2019 World Para Swimming Championships – Men's 50 metre freestyle explained

The men's 50m freestyle events at the 2019 World Para Swimming Championships were held in the London Aquatics Centre at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London between 9–15 September.^[1]

Medalists

S3	Diego Lopez Diaz Mexico	Zou Liankang China	Denys Ostapchenko Ukraine
S4	Cameron Leslie New Zealand	Takayuki Suzuki Japan	Roman Zhdanov
S5	Daniel Dias Brazil	Francesco Bocciardo Italy	Muhammad Nur Syaiful Zulkafli Malaysia
S6	Nelson Crispin Corzo Colombia	Antonio Fantin Italy	Laurent Chardard France
S7	Andrii Trusov Ukraine	Sergei Sukharev	Yevhenii Bohodaiko Ukraine
S8	Dimosthenis Michalentzakis Greece	Yang Guanglong China	Ben Popham Australia
S9	Simone Barlaam Italy	Denis Tarasov	Simone Ciulli Italy
S10	Stefano Raimondi Italy	Phelipe Melo Rodrigues Brazil	Rowan Crothers Australia
S11	Wendell Belarmino Pereira Brazil	Kirill Belousov	Hua Dongdong China
S12	Illia Yaremenko Ukraine	Yaroslav Denysenko Ukraine	Raman Salei Azerbaijan
			Dzmitry Salei Belarus
S13	Ihar Boki Belarus	Islam Aslanov Uzbekistan	Muzaffar Tursunkhujaev Uzbekistan

Results

S3

Heats17 swimmers from 14 nations took part.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nation	Result	Notes
1	2			45.02	Q
2	1			46.63	Q
3	2			46.87	Q
4	2			48.20	Q
5	1			49.72	Q
6	2			52.67	Q
7	1			53.29	Q
8	1			53.33	Q
9	2			54.26
10	1			56.87
11	1			56.89
12	1			1:01.66
13	1			1:03.16
14	2			1:04.77
15	2			1:08.43
16	2			1:15.41
17	2			1:26.36

Final^[3]

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Result	Notes
			43.51
			45.40
			46.09
4			47.74
5			47.97
6			53.50
7			53.92
8			56.73

S4

Heats14 swimmers from 13 nations took part.^[4]

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nation	Result	Notes
1	2			37.98	Q
2	1			38.96	Q
3	2			40.03	Q
4	2			41.67	Q
5	1			41.98	Q
6	2			42.29	Q
7	2			42.42	Q
8	1			42.51	Q
9	2			42.78
10	1			43.08
11	1			43.84
12	1			45.56
13	2			46.68
14	1			50.90

Final^[5]

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Result	Notes
			37.14	WR
			37.56
			39.14
4			41.01
5			41.41
6			42.07
7			42.40
8			42.57

S5

Heats16 swimmers from 12 nations took part.^[6]

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nation	Result	Notes
1	2			32.54	Q
2	1			33.20	Q, AS
3	1			33.35	Q
4	2			33.67	Q
5	2			35.45	Q
6	2			35.63	Q
7	1			35.71	Q
8	1			35.85	Q
9	1			37.17
10	2			38.28
11	2		Refugee Para Team	38.32
12	2			38.62
13	1			38.73
14	1			38.77
15	2			39.48
16	1			41.83

Final^[7]

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Result	Notes
			31.83	CR
			32.89
			33.20	=AS
4			33.23
5			34.97
6			35.37
7			35.78
8			36.10

S6

Heats19 swimmers from 16 nations took part.^[8]

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nation	Result	Notes
1	2			29.95	Q
2	1			29.96	Q
3	1			30.47	Q
4	2			30.57	Q
5	2			31.05	Q
6	1			31.36	Q
7	1			31.96	Q
8	2			32.06	Q
9	1			32.37
10	2			32.46
11	1			32.67
12	1			32.87
13	1			32.90
14	2			33.50
15	1			33.64
16	1			33.71
17	2			33.91
18	2			34.79
19	2			51.59

Final^[9]

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Result	Notes
			29.19	CR
			29.92	ER
			30.74
4			31.21
5			31.37
6			31.73
7			32.00
—			DSQ

S8

Heats14 swimmers from 12 nations took part.^[10]

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nation	Result	Notes
1	2			26.59	Q
2	2			27.06	Q
3	1			27.47	Q
4	1			27.73	Q
5	2			27.98	Q
6	1			28.02	Q
7	2			28.21	Q
8	1			28.32	Q
9	2			28.51
10	1			28.60
11	1			28.66
12	2			28.87
13	1			29.01
—	2			DSQ

