Swimming at the 2008 Summer Paralympics – Men's 50 metre freestyle S9

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Men's 50m Freestyle S9 at the XIII Paralympic Games
Venue	Beijing National Aquatics Center
Dates	14 September
Competitors	23 from 16 nations
Winning time	25.34
Medalists
Matthew Cowdrey  Australia Guo Zhi  China Xiong Xiaoming  China

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 S9 event at the 2008 Summer Paralympics took place at the Beijing National Aquatics Center on 14 September. There were three heats; the swimmers with the eight fastest times advanced to the final.

Competed from 10:38.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Xiong Xiaoming	China	25.77	Q
2	Wang Renjie	China	26.04	Q
3	Cody Bureau	United States	27.11
4	Mauro Brasil	Brazil	27.18
5	Andriy Sirovatchenko	Ukraine	27.27
6	Dmitry Polin	Russia	29.46
7	Pascal Laperotine	Mauritius	36.39

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Guo Zhi	China	25.69	Q
2	Andriy Kalyna	Ukraine	26.30	Q
3	Sami El Gueddari	France	26.70	Q
4	Simon Miller	Great Britain	27.41
5	Christian Thomsen	Denmark	27.50
6	Mark Barr	United States	27.89
7	Michael Prout	United States	28.12
8	Josefa Harijaona Randrianony	Madagascar	38.06

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Matthew Cowdrey	Australia	26.09	Q
2	Jose Antonio Mari	Spain	26.73	Q
3	Tamás Sors	Hungary	26.73	Q
4	David Grachat	Portugal	26.77
5	Takuro Yamada	Japan	27.04
6	Stephen Osborne	Australia	27.20
7	Taras Yastremskyy	Ukraine	27.83
8	David Taylor	Barbados	47.73

Source:^[1] Competed at 19:59.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Matthew Cowdrey	Australia	25.34	WR
	Guo Zhi	China	25.51
	Xiong Xiaoming	China	25.60
4	Wang Renjie	China	26.03
5	Tamás Sors	Hungary	26.21
6	Andriy Kalyna	Ukraine	26.46
7	Sami El Gueddari	France	26.65
8	Jose Antonio Mari	Spain	26.89