2014 IPC Swimming European Championships

The 2014 IPC Swimming European Championships was an international swimming competition held in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, from the 4th to the 10th of August. Around 375 athletes from 35 different countries attended.[1] The venue, the Pieter van den Hoogenband Swimming Stadium, also held the 2010 IPC Swimming World Championships.

3rd IPC Swimming European Championships
Date(s)4 – 10 August
Venue(s)Pieter van den Hoogenband Swimming Stadium
Nations participating35
Athletes participating376

Venue

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The Championship was staged at the Pieter van den Hoogenband Swimming Stadium located in the south of Eindhoven. The complex contains three outdoor swimming pools, all renovated shortly before the staging of the competition.[1]

Coverage

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As with the 2013 IPC Swimming World Championships, the IPC will continue to show live streaming of the finals on ParalympicSport.TV. In the United Kingdom Channel 4 continued their commitment to parasport with their own live streaming Paralympics website with pool-side commentary and live action shown daily on their sister channel More4.[2]

Events

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Classification

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The Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion in 2012

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:

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

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    Finals
Date → 4 Aug 5 Aug 6 Aug 7 Aug 8 Aug 9 Aug 10 Aug
50 m Freestyle Men
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S10
S9
S1
S3
S2
S4
S7
S6 S13
S11
S12
S5 S8
Women
Details
S9
S10
S4
S7
S6 S11
S12
S13
S5 S8
100 m freestyle Men
Details
S1
S2
S3
S4
S5
S9 S7
S6
S11
S13
S8
S12
S10
Women
Details
S5
S4
S9 S7
S6
S8
S11
S12
S13
S10
200 m freestyle Men
Details
S3
S2
S4
S14
S5
Women
Details
S4 S5
S14
400 m freestyle Men
Details
S6
S7
S8
S9
S10 S12
Women
Details
S6
S7
S8
S9
S10 S13
S12
50m backstroke Men
Details
S1
S2
S3
S4
S5
Women
Details
S2 S4
S5
100 m backstroke Men
Details
S14
S8
S11
S12
S2
S7
S6
S9
S10
Women
Details
S14
S8
S11
S12
S13
S2
S7
S9
S10
S6
50 m breaststroke Men
Details
SB3
Women
Details
SB2
SB3
100m breaststroke Men
Details
SB11
SB12
SB4
SB5
SB9
SB14
SB8 SB7 SB6
Women
Details
SB11
SB12
SB13
SB4
SB5
SB9
SB14
SB8 SB7 SB6
50 m butterfly Men
Details
S6 S5 S7
Women
Details
S6 S5 S7
100m butterfly Men
Details
S10 S8 S12 S9
Women
Details
S10 S8 S12 S9
150m medley Men
Details
SM3
SM4
Women
Details
SM4
200m medley Men
Details
SM11
SM8
SM7
SM12
SM5
SM6
SM10
SM9
SM14
Women
Details
SM7
SM11
SM12
SM13
SM8
SM5
SM6
SM10
SM9
SM14
4×50m freestyle relays Men
Details
20 pts
Women
Details
20 pts
Mixed
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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
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34 pts

Medal table

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  *   Host nation (Netherlands)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Ukraine37292894
2  Russia34322995
3  Great Britain30271673
4  Spain15191448
5  Italy112619
6  Netherlands*911525
7  Germany681024
8  Norway45312
9  Sweden3148
10  France3137
11  Poland24612
12  Denmark2147
13  Belarus2114
14  Azerbaijan1225
15  Czech Republic1102
16  Iceland1012
17  Cyprus1001
18  Israel0527
19  Hungary04610
20  Greece031114
21  Estonia0213
22  Croatia0112
23  Austria0101
  Finland0101
  Turkey0101
26  Ireland0022
27  Belgium0011
  Portugal0011
  Slovakia0011
Totals (29 entries)162162158482

Multiple medallists

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Many competitors won multiple medals at the 2014 Championships. The following athletes won five gold medals or more.

Name Country Medal Event
Yevheniy Bohodayko   Ukraine   Gold
  Gold
  Gold
  Gold
  Gold
  Gold
  Gold
  Silver
  Silver
50m freestyle - S7
100m freestyle - S7
100m breaststroke - SB6
200m medley - SM7
100m butterfly - S3
Men's 4x50m medley relay 20pts
4x50m freestyle relay 20pts
100m backstroke - S7
4 × 100 m freestyle relay 34pts
Dmytro Vynohradets   Ukraine   Gold
  Gold
  Gold
  Gold
  Gold
  Gold
  Gold
  Silver
50m freestyle - S3
100m freestyle - S3
200m freestyle - S3
150m medley - SM3
50m backstroke - S3
Men's 4x50m medley relay 20pts
4x50m freestyle relay 20pts
Mixed 4x50m freestyle relay 20pts
Stephanie Slater   Great Britain   Gold
  Gold
  Gold
  Gold
  Gold
  Gold
  Gold
50m freestyle - S8
100m freestyle - S8
200m medley - S8
50m butterfly - S8
100m backstroke S8
4 × 100 m freestyle relay 34pts
4 × 100 m medley relay 34pts
Susannah Rodgers   Great Britain   Gold
  Gold
  Gold
  Gold
  Gold
  Silver
50m freestyle - S7
100m freestyle - S7
400m freestyle - S7
50m butterfly - S7
4 × 100 m freestyle relay 34pts
100m backstroke S7
Darya Stukalova   Russia   Gold
  Gold
  Gold
  Gold
  Gold
  Silver
50m freestyle - S12
100m freestyle - S12
400m freestyle - S12
200m medley - SM12
100m butterfly - S12
100m backstroke - S12

