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 edit

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 edit

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 Crispin
  Colombia
31.77
S7
details
Evan Austin
  United States
28.98 Andrii Trusov
  Ukraine
29.03 Carlos Serrano Zárate
  Colombia
29.34

Results edit

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 edit

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
  5 Zheng Tao   China 30.62 WR
  7 Wang Lichao   China 31.81
  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 edit

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
  4 Wang Jingang   China 30.81
  3 Jia Hongguang   China 31.54
  5 Nelson Crispin Corzo   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 edit

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
  4 Evan Austin   United States 28.98 AM
  3 Andrii Trusov   Ukraine 29.03 ER
  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 edit

  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.