Ruan Jingsong	Wang Lichao
100 m	S1	Iyad Shalabi	Anton Kol	Francesco Bettella
	S2	Alberto Abarza	Gabriel Araújo	Vladimir Danilenko
	S6	Jia Hongguang	Matías de Andrade	Dino Sinovčić
	S7	Andrii Trusov	Pipo Carlomagno	Mark Malyar
	S8	Robert Griswold	Inigo Llopis Sanz	Liu Fengqi
	S9	Bogdan Mozgovoi	Yahor Shchalkanau	Timothy Hodge
	S10	Maksym Krypak	Stefano Raimondi	Florent Marais
	S11	Mykhailo Serbin	Viktor Smyrnov	Yang Bozun
	S12	Raman Salei	Sergii Klippert	Stephen Clegg
	S13	Ihar Boki	Nicolas Guy Turbide	Vladimir Sotnikov
	S14	Benjamin Hance	Viacheslav Emeliantsev	Reece Dunn

Event	Class	Gold	Silver	Bronze
50 m
	SB2	José Arnulfo Castorena	Grant Patterson	Jesús Hernández Hernández
	SB3	Roman Zhdanov	Miguel Luque	Takayuki Suzuki
100 m
	SB4	Dmitrii Cherniaev	Moisés Fuentes	Antonios Tsapatakis
	SB5	Andrei Granichka	Antoni Ponce Bertran	Li Junsheng
	SB6	Yevhenii Bohodaiko	Nelson Crispín	Matthew Levy
	SB7	Carlos Serrano Zárate	Egor Efrosinin	Blake Cochrane
	SB8	Andrei Kalina	Oscar Salguero	Yang Guanglong
	SB9	Stefano Raimondi	Artem Isaev	Dmitrii Bartasinskii
	SB11	Rogier Dorsman	Keiichi Kimura	Yang Bozun
	SB12	Vali Israfilov	Oleksii Fedyna	Artur Saifutdinov
	SB13	Taliso Engel	David Abrahams	Nurdaulet Zhumagali
	SB14	Naohide Yamaguchi	Jake Michel	Scott Quin

Event	Class	Gold	Silver	Bronze
50 m
	S5	Zheng Tao	Wang Lichao	Yuan Weiyi
	S6	Wang Jingang	Jia Hongguang	Nelson Crispín
	S7	Evan Austin	Andrii Trusov	Carlos Serrano Zárate
100 m
	S8	Robert Griswold	Yang Feng	Denys Dubrov
	S9	William Martin	Simone Barlaam	Alexander Skaliukh
	S10	Maksym Krypak	Stefano Raimondi	Col Pearse
	S11	Keiichi Kimura	Uchu Tomita	Wendell Belarmino
	S12	Raman Salei	Stephen Clegg	Roman Makarov
	S13	Ihar Boki	Oleksii Virchenko	Islam Aslanov
	S14	Gabriel Bandeira	Reece Dunn	Benjamin Hance

Event	Class	Gold	Silver	Bronze
150 m
	SM3	Jesús Hernández	Ahmed Kelly	Grant Patterson
	SM4	Roman Zhdanov	Ami Omer Dadaon	Takayuki Suzuki
200 m
	SM6	Nelson Crispín	Andrei Granichka	Jia Hongguang
	SM7	Mark Malyar	Andrii Trusov	Carlos Serrano Zárate
	SM8	Denys Dubrov	Xu Haijiao	Yang Guanglong
	SM9	Andrei Kalina	Timothy Hodge	Ugo Didier
	SM10	Maksym Krypak	Stefano Raimondi	Bas Takken
	SM11	Rogier Dorsman	Mykhailo Serbin	Uchu Tomita
	SM13	Ihar Boki	Alex Portal	Thomas van Wanrooij
	SM14	Reece Dunn	Gabriel Bandeira	Vasyl Krainyk

Event	Class	Gold	Silver	Bronze
50 m
	S4	Rachael Watson	Arjola Trimi	Marta Fernández Infante
	S6	Yelyzaveta Mereshko	Elizabeth Marks	Anna Hontar
	S8	Viktoriia Ishchiulova	Cecília Jerônimo de Araújo	Xenia Palazzo
	S9	Simone Barlaam	Denis Tarasov	Jamal Hill
	S10	Anastasiia Gontar	Chantalle Zijderveld	Aurélie Rivard
	S11	Ma Jia	Li Guizhi	Karolina Pelendritou
	S13	Carol Santiago	Anna Krivshina	Carlotta Gilli
100 m
	S3	Arjola Trimi	Leanne Smith	Iuliia Shishova
	S5	Tully Kearney	Zhang Li	Monica Boggioni
	S7	Giulia Terzi	McKenzie Coan	Yelyzaveta Mereshko Jiang Yuyan
	S9	Sophie Pascoe	Sarai Gascón Moreno	Mariana Ribeiro
	S10	Aurélie Rivard	Chantalle Zijderveld	Lisa Kruger
	S11	Li Guizhi	Liesette Bruinsma	Cai Liwen
	S12	Carol Santiago	Daria Pikalova	Hannah Russell
200 m
	S5	Zhang Li	Tully Kearney	Monica Boggioni
	S14	Valeriia Shabalina	Bethany Firth	Jessica-Jane Applegate
400 m
	S6	Jiang Yuyan	Yelyzaveta Mereshko	Nora Meister
	S7	McKenzie Coan	Giulia Terzi	Julia Gaffney
	S8	Morgan Stickney	Jessica Long	Xenia Palazzo
	S9	Lakeisha Patterson	Zsofia Konkoly	Toni Shaw
	S10	Aurélie Rivard	Bianka Pap	Oliwia Jabłońska
	S11	Anastasia Pagonis	Liesette Bruinsma	Cai Liwen
	S13	Anna Stetsenko	Carlotta Gilli	Katja Dedekind

