Swimming at the 2020 Summer Paralympics – Men's 50 metre freestyle S5

Men's 50 metre freestyle S5 at the XVI Paralympic Games
Venue	Tokyo Aquatics Centre
Dates	1 September 2021
Competitors	16 from 12 nations
Medalists
Zheng Tao  China Yuan Weiyi  China Wang Lichao  China

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 freestyle S5 event at the 2020 Paralympic Games took place on 1 September 2021, at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre.

Heats[]

The swimmers with the top eight times, regardless of heat, advanced to the final.^[1][2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	4	Yuan Weiyi	China	31.30	Q, PR, AS
2	1	4	Zheng Tao	China	31.81	Q
3	2	5	Daniel Dias	Brazil	32.65	Q
4	1	5	Wang Lichao	China	33.02	Q
5	1	3		Malaysia	33.46	Q
6	2	3	Francesco Bocciardo	Italy	33.71	Q
7	2	6		Ukraine	33.74	Q
8	2	7	Sebastián Rodríguez Veloso	Spain	35.27	Q
9	1	7		Kazakhstan	35.49
10	1	2	Antoni Ponce Bertran	Spain	35.61
11	1	6		RPC	35.87
12	2	2	Võ Thanh Tùng	Vietnam	35.91
13	1	1	Andrew Mullen	Great Britain	36.01
14	2	8		Spain	36.79
15	1	8		Turkey	36.85
16	2	1		Japan	37.45

Final[]

50m freestyle final^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Zheng Tao	China	30.31	PR, AS
	4	Yuan Weiyi	China	31.11
	6	Wang Lichao	China	31.35
4	3	Daniel Dias	Brazil	32.12
5	2		Malaysia	32.82
6	1		Ukraine	33.11
7	7	Francesco Bocciardo	Italy	33.22
8	8	Sebastián Rodríguez Veloso	Spain	35.51

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