2009 IPC Swimming European Championships

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]

1st IPC Swimming European Championships
Date(s)	18–24 October
Venue(s)	Laugardalslaug
Nations participating	37
Athletes participating	650
2011 Berlin →

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

Reykjavík

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

The winning Great Britain team for the women's 4 × 100 m medley - 34 points, wearing their medals at the Laugardalslaug.

Finals

Date →		18 Oct	19 Oct	20 Oct	21 Oct	22 Oct	23 Oct	24 Oct
50 m Freestyle	Men Details	S1 S2 S3 S4 S5		S6 S7	S8 S11 S12 S13	S9 S10
	Women Details	S2 S4 S5		S6 S7	S8 S11 S12 S13	S9 S10
100 m freestyle	Men Details				S4	S6 S7	S2 S5 S8 S14	S9 S10 S11 S12 S13
	Women Details				S4	S6 S7	S2 S5 S8 S14	S9 S10 S11 S12 S13
200 m freestyle	Men Details		S2					S4 S5
	Women Details		S4					S5
400 m freestyle	Men Details	S6 S7		S8 S11	S9 S10	S12 S13
	Women Details	S6 S7		S8	S9 S10	S13
50m backstroke	Men Details			S3 S4 S5				S1 S2
	Women Details			S3 S4 S5				S2
100 m backstroke	Men Details	S8		S14			S9 S10 S11 S12 S13	S6 S7
	Women Details			S14			S9 S10 S13	S6 S7
50 m breaststroke	Men Details					SB3
	Women Details					SB3
100m breaststroke	Men Details		SB6 SB7 SB8 SB12 SB13	SB9	SB14	SB4
	Women Details		SB6 SB7 SB8 SB13	SB9	SB14	SB4 SB5
50 m butterfly	Men Details		S4 S5				S6 S7
	Women Details		S5				S6 S7
100m butterfly	Men Details	S9 S10		S12 S13		S8 S11
	Women Details	S9 S10	S13	S12		S8
150m medley	Men Details						SM3 SM4
	Women Details						SM4
200m medley	Men Details	SM12 SM13	SM9 SM10		SM6 SM7	SM14		SM8
	Women Details	SM13	SM9 SM10		SM6 SM7	SM14		SM8
4×50m freestyle relays	Men Details				20 pts
4×50m medley relays	Men Details					20 pts
	Women Details					20 pts
4 × 100 m freestyle relays	Men Details							34 pts
	Women Details							34 pts
4 × 100 m medley relays	Men Details			34 pts
	Women Details			34 pts

Medal table

Great Britain led the 2009 Championships in both medals won and number of gold medals.^[4]

  *   Host nation (Iceland)

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