By Sophie Kaufman on SwimSwam
2025 Para Swimming World Series — Melbourne
February 14-16, 2025 Melbourne Sports and Aquatics Centre — Melbourne, Australia LCM (50m) Start Times: Prelims – 8:30 am local/Finals – 4:30 pm local Live StreamThe Para Swimming World Series gets underway this weekend, with Melbourne hosting the first of the nine stops on this year’s circuit. Last year’s series was a high-energy affair—over 15 para swimming world records fell at the Berlin stop alone—as athletes prepared for the 2024 Paralympic Games.
With the majority of this year’s series taking place before September’s Para World Swimming Championships in Singapore, the stops serve as valuable opportunities to get racing in before the year’s major global championship.
If it’s your first time tuning into the Para Swimming World Series—the Australia Dolphins’ YouTube page is livestreaming the Melbourne edition—here are some basics to know.
2025 Para Swimming World Series Calendar:
February 14-16: Melbourne, Australia March 13-16: Lignano Sabbiadoro, Italy March 20-23: Barcelona, Spain April 10-12: Fuji-Shizuoka, Japan April 24-26: Indianapolis, USA May 2-4: Paris, France June 12-15: Guadalajara, Mexico October 23-25: Lima, Peru November: exact dates to be confirmedHow Does Series Scoring Work?
The Para World Swimming Series (which is prelims/finals) uses a multi-class events scoring system. All athletes’ results at each stop of the Para Swimming World Series are fed into the standardized World Para Swimming points system, which determines a swimmer’s score for the series—similar to the AQUA Points calculator used on the World Aquatics World Cup.
2025 WPS Points System Calculator 2025 WPS Points SystemMedals are awarded by points, instead of times, allowing athletes from different classes to compete in the same races and against each other for the overall series titles.
Gabriel dos Santos Araujo and Alice Tai won the overall Series titles, scoring the most points across the series for men and women, respectively.
Now that the basics are covered, let’s get into what you need to know for the Melbourne edition, where 72 athletes from eight countries will get the 2025 Para Swimming World Series underway.
Melbourne Schedule
Day 1: Friday, February 14
100 freestyle (S1-14) 150 IM (SM1-4) 50 butterfly (S2-S13) 200 freestyle (S1-14) Mixed 4×100 medley 49pt relay Mixed 4×100 medley 34pt relay Mixed 4×100 medley S14 relayDay 2: Saturday, February 15
400 freestyle (S6-14) 50 backstroke (S1-13) 100 breaststroke (SB2-14) 50 breaststroke (SB1-13) Mixed 4×100 freestyle S14 relay Mixed 4×100 freestyle 34pt relay Mixed 4×50 freestyle 20pt relayDay 3: Sunday, February 16
100 backstroke (S1-14) 50 freestyle (S1-13) 200 IM (SM5-14) 100 butterfly (S5-14) Mixed 4×50 medley 20pt relay Mixed 4×100 freestyle 49pt relayTimothy Hodge, Emily Beecroft, and Jesse Aungles will all suit up this weekend. The three raced together on Australia’s gold-medal winning 4×100 medley relay 34pts in Paris. Hodge added a gold in the men’s 200 IM SM9 and silver in the men’s 100 butterfly S9 last summer, while Beecroft earned bronze in the women’s 100 butterfly S9.
Yip Pin Xiu is also entered in the meet. The six-time Paralympic gold medalist has swept the women’s backstroke S2 events at the last three Paralympic Games.
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