Swimming at the 2012 Summer Paralympics – Men's 50 metre freestyle S7

Men's 50m Freestyle S7
at the XIV Paralympic Games
VenueLondon Aquatics Centre
Dates4 September
Competitors14 from 10 nations
Winning time27.84
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Lantz Lamback  United States
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Pan Shiyun  China
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Matthew Walker  Great Britain

The men's 50m freestyle S7 event at the 2012 Summer Paralympics took place at the London Aquatics Centre on 4 September. There were two heats; the swimmers with the eight fastest times advanced to the final.

Results

Heats

The competitors competed from 11:35.

Heat 1

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 4 Lantz Lamback  United States 28.29 Q, AM
2 6 Yevheniy Bohodayko  Ukraine 28.88 Q
3 5 Pan Shiyun  China 28.97 Q, AS
4 3 Jonathan Fox  Great Britain 29.38 Q
5 2 Tobias Pollap  Germany 30.70 Q
6 7 Ievgen Poltavskyi  Ukraine 32.07
7 1 Antonio Sanchez Francisco  Andorra 1:00.84

Heat 2

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 4 Matthew Walker  Great Britain 28.59 Q
2 5 Matthew Levy  Australia 28.63 Q, OC
3 6 Josef Craig  Great Britain 29.48 Q
4 3 Oleksandr Komarov  Ukraine 30.79
5 2 Nikolaos Tsotras  Greece 31.09
6 7 Andrey Gladkov  Russia 31.84
7 1 Enrique Perez Davila  Mexico 32.41

Final

The final was held at 20:03.

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) 4 Lantz Lamback  United States 27.84 PR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 2 Pan Shiyun  China 28.09 AS
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 5 Matthew Walker  Great Britain 28.47
4 3 Matthew Levy  Australia 28.58 OC
5 6 Yevheniy Bohodayko  Ukraine 28.69
6 7 Jonathan Fox  Great Britain 28.87
7 1 Josef Craig  Great Britain 29.39
8 8 Tobias Pollap  Germany 29.57

Q = qualified for final. PR = Paralympic Record. AM = Americas Record. AS = Asian Record. OC = Oceania Record.

References

Official London 2012 Paralympics Results: Heats Archived 2012-09-13 at the Wayback Machine
Official London 2012 Paralympics Results: Final Archived 2012-09-13 at the Wayback Machine