Swimming at the 2020 Summer Paralympics – Men's 100 metre backstroke S8

Swimming at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
Men's events
50 m freestyle	S3	S4	S5	S7	S9
	S10	S11	S13
100 m freestyle	S4	S5	S6	S8	S10
	S12
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	S12
	S13	S14
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 100 metre backstroke S8 event at the 2020 Paralympic Games took place on 27 August 2021, at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre.

Records[]

World Record	Zhou Cong (CHN)	1:08.92	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	13 September 2016
Paralympic Record	Zhou Cong (CHN)	1:09.86	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	13 September 2016

Heats[]

The swimmers with the top 8 times, regardless of heat, advanced to the final.

Heat 1[]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Iñigo Llopis Sanz	Spain	1:07.90	Q
2	5	Liu Fengqi	China	1:08.57	Q
3	2		United States	1:09.30	Q
4	3		RPC	1:09.77	Q
5	6	Matthew Torres	United States	1:14.03

Heat 2[]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Robert Griswold	United States	1:05.49	Q
2	5	Jesse Aungles	Australia	1:08.28	Q
3	3		Latvia	1:09.88	Q
3	6		Japan	1:09.88	Q
5	2		Spain	1:12.15
6	7		Portugal	1:15.63

Final[]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Robert Griswold	United States	1:02.55	WR
	5	Iñigo Llopis Sanz	Spain	1:06.82
	6	Liu Fengqi	China	1:07.09
4	3	Jesse Aungles	Australia	1:07.94
5	8		Japan	1:09.09
6	7		RPC	1:09.26
7	2		United States	1:09.45
8	1		Latvia	1:10.44

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