2014 IPC Swimming European Championships

European Swimming Competition held in 2014 Eindhoven, Netherlands 3rd IPC Swimming European Championships Eindhoven 2014 IPC Swimming European Championships Logo.jpg Pieter van den Hoogenband Swimming Stadium 4 – 10 August 35 376 2011 Berlin 2016 Funchal 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.http://www.paralympic.org/eindhoven-2014/about-us 21 July 2014 IPC Swimming World Championships – About us paralympic.org The venue, the Pieter van den Hoogenband Swimming Stadium, also held the 2010 IPC Swimming World Championships. Venue Netherlands Eindhoven bottom 51.415713 5.477753 Disc Plain red.svg right 180 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. Coverage 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.http://www.insidethegames.biz/paralympics/1021237-bumper-summer-of-paralympic-sports-coverage-as-channel-4-set-to-broadcast-host-of-events 10 July 2014 Bumper summer of Paralympic sports coverage as Channel 4 set to broadcast host of events insidethegames.biz Gary Anderson 21 July 2014 28 July 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20140728213056/http://www.insidethegames.biz/paralympics/1021237-bumper-summer-of-paralympic-sports-coverage-as-channel-4-set-to-broadcast-host-of-events dead Events Classification thumb|right|The Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion in 2012 Disability sport 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    Finals Date → 4 Aug5 Aug6 Aug7 Aug 8 Aug 9 Aug10 Aug 50 m Freestyle MenDetails S10S9 S1S3S2S4S7 S6 S13S11S12 S5 S8 WomenDetails S9S10 S4S7 S6S11S12S13 S5 S8 100 m freestyle MenDetails S1S2S3S4S5 S9 S7S6 S11S13S8S12 S10 WomenDetails S5S4 S9 S7S6 S8S11S12S13 S10 200 m freestyle MenDetails S3S2 S4S14S5 WomenDetails S4 S5S14 400 m freestyle MenDetails S6S7 S8S9 S10 S12 WomenDetails S6S7 S8S9 S10 S13S12 50m backstroke MenDetails S1S2S3 S4S5 WomenDetails S2 S4S5 100 m backstroke MenDetails S14S8 S11S12 S2S7 S6S9S10 WomenDetails S14S8 S11S12S13 S2S7 S9S10S6 50 m breaststroke MenDetails SB3 WomenDetails SB2SB3 100m breaststroke MenDetails SB11SB12 SB4SB5 SB9SB14 SB8 SB7 SB6 WomenDetails SB11SB12SB13 SB4SB5 SB9SB14 SB8 SB7 SB6 50 m butterfly MenDetails S6 S5 S7 WomenDetails S6S5 S7 100m butterfly MenDetails S10 S8 S12 S9 WomenDetails S10 S8 S12 S9 150m medley MenDetails SM3SM4 WomenDetails SM4 200m medley MenDetails SM11SM8SM7SM12 SM5SM6 SM10SM9 SM14 WomenDetails SM7SM11SM12SM13SM8 SM5SM6SM10SM9 SM144×50m freestyle relays MenDetails 20 pts WomenDetails 20 pts MixedDetails 20 pts 4×50m medley relays MenDetails 20 pts WomenDetails 20 pts 4 × 100 m freestyle relays MenDetails 34 pts WomenDetails 34 pts4 × 100 m medley relays MenDetails 34 pts WomenDetails 34 pts Medal table NED flagcountry 37 29 28 34 32 29 30 27 16 15 19 14 11 2 6 6 8 10 9 11 5 yes 4 5 3 2 4 6 3 1 4 3 1 3 1 2 2 2 1 1 2 1 4 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 5 2 0 3 11 0 4 6 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 Multiple medallists Many competitors won multiple medals at the 2014 Championships. The following athletes won five gold medals or more. Name Country Medal Event Yevheniy Bohodayko 50m freestyle - S7 100m freestyle - S7100m breaststroke - SB6 200m medley - SM7100m butterfly - S3Men's 4x50m medley relay 20pts 4x50m freestyle relay 20pts100m backstroke - S74 × 100 m freestyle relay 34pts Dmytro Vynohradets 50m freestyle - S3 100m freestyle - S3200m freestyle - S3 150m medley - SM350m backstroke - S3Men's 4x50m medley relay 20pts 4x50m freestyle relay 20ptsMixed 4x50m freestyle relay 20pts Stephanie Slater 50m freestyle - S8 100m freestyle - S8200m medley - S850m butterfly - S8100m backstroke S8 4 × 100 m freestyle relay 34pts 4 × 100 m medley relay 34pts Susannah Rodgers 50m freestyle - S7 100m freestyle - S7400m freestyle - S750m butterfly - S7 4 × 100 m freestyle relay 34pts 100m backstroke S7 Darya Stukalova 50m freestyle - S12 100m freestyle - S12400m freestyle - S12 200m medley - SM12100m butterfly - S12100m backstroke - S12 Highlights Day 1 (4 August) 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.http://www.paralympic.org/news/home-hero-evers-smashes-world-record-take-euro-gold Home hero Evers smashes world record to take Euro gold IPC 4 August 2014 5 August 2014 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. Day 2 (5 August) 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.https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/disability-sport/28658922 European Championships: Great Britain clinch five gold medals Elizabeth Hudson 6 August 2014 5 August 2014 BBC Sport 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.http://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/news/world-record-for-dmitrii-kokarev-as-part-of-russian-gold-rush-at-ipc-swimming-european-champs/ World Record For Dmitrii Kokarev as Part of Russian Gold Rush at IPC Swimming European Champs swimmingworldmagazine.com 5 August 2014 6 August 2014 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) 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 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.https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/disability-sport/28674879 European Championships: Steph Slater wins two golds in Eindhoven Elizabeth Hudson 7 August 2014 6 August 2014 BBC Sport Participating nations Below is the list of countries who agreed to participate in the Championships and the requested number of athlete places for each. 22em AUT (2) AZE (2) BLR (4) BEL (5) CRO (9) CYP (1) CZE (3) DEN (6) EST (7) FIN (4) FRA (9) GER (19) GBR (30) GRE (21) HUN (16) ISL (4) IRL (5) ISR (8) ITA (15) LAT (1) LTU (3) MLT (3) NED (16) NOR (9) POL (17) POR (10) ROM (2) RUS (51) SER (1) SLO (2) SVK (4) ESP (23) SWE (7) SUI (1) TUR (6) UKR (51) Footnotes Notes "nb" References 40em External links Official web-site IPC Swimming European Championships Category:World Para Swimming European Championships Category:International aquatics competitions hosted by the Netherlands Category:Swimming competitions in the Netherlands IPC Swimming World Championships Category:Sports competitions in Eindhoven Category:August 2014 sports events in the Netherlands Category:21st century in Eindhoven