Swimming at the 2016 Summer Paralympics – Women's 100 metre backstroke S7

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Women's 100 metre backstroke S7
at the XV Paralympic Games
Venue Olympic Aquatics Stadium
Dates8 September 2016
Competitors14 from 8 nations
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Liting Ke Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China
Silver medal icon.svg Ying Zhang Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China
Bronze medal icon.svg Rebecca Dubber Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand

The women's 100 metre backstroke S7 event at the 2016 Paralympic Games took place on 8 September 2016, at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium. Two heats were held. The swimmers with the eight fastest times advanced to the final. Two heats were held, each with seven swimmers. The swimmers with the eight fastest times advanced to the final.

The women's 100 m backstroke swimming events for the 2016 Summer Paralympics take place at the Rio Olympic Stadium from 8 to 17 September. A total of ten events are contested for ten different classifications.

S7 (classification)

S7, SB6, SM7 are disability swimming classifications used for categorizing swimmers based on their level of disability. Swimmers in this class have use of their arms and trunk. They have limited leg function or are missing a leg or parts of both legs. This class includes a number of different disabilities including people with amputations and cerebral palsy. The classification is governed by the International Paralympic Committee, and competes at the Paralympic Games.

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.

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Records

Prior to the competition, the World and Paralympic records were:

World recordFlag of Germany.svg  Kirsten Bruhn  (GER)1:21.57 Sheffield, Great Britain6 April 2012
Paralympic recordFlag of Australia (converted).svg  Jacqueline Freney  (AUS)1:22.84 London, Great Britain30 August 2012
2016 World leadingFlag of New Zealand.svg  Rebecca Dubber  (NZL)1:24.92 Auckland, New Zealand29 March 2016

Heats

Heat 1

12:04 8 September 2016: [1]

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
15 Rebecca Dubber Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 1:23.62Q
23 Nikita Howarth Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 1:24.69Q
34 Yajing Huang Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 1:25.34Q
46 Denise Grahl Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 1:28.08Q
52 Tess Routliffe Flag of Canada.svg  Canada 1:29.96
67 Arianna Talamona Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 1:33.46
71 Meri-Maari Makinen Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 1:39.56

Heat 2

12:08 8 September 2016: [1]

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
14 Liting Ke Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 1:22.72PRQ
25 Ying Zhang Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 1:24.97Q
36 McKenzie Coan Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1:25.34Q
43 Cortney Jordan Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1:25.54Q
52 Verena Schott Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 1:28.12
67 Sarah Mehain Flag of Canada.svg  Canada 1:32.65
71 Brenda Tilk Flag of Estonia.svg  Estonia 1:38.99

Final

20:39 8 September 2016: [2]

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svg4 Liting Ke Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 1:23.06
Silver medal icon.svg6 Ying Zhang Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 1:23.34
Bronze medal icon.svg5 Rebecca Dubber Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 1:23.85
42 Yajing Huang Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 1:24.53
57 McKenzie Coan Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1:25.17
63 Nikita Howarth Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 1:25.37
71 Cortney Jordan Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1:25.95
88 Denise Grahl Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 1:29.87

Notes

  1. 1 2 "Women's 100m Backstroke - S7 - Final". Rio 2016 Paralympic Games. Retrieved 7 October 2016.
  2. "Women's 100m Backstroke - S7 - Final". Rio 2016 Paralympic Games. Retrieved 7 October 2016.

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