Swimming at the 2020 Summer Paralympics – Men's 50 metre backstroke S3

Men's 50 metre backstroke S3 at the XVI Paralympic Games
Venue	Tokyo Aquatics Centre
Dates	29 August 2021
Competitors	12 from 9 nations
Medalists
Zou Liankang  China Denys Ostapchenko  Ukraine Diego López Díaz  Mexico

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 50 metre backstroke S3 event at the 2020 Paralympic Games took place on 29 August 2021, at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre.^[1][2]

Heats[]

The swimmers with the top eight times, regardless of heat, advanced to the final.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	4	Diego López Díaz	Mexico	45.67	Q
2	1	5	Denys Ostapchenko	Ukraine	46.18	Q
3	2	5	Zou Liankang	China	47.86	Q
4	2	3	Vincenzo Boni	Italy	48.04	Q
5	1	4	Jesús Hernández Hernández	Mexico	49.19	Q
6	2	6		Germany	49.78	Q
7	1	3		Ukraine	49.88	Q
8	1	6	Miguel Ángel Martínez Tajuelo	Spain	54.88	Q
9	1	2		RPC	55.52
10	2	2		Thailand	57.81
11	2	7	Grant Patterson	Australia	58.15	OC
12	1	7		Italy	1:03.64

Final[]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	3	Zou Liankang	China	45.25
	5	Denys Ostapchenko	Ukraine	45.57
	4	Diego López Díaz	Mexico	45.66
4	2	Jesús Hernández Hernández	Mexico	45.75
5	6	Vincenzo Boni	Italy	47.88
6	1		Ukraine	49.65
7	7		Germany	49.99
8	8	Miguel Ángel Martínez Tajuelo	Spain	54.57

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