2025 World Para Swimming Championships
- September 21-27, 2025
- OCBC Aquatic Centre – Singapore
- LCM (50 Meters)
- Meet Central
- YouTube Livestream Channel
- Results
- Recaps: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6
The World Para Championships have come to a close with athletes taking full advantage of the final session, setting three new World Records and eight new Championship Records.
Para Athlete Classifications:
- Physical Impairment: S1-S10
- Visual Impairment: S11-S13
- Intellectual Impairment: S14
Prefixes Explanation:
- S: Freestyle, Butterfly and Backstroke
- SB: Breaststroke
- SM: IM
Day 7 Highlights
The first World Record of the day went to Czechia’s David Kratochvil in the men’s S11 400 freestyle. The 17-year-old started the day by breaking the Championship Record in prelims, swimming 4:28.46. This time came in two tenths under the previous record of 4:28.64 set by Roger Dorsman in September of 2019.
He followed that performance up with a monster swim in the final, touching in 4:19.83 to break a 33-year-old World Record that was set back in 1992 at the Barcelona Paralympic Games. The previous record belonged to American John Morgan at 4:20.83.
This swim concluded the teenager’s World Championships campaign with seven podium finishes including four gold medals, a silver medal, and two bronze medals.
The other individual World Record of the day went to great Britain’s Poppy Maskill in the women’s 100 butterfly. She touched in 1:02.58 in the S14 event, breaking her own world record of 1:02.74 from July of this year.
She said “I’m really happy with that — I didn’t expect to get a PB so to get the world record again was amazing and just an unreal feeling. I think I’ve done a good job this week being the first year back after Paris. I’ll go back and look at all the little things I can improve and can hopefully come back for more.”
The final World Record of the day came in the final event of the meet, the mixed 4×100 freestyle relay 34 point event.
Australia’s team of Alexa Leary (S9 — 58.79), Rowan Crothers (S10 — 50.62), Chloe Osborn (S7 — 1:13.29), and Callum Simpson (S8 — 55.70) won by more than five seconds, touching in 3:58.40 to become the first team in history to break 4:00 in the event. The previous World Record belonged to Italy at 4:01.54 from last summer’s Paralympics.
In the same event, China broke the Asian record to win the silver medal, swimming 4:06.13 to break their former record of 4>08.30 from the Paralympics last summer.
There were also a number of Championship Records that fell over the course of the day, starting with the prelims of the women’s S4 200 freestyle. American Katie Kubiak swam 2:50.82 to set a new Championship Record and lock up the top spot for the finals session.
In finals, she swam 2:52.23 to win the gold medal, but miss her own record mark from the prelims. She also holds the World Record in the event at 2:44.97, which she was about seven seconds off of.
The first record of the finals session went to Daria Lukianenko in the women’s S11 400 freestyle, where she swam 4:58.46 to shatter the previous record of 5;02.19 set by Lisette Bruinsma. Bruinsma was also in the final, finishing 2nd in 5:05.26.
Andrii Trusov from Ukraine picked up his 2nd Championship Record of the meet, swimming 59.90 in the men’s 100 freestyle to break his own record of 1;00.09 from 2023. He also broke the 50 freestyle Championship Record yesterday, and this gold medal marked his 4th of 4 events of these Championships.
Christian Sadie also picked up his 2nd African Record of the meet in the men’s 100 freestyle, finishing 4th in 1:04.77. The South African swimmer held the previous record as well at 1:05.49 from April of 2024.
The men’s S5 200 freestyle saw a CR in the form of Ami Omer Dadaon‘s 2:44.91 to win the gold medal for Israel. He held the previous record at 2:50.91 from 2022, and he also holds the World Record just under a tenth faster than he swam today at 2:44.84.
Spain’s Teresa Perales finished 5th in the women’s S3 100 freestyle final, but she is an S2 swimmer. This means that, event though she was 5th, she was still able to set the Championship Record, which she did. Her time of 2:02.36 broke the record of 2:02.84 that she set earlier this meet on the opening leg of her silver medal 200 freestyle swim.
That event also saw a new S3 European Record from silver medalist Marta Fernandez Infanate who touched in 1:29.77, breaking her previous record of 1:30.04 from the Paralympics.
Bronze medalist Rachael Watson broke the Oceanian Record, touching in 1:32.40 to knock five seconds off the previous mark of 1:37.84 she set last summer. This feat came after Watson had to withdraw from most of her events at these Championships due to medical issues.
The gold medalist in the women’s S3 100 freestyle, Leanne Smith, did not break any records but she already owns the World Record and the Championship record in the event. she touched in 1:27.98 to come about a second away from her World record time of 1:26.76 from April of this year.
Gabriele Lorenzo of Italy broke the Championship Record in the men’s S3 100 free final, swimming 1:33.25 to break the former record of 1:33.61 set by Diego Lopez Diaz of Mexico in 2019. Lopez Diaz was also int he event, finishing 6th at 1:45.86
The final Championship Record of the meet went to Great Britain’s William Ellard in the men’s S14 100 butterfly. Ellard swam 54.32 to take down the previous record of 54.32 set by Reece Dunn, also from great Britain, in 2019.
Nathan Hendricks broke the African Record in the men’s SM13 200 IM, touching in 2:16.55 to finish 6th overall. The champion Egor Shchitkovskii of the Neutral delegation, touched in 2:06.07.
Other Event Winners:
- Women’s 100 Breaststroke SB8: Anastasiya Dmytriv (ESP)
- Men’s 100 Breaststroke SB8: Andrei Kalina (NPA)
- Women’s 100 Backstroke S10: Defne Kurt (TUR)
- Men’s 100 Backstroke S10: Olivier Van de Voort (NED)
- Women’s 100 Freestyle S7: Morgan Stickney (USA)
- Women’s 50 Butterfly S6: Yuyan Jiang (CHN)
- Men’s 50 Butterfly S6: Nelson Crispin Corzo (COL)
- Women’s 50 Freestyle S9: Marian Ribeiro (BRA)
- Men’s 50 Freestyle S9: Simone Barlaam (ITA)
- Women’s 100 Freestyle S5: Monica Boggioni (ITA)
- Men’s 100 Freestyle S5: Oleksandr Komarov (UKR)
- Women’s 200 IM SM13: Olivia Chambers (USA)
