| Men's 100 metre backstroke S7 at the XV Paralympic Games | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | Olympic Aquatics Stadium | ||||||||||||
| Dates | 8 September | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 10 from 8 nations | ||||||||||||
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The men's 100 metre backstroke S7 event at the 2016 Paralympic Games took place on 8 September, at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium.
Two heats were held, each with five swimmers. The swimmers with the eight fastest times advanced to the final.
Prior to the competition [update] , the existing World and Paralympic records were as follows.
| World record |  Jonathan Fox (GBR) | 1:09.15 | Sheffield, Great Britain | 27 July 2016 |
| Paralympic record | Jonathan Fox (GBR) | 1:09.86 | London, Great Britain | 30 August 2012 |
| 2016 World leading | Jonathan Fox (GBR) | 1:09.15 | Sheffield, Great Britain | 27 July 2016 |
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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| 2 | Antoni Ponce Bertran |  Spain | |||
| 3 | Dino Sinovcic |  Croatia | |||
| 4 | Italo Pereira |  Brazil | |||
| 5 | Marian Kvasnytsia |  Ukraine | |||
| 6 | Guillermo Marro |  Argentina |
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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| 2 | Hannes Schuermann |  Germany | |||
| 3 | Matias de Andrade | Argentina | |||
| 4 | Jonathan Fox |  Great Britain | |||
| 5 | Ievgenii Bogodaiko | Ukraine | |||
| 6 | Gao Nan |  China |
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