Men's 50m Freestyle S8 at the XIII Paralympic Games
Venue	Beijing National Aquatics Center
Dates	14 September
Competitors	14 from 8 nations
Winning time	26.45
Medalists
Wang Xiaofu  China Peter Leek  Australia Konstantin Lisenkov  Russia

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)
v t e

The men's 50m freestyle S8 event at the 2008 Summer Paralympics took place at the Beijing National Aquatics Center on 14 September. There were two heats; the swimmers with the eight fastest times advanced to the final.

Results[edit]

Heats[edit]

Competed from 10:28.

Heat 1[edit]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Konstantin Lisenkov	Russia	27.78	Q
2	Ben Austin	Australia	28.09	Q
3	Wei Yanpeng	China	28.55	Q
4	Ferenc Csuri	Hungary	29.13
5	Sam Hynd	Great Britain	29.27
6	Drew Christensen	Canada	29.30
	Konstantinos Fykas	Greece		DQ

Heat 2[edit]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Wang Xiaofu	China	26.83	Q
2	Peter Leek	Australia	27.69	Q
3	Guo Jun	China	27.87	Q
4	Matt Levy	Australia	28.55	Q
5	Nikolai Willig	Germany	29.03	Q
6	Sean Fraser	Great Britain	29.08
7	Mikhail Boyarin	Russia	30.42

Final[edit]

Competed at 19:33.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Wang Xiaofu	China	26.45	WR
	Peter Leek	Australia	26.89
	Konstantin Lisenkov	Russia	27.18
4	Guo Jun	China	27.46
5	Ben Austin	Australia	27.82
6	Wei Yanpeng	China	28.03
7	Nikolai Willig	Germany	28.94
8	Matt Levy	Australia	29.68

Q = qualified for final. WR = World Record. DQ = Disqualified.

References[edit]

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  "Schedules & Results - Swimming". The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad. Archived from the original on 30 September 2008. Retrieved 21 September 2012.