Swimming at the 2016 Summer Paralympics – Men's 100 metre backstroke S8

Men's 100 metre backstroke S8 at the XV Paralympic Games
Venue	Olympic Aquatics Stadium
Dates	13 September 2016
Competitors	9 from 8 nations
Medalists
Cong Zhou  China Oliver Hynd  Great Britain Robert Griswold  United States

Swimming at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
Men'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	S13
200 m freestyle	S2	S3	S4	S5	S14
400 m freestyle	S6	S7	S8	S9	S10
	S11	S13
50 m backstroke	S1	S2	S3	S4	S5
100 m backstroke	S1	S2	S6	S7	S8
	S9	S10	S11	S12	S13
	S14
50 m breaststroke	SB2	SB3
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	S11	S13
150 m medley	SM3	SM4
200 m medley	SM6	SM7	SM8	SM9	SM10
	SM11	SM13	SM14
Freestyle relays	4 × 100 m (34pts)
Medley relays	4 × 100 m (34pts)

The Men's 100 metre backstroke S8 event at the 2016 Paralympic Games took place on 13 September 2016, at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium. Two heats were held. The swimmers with the eight fastest times advanced to the final.

Heats

Heat 1

11:04 13 September 2016: ^[1]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Robert Griswold	United States	1:05.33	PR Q
2	5	Iurii Bozhynskyi	Ukraine	1:05.94	Q
3	3	Bohdan Hrynenko	Ukraine	1:06.73	Q
4	6	Niels Mortensen	Denmark	1:10.41	Q

Heat 2

11:08 13 September 2016: ^[1]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Oliver Hynd	Great Britain	1:06.12	Q
2	6	Pipo Carlomagno	Argentina	1:07.70	Q
3	4	Cong Zhou	China	1:07.72	Q
4	3	Jesse Aungles	Australia	1:10.39	Q
5	2	Ernie Gawilan	Philippines	1:19.75

Final

19:21 13 September 2016: ^[2]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	7	Cong Zhou	China	1:02.90	WR
	3	Oliver Hynd	Great Britain	1:04.46
	4	Robert Griswold	United States	1:04.68
4	5	Iurii Bozhynskyi	Ukraine	1:06.21
5	6	Bohdan Hrynenko	Ukraine	1:06.24
6	2	Pipo Carlomagno	Argentina	1:07.33
7	1	Jesse Aungles	Australia	1:09.47
8	8	Niels Mortensen	Denmark	1:09.62

Notes