Six Championship Records and Two World Records Broken on Day 6 Of Para World Champs

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

Records continued to fall on the penultimate day of the World Para Swimming Championships with six new Championship records and two new World Records being set on day 6.

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 6 Highlights:

The first few events of the meet saw very few records set, but as the session went on, the records started to fall.

Our first World Record of the day came from Albert Gelis in the men’s S11 100 backstroke. He touched in 1:05.14 to win the event by almost two seconds ahead of Czechia’s David Kratochvil who touched in 1:06.93 for 2nd.

The previous World Record belonged to Mykhailo Serbin from Ukrain in 1:05.84 from the Paris Paralympics last year. Serbin was also in the final, finishing 4th overall in 1:07.48.

The other World Record came in the form of Great Britain in the mixed S14 4×100 medley relay. The team touched in 4:02.86 to shatter Australia’s World Record time of 4:07.71 from August of 2023. Poppy Maskil led off the backstroke in 1;07.02. Harry Stewart split 2:10.26 on the breaststroke. William Ellard was 54.96 on the butterfly, and Bethany Firth anchored the team in 57.64.

Firth said “I’m so happy! These guys are amazing, they’re so good to swim with and I think we’re just setting the standard for what is to come”

That race also saw a new Americas record with Brazil swimming 4:05.98 to win the silver medal. The team of Arthur Xavier Ribeiro (59.97), Beatriz De Araujo Flausino (1:11.89), Gabriel Bandeira (3:05.92), and Ana Karolina Soares De Oliveira (1:00.06) also came in under the former World Record time and the former Americas Record of 4:13.35 from June of 2022.

The session also saw six new Championship Records. Andrii Trusov, from Ukraine, broke his own record in the men’s S7 50 free final, touching in 26.72 to come in more than three tenths under the 27.07 mark he set back in 2019.

In the same race, South Arica’s Christian Sadie finished 5th in 28.70 to break his own African Record of 28.75 from last year’s Paralympic Games.

Ukraine picked up another record in the form of Artem Oliinyk’s 2:23.78 in the S5 200 freestyle. The former record belonged to Francesco Bocciardo at 2:24.11 from 2019. Bocciardo is also the World Record holder at 2:23.65, just a tenth ahead of Oliinyk’s swim.

In the women’s S3 200 freestyle, American Leanne Smith swam 3:16.34 to destroy the rest of the field, winning the event by 30 seconds. The previous record was her own at 3:16.95 from 2022. She also holds the World Record at 3:09.65 from April of this year.

Smith said “I’m a little beat up at the moment. I think if anything, this is giving us perspective for what L.A. might look like as far as weather conditions and how to manage that with how my body is tolerating it.” She has won six total individual medals in Singapore and 12 world titles in history.

Lorenzo Gabriele, of Italy, broke the Championship Record in the men’s S3 200 free, touching in 3:15.12 to break Huang Wenpan‘s former record of 3:17.77 from 2017.

Turey’s Defne Kurt had a major record breaking day, swimming 59.08 in the women’s S10 100 free final to break her own Championship Record from the prelims. Her prelims time of 59.11 broke Canada’s Aurelie Rivard‘s record of 59.43 from June of 2022.

The final Championship Record went to Columbian swimmer Nelson Crispin Corzo in the SB6 100 backstroke. He touched in 1:19.11 to break his own 2019 record of 1:19.24.

The final record of the day was an Americas Record set by Jose Ronaldo Da Silva form Brazil. He swam 1:13.17 in the S1 50 backstroke to take three seconds off his former record of 1:16.23 from earlier this year. Da Silva won silver and the gold went to Israel’s Iyad Shalabi in 1:11.16

Other Event Winners:

• Women’s 400 Freestyle S13: Olivia Chambers (USA)
• men’s 400 Freestyle S13: Egor Shchitkovskii (NPA)
• Women’s 200 IM SM8: Brock Whiston (GBR)
• Men’s 200 IM SM8: Callum Simpson (AUS)
• Women’s 50 Backstroke S2: Yip Pin Xiu (SGP)
• Men’s 50 Backstroke S2: Gabriel Geralado Dos Santos Araujo (BRA)
• Women’s 50 Freestyle S7: Mallory Weggemann (USA)
• Women’s 100 Backstroke S11: Daria Lukianeko (NPA)
• Women’s 200 Freestyle S5: Monica Boggioni (ITA)
• Women’s 100 Backstroke S9: Mariana Ribeiro (BRA)
• Men’s 100 Backstroke S9: Yahor Shchalkanau (NPA)
• Men’s 100 Freestyle S10: Rowan Crothers (AUS)
• Women’s 100 Breaststroke SB6: Liu Daomin (CHN)
• Mixed 4×100 Freestyle Relay 49 Pts: Spain

Medal Table After Day 6