Swimming at the 2016 Summer Paralympics – Men's 400 metre freestyle S11

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Men's 400 metre freestyle S11
at the XV Paralympic Games
Venue Olympic Aquatics Stadium
Dates10 September 2016
Competitors0 from 0 nations
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Bradley Snyder Flag of the United States.svg  United States
Silver medal icon.svg Tharon Drake Flag of the United States.svg  United States
Bronze medal icon.svg Matheus Souza Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil

The Men's 400 metre freestyle S11 event at the 2016 Paralympic Games took place on 10 September 2016, at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium. No heats were held.

The men's 400 m freestyle swimming events for the 2016 Summer Paralympics took place at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium from 8 to 15 September. A total of seven events were contested for seven different classifications.

S1, SB1, SM1 are disability swimming classifications used for categorising swimmers based on their level of disability. The classifications cover athletes with "very severe coordination problems in four limbs or have no use of their legs, trunk, hands and minimal use of their shoulders only". Swimmers in this class have a variety of different disabilities including cerebral palsy.

2016 Summer Paralympics fifteenth Summer Paralympic Games

The 2016 Summer Paralympics, the 15th Summer Paralympic Games, were a major international multi-sport event for athletes with disabilities governed by the International Paralympic Committee, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 7 September to 18 September 2016. The Games marked the first time a Latin American and South American city hosted the event, the second Southern Hemisphere city and nation, the first one being the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney, and also the first time a Lusophone (Portuguese-speaking) country hosted the event. These Games saw the introduction of two new sports to the Paralympic program: canoeing and the paratriathlon.

Final

19:52 10 September 2016: [1]

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svg4 Bradley Snyder Flag of the United States.svg  United States 4:28.78
Silver medal icon.svg3 Tharon Drake Flag of the United States.svg  United States 4:40.96
Bronze medal icon.svg6 Matheus Souza Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 4:41.05
45 Israel Oliver Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 4:43.17
52 Viktor Smyrnov Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 4:48.71
67 Dmytro Zalevskyi Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 5:02.38
71 Sergio Zayas Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina 5:06.77
88 Edgaras Matakas Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania 5:30.66

Notes

  1. ↑ "Men's 400m Freestyle - S11 - Final". Rio 2016 Paralympic Games. Retrieved 7 October 2016.

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