Event	Class	Gold	Silver	Bronze
50 m
	S2	Yip Pin Xiu	Miyuki Yamada	Feng Yazhu
	S3	Arjola Trimi	Ellie Challis	Iuliia Shishova
	S4	Liu Yu	Zhou Yanfei	Alexandra Stamatopoulou
	S5	Lu Dong	Teresa Perales	Sevilay Öztürk
100 m
	S2	Yip Pin Xiu	Miyuki Yamada	Fabiola Ramirez
	S6	Elizabeth Marks	Jiang Yuyan	Verena Schott
	S7	Mallory Weggemann	Danielle Dorris	Julia Gaffney
	S8	Tupou Neiufi	Kateryna Denysenko	Jessica Long
	S9	Hannah Aspden	Núria Marquès	Sophie Pascoe
	S10	Bianka Papp	Aurélie Rivard	Lisa Kruger
	S11	Cai Liwen	Wang Xinyi	Li Guizhi
	S12	Hannah Russell	Daria Pikalova	Carol Santiago
	S13	Gia Pergolini	Carlotta Gilli	Katja Dedekind
	S14	Bethany Firth	Valeriia Shabalina	Jessica-Jane Applegate

Event	Class	Gold	Silver	Bronze
50 m
	SB3	Marta Fernandez Infante	Nataliia Butkova	Nely Miranda
100 m
	SB4	Fanni Illés	Giulia Ghiretti	Yao Cuan
	SB5	Yelyzaveta Mereshko	Grace Harvey	Verena Schott
	SB6	Maisie Summers-Newton	Liu Daomin	Sophia Herzog
	SB7	Mariia Pavlova	Jessica Long	Tiffany Thomas Kane
	SB8	Ellen Keane	Sophie Pascoe	Adelina Razetdinova
	SB9	Chantalle Zijderveld	Lisa Kruger	Keira Stephens
	SB11	Karolina Pelendritou	Ma Jia	Yana Berezhna
	SB12	Carol Santiago	Daria Lukianenko	Yaryna Matlo
	SB13	Elena Krawzow	Rebecca Redfern	Colleen Young
	SB14	Michelle Alonso	Louise Fiddes	Beatriz Carneiro

Event	Class	Gold	Silver	Bronze
50 m
	S5	Lu Dong	Marta Fernandez Infante	Cheng Jiao
	S6	Jiang Yuyan	Nicole Turner	Elizabeth Marks
	S7	Danielle Dorris	Mallory Weggemann	Giulia Terzi
100 m
	S8	Jessica Long	Viktoriia Ishchiulova	Laura González
	S9	Zsófia Konkoly	Elizabeth Smith	Sarai Gascón Moreno
	S10	Mikaela Jenkins	Jasmine Greenwood	Chantalle Zijderveld
	S13	Carlotta Gilli	Alessia Berra	Daria Pikalova
	S14	Valeriia Shabalina	Paige Leonhardt	Ruby Storm

Event	Class	Gold	Silver	Bronze
150 m
	SM4	Liu Yu	Zhou Yanfei	Nataliia Butkova
200 m
	SM5	Lu Dong	Cheng Jiao	Monica Boggioni
	SM6	Maisie Summers-Newton	Yelyzaveta Mereshko	Verena Schott
	SM7	Mallory Weggemann	Ahalya Lettenberger	Tiffany Thomas-Kane
	SM8	Jessica Long	Xenia Palazzo	Mariia Pavlova
	SM9	Sophie Pascoe	Zsófia Konkoly	Núria Marquès
	SM10	Chantalle Zijderveld	Bianka Pap	Lisa Kruger
	SM11	Ma Jia	Cai Liwen	Anastasia Pagonis
	SM13	Carlotta Gilli	Colleen Young	Shokhsanamkhon Toshpulatova
	SM14	Valeriia Shabalina	Bethany Firth	Louise Fiddes

