Swimming at the 2016 Summer Paralympics – Men's 50 metre freestyle S5

Men's 50 metre freestyle S5 at the XV Paralympic Games
Venue	Olympic Aquatics Stadium
Dates	12 September 2016
Competitors	15 from 13 nations
Medalists
Daniel Dias  Brazil  Vietnam Roy Perkins  United States

Swimming at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
Men's events
50 m freestyle	S3	S4	S5	S6	S7
	S8	S9	S10	S11	S12
	S13
100 m freestyle	S4	S5	S6	S7	S8
	S9	S10	S11	S13
200 m freestyle	S2	S3	S4	S5	S14
400 m freestyle	S6	S7	S8	S9	S10
	S11	S13
50 m backstroke	S1	S2	S3	S4	S5
100 m backstroke	S1	S2	S6	S7	S8
	S9	S10	S11	S12	S13
	S14
50 m breaststroke	SB2	SB3
100 m breaststroke	SB4	SB5	SB6	SB7	SB8
	SB9	SB11	SB12	SB13	SB14
50 m butterfly	S5	S6	S7
100 m butterfly	S8	S9	S10	S11	S13
150 m medley	SM3	SM4
200 m medley	SM6	SM7	SM8	SM9	SM10
	SM11	SM13	SM14
Freestyle relays	4 × 100 m (34pts)
Medley relays	4 × 100 m (34pts)
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The Men's 50 metre freestyle S5 event at the 2016 Paralympic Games took place on 12 September 2016, at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium. Two heats were held. The swimmers with the eight fastest times advanced to the final.

Heats[]

Heat 1[]

11:54 12 September 2016:^[1]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Roy Perkins	United States	34.22	Q
2	5	Sebastian Rodriguez	Spain	34.96	Q
3	6		Italy	36.35	Q
4	3	Clodoaldo Silva	Brazil	36.67	Q
5	7	Jonas Larsen	Denmark	37.82
6	2		Malaysia	38.79
7	1		Mexico	39.42

Heat 2[]

11:57 12 September 2016:^[1]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Daniel Dias	Brazil	33.55	Q
2	5		Vietnam	33.87	Q
3	6		China	35.41	Q
4	3	Andrew Mullen	Great Britain	35.75	Q
5	2		France	36.77
6	7		Ireland	37.38
7	8	Antonios Tsapatakis	Greece	37.57
8	1	Diego Lopez Diaz	Mexico	41.22

Final[]

20:28 12 September 2016:^[2]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Daniel Dias	Brazil	32.78
	5		Vietnam	33.94
	3	Roy Perkins	United States	34.42
4	6	Sebastian Rodriguez	Spain	34.62
5	7	Andrew Mullen	Great Britain	34.87
6	2		China	35.60
7	8	Clodoaldo Silva	Brazil	36.27
8	1		Italy	36.85

Notes[]