Swimming at the 2020 Summer Paralympics – Men's 50 metre butterfly

The Men's 50 metre butterfly swimming events for the 2020 Summer Paralympics took place at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre from August 27 to September 3, 2021. A total of three events were contested over this distance.[1]

Schedule

H Heats ½ Semifinals F Final
Date[2] Fri 27 Sat 28 Sun 29 Mon 30 Tue 31 Wed 1 Thu 2 Fri 3
Event M E M E M E M E M E M E M E M E
S5 50m H F
S6 50m H F
S7 50m H F

Medal summary

The following is a summary of the medals awarded across all 50 metre butterfly events.

Classification Gold Silver Bronze
S5
details
Zheng Tao
 China
30.62 WR Wang Lichao
 China
31.81 Yuan Weiyi
 China
32.00
S6
details
Wang Jingang
 China
30.81 Jia Hongguang
 China
31.54 Nelson Crispín
 Colombia
31.77
S7
details
Evan Austin
 United States
28.98 Andrii Trusov
 Ukraine
29.03 Carlos Serrano Zárate
 Colombia
29.34

Results

The following were the results of the finals only of each of the Men's 50 metre butterfly events in each of the classifications. Further details of each event, including where appropriate heats and semi finals results, are available on that event's dedicated page.

S5

The S5 category is for swimmers who have hemiplegia, paraplegia or short stature.

The final in this classification took place on 27 August 2021:

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) 5 Zheng Tao  China 30.62 WR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 7 Wang Lichao  China 31.81
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 4 Yuan Weiyi  China 32.00
4 3 Yaroslav Semenenko  Ukraine 35.13
5 6 Siyazbek Daliyev  Kazakhstan 35.27
6 1 Daniel Dias  Brazil 36.56
7 8 Kaede Hinata  Japan 37.24
8 2 Abbas Karimi  Refugee Paralympic Team 38.16

S6

The S6 category is for swimmers who have short stature, arm amputations, or some form of coordination problem on one side of their body.

The final in this classification took place on 30 August 2021:

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) 4 Wang Jingang  China 30.81
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 3 Jia Hongguang  China 31.54
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 5 Nelson Crispín  Colombia 31.77
4 2 Laurent Chardard  France 32.29
5 6 David Sanchez Sierra  Spain 32.49
6 1 Yerzhan Salimgereyev  Kazakhstan 32.53
7 7 Gabriel Melone De Oliveira  Brazil 33.01
8 8 Alejandro Yared Rojas Cabrera  Spain 33.60

S7

The S7 category is for swimmers who have one leg and one arm amputation on opposite side or paralysis on one side of their body. These swimmers have full control of their arms and trunk but variable function in their legs.

The final in this classification took place on 3 September 2021:

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) 4 Evan Austin  United States 28.98 AM
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 3 Andrii Trusov  Ukraine 29.03 ER
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 6 Carlos Serrano Zárate  Colombia 29.34
4 5 Wei Soong Toh  Singapore 29.50
5 2 Yevhenii Bohodaiko  Ukraine 29.70
6 8 Egor Efrosinin  RPC 30.46
7 1 Inaki Basiloff  Argentina 30.47
- 7 Christian Sadie  South Africa DSQ

References

  1. ^ "Swimming". Archived from the original on 31 August 2021. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
  2. ^ "Swimming Competition Schedule". Archived from the original on 20 August 2021. Retrieved 15 August 2021.