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
4x50 m 20 pts mixed	China Zhang Li Zheng Tao Yuan Weiyi Lu Dong	Italy Giulia Terzi Arjola Trimi Luigi Beggiato Antonio Fantin	Brazil Patrícia Pereira Daniel Dias Joana da Silva Neves Talisson Glock
4x100 m S14 mixed	Great Britain Reece Dunn Bethany Firth Jessica-Jane Applegate Jordan Catchpole	Australia Ricky Betar Benjamin Hance Ruby Storm Madeleine McTernan	Brazil Gabriel Bandeira Ana Karolina Soares Débora Carneiro Felipe Vila Real
4x100 m 34 pts men	Australia WR Rowan Crothers (S10) William Martin (S9) Matthew Levy (S7) Ben Popham (S8)	Italy Antonio Fantin (S6) Simone Ciulli (S9) Simone Barlaam (S9) Stefano Raimondi (10)	Ukraine Yurii Bozhynskyi (S9) Denys Dubrov (S8) Andrii Trusov (S7) Maksym Krypak (S10)
4x100 m 34 pts women	Italy Xenia Palazzo (S8) Vittoria Bianco (S9) Giulia Terzi (S7) Alessia Scortechini (S10)	Australia Ellie Cole (S9) Isabella Vincent (S7) Emily Beecroft (S9) Ashleigh McConnell (S9)	Canada Morgan Bird (S8) Katarina Roxon (S9) Sabrina Duchesne (S7) Aurélie Rivard (S10)
4x100 m 49 pts mixed	RPC Ilnur Garipov (S11) Anna Krivshina (S13) Daria Pikalova (S12) Vladimir Sotnikov (S13)	Brazil Wendell Belarmino (S11) Douglas Matera (S13) Lucilene da Silva (S12) Carol Santiago (S12)	Ukraine Maryna Piddubna (S11) Maksym Veraksa (S12) Anna Stetsenko (S13) Kyrylo Garashchenko (S13)

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
4×100 m 34 pts men	RPC Bogdan Mozgovoi Andrei Kalina Alexander Skaliukh Andrei Nikolaev	Australia Timothy Hodge Timothy Disken William Martin Ben Popham	Italy Riccardo Menciotti Stefano Raimondi Simone Barlaam Antonio Fantin
4×100 m 34 pts women	United States Hannah Aspden Mikaela Jenkins Jessica Long Morgan Stickney	RPC Anastasiia Gontar Elizaveta Sidorenko Viktoriia Ishchiulova Ani Palian	Australia Ellie Cole Keira Stephens Emily Beecroft Isabella Vincent

Source:^[7]

  *   Host nation (Japan)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	19	19	18	56
2	RPC (RPC)	17	14	18	49
3	United States (USA)	15	10	10	35
4	Ukraine (UKR)	14	18	11	43
5	Italy (ITA)	11	16	12	39
6	Australia (AUS)	8	10	15	33
7	Great Britain (GBR)	8	9	9	26
8	Brazil (BRA)	8	5	10	23
9	Israel (ISR)	6	1	1	8
10	Netherlands (NED)	5	6	6	17
11	Belarus (BLR)	5	1	0	6
12	Azerbaijan (AZE)	4	0	0	4
13	Japan (JPN)	3	7	3	13
14	Hungary (HUN)	3	4	0	7
15	Canada (CAN)	3	3	2	8
16	Mexico (MEX)	3	1	6	10
17	New Zealand (NZL)	3	1	1	5
18	Spain (ESP)	2	9	3	14
19	Colombia (COL)	2	4	4	10
20	Germany (GER)	2	0	3	5
21	Singapore (SGP)	2	0	0	2
22	Chile (CHI)	1	2	0	3
23	Ireland (IRL)	1	1	0	2
24	Cyprus (CYP)	1	0	1	2
25	France (FRA)	0	2	3	5
26	Argentina (ARG)	0	2	0	2
27	Czech Republic (CZE)	0	1	0	1
28	Greece (GRE)	0	0	3	3
29	Uzbekistan (UZB)	0	0	2	2
30	Croatia (CRO)	0	0	1	1
	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	0	0	1	1
	Lithuania (LTU)	0	0	1	1
	Poland (POL)	0	0	1	1
	Switzerland (SUI)	0	0	1	1
	Turkey (TUR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (35 entries)		146	146	147	439

#	Swimmer	Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1	Maksym Krypak	Ukraine	5	1	1
2	Ihar Boki	Belarus	5	0	0
3	Lu Dong	China	4	0	0
	Zheng Tao	China	4	0	0
5	Jessica Long	United States	3	2	1
6	Reece Dunn	United Kingdom	3	1	1
7	Chantalle Zijderveld	Netherlands	2	2	1
8	Bethany Firth	United Kingdom	2	2	0
9	Sophie Pascoe	New Zealand	2	1	1
10	Mark Malyar	Israel	2	0	1
11	Francesco Bocciardo	Italy	2	0	0
	Robert Griswold	United States	2	0	0
	Iyad Shalabi	Israel	2	0	0
14	Stefano Raimondi	Italy	1	4	2
15	Antonio Fantin	Italy	1	3	1
16	Jessica-Jane Applegate	United Kingdom	1	0	2
17	Hannah Russell	United Kingdom	1	0	1
	Karolina Pelendritou	Cyprus	1	0	1

• Swimming at the 2020 Summer Olympics

• Results book Archived 2021-09-03 at the Wayback Machine