Women's 100 metre backstroke S8 at the XVI Paralympic Games | |||||||||||||
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Venue | Tokyo Aquatics Centre | ||||||||||||
Dates | 27 August 2021 | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 7 from 6 nations | ||||||||||||
Medalists | |||||||||||||
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Women's events | |||||
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50 m freestyle | S4 | S6 | S8 | S10 | S11 |
S13 | |||||
100 m freestyle | S3 | S5 | S7 | S9 | S10 |
S11 | S12 | ||||
200 m freestyle | S5 | S14 | |||
400 m freestyle | S6 | S7 | S8 | S9 | S10 |
S11 | S13 | ||||
50 m backstroke | S2 | S3 | S4 | S5 | |
100 m backstroke | S2 | S6 | S7 | S8 | S9 |
S10 | S11 | S12 | S13 | S14 | |
50 m breaststroke | SB3 | ||||
100 m breaststroke | SB4 | SB5 | SB6 | SB7 | SB8 |
SB9 | SB11 | SB12 | SB13 | SB14 | |
50 m butterfly | S5 | S6 | S7 | ||
100 m butterfly | S8 | S9 | S10 | S13 | S14 |
150 m medley | SM4 | ||||
200 m medley | SM5 | SM6 | SM7 | SM8 | SM9 |
SM10 | SM11 | SM13 | SM14 | ||
Freestyle relays | 4 × 100 m (34pts) | ||||
Medley relays | 4 × 100 m (34pts) | ||||
The Women's 100 metre backstroke S8 event at the 2020 Paralympic Games took place on 27 August 2021, at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre. [1]
Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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5 | Tupou Neiufi | New Zealand | 1:16.84 | ||
6 | Kateryna Denysenko | Ukraine | 1:18.31 | ||
3 | Jessica Long | United States | 1:18.55 | ||
4 | 2 | Xenia Francesca Palazzo | Italy | 1:20.90 | |
5 | 1 | Mira Jeanne Maack | Germany | 1:22.77 | |
6 | 7 | Mariia Pavlova | RPC | 1:23.24 | |
4 | Viktoriia Ishchiulova | RPC | DNS |
Jessica Tatiana Long is a Russian-American Paralympic swimmer from Baltimore, Maryland, who competes in the S8, SB7 and SM8 category events. She has held many world records and competed at five Paralympic Games, winning 29 medals. She has also won over 50 world championship medals.
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Yip Pin Xiu PJG is a Singaporean backstroke swimmer. She is a five-time Paralympic gold medallist and a one-time IPC gold medallist, with two world records in the 50 m backstroke S2 and the 100 m backstroke S2. Yip is Singapore's most decorated Paralympian.
Ellie Victoria Cole, is an Australian Paralympic swimmer and wheelchair basketball player. After having her leg amputated due to cancer, she trained in swimming as part of her rehabilitation program and progressed more rapidly than instructors had predicted. She began competitive swimming in 2003 and first competed internationally at the 2006 IPC Swimming World Championships, where she won a silver medal. Since then, she has won medals in the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships, the Commonwealth Games, the Paralympic Games, the IPC Swimming World Championships, and various national championships. Following the 2012 London Paralympics, where she won four gold and two bronze medals, Cole underwent two shoulder reconstructions and made a successful return to swimming at the 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships, winning five medals, including three golds. She subsequently represented Australia at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Paralympics, the 2018 Commonwealth Games, and the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics. In claiming her seventeenth Paralympic medal in Tokyo, Cole became Australia's most decorated female Paralympian with six gold, five silver and six bronze medals from four Paralympic Games.
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Tupou Neiufi is a New Zealand para-swimmer who represented her country at the 2016 Summer Paralympics and the 2018 Commonwealth Games. She won a silver medal at the 2019 World Para Swimming Championships and gold at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo.
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The Women's 50 metre backstroke S3 event at the 2020 Paralympic Games took place on 29 August 2021, at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre.
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The Women's 50 metre backstroke S5 event at the 2020 Paralympic Games took place on 30 August 2021, at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre.
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