Swimming at the 2020 Summer Paralympics

Swimming at the XVI Paralympic Games
Swimming pictogram of the 2020 Summer Paralympics
Venue	Tokyo Aquatics Centre
Dates	2021
Competitors	620 (expected) in 146 events

Swimming at the 2020 Summer Paralympics will be held at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre. There will be 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.

The 2020 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games were postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. They will keep the 2020 name and be held 24 August to 5 September 2021.

Qualification

Main article: Swimming at the 2020 Summer Paralympics – Qualification

Further information: Para-swimming classification

Qualification starts from 1 October 2018 and finishes on 1 August 2021.

Classes

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:

• 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, trunk and legs and mainly rely on their arms to swim.
• S3/SB2: swimmers who have leg or arm amputations, have severe coordination problems in their limbs or have 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).

Qualified nations

As of March 2020.

•  Argentina (9)
•  Australia (32)
•  Austria (3)
•  Azerbaijan (3)
•  Belarus (10)
•  Belgium (1)
•  Brazil (35)
•  Canada (19)
•  Chile (2)
•  China (42)
•  Colombia (11)
•  Croatia (3)
•  Cuba (1)
•  Cyprus (1)
•  Czech Republic (5)
•  Denmark (1)
•  Egypt (3)
•  Estonia (3)
•  Finland (2)
•  France (9)
•  Germany (15)
•  Great Britain (33)
•  Greece (10)
•  Hong Kong (4)
•  Hungary (7)
•  Iceland (2)
•  India (1)
•  Indonesia (1)
•  Ireland (4)
•  Israel (8)
•  Italy (29)
•  Japan (27)
•  Kazakhstan (6)
•  Latvia (1)
•  Lithuania (1)
•  Malaysia (3)
•  Mexico (18)
•  Myanmar (1)
•  Netherlands (15)
•  New Zealand (6)
•  Norway (3)
•  Peru (1)
•  Philippines (1)
•  Poland (8)
•  Portugal (5)
•  RPC (51)
•  Singapore (4)
•  Slovakia (1)
•  Slovenia (1)
•  South Africa (4)
•  South Korea (5)
•  Spain (24)
•  Sweden (2)
•  Switzerland (2)
•  Thailand (2)
•  Turkey (4)
•  Ukraine (40)
•  United States (34)
•  Uzbekistan (7)
•  Venezuela (1)
•  Vietnam (4)

Schedule

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		Dates
		Wed 25 Aug	Thurs 26 Aug	Fri 27 Aug	Sat 28 Aug	Sun 29 Aug	Mon 30 Aug	Tues 31 Aug	Wed 1 Sept	Thurs 2 Sept	Fri 3 Sept
50m freestyle	Men Details	S10		S11		S9 S13		S7	S5	S3 S4
	Women Details	S6 S10		S11		S13			S8	S4
100m freestyle	Men Details	S8	S4 S5		S10			S12	S6
	Women Details		S5		S10		S3	S7 S9 S12			S11
200m freestyle	Men Details	S5		S14		S2	S4				S3
	Women Details	S5		S14
400m freestyle	Men Details	S9	S11	S13		S7		S8	S10	S6
	Women Details	S9	S11	S13		S7		S8	S10	S6
50m backstroke	Men Details					S3	S5			S1 S2	S4
	Women Details					S3	S5			S2	S4
100m backstroke	Men Details	S1 S2	S13	S8 S12	S11		S7 S9			S10 S14	S6
	Women Details	S2	S13	S8 S12	S11		S7 S9			S10 S14	S6
50m breaststroke	Men Details	SB3						SB2
	Women Details							SB3
100m breaststroke	Men Details		SB8 SB9		SB5 SB6	SB4 SB14			SB7 SB11 SB12 SB13
	Women Details		SB8 SB9		SB5 SB6	SB4 SB14			SB7 SB11 SB12 SB13
50m butterfly	Men Details			S5			S6				S7
	Women Details			S5			S6				S7
100m butterfly	Men Details	S13 S14						S10		S9	S8 S11 S12
	Women Details	S13 S14						S10		S9	S8
150m individual medley	Men Details				SM3 SM4
	Women Details				SM4
200m individual medley	Men Details		SM6	SM7	SM8		SM11 SM13	SM14	SM9		SM10
	Women Details		SM6	SM7	SM8		SM11 SM13	SM14	SM9		SM5 SM10
Freestyle relay Details			Mixed 4x50m 20 points	Mixed 4x100m S14		Women's 4x100m 34 points	Men's 4x100m 34 points	Mixed 4x100m 49 points
Medley relay Details										Women's 4x100m 34 points	Men's 4x100m 34 points

See also

• Swimming at the 2020 Summer Olympics