Celebrating six months to go until the 2015 IPC Swimming Worlds, the competition schedule has been published.
IPC Swimming released the provisional competition schedule for the 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships on Tuesday (13 January), to celebrate six months to go until 650 of the world’s best swimmers converge on Glasgow, Great Britain.
Glasgow 2015 will take place from 13-19 July and is expected to see world and Paralympic champions from 50 countries looking to place themselves firmly on the road to the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.
The competition schedule can be viewed at www.glasgow2015.com
Tickets are now available via www.ticketmaster.co.uk/Glasgow2015 priced at just GBP10/15 for adults for heats/finals, while all under-16s go free (t&c’s apply).
The schedule published this week shows which events are set to take place on each day, with a final version due for release in June once the entries have closed.
The competition could get off to a flying start with the possibility of five golds for British swimmers on day one, including home favourite Ellie Simmonds who will be looking to defend her 400m freestyle S6 title.
Other headline events include Brazilian swimmer Daniel Dias, defending his six S5 world titles against the likes of Great Britain’s multiple European champion Andrew Mullen and the USA’s Roy Perkins.
The women’s S8 races could feature America’s 12-time Paralympic champion Jessica Long against Great Britain’s Stephanie Slater, the most decorated female athlete from the 2014 Euros, and Russia’s Oleysa Vladykina.
New Zealand’s six-time world champion Sophie Pascoe will have to get past top ranked athletes including Canada’s Aurelie Rivard and France’s Elodie Lorandi in the women’s S10 events.
The men’s equivalent could see American youngster and 400m freestyle world and Paralympic champion Ian Silverman face Brazil’s 12-time Worlds gold medallist Andre Brasil. China’s Furong Lin, who won the most medals at October’s Asian Para Games, could also line-up.