Swimming at the 2012 Summer Paralympics – Men's 50 metre freestyle S4

The men's 50 metre freestyle S4 event at the 2012 Paralympic Games took place on 31 August, at the London Aquatics Centre.

Men's 50 metre freestyle S4 at the XIV Paralympic Games
Venue	London Aquatics Centre
Dates	31 August
Competitors	16 from 13 nations
Medalists
Eskender Mustafaiev  Ukraine David Smetanine  France Jan Povysil  Czech Republic

Two heats were held, one with seven competitors, the other with eight. The swimmers with the eight fastest times advanced to the final.

Heats

Heat 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Gustavo Sanchez Martinez	Mexico	39.48	Q
2	6	Darko Duric	Slovenia	39.71	Q
3	4	Richard Oribe	Spain	39.80	Q
4	3	Jan Povysil	Czech Republic	40.65	Q
5	2	Michael Schoenmaker	Netherlands	43.01
6	7	Aleksei Lyzhikhin	Russia	44.08
7	1	Kestutis Skucas	Lithuania	52.13

Heat 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Eskender Mustafaiev	Ukraine	38.77	Q
2	4	David Smetanine	France	38.97	Q
3	3	Kyunghyun Kim	South Korea	40.37	Q
4	6	Christoffer Lindhe	Sweden	41.52	Q
5	7	Arnost Petracek	Czech Republic	43.12
6	2	Ronystony Cordeiro da Silva	Brazil	44.22
7	8	Grant Patterson	Australia	55.49
8	1	Arnulfo Castorena	Mexico	1:03.49

Final

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Eskender Mustafaiev	Ukraine	38.26
	5	David Smetanine	France	38.75
	1	Jan Povysil	Czech Republic	39.47
4	2	Richard Oribe	Spain	39.47
5	3	Gustavo Sanchez Martinez	Mexico	39.97
6	6	Darko Duric	Slovenia	40.21
7	8	Christoffer Lindhe	Sweden	41.02
8	7	Kyunghyun Kim	South Korea	42.49

External links

• Men's 50m Freestyle S4 at London Olympics Archived 2012-09-08 at the Wayback Machine