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Women's 200m Freestyle S5 at the XIII Paralympic Games
Venue	Beijing National Aquatics Center
Dates	9 September
Competitors	15 from 11 nations
Winning time	2:47.47
Medalists
Maria Teresa Perales  Spain Inbal Pezaro  Israel Olena Akopyan  Ukraine

Swimming at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
Women's events
50 m freestyle			S3	S4	S5
	S6	S7	S8	S9	S10
	S11	S12	S13
100 m freestyle				S4	S5
	S6	S7	S8	S9	S10
	S11	S12	S13
200 m freestyle					S5
400 m freestyle	S6	S7	S8	S9	S10
			S13
50 m backstroke		S2	S3		S5
100 m backstroke	S6	S7	S8	S9	S10
			S13
100 m breaststroke				SB4	SB5
	SB6	SB7	SB8	SB9
		SB12
50 m butterfly	S6	S7
100 m butterfly			S8	S9	S10
		S12	S13
150 m medley				SM4
200 m medley	SM6	SM7	SM8	SM9	SM10
		SM12	SM13
v t e

The women's 200m freestyle S5 event at the 2008 Summer Paralympics took place at the Beijing National Aquatics Center on 9 September. There were two heats; the swimmers with the eight fastest times advanced to the final.

Competed from 10:15.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Maria Teresa Perales	Spain	2:58.91	Q
2	Goh Theresa	Singapore	3:18.51	Q
3	Yuka Kawamura	Japan	3:22.29	Q
4	Sugako Takeuchi	Japan	3:40.02
5	Cheryl Angelelli	United States	3:44.56
6	Adri Visser	South Africa	3:52.72
7	Aimee Bruder	United States	3:57.63

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Inbal Pezaro	Israel	2:53.94	Q
2	Olena Akopyan	Ukraine	2:54.20	Q
3	Lisette Teunissen	Netherlands	3:23.57	Q
4	Nely Miranda	Mexico	3:28.20	Q
5	Genevieve Pairoux-Lagardere	France	3:31.97	Q
6	Katalin Engelhardt	Hungary	3:32.37
7	Nadia Porras	Mexico	3:36.09
8	Diana Zambo	Hungary	3:56.25

Competed at 19:13.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Maria Teresa Perales	Spain	2:47.47
	Inbal Pezaro	Israel	2:49.51
	Olena Akopyan	Ukraine	2:52.51
4	Goh Theresa	Singapore	3:14.22
5	Lisette Teunissen	Netherlands	3:22.89
6	Yuka Kawamura	Japan	3:24.31
7	Nely Miranda	Mexico	3:32.08
8	Genevieve Pairoux-Lagardere	France	3:34.02

Q = qualified for final.

• "Heats and Final Results - Women's 200m Freestyle S5". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 21 September 2012.
• "Schedules & Results - Swimming". The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad. Archived from the original on 30 September 2008. Retrieved 21 September 2012.