See Also: Decoding the S1-S14 Classification System.
Great Britain’s Tully Kearney won a pair of gold medals on the final day of action at the 2015 IPC World Championships.
Individually, Kearney won the women’s 200 IM SM9, going 2:31.08. That stands up as the new European record in the event.
And Kearney returned to help the Brits win the night’s only relay event, the women’s 34-point 4×100 medley. Great Britain went 4:52.89, with the team of Kearney, Alice Tai, Claire Cashmore and Susie Rodgers beating out Australia.
A few familiar faces continued their tears through the record books on the final day of swimming. Ukrainian Yelyzaveta Mereshko picked up her third gold of the meet along with a world record in the women’s 100 free S6. In fact, Mereshko broke the world record twice in one day, going 1:12.36 in prelims and 1:12.21 in finals.
Also doubling up on world marks was Belarus’s Ihar Boki, who own the men’s 100 fly S13. Boki went 54.72 in the morning and 54.44 at night, taking down his fourth different world record of the meet and his 6th gold medal.
In prelims, Korea’s Lee Inkook broke the men’s 100 back S14 world record with a 1:00.28. In the final, though, Russia’s Viacheslav Emeliantsev would pull off the win and world record, going 59.26. Lee also got under his old record in the finals, going 59.88.
Here’s the final medal count from the IPC World Championships:
Rank | Federation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
1 | Russian Fed. | 32 | 19 | 20 | 71 |
2 | Ukraine | 21 | 27 | 15 | 63 |
3 | United States | 11 | 11 | 8 | 30 |
4 | Brazil | 11 | 8 | 4 | 23 |
5 | Great Britain | 10 | 12 | 10 | 32 |
6 | China | 10 | 11 | 8 | 29 |
7 | Australia | 9 | 8 | 13 | 30 |
8 | New Zealand | 8 | 6 | 2 | 16 |
9 | Belarus | 7 | 1 | 1 | 9 |
10 | Netherlands | 6 | 3 | 6 | 15 |
11 | Spain | 4 | 7 | 11 | 22 |
12 | Norway | 4 | 2 | 3 | 9 |
13 | Italy | 3 | 6 | 2 | 11 |
14 | Canada | 2 | 5 | 5 | 12 |
15 | Germany | 2 | 4 | 5 | 11 |
16 | Japan | 2 | 4 | 1 | 7 |
17 | Mexico | 2 | 3 | 5 | 10 |
18 | Colombia | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
Korea | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | |
20 | Sweden | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
21 | South Africa | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
22 | Cyprus | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Thailand | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
24 | Azerbaijan | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
25 | France | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
26 | Israel | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
27 | Poland | 0 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
28 | Greece | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
29 | Vietnam | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
30 | Czech Republic | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Iceland | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
32 | Hungary | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
Kazakhstan | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | |
34 | Ireland | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
35 | Argentina | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Austria | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Croatia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Portugal | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Turkey | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Uzbekistan | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
These IPC World Championships have been marred by the classification controversy surrounding Australian Swimmer Madison Elliott. Elliott was classified as S9 prior to start of competition. In her first event S9 backstroke Elliott swam 7.5s over her pb and was reclassed as an S8. In all Elliott swam 7 individual events – 5 as an S8 pb’ing in all bar 50 free (.39 over) and 2 as an S9 100 back swimming 7.5s over pb and 200IM swimming 9s over pb and 2 relays. All up, winning 4 gold, 2 silver and I bronze. In a shockingly brazen display of poor sportsmanship Elliott replaced Canadian swimmer Duchesne in the womens 100 backstroke S8 having not competed in the heat herself.… Read more »