Swimming at the 2012 Summer Paralympics – Men's 100 metre freestyle S8

Men's 100m Freestyle S8 at the XIV Paralympic Games
Venue	London Aquatics Centre
Dates	6 September
Competitors	16 from 12 nations
Winning time	56.58
Medalists
Wang Yinan  China Denis Tarasov  Russia Konstantin Lisenkov  Russia

The men's 100m freestyle S8 event at the 2012 Summer Paralympics took place at the London Aquatics Centre on 6 September. There were two heats; the swimmers with the eight fastest times advanced to the final.

Results

Heats

Competed from 11:03.

Heat 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Wang Yinan	China	58.97	Q
2	4	Maurice Deelen	Netherlands	59.88	Q
3	3	Sean Fraser	Great Britain	1:00.78	Q
4	6	Blake Cochrane	Australia	1:01.72	Q
5	2	Charles Rozoy	France	1:02.59
6	1	Luis Armando Andrade Guillen	Mexico	1:04.39
7	7	Jaime Bailon Galindo	Spain	1:04.66
8	8	Caio Oliveira	Brazil	1:05.86

Heat 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Denis Tarasov	Russia	58.65	Q
2	5	Konstantin Lisenkov	Russia	59.03	Q
3	3	Song Maodang	China	1:00.34	Q
4	6	Thomas Young	Great Britain	1:01.85	Q
5	7	Zack McAllister	Canada	1:02.88	AM
6	1	Niels Korfitz Mortensen	Denmark	1:04.36
7	2	Sam Hynd	Great Britain	1:05.21
8	8	Evan Ryan Austin	United States	1:05.58

Final

Competed at 19:22.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Wang Yinan	China	56.58	WR
	4	Denis Tarasov	Russia	57.52	EU
	3	Konstantin Lisenkov	Russia	58.33
4	6	Maurice Deelen	Netherlands	58.65
5	2	Song Maodang	China	59.86
6	8	Thomas Young	Great Britain	1:00.53
7	7	Sean Fraser	Great Britain	1:00.58
8	1	Blake Cochrane	Australia	1:01.07

Q = qualified for final. WR = World Record. AM = Americas Record. EU = European Record.

References

Official London 2012 Paralympics Results: Heats Archived 2012-09-13 at the Wayback Machine
Official London 2012 Paralympics Results: Final Archived 2012-09-13 at the Wayback Machine