Swimming at the 2016 Summer Paralympics – Women's 100 metre backstroke S14 explained

Event:Women's 100 metre backstroke S14
Games:2016 Summer
Venue:Olympic Aquatics Stadium
Dates:8 September
Competitors:9
Nations:8
Gold:Bethany Firth
Goldnpc:GBR
Silver:Marlou van der Kulk
Silvernpc:NED
Bronze:Jessica-Jane Applegate
Bronzenpc:GBR

The women's 100 metre backstroke S14 event at the 2016 Paralympic Games took place on 8 September, at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium. Two heats were held, the first with four swimmer and the second with five swimmers. The swimmers with the eight fastest times advanced to the final.

Records

, the existing World and Paralympic records were as follows.

World record1:04.70Glasgow, Great Britain28 March 2015
Paralympic record1:08.93London, Great Britain31 August 2012
2016 World leading1:04.73Sheffield, Great Britain27 July 2016

Heats

Heat 1

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
1 4 1:07.23 Q
2 3 1:15.54 Q
3 5 1:16.26 Q
4 6 1:19.05

Heat 2

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
1 4 1:04.53 Q, WR
2 5 1:08.41 Q
3 6 1:14.14 Q
4 3 1:16.80 Q
5 2 1:18.26 Q

Final

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
4 1:04.05 WR
5 1:06.33
3 1:08.67
4 6 1:13.95
5 2 1:15.40
6 7 1:16.02
7 1 1:16.76
8 8 1:17.64

References