Swimming at the 2012 Summer Paralympics – Women's 100 metre freestyle S8

Women's 100 metre freestyle S8 at the XIV Paralympic Games
Venue	London Aquatics Centre
Dates	6 September
Competitors	19 from 12 nations
Medalists
Jessica Long   United States   Heather Frederiksen   Great Britain   Maddison Elliott   Australia

Swimming at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
Women's events
50 m freestyle			S3		S5
	S6	S7	S8	S9	S10
	S11	S12	S13
100 m freestyle			S3		S5
	S6	S7	S8	S9	S10
	S11	S12	S13
200 m freestyle					S5
				S14
400 m freestyle	S6	S7	S8	S9	S10
	S11	S12
50 m backstroke		S2		S4
100 m backstroke	S6	S7	S8	S9	S10
	S11	S12		S14
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
		S12
200 m ind. medley					SM5
	SM6	SM7	SM8	SM9	SM10
	SM11	SM12	SM13
Freestyle relay	4 × 100 m (34pts)
Medley relay	4 × 100 m (34pts)

The women's 100 metre freestyle S8 event at the 2012 Paralympic Games took place on 6 September, at the London Aquatics Centre.

Three heats were held, two with six swimmers each and one with seven competitors. The swimmers with the eight fastest times advanced to the final.^[1]

Heats

Heat 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Mallory Weggemann	United States	1:10.50	Q
2	3	Morgan Bird	Canada	1:11.16	Q
3	5	Jiang Shengnan	China	1:12.85	AS
4	2	Ksenia Sogomonyan	Russia	1:15.96
5	7	Camille Berube	Canada	1:18.31
6	6	Amanda Everlove	United States	1:19.38

Heat 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Heather Frederiksen	Great Britain	1:07.53	Q
2	5	Maddison Elliott	Australia	1:07.62	Q, OC
3	6	Kateryna Istomina	Ukraine	1:11.95	Q
4	3	Amalie Vinther	Denmark	1:12.25	Q
5	2	Mariann Vestbostad Martinsen	Norway	1:16.17
6	7	Immacolata Cerasuolo	Italy	1:17.71

Heat 3

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Jessica Long	United States	1:06.06	Q, WR
2	5	Olesya Vladykina	Russia	1:11.74	Q
3	2	Romy Pansters	Netherlands	1:14.55
4	7	Julia Kabus	Germany	1:14.74
5	6	Stefanie Weinberg	Germany	1:14.80
6	3	Emma Hollis	Great Britain	1:23.35
7	1	Sarah Mailhot	Canada	1:25.80

Final

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
01 !	4	Jessica Long	United States	1:05.63	WR
02 !	5	Heather Frederiksen	Great Britain	1:08.07
03 !	3	Maddison Elliott	Australia	1:08.37
4	6	Mallory Weggemann	United States	1:08.51
5	7	Olesya Vladykina	Russia	1:10.50
6	2	Morgan Bird	Canada	1:10.97
7	8	Amalie Vinther	Denmark	1:11.30
8	1	Kateryna Istomina	Ukraine	1:12.43

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