Swimming at the 2020 Summer Paralympics – Men's 200 metre freestyle

The Men's 200 metre freestyle swimming events for the 2020 Summer Paralympics took place at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre from August 25 to September 3, 2021. A total of five events were contested over this distance.[1]

Schedule

H

Heats

½

Semifinals

F

Final

Date[2]	Wed 25		Thu 26		Fri 27		Sat 28		Sun 29		Mon 30		Tue 31		Wed 1		Thu 2		Fri 3
Event	M	E	M	E	M	E	M	E	M	E	M	E	M	E	M	E	M	E	M	E
S2 200m									H	F
S3 200m																			H	F
S4 200m											H	F
S5 200m	H	F
S14 200m					H	F

Medal summary

The following is a summary of the medals awarded across all 200 metre freestyle events.

Classification	Gold		Silver		Bronze
S2 details	Gabriel Araújo  Brazil	4:06.52	Alberto Abarza  Chile	4:14.17	Vladimir Danilenko  RPC	4:15.95
S3 details	Denys Ostapchenko  Ukraine	3:21.62	Diego López Díaz  Mexico	3:23.57	Jesús Hernández Hernández  Mexico	3:23.93
S4 details	Ami Omer Dadaon  Israel	2:44.84 WR	Takayuki Suzuki  Japan	2:55.15	Roman Zhdanov  RPC	2:58.48
S5 details	Francesco Bocciardo  Italy	2:26.76 PR	Antoni Ponce  Spain	2:35.20	Daniel Dias  Brazil	2:38.61
S14 details	Reece Dunn  Great Britain	1:52.40 WR	Gabriel Bandeira  Brazil	1:52.74	Viacheslav Emeliantsev  RPC	1:55.58

Results

The following were the results of the finals only of each of the Men's 200 metre freestyle events in each of the classifications. Further details of each event, including where appropriate heats and semi finals results, are available on that event's dedicated page.

S2

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The S2 category is for swimmers who may have limited function in their hands, trunk and legs and mainly rely on their arms to swim.

The final in this classification took place on 29 August 2021:

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	3	Gabriel Araújo	Brazil	4:06.52	AM
	5	Alberto Abarza	Chile	4:14.17
	4	Vladimir Danilenko	RPC	4:15.95
4	6	Bruno Becker da Silva	Brazil	4:22.63
5	2	Kamil Otowski	Poland	4:37.06
6	7	Roman Bondarenko	Ukraine	4:38.40
7	1	Aristeidis Makrodimitris	Greece	4:44.53
8	8	Cristopher Tronco	Mexico	5:08.34

S3

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The S3 category is for swimmers who have leg or arm amputations, have severe coordination problems in their limbs, or have to swim with their arms but don't use their trunk or legs.

The final in this classification took place on 3 September 2021:

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Denys Ostapchenko	Ukraine	3:21.62
	6	Diego López Díaz	Mexico	3:23.57
	3	Jesús Hernández Hernández	Mexico	3:23.93
4	5	Zou Liankang	China	3:24.29
5	2	Vincenzo Boni	Italy	3:32.40
6	8	Josia Tim Alexander Topf	Germany	3:49.44
7	7	Miguel Ángel Martínez Tajuelo	Spain	3:53.44
8	1	Serhii Palamarchuk	Ukraine	3:53.51

S4

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The S4 category is for swimmers who have function in their hands and arms but can't use their trunk or legs to swim, or they have three amputated limbs.

The final in this classification took place on 30 August 2021:

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Ami Omer Dadaon	Israel	2:44.84	WR
	5	Takayuki Suzuki	Japan	2:55.15
	2	Roman Zhdanov	RPC	2:58.48
4	6	Luigi Beggiato	Italy	3:00.85
5	3	Ángel de Jesús Camacho Ramírez	Mexico	3:01.50
6	7	Gustavo Sánchez Martínez	Mexico	3:09.78
7	1	Jo Giseong	South Korea	3:13.81
8	8	David Smetanine	France	3:14.81

S5

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The S5 category is for swimmers who have hemiplegia, paraplegia or short stature.

The final in this classification took place on 25 August 2021:

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Francesco Bocciardo	Italy	2:26.76	PR
	4	Antoni Ponce Bertran	Spain	2:35.20
	3	Daniel Dias	Brazil	2:38.61
4	6	Luis Huerta Poza	Spain	2:44.71
5	2	Koral Berkin Kutlu	Turkey	2:46.62
6	1	Artur Kubasov	RPC	2:49.67
7	7	Dmitrii Cherniaev	RPC	2:51.91
8	8	Sebastián Rodríguez Veloso	Spain	2:52.12

S14

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The S14 category is for swimmers who have an intellectual impairment.

The final in this classification took place on 27 August 2021:

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Reece Dunn	Great Britain	1:52.40	WR
	3	Gabriel Bandeira	Brazil	1:52.74
	6	Viacheslav Emeliantsev	RPC	1:55.58
4	2	Liam Schluter	Australia	1:55.67
5	4	Jordan Catchpole	Great Britain	1:56.33
6	8	Nicholas Bennett	Canada	1:56.52
7	7	Ricky Betar	Australia	1:56.70
8	1	Mikhail Kuliabin	RPC	1:56.74

References

1. "Swimming". Archived from the original on 31 August 2021. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
2. "Swimming Competition Schedule". Archived from the original on 20 August 2021. Retrieved 15 August 2021.