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Swimming at the 2016 Summer Paralympics – Women's 50 metre freestyle S8

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Women's 50 metre freestyle S8
at the XV Paralympic Games
VenueOlympic Aquatics Stadium
Dates16 September
Competitors15 from 8 nations
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Maddison Elliott  Australia
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Lakeisha Patterson  Australia
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Jiang Shengnan  China

The women's 50 metre freestyle S8 event at the 2016 Paralympic Games took place on 16 September 2016, at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium. Two heats were held, with seven and eight swimmers respectively. The swimmers with the eight fastest times advanced to the final, which was won by Australia's Maddison Elliott.

Records

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Prior to the competition, the existing World and Paralympic records were as follows:

World record  Maddison Elliott (AUS) 30.13 Brisbane, Australia 1 April 2014
Paralympic record  Mallory Weggemann (USA) 31.13 London, Great Britain 2 September 2012

Source: "Rio Results Book - Event No. 127" (PDF). Rio 2016. Retrieved 1 October 2016.

Heats

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Heat 1

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10:09 16 September 2016

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 5 Stephanie Millward  Great Britain 30.82 Q PR
2 2 Jiang Shengnan  China 30.89 Q
3 4 Lakeisha Patterson  Australia 30.97 Q
4 3 Kateryna Istomina  Ukraine 32.06 Q
5 7 Abi Tripp  Canada 32.39
6 1 Amalie Vinther  Denmark 33.89
7 8 Sabrina Duchesne  Canada 34.87

Heat 2

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10:12 16 September 2016

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 4 Maddison Elliott  Australia 30.83 Q
2 5 Stephanie Slater  Great Britain 31.17 Q
3 6 Morgan Bird  Canada 31.49 Q
4 7 Jin Xiaoqin  Canada 31.70 Q
5 3 Jessica Long  United States 32.22
6 2 Mallory Weggemann  United States 33.09
7 1 Bro Brickelle  United States 34.93
8 8 Anezka Floriankova  Czech Republic 36.05

Final

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18:03 11 September 2016

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) 5 Maddison Elliott  Australia 29.73 WR PR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 6 Lakeisha Patterson  Australia 30.13
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 3 Jiang Shengnan  China 30.53
4 2 Stephanie Slater  Great Britain 30.54
5 4 Stephanie Millward  Great Britain 30.73
6 8 Kateryna Istomina  Ukraine 31.05
7 7 Morgan Bird  Canada 31.29
8 1 Jin Xiaoqin  China 32.09

References

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