The 2010 IPC Swimming World Championships was the sixth edition of the IPC Swimming World Championships, an international swimming competition, the biggest meet for athletes with a disability since the 2008 Summer Paralympics.
It was held in Eindhoven, Netherlands and lasted from 14 to 21 August.
The Championship was staged at the Pieter van den Hoogenband Swimming Stadium located in the south of Eindhoven.
Athletes are allocated a classification for each event based upon their disability to allow fairer competition between athletes of similar ability.
The classifications for swimming are: Classifications run from S1 (severely disabled) to S10 (minimally disabled) for athletes with physical disabilities, and S11 (totally blind) to S13 (legally blind) for visually impaired athletes.