Swimming at the 2016 Summer Paralympics


Swimming at the 2016 Paralympic Games was held from 8 to 17 September 2016 at Rio Olympic Aquatics Stadium. The competition consisted of 152 events, across multiple classifications, and all swum in a long course pool. Up to 600 swimmers competed in the Games. With 152 events, swimming came second only to athletics as the largest sport at the 2016 Games.

Qualification

Events

152 events over two genders, across 14 classification and four strokes were be contested during the Games. Below is a summary of the events that were contested at the 2016 Games :
Key:
The schedule for the swimming events in the 2016 Summer Paralympics is reproduced below; in all cases, heats in each event were held in the morning, and the finals and victory ceremonies of the events were held on the evenings of the same day

Medal summary

Medal table

Multiple medalists

Men's events

Women's events

Mixed events