Swimming at the 2016 Summer Paralympics – Men's 50 metre backstroke S5

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Men's 50 metre backstroke S5
at the XV Paralympic Games
Venue Olympic Aquatics Stadium
Dates16 September 2016
Competitors10 from 9 nations
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Daniel Dias Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil
Silver medal icon.svg Andrew Mullen Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain
Bronze medal icon.svg Zsolt Vereczkei Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary

The Men's 50 metre backstroke S5 event at the 2016 Paralympic Games took place on 16 September 2016, at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium. Two heats were held. The swimmers with the eight fastest times advanced to the final.

The men's 50 m backstroke 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.

S5, SB4, SM5 are disability swimming classifications used for categorizing swimmers based on their level of disability. The class includes people a moderate level of disability, and includes people with full use of their arms and hands, but limited to no use of their trunk and legs. It also includes people with coordination problems. A variety of disabilities are represented by this class including people with cerebral palsy. 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

11:16 16 September 2016: [1]

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
14 Andrew Mullen Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 37.77Q
25 Beytullah Eroglu Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey 40.57Q
36 Cameron Leslie Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 41.30Q
43 Jonas Larsen Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark 44.18
52 Thanh Trung Nguyen Flag of Vietnam.svg  Vietnam 45.91

Heat 2

11:20 16 September 2016: [1]

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
14 Daniel Dias Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 36.46Q
25 Thanh Tung Vo Flag of Vietnam.svg  Vietnam 39.62Q
33 Zsolt Vereczkei Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 40.23Q
46 Diego Lopez Diaz Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 40.73Q
52 Andrea Massussi Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 43.82Q

Final

19:51 16 September 2016: [2]

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svg4 Daniel Dias Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 35.40
Silver medal icon.svg5 Andrew Mullen Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 37.94
Bronze medal icon.svg6 Zsolt Vereczkei Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 38.92
43 Thanh Tung Vo Flag of Vietnam.svg  Vietnam 40.13
57 Diego Lopez Diaz Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 40.26
62 Beytullah Eroglu Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey 41.31
78 Andrea Massussi Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 42.22
81 Cameron Leslie Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 42.26

Notes

  1. 1 2 "Men's 50m Backstroke - S5 - Final". Rio 2016 Paralympic Games. Retrieved 7 October 2016.
  2. ↑ "Men's 50m Backstroke - S5 - Final". Rio 2016 Paralympic Games. Retrieved 7 October 2016.

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