Final^[11]

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Result	Notes
			26.54
			26.81
			26.94
4			27.31
5			27.66
6			28.06
7			28.10
8			28.21

S10

Heats13 swimmers from 9 nations took part.^[12]

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nation	Result	Notes
1	2			23.70	Q, OC
2	2			23.77	Q
3	1			23.94	Q
4	1			24.04	Q
5	1			25.10	Q
6	2			25.12	Q
7	1			25.25	Q
8	2			25.41	Q
9	1			25.80
10	1			26.38
11	2			26.41
12	2			26.68
13	2			26.94

Final^[13]

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Result	Notes
			23.63
			23.71
			23.72
4			23.74
5			24.62
6			24.93
7			24.99
8			25.08

S11

Heats21 swimmers from 12 nations took part.^[14]

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nation	Result	Notes
1	2			26.13	Q
2	1			26.36	Q
	3				Q
4	1			26.77	Q
5	2			26.78	Q
6	3			27.06	Q
7	3			27.35	Q
8	1			27.52	Q
9	3			27.58
10	2			27.80
11	1			27.95
12	3			28.22
13	1			28.23
14	2			28.25
15	3			28.27
16	2			28.51
17	2			28.74
18	2			28.85
19	3			29.21
20	1			29.56
21	1			29.76

Final^[15]

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Result	Notes
			26.20
			26.25
			26.47
4			26.57
5			26.63
6			26.76
7			27.28
8			27.46

S12

Heats13 swimmers from 8 nations took part.^[16]

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nation	Result	Notes
1	2			23.92	Q
2	2			24.47	Q
3	1			24.50	Q
4	2			24.72	Q
5	1			24.87	Q, OC
6	2			25.09	Q
7	2			25.22	Q
8	1			25.51	Q, AF
9	2			25.63
10	2			25.77
11	1			25.78
12	1			26.68
—	1			DSQ

Final^[17]

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Result	Notes
			23.53
			23.91
			24.32
5			24.78
6			24.96
7			25.30	AF
8			25.34

S13

Heats13 swimmers from 9 nations took part.^[18]

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1			23.50	Q
2	2			23.86	Q
3	2			24.21	Q
4	1			24.59	Q
5	1			24.71	Q
6	2			24.78	Q
7	2			25.52	Q
8	1			25.88	Q
9	1			25.99
10	1			26.01
11	2			26.06
12	2			26.12
13	2			26.25

Final^[19]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
			23.30
			23.77
			24.01
4			24.53
5			24.57
7			24.97
8			25.64

