Swimming at the 2008 Summer Paralympics – Men's 100 metre backstroke S8

Men's 100m Backstroke S8 at the XIII Paralympic Games
Venue	Beijing National Aquatics Center
Dates	10 September
Competitors	15 from 11 nations
Winning time	1:06.33
Medalists
Konstantin Lisenkov   Russia   Peter Leek   Australia   Sean Fraser   Great Britain

Swimming at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
Men's events
50m freestyle		S2	S3	S4	S5
	S6	S7	S8	S9	S10
	S11	S12	S13
100m freestyle		S2	S3	S4	S5
	S6	S7	S8	S9	S10
	S11	S12	S13
200m freestyle		S2	S3	S4	S5
400m freestyle	S6	S7	S8	S9	S10
	S11	S12	S13
50m backstroke	S1	S2	S3	S4	S5
100m backstroke	S6	S7	S8	S9	S10
	S11	S12	S13
50m breaststroke			SB3
100m breaststroke				SB4	SB5
	SB6	SB7	SB8	SB9
	SB11	SB12	SB13
50m butterfly					S5
	S6	S7
100m butterfly			S8	S9	S10
	S11	S12	S13
150m medley				SM4
200m medley					SM5
	SM6	SM7	SM8	SM9	SM10
		SM12	SM13
Freestyle relays	4 × 50m (20pts) 4 × 100m (34pts)
Medley relays	4 × 50m (20pts) 4 × 100m (34pts)

The men's 100m backstroke S8 event at the 2008 Summer Paralympics took place at the Beijing National Aquatics Center on 10 September. There were two heats; the eight swimmers with the fastest times from those two heats advanced to the final.

Results

Heats

Competed from 09:40.

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Leek, PeterPeter Leek	Australia	1:07.54	Q, PR
2	Fomenkov, AlexeyAlexey Fomenkov	Russia	1:13.06	Q
3	Poltavskyi, IevgenIevgen Poltavskyi	Ukraine	1:13.40	Q
4	Spanja, MihovilMihovil Spanja	Croatia	1:13.62	Q
5	Christensen, DrewDrew Christensen	Canada	1:15.78	Q
6	Nouard, YannYann Nouard	France	1:17.14
7	Soares, GledsonGledson Soares	Brazil	1:19.13

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Lisenkov, KonstantinKonstantin Lisenkov	Russia	1:06.72	Q, WR
2	Fraser, SeanSean Fraser	Great Britain	1:10.77	Q
3	Moffatti, RicardoRicardo Moffatti	Australia	1:13.56	Q
4	Miazga, TomTom Miazga	United States	1:16.01
5	Malone, DavidDavid Malone	Ireland	1:16.80
6	Cochrane, BlakeBlake Cochrane	Australia	1:17.72
7	Garcia Tolson, RudyRudy Garcia Tolson	United States	1:18.02
8 !	Wang Xiaofu	China	99999 !	DQ

Final

Competed at 18:05.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
01 !	Lisenkov, KonstantinKonstantin Lisenkov	Russia	1:06.33	WR
02 !	Leek, PeterPeter Leek	Australia	1:07.28
03 !	Fraser, SeanSean Fraser	Great Britain	1:11.28
4	Fomenkov, AlexeyAlexey Fomenkov	Russia	1:12.33
5	Moffatti, RicardoRicardo Moffatti	Australia	1:12.58
6	Poltavskyi, IevgenIevgen Poltavskyi	Ukraine	1:13.40
7	Spanja, MihovilMihovil Spanja	Croatia	1:14.25
8	Christensen, DrewDrew Christensen	Canada	1:15.49

Q = qualified for final. WR = World Record. PR = Paralympic Record. DQ = Disqualified.

References

• "Heats and Final Results - Men's 100m Backstroke S8". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 20 September 2012. 
• "Schedules & Results - Swimming". The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad. Archived from the original on 30 September 2008. Retrieved 20 September 2012.