Swimming at the Summer Paralympics
Swimming has been contested at every Summer Paralympics. At the first games, the 1960 Paralympics, 62 swimming events were held in distances of 25 and 50 metres, plus a 3×50 metre relay for men. Since then, swimming at the Paralympics has grown to 140 events covering distances from 50 to 400 metres, plus 4×50 and 4×100 metre relays. Along with track and field athletics, it is one of the largest sports at the Paralympics in terms of the number of events, competitors, and spectators.
As with most Paralympic sports, athletes are classified according to the type and extent of their disability. See Paralympic swimming for details of the classification system.
The International Paralympic Committee recognizes the fastest times swam at the games as Paralympic records.
Multiple Paralympic gold medalists in swimming include Trischa Zorn (USA), with 55 medals of which 41 gold, Béatrice Hess (FRA), with 23 medals of which 20 gold, Mike Kenny (GBR), with 16 gold medals, Mayumi Narita (JPN), with 19 medals of which 15 gold, and Uri Bergman (ISR), with 13 medals of which 12 gold.
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