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Men's 100m Freestyle S8 at the XIII Paralympic Games
Venue	Beijing National Aquatics Center
Dates	8 September
Competitors	16 from 9 nations
Winning time	58.84
Medalists
Wang Xiaofu  China Konstantin Lisenkov  Russia Peter Leek  Australia

Swimming at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
Men's events
50 m freestyle		S2	S3	S4	S5
	S6	S7	S8	S9	S10
	S11	S12	S13
100 m freestyle		S2	S3	S4	S5
	S6	S7	S8	S9	S10
	S11	S12	S13
200 m freestyle		S2	S3	S4	S5
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
50 m breaststroke			SB3
100 m breaststroke				SB4	SB5
	SB6	SB7	SB8	SB9
	SB11	SB12	SB13
50 m butterfly					S5
	S6	S7
100 m butterfly			S8	S9	S10
	S11	S12	S13
150 m medley				SM4
200 m medley					SM5
	SM6	SM7	SM8	SM9	SM10
		SM12	SM13
Freestyle relays	4 × 50 m (20pts)
	4 × 100 m (34pts)
Medley relays	4 × 50 m (20pts)
	4 × 100 m (34pts)
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The men's 100m freestyle S8 event at the 2008 Summer Paralympics took place at the Beijing National Aquatics Center on 8 September. There were two heats; the swimmers with the eight fastest times advanced to the final.

Results

Heats

Competed from 10:42.

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Ben Austin	Australia	59.62	Q, PR
2	Konstantin Lisenkov	Russia	1:00.32	Q
3	Ricardo Moffatti	Australia	1:00.67	Q
4	Sam Hynd	Great Britain	1:01.67	Q
5	Guo Jun	China	1:02.29
6	Christoph Burkard	Germany	1:04.99
7	Drew Christensen	Canada	1:06.14
8	Ievgen Poltavskyi	Ukraine	1:11.78

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Peter Leek	Australia	59.00	Q, PR
2	Wang Xiaofu	China	59.68	Q
3	Konstantinos Fykas	Greece	1:00.96	Q
4	Tian Hengheng	China	1:02.09	Q
5	Sean Fraser	Great Britain	1:02.45
6	Ferenc Csuri	Hungary	1:03.55
7	Nikolai Willig	Germany	1:03.69
8	Mikhail Boyarin	Russia	1:05.68

Final

Competed at 19:56.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Wang Xiaofu	China	58.84	PR
	Konstantin Lisenkov	Russia	59.01
	Peter Leek	Australia	59.14
4	Ben Austin	Australia	59.78
5	Ricardo Moffatti	Australia	59.93
6	Sam Hynd	Great Britain	1:01.04
7	Konstantinos Fykas	Greece	1:01.40
8	Tian Hengheng	China	1:01.89

Q = qualified for final. PR = Paralympic record.

References

• Swimming at the 2008 Summer Paralympics