Swimming at the 2012 Summer Paralympics – Women's 100 metre backstroke S9 explained

Event:	Women's 100 metre backstroke S9
Games:	2012 Summer
Venue:	London Aquatics Centre
Dates:	31 August
Competitors:	10
Nations:	7
Gold:	Ellie Cole
Goldnpc:	AUS
Silver:	Stephanie Millward
Silvernpc:	GBR
Bronze:	Elizabeth Stone
Bronzenpc:	USA

The women's 100 metre backstroke S9 event at the 2012 Paralympic Games took place on 31 August, at the London Aquatics Centre in the Olympic Park, London. The event was for athletes included in the S9 classification, which is for competitors with physical impairments.^[1] Ten swimmers took part, representing a total of seven different nations. Australia's Ellie Cole won the gold medal.

Results

Key:

• Qualified for next round

AS = Asian recordOC = Oceania record

Heats

Two heats were held, each with five swimmers; the swimmers with the eight fastest times advanced to the final. The heats took place on 31 August starting at 10:38 BST.^[2]

Heat 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Ellie Cole		1:10.74	Q
2	5	Elizabeth Stone		1:13.28	Q
3	3	Longjuan Dun		1:14.99	Q, AS
4	6	Emily Gray		1:15.59	Q
5	2	Shanntol Ince		1:22.14

Heat 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Stephanie Millward		1:10.81	Q
2	4	Natalie du Toit		1:12.54	Q
3	3	Amy Marren		1:14.21	Q
4	2	Christiane Reppe		1:17.55	Q
5	6	Ping Lin		1:19.32

Final

Australia's Ellie Cole won the gold medal in a time of one minutes, 9.42 seconds, setting a new Oceania record. Great Britain's Stephanie Millward took silver and Elizabeth Stone won bronze. Eleven time Paralympic champion Natalie du Toit finished fourth.^{[3] [4]}

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Ellie Cole		1:09.42	OC
	5	Stephanie Millward		1:11.07
	6	Elizabeth Stone		1:12.28
4	3	Natalie du Toit		1:12.56
5	2	Amy Marren		1:14.31
6	7	Longjuan Dun		1:15.48
7	1	Emily Gray		1:16.65
8	8	Christiane Reppe		1:17.88

Notes and References

1. Web site: Swimming - Classification. The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Limited. 30 August 2012. 30 August 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120830013140/http://www.london2012.com/paralympics/swimming/classification/. dead.
2. Web site: Women's 100m Backstroke - S9. The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Limited. 6 September 2012. 5 September 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120905073738/http://www.london2012.com/paralympics/swimming/event/women-100m-backstroke-s9/phase=sww429900/doc=summary.html. dead.
3. Web site: Women's 100m Backstroke - S9 (Final). The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Limited. 6 September 2012. 2 September 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120902202507/http://www.london2012.com/paralympics/swimming/event/women-100m-backstroke-s9/phase=sww429100/index.html. dead.
4. News: Pearce. Nick. Paralympics 2012: Heather Frederiksen provides further evidence of powers of recovery with 400m freestyle silver. 6 September 2012. The Telegraph. 1 September 2012.