Swimming at the 2012 Summer Paralympics – Men's 50 metre freestyle S6

The men's 50 metre freestyle S6 event at the 2012 Paralympic Games took place on 4 September at the London Aquatics Centre.

Men's 50 metre freestyle S2 at the XIV Paralympic Games
Venue	London Aquatics Centre
Dates	4 September
Competitors	12 from 12 nations
Medalists
Xu Qing  China Lorenzo Perez Escalona  Cuba Tao Zheng  China

Three heats were held, heat one with five competitors, the rest of the heats with six competitors. The swimmers with the eight fastest times advanced to the final.

Heat

Heat 1

Results of heat 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Sebastian Iwanow	Germany	31.29	Q
2	6	Yuan Tang	China	31.99	Q
3	5	Darragh McDonald	Ireland	33.15	Q
4	3	Anders Olsson	Sweden	33.88
5	2	Reagan Wickens	Australia	37.19

Heat 2

Results of heat 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Lorenzo Perez Escalona	Cuba	29.98	Q, AM
2	5	Matthew Haanappel	Australia	32.58	Q, OC
3	3	Sascha Kindred	Great Britain	33.36
4	2	Iaroslav Semenenko	Ukraine	33.53
5	6	Matthew Whorwood	Great Britain	33.91
6	7	Ju Song Rim	North Korea	47.87

Heat 3

Results of heat 3

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Xu Qing	China	30.11	Q
2	5	Tao Zheng	China	30.33	Q
3	3	Kyosuke Oyama	Japan	32.04	Q
4	6	Adriano de Lima	Brazil	33.18
5	2	Aaron Rhind	Australia	34.74
6	7	Daniel Londono	Colombia	34.98

Final

Results of the finals

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Xu Qing	China	28.57	WR
	4	Lorenzo Perez Escalona	Cuba	30.04
	3	Tao Zheng	China	30.06
4	6	Sebastian Iwanow	Germany	30.83
5	7	Kyosuke Oyama	Japan	31.94
6	1	Matthew Haanappel	Australia	32.13	OC
7	2	Yuan Tang	China	32.20
8	8	Darragh McDonald	Ireland	33.26