Swimming at the 2008 Summer Paralympics – Women's 100 metre breaststroke SB5

Women's 100m Breaststroke SB5
at the XIII Paralympic Games

Venue

Beijing National Aquatics Center

Dates

12 September

Competitors

12 from 10 nations

Winning time

1:36.92

Medalists

		Kirsten Bruhn	Germany
		Rachel Lardière	France
		Gitta Ráczkó	Hungary

The women's 100m breaststroke SB5 event at the 2008 Summer Paralympics took place at the Beijing National Aquatics Center on 12 September. There were two heats; the swimmers with the eight fastest times advanced to the final.

Results

Heats

Competed from 10:25.

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Florence Lancial	France	1:54.99	Q
2	Natallia Shavel	Belarus	1:56.14	Q
3	Nyree Lewis	Great Britain	2:00.45	Q
4	Yuri Kitamura	Japan	2:02.68	Q
5	Hannah May Clarke	Ireland	2:06.33
6	Julia Castelló	Spain	2:10.71

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Kirsten Bruhn	Germany	1:36.30	Q, WR
2	Rachel Lardière	France	1:53.90	Q
3	Gitta Ráczkó	Hungary	1:56.88	Q
4	Fanni Illes	Hungary	2:06.29	Q
5	Kateryna Demyanenko	Ukraine	2:07.10
6	Choi Na Mi	South Korea	2:10.96

Final

Competed at 18:48.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Kirsten Bruhn	Germany	1:36.92
	Rachel Lardière	France	1:52.34
	Gitta Ráczkó	Hungary	1:54.49
4	Nyree Lewis	Great Britain	1:56.19
5	Florence Lancial	France	1:56.73
6	Natallia Shavel	Belarus	1:57.69
7	Yuri Kitamura	Japan	2:03.41
8	Fanni Illes	Hungary	2:07.52