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

The Women's 50 metre backstroke swimming events for the 2020 Summer Paralympics took place at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre from August 29 to September 3, 2021. A total of four events were contested over this distance.

Schedule

H

Heats

½

Semifinals

F

Final

Date	Sun 29		Mon 30		Tue 31		Wed 1		Thu 2		Fri 3
Event	M	E	M	E	M	E	M	E	M	E	M	E
S2 50m									H	F
S3 50m	H	F
S4 50m											H	F
S5 50m			H	F

Medal summary

The following is a summary of the medals awarded across all 50 metre backstroke events.

Classification	Gold		Silver		Bronze
S2	Yip Pin Xiu  Singapore	1:02.04	Miyuki Yamada  Japan	1:06.98	Feng Yazhu  China	1:11.55
S3	Arjola Trimi  Italy	51.34	Ellie Challis  Great Britain	55.11	Iuliia Shishova  RPC	57.03
S4	Liu Yu  China	44.68 WR	Zhou Yanfei  China	48.42	Alexandra Stamatopoulou  Greece	49.63
S5	Lu Dong  China	37.18	Teresa Perales  Spain	43.02	Sevilay Öztürk  Turkey	43.48

Results

The following were the results of the finals only of each of the Women's 50 metre backstroke events in each of the classifications. Further details of each event, including where appropriate heats and semi finals results, are available on that event's dedicated page.

S2

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The S2 category is for swimmers who may have limited function in their hands, trunk, and legs, and mainly rely on their arms to swim.

The final in this classification took place on 2 September 2021:

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Yip Pin Xiu	Singapore	1:02.04
	5	Miyuki Yamada	Japan	1:06.98
	7	Feng Yazhu	China	1:11.55
4	3	Fabiola Ramirez	Mexico	1:12.66
5	2	Angela Procida	Italy	1:12.69
6	6	Veronika Medchainova	RPC	1:14.59
7	1	Zsanett Adami	Hungary	1:27.48
8	8	Elif Ildem	Turkey	1:32.49

S3

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The S3 category is for swimmers who have leg or arm amputations, have severe coordination problems in their limbs, or have to swim with their arms but don't use their trunk or legs.

The final in this classification took place on 29 August 2021:

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Arjola Trimi	Italy	51.34
	5	Ellie Challis	Great Britain	55.11
	3	Iuliia Shishova	RPC	57.03
4	2	Maiara Regina Pereira Barreto	Brazil	59.50
5	6	Zoya Shchurova	RPC	1:00.25
6	7	Leanne Smith	United States	1:02.93
7	8	Haidee Viviana Aceves Perez	Mexico	1:07.66
8	1	Edênia Garcia	Brazil	1:07.83

S4

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The S4 category is for swimmers who have function in their hands and arms but can't use their trunk or legs to swim, or they have three amputated limbs.

The final in this classification took place on 3 September 2021:

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Liu Yu	China	44.68	WR
	3	Zhou Yanfei	China	48.42
	5	Alexandra Stamatopoulou	Greece	49.63
4	6	Kat Swanepoel	South Africa	50.17
5	2	Maryna Verbova	Ukraine	53.24
6	7	Gina Böttcher	Germany	53.96
7	8	Olga Sviderska	Ukraine	55.09
8	1	Nataliia Butkova	RPC	55.18

S5

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The S5 category is for swimmers who have hemiplegia, paraplegia or short stature.

The final in this classification took place on 30 August 2021:

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Lu Dong	China	37.18	WR
	6	Teresa Perales	Spain	43.02
	3	Sevilay Öztürk	Turkey	43.48
4	5	Sümeyye Boyacı	Turkey	43.94
5	2	Monica Boggioni	Italy	45.46
6	8	Mayumi Narita	Japan	47.86
7	1	Li Zhang	China	48.02
8	7	Cheng Jiao	China	48.75