Swimming was one of eight sports practiced at the first paralympic games in 1960 in rome, italy and is now one of the most popular.both male and female compe.

Paralympics swimming s1. Olympic aquatics centre / tokyo, japan heats: The prefixes stand for the. Swimming s1 was a competition class at the tokyo paralympics all sports.

Para swimming is one of the original paralympic disciplines, featuring at the first games in 1960 and is now one of the most popular paralympic sports. The explanatory guide to paralympic classification explains each classification in detail below. Once classified, swimmers are allocated an athlete classification status.

Athletes with all kinds of physical and. Swimming australia supports athletes with an. S1 sb1 swimmers in this sport class have a significant loss of muscle power or.

5 pm (local time) full aquatics. The only event contested in this classification at the london paralympics will. These swimmers find it hard to understand and apply training techniques and competition strategies, especially in busy.

S1, sb1, sm1 are disability swimming classifications used for categorising swimmers based on their level of disability. These athletes' disabilities have been deemed to have the most impact on their. The classifications cover athletes with very severe coordination.

There will be no s1 female swimmers at this year’s tokyo games. Sport classes the sport class names in swimming consist of a prefix “s” or “sb” and a number. S14 is for swimmers who have an intellectual impairment.