Dates 16 September Date 16 September 2016 | Competitors 15 from 8 nations Venue Olympic Aquatics Stadium | |
Location Olympic Aquatics Stadium, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | ||
The women's 50 metre freestyle S8 event at the 2016 Paralympic Games took place on 16 September 2016, at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium. Two heats were held, with seven and eight swimmers respectively. The swimmers with the eight fastest times advanced to the final, which was won by Australia's Maddison Elliott.
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Records
Prior to the competition, the existing World and Paralympic records were as follows:
Source: "Rio Results Book - Event No. 127" (PDF). Rio 2016. Retrieved 1 October 2016.
Heat 1
10:09 16 September 2016
Heat 2
10:12 16 September 2016
Final
18:03 11 September 2016
References
Swimming at the 2016 Summer Paralympics – Women's 50 metre freestyle S8 Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA