Swimming at the 2020 Summer Paralympics – Men's 100 metre freestyle S8

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Men's 100 metre freestyle S8
at the XVI Paralympic Games
VenueTokyo Aquatics Centre
Dates25 August 2021
Competitors18
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Ben Popham  Australia
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Andrei Nikolaev  
RPC
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Dimosthenis Michalentzakis  Greece

The Men's 100 metre freestyle S8 event at the 2020 Paralympic Games took place on 25 August 2021, at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre.

Heats

The swimmers with the top 8 times, regardless of heat, advanced to the final.[1]

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 3 4 Ben Popham  Australia 58.95 Q
2 2 4 Dimosthenis Michalentzakis  Greece 59.49 Q
3 1 6 Denys Dubrov  Ukraine 59.70 Q
4 1 4 Andrei Nikolaev  
RPC
59.80 Q
5 2 5 Xu Haijiao  China 1:00.05 Q
6 1 5 Alberta Amodeo  Italy 1:00.08 Q
7 3 5 Yang Guanglong  China 1:00.40 Q
8 3 2 Luis Armando Andrade Guillen  Mexico 1:01.21 Q
9 1 2
Michal Golus
 Poland 1:01.26
10 2 7 Matthew Torres  United States 1:01.35
11 1 3 Federico Bicelli  Italy 1:01.37
12 3 7 Liu Fengqi  China 1:01.54
13 3 6 Kataro Ogiwara  Japan 1:01.59
14 2 3
Inigo Llopis Sanz
 Spain 1:01.95
15 3 3 Gabriel Cristiano Silva de Souza  Brazil 1:02.30
16 2 2 Kota Kubota  Japan 1:02.97
17 2 6 Caio Amorim Muniz de Oliveira  Brazil 1:03.04
18 1 7 Andrei Gladkov  
RPC
1:07.33

Final

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
100m freestyle final
1st place, gold medalist(s) 4 Ben Popham  Australia 57.37
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 6 Andrei Nikolaev  
RPC
57.69
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 5 Dimosthenis Michalentzakis  Greece 58.73
4 2 Xu Haijiao  China 58.75
5 3 Denys Dubrov  Ukraine 59.02
6 1 Yang Guanglong  China 59.42
7 7 Alberto Amodeo  Italy 59.93
8 8 Luis Armando Andrade Guillen  Mexico 1:01.23

References

  1. ^ "Heats results" (PDF). Tokyo 2020 Paralympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-08-25. Retrieved 2021-08-25.