Swimming at the 2016 Summer Paralympics – Women's 50 metre butterfly S6

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Women's 50 metre butterfly S6
at the XV Paralympic Games
Venue Olympic Aquatics Stadium
Dates9 September 2016
Competitors10 from 8 nations
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Ellie Robinson Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain
Silver medal icon.svg Oksana Khrul Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine
Bronze medal icon.svg Tiffany Thomas Kane Flag of Australia.svg  Australia

The women's 50 metre butterfly S6 event at the 2016 Paralympic Games took place on 9 September 2016, at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium in Rio de Janeiro. Two heats were held. The swimmers with the eight fastest times advanced to the final.

The women's 50 metre butterfly swimming events for the 2016 Summer Paralympics take place at the Rio Olympic Stadium from 8 to 15 September. A total of three events were contested for different classifications.

S6, SB5, SM6 are disability swimming classifications used for categorising swimmers based on their level of disability. This class includes people with a number of different types of disability including short stature, major limb impairment or loss in two limbs. This includes people with cerebral palsy, amputees, and dwarfs. The class 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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Heats

Heat 1

10:00 9 September 2016: [1] [2]

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
14 Ellie Robinson Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 36.62Q
25 Nicole Turner Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland 38.44Q
36 Özlem Kaya Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey 40.65Q
43 Olena Fedota Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 42.75Q
52 Sophia Elizabeth Herzog Flag of the United States.svg  United States 43.14

Heat 2

10:03 9 September 2016: [1] [2]

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
14 Oksana Khrul Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 37.16Q
23 Tiffany Thomas Kane Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 37.81Q
35 Dong Lu Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 39.11Q
46 Thi Bich Nhu Trinh Flag of Vietnam.svg  Vietnam 42.08Q
52 Tanya Huebner Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 42.80

Final

18:18 9 September 2016: [1] [3]

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svg4 Ellie Robinson Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 35.58PR
Silver medal icon.svg5 Oksana Khrul Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 36.45
Bronze medal icon.svg3 Tiffany Thomas Kane Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 36.81
42 Dong Lu Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 37.06
56 Nicole Turner Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland 37.31
67 Özlem Kaya Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey 40.60
78 Olena Fedota Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 41.58
81 Thi Bich Nhu Trinh Flag of Vietnam.svg  Vietnam 42.58

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "IPC Historical Results Archive, Swimming at the London 2016 Paralympic Games, Women's 50 m Butterfly S6". paralympic.org. Retrieved 21 August 2018.
  2. 1 2 "Women's 50m Butterfly - S6 - Final". Rio 2016 Paralympic Games. Retrieved 7 October 2016.[ dead link ]
  3. ↑ "Women's 50m Butterfly - S6 - Final". Rio 2016 Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 22 September 2016. Retrieved 7 October 2016.
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