#paralympic swimming

[sedlex]

Note to self: research why there is a guy with a loooong pole tapping somebody in the pool

[dubiousdisco]

ANYWAY, vasco's douglas matera got Brazil's 100th Paralympic Swimming gold medal <33333333

[rightnewshindi]

LoC पर गंवाया पैर, अब पेरिस पैरालंपिक 2024 में जीता मेडल; जानें कौन है नागालैंड के होकाटो होतोजे सेमा

Hokato Hotoje Sema: पेरिस पैरालंपिक 2024 में भारतीय खिलाड़ियों का शानदार प्रदर्शन जारी है. पैरालंपिक इतिहास का सबसे बेहतरीन प्रदर्शन करते हुए भारत अब तक 27 पदक अपने नाम कर चुका है. 27वां मेडल शॉट पुट एफ57 इवेंट में आया. फाइनल मुकाबले में नागालैंड के 40 वर्षीय होकाटो होतोजे सेमा ने अपने चौथे प्रयास में 14.65 मीटर थ्रो किया और अपना व्यक्तिगत सर्वश्रेष्ठ प्रदर्शन करते हुए तीसरे स्थान पर रहे. इसके…

[brasildaily]

Gabriel dos Santos of Brazil wins the gold medal in the Men's 50m Backstoke S2 swimming final at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, in the Paris La Defence Arena, Nanterre, west of Paris, on August 31, 2024. 

[cosmicallysick]

Everybody should be watching the Paralympics because

• blind soccer

• sitting volleyball

• wheelchair tennis and badminton

• para archery using feet

• para swimming that includes athletes missing 2+ limbs

…And more!!

You can’t tell me that shit isn’t at least as impressive as the able-bodied Olympics like c’mon!

[missriyochuchi]

Olympic swimming is pretty cut and dry (heh), simple races like those on the track, but para swimming is endlessly fascinating bc even within each classification, each swimmer has a different technique depending on their level of disability. Like all Olympic-level back strokes look the same to me, but if a Paralympian has one arm, then they have to compensate differently than another who has one leg. Like I just watched a woman with one arm and one leg win gold in the S6 400m freestyle, staying several body-lengths ahead of everyone else who had both sets of limbs for nearly all 8 laps 🤯🤯🤯 Also, I’m pretty sure all double-arm-amputee swimmers are just fucking merpeople lol like leagues faster than other swimmers and they rarely come up for a breath!

[artschoolglasses]

Team Canada: Women's individual PTWC triathlon

Leanne Taylor, Bronze

[crackinwise]

Gia Pergolini won USA's first gold of the 2024 Paralympic games in her 100m Backstroke event, with a time of 1:04.93. It's her second gold after setting the World Record in Tokyo.

[sedlex]

Starting position is "what works best for you"

[theivorlegov1]

Nikolai by josh.beck22

[barbie-estereotipica]

Spanish swimmer Javier Torres sets off at the start of the 200m freestyle heats at the 2004 Paralympic Games in Athens, Greece, September 2004. Torres went on to come sixth in the 200m freestyle finals but earned a silver medal in the 150m individual medley and a bronze in the 4x50m medley relay.Swimming has been a core sport in the Paralympics since the first Games in 1960. The competition follows standard international rules, with adaptations to accommodate athletes with various disabilities. For instance, athletes may start races from the platform, while sitting, or from within the water. However, no prostheses or assistive devices are permitted during the race.This image by Bob Martin (@bobmartinphotography), @sportsillustrated, was awarded in the 2005 World Press Photo Contest.

[brasildaily]

Gabriel dos Santos of Brazil wins the gold medal in the Men's Swimming 100m Backstroke S2 Final on day one of the Paris 2024 Summer Paralympic Games at Paris La Defense Arena on August 29, 2024 in Nanterre, France

[world-of-wales]

The Duchess of Cambridge reacts as she watches the swimming on day 1 of the London 2012 Paralympic Games at the Aquatics Centre || 30 AUGUST 2012

[sportsallover]

This morning, how Alex (the big brother) paced himself so that Kylian (his little brother) could benefit from his wave was so great to see!

And now they are both on the podium!!

[sunnycanwrite]

What Paralympics sport do you see Barbara Gordon doing?

[importantwomensbirthdays]

Anastasia Pagonis

Anastasia Pagonis was born in 2004 in Long Island, New York. Pagonis began losing her vision at the age of 11, and it was around this time that she took up swimming. By age 14, she had lost all usable vision. At the US Paralympic Trials in 2021, Pagonis broke the world record in the S11 400m freestyle. At the Tokyo Paralympics later that year, she broke her own world record and claimed the gold medal in that event. She also won the bronze medal in the individual 200m medley. In addition to her success at the Paralympics, Pagonis is also a three-time world champion.