Swimming at the 2008 Summer Paralympics – Men's 100 metre freestyle S9

Men's 100m Freestyle S9 at the XIII Paralympic Games
Venue	Beijing National Aquatics Center
Dates	8 September
Competitors	20 from 11 nations
Winning time	55.30
Medalists
Matthew Cowdrey   Australia   Guo Zhi   China   Tamas Sors   Hungary

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 freestyle S9 event at the 2008 Summer Paralympics took place at the Beijing National Aquatics Center on 8 September. There were three heats; the swimmers with the eight fastest times advanced to the final.

Results

Heats

Competed from 10:58.

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Tamas Sors	Hungary	57.59	Q, PR
2	Xiong Xiaoming	China	58.94
3	Jose Antonio Mari	Spain	59.07
4	Simon Miller	Great Britain	59.08
5	Michael Prout	United States	59.18
6	Taras Yastremskyy	Ukraine	59.37

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Guo Zhi	China	56.24	Q, PR
2	Takuro Yamada	Japan	57.82	Q
3	Sami El Gueddari	France	58.72	Q
4	Jesus Collado	Spain	58.82
5	Sam Bramham	Australia	58.97
6	Wang Renjie	China	59.00
7	Andriy Sirovatchenko	Ukraine	1:00.18

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Matthew Cowdrey	Australia	56.53	Q
2	Andriy Kalyna	Ukraine	57.35	Q
3	David Grachat	Portugal	57.93	Q
4	Cody Bureau	United States	58.29	Q
5	Mark Barr	United States	59.56
6	Stephen Osborne	Australia	59.70
7	Christian Thomsen	Denmark	59.99

Final

Competed at 20:22.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Matthew Cowdrey	Australia	55.30	WR
	Guo Zhi	China	56.13
	Tamas Sors	Hungary	56.80
4	Andriy Kalyna	Ukraine	57.12
5	Takuro Yamada	Japan	57.29
6	David Grachat	Portugal	57.55
7	Cody Bureau	United States	58.14
8	Sami El Gueddari	France	58.68

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