Men's 50m Backstroke S2 at the XII Paralympic Games
Paralympic Swimming
Venue	Olympic Aquatic Centre
Dates	27 September 2004
Competitors	12 from 10 nations
Winning time	1:05.51
Medalists
James Anderson  Great Britain Miroslaw Piesak  Poland Georgios Kapellakis  Greece
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Swimming at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
Men's events
50 m freestyle	S1	S2	S3	S4	S5
	S6	S7	S8	S9	S10
	S11	S12	S13
100 m freestyle	S1	S2	S3	S4	S5
	S6	S7	S8	S9	S10
	S11	S12	S13
200 m freestyle		S2	S3	S4	S5
400 m freestyle	S6	S7	S8	S9	S10
	S11	S12	S13
50 m backstroke	S1	S2	S3	S4	S5
100 m backstroke	S6	S7	S8	S9	S10
	S11	S12	S13
50 m breaststroke		SB2	SB3
100 m breaststroke				SB4	SB5
	SB6	SB7	SB8	SB9
	SB11	SB12	SB13
50 m butterfly				S4	S5
	S6	S7
100 m butterfly			S8	S9	S10
	S11	S12	S13
150 m medley			SM3	SM4
200 m medley					SM5
	SM6	SM7	SM8	SM9	SM10
	SM11	SM12	SM13
Freestyle relays	4 × 50 m (20pts)
	4 × 100 m (34pts)
	4 × 100 m (49pts)
Medley relays	4 × 50 m (20pts)
	4 × 100 m (34pts)
	4 × 100 m (49pts)
v t e

The Men's 50 metre backstroke S2 swimming event at the 2004 Summer Paralympics was competed on 27 September.^[1] It was won by James Anderson, representing  Great Britain.^[2]

Heat 1

27 Sept. 2004, morning session

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	Curtis Lovejoy (USA)	1:04.43	WR
2	Pekka Kantola (FIN)	1:15.45
3	Denys Zhumela (UKR)	1:16.01
4	Vojtech Franek (CZE)	1:17.67
5	Antonios Kymoundris (GRE)	1:21.99
6	Marcos Omar Suarez (COL)	1:30.09

Heat 2

27 Sept. 2004, morning session

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	James Anderson (GBR)	1:10.01
2	Miroslaw Piesak (POL)	1:12.78
3	Georgios Kapellakis (GRE)	1:17.98
4	Adriano Pereira (BRA)	1:20.14
5	Christian Goldbach (GER)	1:21.26
6	Nikolaos Kaplanis (GRE)	1:24.43

27 Sept. 2004, evening session

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
	James Anderson (GBR)	1:05.51
	Miroslaw Piesak (POL)	1:09.42
	Georgios Kapellakis (GRE)	1:11.46
4	Pekka Kantola (FIN)	1:14.42
5	Curtis Lovejoy (USA)	1:16.68
6	Vojtech Franek (CZE)	1:17.31
7	Denys Zhumela (UKR)	1:17.88
8	Adriano Pereira (BRA)	1:19.75