Swimming at the 2016 Summer Paralympics – Women's 400 metre freestyle S8

Women's 400 metre freestyle S8 at the XV Paralympic Games
Venue	Olympic Aquatics Stadium
Dates	8 September
Competitors	13 from 8 nations
Medalists
Lakeisha Patterson  Australia Jessica Long  United States Stephanie Millward  Great Britain

Swimming at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
Women's events
50 m freestyle	S4	S5	S6	S7	S8
	S9	S10	S11	S12	S13
100 m freestyle	S3	S5	S6	S7	S8
	S9	S10	S11	S13
200 m freestyle	S5	S14
400 m freestyle	S6	S7	S8	S9	S10
	S11	S13
50 m backstroke	S2	S3	S4	S5
100 m backstroke	S2	S6	S7	S8	S9
	S10	S11	S12	S13	S14
50 m breaststroke	SB3
100 m breaststroke	SB4	SB5	SB6	SB7	SB8
	SB9	SB11	SB13	SB14
50 m butterfly	S5	S6	S7
100 m butterfly	S8	S9	S10	S13
150 m medley	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 women's 400 metre freestyle S8 event at the 2016 Paralympic Games took place on 8 September 2016, at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium. Two heats were held, the first with six swimmers and the second with seven swimmers. The swimmers with the eight fastest times advanced to the final, which was won by Australia's Lakeisha Patterson, in a world record time of 4:40.33.

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing World and Paralympic records were as follows.

World record	Jessica Long (USA)	4:40.44	Toronto, Canada	20 March 2015
Paralympic record	Jessica Long (USA)	4:42.28	London, Great Britain	31 August 2012
2016 World leading	Lakeisha Patterson (AUS)	4:45.06	Adelaide, Australia	9 April 2016

Heats

Heat 1

10:01 8 September 2016

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
4	2	Vensula Duskova	Czech Republic	5:20.20	Q
3	3	Brickelle Bro	United States	5:16.02	Q
1	4	Lakeisha Patterson	Australia	4:57.37	Q
2	5	Maddison Elliott	Australia	5:09.85	Q
6	6	Mallory Weggemann	United States	5:36.21
5	7	Cecilia Jeronimo de Araujo	Brazil	5:26.27

Heat 2

10:09 8 September 2016

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
7	1	Ailbhe Kelly	Ireland	5:41.36
5	2	Sabrina Duchesne	Canada	5:24.51
3	3	Amalie Vinther	Denmark	5:13.99	Q
1	4	Jessica Long	United States	4:48.26	Q
2	5	Stephanie Millward	Great Britain	4:59.95	Q
6	6	Morgan Bird	Canada	5:25.08
4	7	Abi Tripp	Canada	5:21.09	Q

Final

17:54 8 September 2016

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Lakeisha Patterson	Australia	4:40.33	WR PR
	4	Jessica Long	United States	4:47.82
	3	Stephanie Millward	Great Britain	4:49.49
4	6	Maddison Elliott	Australia	5:02.13
5	2	Amalie Vinther	Denmark	5:12.01
6	8	Abi Tripp	Canada	5:16.25
7	7	Brickelle Bro	United States	5:16.38
8	1	Vendula Duskova	Canada	5:20.31

References

• "Women's 400m Freestyle - S8". Rio 2016 Paralympic Games. Retrieved 8 September 2016.