Notes and References

1. Web site: 15 September 2019. Medallists by Event. live. 2020-07-04 . International Paralympic Committee. https://web.archive.org/web/20200704173934/https://www.paralympic.org/static/info/resSWLO19/pdf/SWLO19/SW/SWLO19_SW_C93_SW0000000.pdf .
2. Web site: 14 September 2019. Men's 50m Freestyle S3 Heats Results Summary. live. 2020-07-03 . International Paralympic Committee. https://web.archive.org/web/20200703151541/https://www.paralympic.org/static/info/resSWLO19/pdf/SWLO19/SW/SWLO19_SW_C74A_SWM118900.pdf .
3. Web site: 14 September 2019. Men's 50m Freestyle S3 Final. live. 2020-07-03 . International Paralympic Committee. https://web.archive.org/web/20200703185344/https://www.paralympic.org/static/info/resSWLO19/pdf/SWLO19/SW/SWLO19_SW_C73A1_SWM118101.pdf .
4. Web site: 13 September 2019. Men's 50m Freestyle S4 Heats Summary. live. 2020-07-05 . International Paralympic Committee. https://web.archive.org/web/20200705161141/https://www.paralympic.org/static/info/resSWLO19/pdf/SWLO19/SW/SWLO19_SW_C74A_SWM104900.pdf .
5. Web site: 13 September 2019. Men's 50m Freestyle S4 Final. live. 2020-02-21 . International Paralympic Committee. https://web.archive.org/web/20200221112315/https://www.paralympic.org/static/info/resSWLO19/pdf/SWLO19/SW/SWLO19_SW_C73A1_SWM104101.pdf .
6. Web site: 9 September 2019. Men's 50m Freestyle S5 Heats Summary. live. 2020-07-04 . International Paralympic Committee. https://web.archive.org/web/20200704104952/https://www.paralympic.org/static/info/resSWLO19/pdf/SWLO19/SW/SWLO19_SW_C74A_SWM105900.pdf .
7. Web site: 9 September 2019. Men's 50m Freestyle S5. live. 2020-07-05 . International Paralympic Committee. https://web.archive.org/web/20200705193950/https://www.paralympic.org/static/info/resSWLO19/pdf/SWLO19/SW/SWLO19_SW_C73A1_SWM105101.pdf .
8. Web site: 13 September 2019. Men's 50m Freestyle S6 Heats Summary. live. 2020-07-05 . International Paralympic Committee. https://web.archive.org/web/20200705154830/https://www.paralympic.org/static/info/resSWLO19/pdf/SWLO19/SW/SWLO19_SW_C74A_SWM106900.pdf .
9. Web site: 13 September 2019. Men's 50m Freestyle S6 Final. live. 2020-07-05 . International Paralympic Committee. https://web.archive.org/web/20200705101423/https://www.paralympic.org/static/info/resSWLO19/pdf/SWLO19/SW/SWLO19_SW_C73A1_SWM106101.pdf .
10. Web site: 13 September 2019. Men's 50m Freestyle S8 Heats Summary. live. 2020-07-05 . International Paralympic Committee. https://web.archive.org/web/20200705195640/https://www.paralympic.org/static/info/resSWLO19/pdf/SWLO19/SW/SWLO19_SW_C74A_SWM108900.pdf .
11. Web site: 13 September 2019. Men's 50m Freestyle S8 Final. live. 2020-07-04 . International Paralympic Committee. https://web.archive.org/web/20200704112148/https://www.paralympic.org/static/info/resSWLO19/pdf/SWLO19/SW/SWLO19_SW_C73A1_SWM108101.pdf .
12. Web site: 9 September 2019. Men's 50m Freestyle S10 Heats Summary. live. 2020-07-04 . International Paralympic Committee. https://web.archive.org/web/20200704113746/https://www.paralympic.org/static/info/resSWLO19/pdf/SWLO19/SW/SWLO19_SW_C74A_SWM110900.pdf .
13. Web site: 9 September 2019. Men's 50m Freestyle S10. live. 2020-07-04 . International Paralympic Committee. https://web.archive.org/web/20200704164134/https://www.paralympic.org/static/info/resSWLO19/pdf/SWLO19/SW/SWLO19_SW_C73A1_SWM110101.pdf .
14. Web site: 9 September 2019. Men's 50m Freestyle S11 Heats Summary. live. 2020-07-04 . International Paralympic Committee. https://web.archive.org/web/20200704112211/https://www.paralympic.org/static/info/resSWLO19/pdf/SWLO19/SW/SWLO19_SW_C74A_SWM111900.pdf .
15. Web site: 9 September 2019. Men's 50m Freestyle S11 Final. live. 2020-07-05 . International Paralympic Committee. https://web.archive.org/web/20200705193952/https://www.paralympic.org/static/info/resSWLO19/pdf/SWLO19/SW/SWLO19_SW_C73A1_SWM111101.pdf .
16. Web site: 11 September 2019. Men's 50m Freestyle S12 Heats Summary. live. 2020-07-05 . International Paralympic Committee. https://web.archive.org/web/20200705004815/https://www.paralympic.org/static/info/resSWLO19/pdf/SWLO19/SW/SWLO19_SW_C74A_SWM112900.pdf .
17. Web site: 11 September 2019. Men's 50m Freestyle S12 Final. live. 2020-07-04 . International Paralympic Committee. https://web.archive.org/web/20200704115339/https://www.paralympic.org/static/info/resSWLO19/pdf/SWLO19/SW/SWLO19_SW_C73A1_SWM112101.pdf .
18. Web site: 15 September 2019. Men's 50m Freestyle S13 Heats Summary. live. 2020-07-12 . International Paralympic Committee. https://web.archive.org/web/20200712035635/https://www.paralympic.org/static/info/resSWLO19/pdf/SWLO19/SW/SWLO19_SW_C74A_SWM113900.pdf .
19. Web site: 15 September 2019. Men's 50m Freestyle S13 Final. live. 2020-07-13 . International Paralympic Committee. https://web.archive.org/web/20200713115555/https://www.paralympic.org/static/info/resSWLO19/pdf/SWLO19/SW/SWLO19_SW_C73A1_SWM113101.pdf .