Swimming at the 2012 Summer Paralympics – Women's 50 metre freestyle S8

Women's 50 metre freestyle S8 at the XIV Paralympic Games
Venue	London Aquatics Centre
Dates	2 September
Competitors	17 from 12 nations
Medalists
Mallory Weggemann  United States Maddison Elliott  Australia Jiang Shengnan  China

Swimming at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
Women's events
50 m freestyle			S3		S5
	S6	S7	S8	S9	S10
	S11	S12	S13
100 m freestyle			S3		S5
	S6	S7	S8	S9	S10
	S11	S12	S13
200 m freestyle					S5
				S14
400 m freestyle	S6	S7	S8	S9	S10
		S12
50 m backstroke		S2		S4
100 m backstroke	S6	S7	S8	S9	S10
	S11	S12		S14
100 m breaststroke				SB4	SB5
	SB6	SB7	SB8	SB9
	SB11	SB12	SB13	SB14
50 m butterfly					S5
	S6	S7
100 m butterfly			S8	S9	S10
		S12
200 m medley					SM5
	SM6	SM7	SM8	SM9	SM10
	SM11	SM12	SM13
Freestyle relays	4 × 100 m (34pts)
Medley relays	4 × 100 m (34pts)

The women's 50 metre freestyle S8 event at the 2012 Paralympic Games took place on 2 September, at the London Aquatics Centre.

Three heats were held, one with five swimmers, two with six competitors each. The swimmers with the eight fastest times advanced to the final.^[1]

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	6	Maddison Elliott	Australia	31.57	Q, OC
2	2	5	Jessica Long	United States	31.61	Q, AM
3	3	4	Jiang Shengnan	China	31.81	Q
4	2	4	Olesya Vladykina	Russia	31.93	Q
5	3	5	Mallory Weggemann	United States	32.01	Q
6	1	4	Heather Frederiksen	Great Britain	32.34	Q
7	3	2	Kateryna Istomina	Ukraine	32.39	Q
8	3	6	Morgan Bird	Canada	32.67	Q
9	2	3	Stefanie Weinberg	Germany	32.68
10	3	3	Ksenia Sogomonyan	Russia	32.92
11	1	5	Chen Zhonglan	China	32.96
12	1	6	Amalie Vinther	Denmark	33.10
13	1	3	Amanda Everlove	United States	34.02
14	2	7	Immacolata Cerasuolo	Italy	34.53
15	2	2	Romy Pansters	Netherlands	34.66
16	3	7	Julia Kabus	Germany	35.00
17	1	2	Mariann Vestbostad Martinsen	Norway	35.25

Final

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	2	Mallory Weggemann	United States	31.13	PR
	4	Maddison Elliott	Australia	31.44	OC
	3	Jiang Shengnan	China	31.55
4	6	Olesya Vladykina	Russia	31.59
5	5	Jessica Long	United States	31.71
6	7	Heather Frederiksen	Great Britain	31.93
7	1	Kateryna Istomina	Ukraine	32.05
8	8	Morgan Bird	Canada	32.70

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