Women's 50 metre freestyle S9 at the XIV Paralympic Games | |||||||||||||
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Venue | London Aquatics Centre | ||||||||||||
Dates | 5 September | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 12 from 9 nations | ||||||||||||
Medalists | |||||||||||||
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Women's events | |||||
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50 m freestyle | S3 | S5 | |||
S6 | S7 | S8 | S9 | S10 | |
S11 | S12 | S13 | |||
100 m freestyle | S3 | S5 | |||
S6 | S7 | S8 | S9 | S10 | |
S11 | S12 | S13 | |||
200 m freestyle | S5 | ||||
S14 | |||||
400 m freestyle | S6 | S7 | S8 | S9 | S10 |
S11 | S12 | ||||
50 m backstroke | S2 | S4 | |||
100 m backstroke | S6 | S7 | S8 | S9 | S10 |
S11 | S12 | S14 | |||
100 m breaststroke | SB4 | SB5 | |||
SB6 | SB7 | SB8 | SB9 | ||
SB11 | SB12 | SB13 | SB14 | ||
50 m butterfly | S5 | ||||
S6 | S7 | ||||
100 m butterfly | S8 | S9 | S10 | ||
S12 | |||||
200 m medley | SM5 | ||||
SM6 | SM7 | SM8 | SM9 | SM10 | |
SM11 | SM12 | SM13 | |||
Freestyle relays | 4 × 100 m (34pts) | ||||
Medley relays | 4 × 100 m (34pts) | ||||
The women's 50 metre freestyle S9 event at the 2012 Paralympic Games took place on 5 September, at the London Aquatics Centre.
Two heats were held, each of them with six competitors. The swimmers with the eight fastest times advanced to the final. [1]
Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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1 | 2 | 5 | Louise Watkin | Great Britain | 29.35 | Q |
2 | 2 | 6 | Lin Ping | China | 29.59 | Q, AS |
3 | 2 | 4 | Sarai Gascón Moreno | Spain | 29.62 | Q |
4 | 1 | 3 | Ellie Cole | Australia | 29.75 | Q |
5 | 2 | 3 | Annabelle Williams | Australia | 30.03 | Q |
6 | 1 | 5 | Irina Grazhdanova | Russia | 30.14 | Q |
7 | 1 | 4 | Natalie du Toit | South Africa | 30.16 | Q |
8 | 1 | 6 | Elizabeth Stone | United States | 30.39 | Q |
9 | 1 | 7 | Daniela Gimenez | Argentina | 30.82 | |
10 | 1 | 2 | Amy Marren | Great Britain | 31.02 | |
11 | 2 | 2 | Lauren Steadman | Great Britain | 31.04 | |
12 | 2 | 7 | Katarina Roxon | Canada | 31.78 |
Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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5 | Lin Ping | China | 29.12 | PR | |
4 | Louise Watkin | Great Britain | 29.21 | ||
6 | Ellie Cole | Australia | 29.28 | OC | |
4 | 3 | Sarai Gascón Moreno | Spain | 29.44 | |
5 | 7 | Irina Grazhdanova | Russia | 29.66 | |
6 | 2 | Annabelle Williams | Australia | 29.76 | |
7 | 1 | Natalie du Toit | South Africa | 29.84 | |
8 | 8 | Elizabeth Stone | United States | 30.72 |
Ellie Victoria Cole, is an Australian retired Paralympic swimmer and wheelchair basketball player. After having her leg amputated due to cancer, she trained in swimming as part of her rehabilitation program and progressed more rapidly than instructors had predicted. She began competitive swimming in 2003 and first competed internationally at the 2006 IPC Swimming World Championships, where she won a silver medal. Since then, she has won medals in the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships, the Commonwealth Games, the Paralympic Games, the IPC Swimming World Championships, and various national championships. Following the 2012 London Paralympics, where she won four gold and two bronze medals, Cole underwent two shoulder reconstructions and made a successful return to swimming at the 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships, winning five medals, including three golds. She subsequently represented Australia at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Paralympics, the 2018 Commonwealth Games, and the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics. In claiming her seventeenth Paralympic medal in Tokyo, Cole became Australia's most decorated female Paralympian with six gold, five silver and six bronze medals from four Paralympic Games.
Annabelle Williams, is a Paralympic swimming competitor from Australia. She has a congenital limb deficiency. She appeared in Mad Max 4. Representing Australia, she has won a gold medal at the 2012 London Paralympic Games in the 4 × 100 m medley relay, a bronze medal at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in the Women's 100 m Butterfly S9. At the 2006 Commonwealth Games, she earned a silver medal in the Women's 50 m Freestyle S9 and a bronze in the Women's 100 m Multi Disability Freestyle. At the 2010 Commonwealth Games, she earned a silver in the Women's 50 m Freestyle S9 event.