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

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Men's 50 metre freestyle S5
at the XV Paralympic Games
Venue Olympic Aquatics Stadium
Dates12 September 2016
Competitors15 from 13 nations
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Daniel Dias Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil
Silver medal icon.svg Thanh Tung Vo Flag of Vietnam.svg  Vietnam
Bronze medal icon.svg Roy Perkins Flag of the United States.svg  United States

The Men's 50 metre freestyle S5 event at the 2016 Paralympic Games took place on 12 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 freestyle 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

11:54 12 September 2016: [1]

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
14 Roy Perkins Flag of the United States.svg  United States 34.22Q
25 Sebastian Rodriguez Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 34.96Q
36 Giovanni Sciaccaluga Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 36.35Q
43 Clodoaldo Silva Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 36.67Q
57 Jonas Larsen Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark 37.82
62 Jamery Siga Flag of Malaysia.svg  Malaysia 38.79
71 Edgar Hugo Pineda Castro Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 39.42

Heat 2

11:57 12 September 2016: [1]

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
14 Daniel Dias Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 33.55Q
25 Thanh Tung Vo Flag of Vietnam.svg  Vietnam 33.87Q
36 Shiwei He Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 35.41Q
43 Andrew Mullen Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 35.75Q
52 Theo Curin Flag of France.svg  France 36.77
67 James Scully Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland 37.38
78 Antonios Tsapatakis Flag of Greece.svg  Greece 37.57
81 Diego Lopez Diaz Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 41.22

Final

20:28 12 September 2016: [2]

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svg4 Daniel Dias Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 32.78
Silver medal icon.svg5 Thanh Tung Vo Flag of Vietnam.svg  Vietnam 33.94
Bronze medal icon.svg3 Roy Perkins Flag of the United States.svg  United States 34.42
46 Sebastian Rodriguez Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 34.62
57 Andrew Mullen Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 34.87
62 Shiwei He Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 35.60
78 Clodoaldo Silva Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 36.27
81 Giovanni Sciaccaluga Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 36.85

Notes

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

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