Swimming at the 2016 Summer Paralympics – Men's 100 metre breaststroke SB8

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Men's 100 metre breaststroke SB8
at the XV Paralympic Games
Venue Olympic Aquatics Stadium
Dates14 September 2016
Competitors0 from 0 nations
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Oscar Salguero Galisteo Flag of Spain.svg  Spain
Silver medal icon.svg Federico Morlacchi Flag of Italy.svg  Italy
Bronze medal icon.svg Andreas Onea Flag of Austria.svg  Austria

The Men's 100 metre breaststroke SB8 event at the 2016 Paralympic Games took place on 14 September 2016, at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium. No heats were held. The swimmers with the eight fastest times advanced to the final.

The men's 100 m breaststroke swimming events for the 2016 Summer Paralympics took place at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium from 8 to 17 September. A total of eleven events were contested for different classifications.

S8 (classification) para-swimming classification

S8, SB7, SM8 are disability swimming classifications used for categorizing swimmers based on their level of disability. 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.

Final

17:30 14 September 2016: [1]

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svg4 Oscar Salguero Galisteo Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 1:11.11
Silver medal icon.svg3 Federico Morlacchi Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 1:12.68
Bronze medal icon.svg5 Andreas Onea Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 1:14.44
47 Dalton Herendeen Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1:14.71
52 Charles Rozoy Flag of France.svg  France 1:15.13
66 Xueming Zhao Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 1:15.35
71 Haijiao Xu Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 1:27.56

Notes

  1. "Men's 100m Breaststroke - SB8 - Final". Rio 2016 Paralympic Games. Retrieved 7 October 2016.

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