Swimming at the 2012 Summer Paralympics – Men's 400 metre freestyle S8

Men's 400 metre freestyle S8 at the XIV Paralympic Games
Venue	London Aquatics Centre
Dates	31 August
Competitors	12 from 8 nations
Medalists
Yinan Wang   China   Oliver Hynd   Great Britain   Sam Hynd   Great Britain

Swimming at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
Men's events
50 m freestyle		S2		S4	S5
	S6	S7	S8	S9	S10
	S11	S12	S13
100 m freestyle		S2		S4	S5
	S6	S7	S8	S9	S10
	S11	S12	S13
200 m freestyle		S2		S4	S5
				S14
400 m freestyle	S6	S7	S8	S9	S10
	S11	S12	S13
50 m backstroke	S1	S2	S3	S4	S5
100 m backstroke	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
150 m medley			SM3	SM4
200 m medley	SM6	SM7	SM8	SM9	SM10
	SM11	SM12	SM13
Freestyle relays	4 × 100 m (34pts)
Medley relays	4 × 100 m (34pts)

The men's 400 metre freestyle S8 event at the 2012 Paralympic Games took place on 31 August, at the London Aquatics Centre in the Olympic Park, London. The event was for athletes included in the S8 classification, which is for competitors with physical impairments.^[1] Twelve swimmers took part, representing a total of eight different nations. China's Yinan Wang won the gold medal with British brothers Oliver and Sam Hynd taking silver and bronze respectively.

Results

Key

•   Q   Qualified for next round
• AS = Asian record
• AM = America's record

Heats

Two heats were held, each with six swimmers; the swimmers with the eight fastest times advanced to the final. The heats took place on 31 August starting at 9:30 BST.^[2]

Heat 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Sam Hynd	Great Britain	4:33.25	Q
2	5	Yinan Wang	China	4:37.86	Q
3	3	Christoph Burkard	Germany	4:45.40	Q
4	6	Jonathan Mcgrath	Ireland	4:53.25
5	2	Torben Schmidtke	Germany	5:01.05
6	7	Ferenc Csuri	Hungary	5:13.88

Heat 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Thomas Young	Great Britain	4:34.16	Q
2	4	Oliver Hynd	Great Britain	4:36.40	Q
3	6	Caio Oliveira	Brazil	4:41.20	Q, AM
4	2	Zack Mcallister	Canada	4:43.80	Q
5	3	Jiachao Wang	China	4:37.34	Q
6	7	Rudy Garcia-Tolson	United States	4:54.84

Final

China's Yinan Wang won the gold medal in a time of four minutes 27.11 seconds, setting a new Asian record.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
01 !	6	Yinan Wang	China	4:27.11	AS
02 !	3	Oliver Hynd	Great Britain	4:27.88
03 !	4	Sam Hynd	Great Britain	4:32.93
4	5	Thomas Young	Great Britain	4:33.57
5	8	Jiachao Wang	China	4:39.08
6	7	Zack Mcallister	Canada	4:39.81	AM
7	1	Caio Oliveira	Brazil	4:39.86
8	8	Christoph Burkard	Germany	4:44.23

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