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

Men's 100 metre freestyle S8
at the XVI Paralympic Games

Venue

Dates

25 August 2021

Competitors

Medalists

		Ben Popham	Australia
		Andrei Nikolaev	RPC
		Dimosthenis Michalentzakis	Greece

Swimming at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
Men's events
50 m freestyle	S3	S4	S5	S7	S9
	S10	S11	S13
100 m freestyle	S4	S5	S6	S8	S10
	S12
200 m freestyle	S2	S3	S4	S5	S14
400 m freestyle	S6	S7	S8	S9	S10
	S11	S13
50 m backstroke	S1	S2	S3	S4	S5
100 m backstroke	S1	S2	S6	S7	S8
	S9	S10	S11	S12	S13
	S14
50 m breaststroke	SB2	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	S11	S12
	S13	S14
150 m medley	SM3	SM4
200 m medley	SM6	SM7	SM8	SM9	SM10
	SM11	SM13	SM14
Freestyle relays	4 × 100 m (34pts)
Medley relays	4 × 100 m (34pts)
v t e

Heats

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

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

100m freestyle final
Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
	4	Ben Popham	Australia	57.37
	6	Andrei Nikolaev	RPC	57.69
	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

"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.