2022 World Para Swimming Championships: Overall Summary

2022 WORLD PARA SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS

• June 12-18, 2022
• Madeira, Portugal
• Penteada Swimming Pool Complex
• LCM (50-meter format)
• Start Times
  • Finals: 5 p.m. local / 12 p.m. ET
• Storylines to Watch
• Meet Central
• Live Results

FINAL MEDALS TABLE

For the second World Para Swimming Championships, Italy stands atop the medal table. They won seven more golds this year than they did back in 2019. Making a big jump up the medal table was the United States who won 14 golds back in 2019 placing them fifth on the medal table but this year won 24 to be second.

Brazil also made a big jump after only having won five gold medals in 2019 placing them 11th on the medal table, this year they almost quadrupled that number to finish third with 19 gold medals.

Other countries worth noting:

• Australia moved from 2 gold medals to 7
• Spain earned four more gold medals this year as they had 3 in 2019 and 7 this year

*The medal table in this post is ranked by gold medal totals, then silver medal totals, then bronze medal totals

World Records Summary

• Tully Kearney, women’s S5 100 free, 1:13.34
• Simone Barlaam, Stefano Raimondi, Giulia Terzi, and Xenia Palazzo, men’s 4×100 free relay, 4:02.53
• Simone Barlaam, men’s S9 50 free, 24.00
• Leanne Smith, women’s S3 100 free, 1:27.62
• Ellie Marks, Leanne Smith, Abbas Karimi, and Rudy Garcia-Tolson, 4×50 mixed medley relay, 2:32.49
• Ami Omer Dadaon, men’s S4 50 free, 36.25
• Gabriel Bandeira, men’s SM14 200 IM, 2:07.50
• Leanne Smith, women’s S3 50 freestyle, 40.32
• Anna Hontar, women’s S6 50 freestyle, 32.75
• Tully Kearney, women’s S5 200 freestyle, 2:42.36
• Simone Barlaam, men’s S9 100 backstroke, 59.72
• Antonio Fantin, men’s S6 100 free, 1:03.65
• Timothy Hodge, men’s SM9 200 IM, 2:13.43
• Simone Barlaam, men’s S9 100 free, 52.23
• Tully Kearney, women’s S5 50 free, 34.07
• Ellie Challis, women’s SB2 50 breast, 1:04.33

Individual Medals Summary