Swimming at the 2012 Summer Paralympics – Women's 100 metre freestyle S6

Women's 100m Freestyle S6 at the XIV Paralympic Games
Venue	London Aquatics Centre
Dates	8 September
Competitors	21 from 16 nations
Winning time	1:13.33
Medalists
Victoria Arlen   United States   Eleanor Simmonds   Great Britain   Tanja Groepper   Germany

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 100m freestyle S6 event at the 2012 Summer Paralympics took place at the London Aquatics Centre on 8 September. There were three heats; the swimmers with the eight fastest times advanced to the final.

Results

Heats

Competed from 09:57.

Heat 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	Erika Nara	Japan	1:22.32	Q
2	5	Natalie Jones	Great Britain	1:22.74	Q
3	6	Noga Nir-Kistler	United States	1:23.75
4	2	Ileana Rodriguez	United States	1:31.35
5	7	Inbal Schwartz	Israel	1:31.62
6	1	Bea Riza Ma Josephine Roble	Philippines	1:41.27
7 !	4	Mirjam de Koning-Peper	Netherlands	DNS

Heat 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Eleanor Simmonds	Great Britain	1:16.68	Q, PR
2	5	Song Lingling	China	1:18.46	Q
3	3	Emanuela Romano	Italy	1:20.54	Q
4	6	Doramitzi Gonzalez	Mexico	1:24.32
5	7	Ozlem Baykiz	Turkey	1:29.64
6	2	Fanni Illes	Hungary	1:30.14
7	1	Luo Alice Hsiao Hung	Chinese Taipei	1:34.31

Heat 3

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Victoria Arlen	United States	1:14.74	Q, =WR
2	5	Tanja Groepper	Germany	1:16.72	Q
3	3	Olena Fedota	Ukraine	1:21.92	Q
4	6	Vianney Trejo Delgadillo	Mexico	1:23.71
5	2	Tanya Huebner	Australia	1:30.76
6	7	Karina Domingo Bello	Mexico	1:32.19
7	1	Sabine Weber-Treiber	Austria	1:32.37

Final

Competed at 17:51.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
01 !	4	Victoria Arlen	United States	1:13.33	WR
02 !	5	Eleanor Simmonds	Great Britain	1:14.82	EU
03 !	3	Tanja Groepper	Germany	1:16.83
4	6	Song Lingling	China	1:16.84	AS
5	2	Emanuela Romano	Italy	1:19.54
6	7	Olena Fedota	Ukraine	1:19.97
7	8	Natalie Jones	Great Britain	1:22.64
8	1	Erika Nara	Japan	1:25.16

'Q = qualified for final. WR = World Record. PR = Paralympic Record. EU = European Record. AS = Asian Record. DNS = Did not start.

References

Official London 2012 Paralympics Results: Heats
Official London 2012 Paralympics Results: Final