Highlights

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Day 1 (4 August)

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Ukraine finished the first day of the championship at the top of the medals table with six golds. The first record of the day fell to Summer Mortimer who broke the European record for the women's 50m freestyle in the S10 category. This was Mortimer's first major international competition since switching to the Netherlands teams after a successful career as a Canadian swimmer. Germany's Elena Krawzow also set a new European record, set when she won the women's 100m backstroke SB13. who set a new European record for the Women's 100 metre breastroke S13. Sarai Gascón Moreno of Spain shaved a hundredth of a second off her own European record to equal South Africa's Natalie du Toit's 50m freestyle S9 world record in the last swim of the morning session.[3]

In the afternoon session records continued to fall. The Netherlands' Marc Evers broke his own World record, set at last year's World Championships in Montreal, while winning the 100m backstroke S14 final. Oleksii Fedyna of Ukraine set a new world record in the 100m breaststroke SB12, taking nearly two seconds of Uladzimir Izotau's old record, while beating the Belarusian into second place. In the very next heat, Fedyna's fellow countryman Serhii Palamarchuk recorded a European record in the S2 100m freestyle. Before the end of the day, two new European records were set, both in the 50m freestyle. They were made by Dmityr Grigorev of Russia in the men's S10 while Summer Mortimer beat her own record set in the morning session in the women's S10.[3]

Day 2 (5 August)

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Oliver Hynd of Great Britain won the first medal of the day, in the men's 400m freestyle S8. Hynd would see his team mates collect another four gold medals throughout the day, a total bettered only by Ukraine, who won another six to double their tally.[4] Further successes in the morning session included Amalie Vinther collecting Denmark's first medal of the Championship, winning the women's 400m freestyle S8. While there was double Italian success with gold medals for Federico Morlacchi (men's 400m freestyle S9) and Cecilia Camellini (women's 100m backstroke S11).

Records continued to fall on day two with Russia's Dmitrii Kokarev setting a new world record in the men's 50m freestyle S2 with a time of 58.43 and making him the first European to swim under a minute in this class. In the women's 50m freestyle S4 Italy's Arjola Trimi secured her country's third gold of the day. In the same race Olga Sviderska of Ukraine, unable to compete at her own classification due to the absence of an S3 race, set a new world record in her class when she took bronze.[5] In the final three races of the day, two European records fell. Dmitry Grigorev broke his second European record of the games with a time of 56.84 in men's 100m butterfly S10, this was followed the very next race when 17-year-old Polish athlete Oliwia Jablonska also broke the European record in the women's race, also in the S10 class.

Day 3 (6 August)

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The morning session on day 3 started with a new world record in the first final; Great Britain's Stephanie Slater picked up her second gold of the Championships, when she took off more than a second from Jessica Long's record in the 100m butterfly S8. The host nation picked up their third gold of the tournament when Chantalle Zijderveld broke the European record in the women's 100m Butterfly S8. Ukraine continued their strong championship with a further gold medal in the morning, a third win for Dmytro Vynohradets who finished the session with the 200m Freestyle S3 title. Russia won three further gold medals completing their first clean sweep of the games, when Pavel Poltavtsev, Dmitry Grigorev and Dmitry Bartasinskiy took gold, silver and bronze in the 100m breaststroke SB9.

In the afternoon session, Russia began with their fourth and final gold of the day when Dimitrii Kokarev broke the world record in the 200m freestyle S2. A second world record fell in the afternoon, Spain's Michelle Alonso Morales taking a second off her own record in the 100m Breaststroke SB14 that she set two years previously in the London Paralympics. Both Italy and Ukraine added two further gold medals, Arjola Trimi (200m freestyle S4) and Federico Morlacchi (200m freestyle S9) for Italy and Yelyzaveta Mereshko (50m freestyle S6) and Yevheniy Bohodayko (200m individual medley SM12). The day ended as it started with success for Great Britain with Stephanie Slater winning the 200m individual medley SM8. Britain finished as the day's most successful country with five golds in total, which also included a new European record for Andrew Mullen in the men's 50m butterfly S5.[6]

Participating nations

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Below is the list of countries who agreed to participate in the Championships and the requested number of athlete places for each.

Footnotes

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Notes
References
  1. ^ a b "IPC Swimming World Championships – About us". paralympic.org. Retrieved 21 July 2014.
  2. ^ Anderson, Gary (10 July 2014). "Bumper summer of Paralympic sports coverage as Channel 4 set to broadcast host of events". insidethegames.biz. Retrieved 21 July 2014.
  3. ^ a b "Home hero Evers smashes world record to take Euro gold". IPC. 4 August 2014. Retrieved 5 August 2014.
  4. ^ Hudson, Elizabeth (5 August 2014). "European Championships: Great Britain clinch five gold medals". BBC Sport. Retrieved 6 August 2014.
  5. ^ "World Record For Dmitrii Kokarev as Part of Russian Gold Rush at IPC Swimming European Champs". swimmingworldmagazine.com. 5 August 2014. Retrieved 6 August 2014.
  6. ^ Hudson, Elizabeth (6 August 2014). "European Championships: Steph Slater wins two golds in Eindhoven". BBC Sport. Retrieved 7 August 2014.
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