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

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Women's 50 metre freestyle S6
at the XV Paralympic Games
Venue Olympic Aquatics Stadium
Dates10 September
Competitors20 from 16 nations
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Mereshko Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine
Silver medal icon.svg Viktoriia Savtsova Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine
Bronze medal icon.svg Tiffany Thomas Kane Flag of Australia.svg  Australia

The women's 50 metre freestyle S6 event at the 2016 Paralympic Games took place on 10 September 2016, at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium. Three heats were held. The swimmers with the eight fastest times advanced to the final.

The women's 50 metre freestyle swimming events for the 2016 Summer Paralympics take place at the Rio Olympic Stadium from 8 to 15 September. A total of ten events are contested for ten 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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Heat 1

9:54 10 September 2016: [1]

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
14 Tiffany Thomas Kane Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 35.27Q
23 Nicole Turner Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland 36.70Q
35 Emanuela Romano Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 37.04Q
46 Sophia Elizabeth Herzog Flag of the United States.svg  United States 38.60
52 Ayaallah Tewfick Flag of Egypt.svg  Egypt 38.71
67 Valeria Monserrat Lopez Gomez Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 39.04

Heat 2

9:57 10 September 2016: [1]

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
14 Yelyzaveta Mereshko Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 33.53QPR
23 Eleanor Simmonds Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 36.44Q
36 Doramitzi Gonzalez Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 37.89
47 Vianney Trejo Delgadillo Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 38.41
55 Oksana Khrul Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 38.48
62 Kate Wilson Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 39.81
71 Maga Hovakimyan Flag of Armenia.svg  Armenia 46.82

Heat 3

10:00 10 September 2016: [1]

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
14 Viktoriia Savtsova Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 34.68Q
25 Ellie Robinson Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 34.99Q
33 Lingling Song Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 35.41Q
47 Thi Bich Nhu Trinh Flag of Vietnam.svg  Vietnam 37.27
56 Sabine Weber-Treiber Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 37.89
62 Özlem Kaya Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey 39.20
71 Thelma Bjorg Bjornsdottir Flag of Iceland.svg  Iceland 42.14

Swim off

11:39 10 September 2016: [1]

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
14 Doramitzi Gonzalez Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 37.98
25 Sabine Weber-Treiber Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 38.12

Final

17:50 10 September 2016: [2]

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svg4 Yelyzaveta Mereshko Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 33.43PR
Silver medal icon.svg5 Viktoriia Savtsova Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 33.68
Bronze medal icon.svg6 Tiffany Thomas Kane Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 34.41
43 Ellie Robinson Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 35.24
52 Lingling Song Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 35.25
67 Eleanor Simmonds Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 35.54
71 Nicole Turner Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland 36.31
88 Emanuela Romano Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 36.62

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Women's 50m Freestyle - S6 - Final". Rio 2016 Paralympic Games. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
  2. "Women's 50m Freestyle - S6 - Final". Rio 2016 Paralympic Games. Retrieved 30 September 2016.

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