1st IPC Swimming European Championships
Date(s)	18 – 24 October
Venue(s)	Laugardalslaug
Nations participating	37
Athletes participating	650
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The 2009 IPC Swimming European Championships was an international swimming competition. It was held in Reykjavik, 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]

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

Reykjavik

The Championship was staged at the Laugardalslaug located in the north of Reykjavik.

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

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.

Footnotes

Notes

References

External links

• Official web-site