After nine Paralympic and eight world records fell on night one of the 2016 Paralympic Games, the swimmers were back in action for morning number two.<\/p>\n
The Chinese and Ukrainian men dominated the first event of the morning. To take the top seed, China’s Benying Liu<\/strong> swam a new world record time of 1:50.67. He was followed by the Ukraine’s\u00a0Serhii Palamarchuk<\/strong> in 1:51.23. In a distant third and fourth place were the Chinese duo of\u00a0Liankang Zhou\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Yang Yang\u00a0<\/strong>in 1:58.29 and 2:02.34, respectively.<\/p>\n Ivegen Panibratets<\/strong> and\u00a0Roman Bondarenko<\/strong>, both from the Ukraine, were fifth and sixth in 2:10.47 and 2:14.94. Greece’s\u00a0Aristeidis Markrodimitris<\/strong> was seventh in 2:19.25, and Poland’s\u00a0Jacek Czech<\/strong> rounded out tonight’s final in 2:24.83.<\/p>\n Australia’s\u00a0Matthew Levy<\/strong> took the top seed for tonight’s final in a quick time of 28.55. Close behind him in second was Colombia’s\u00a0Carlos Serrano Zarate<\/strong> in 28.87. Serrano Zarate just out-touched China’s\u00a0Jingang Wang<\/strong>, who touched at 28.89.<\/p>\n Fourth place went to\u00a0Ievgenii Bogodaiko\u00a0<\/strong>of the Ukraine in 29.24, while Great Britain’s\u00a0Jonathan Fox<\/strong> took fifth in 29.77.\u00a0Shiyun Pan\u00a0<\/strong>of China was sixth in 29.81.<\/p>\n Germany’s\u00a0Tobias Pollap<\/strong> touched seventh in 30.23, while\u00a0Michael Jones\u00a0<\/strong>of Great Britain was eighth in 30.67.<\/p>\n The first women’s event of the morning kicked off with a Paralympic record from the United States’\u00a0McKenzie Coan<\/strong> with a time of 32.57. Over half a second behind Coan, Germany’s\u00a0Denise Grahl<\/strong> touched second in 33.28. Coan’s American teammate\u00a0Cortney Jordan\u00a0<\/strong>was third in 34.07.<\/p>\n Susannah Rodgers<\/strong> of Great Britain took fourth place in 34.42, just ahead of China’s\u00a0Yajing Huang<\/strong>, who had a time of 34.50. Sixth place went to Canada’s\u00a0Tess Routliffe<\/strong> in 34.74.<\/p>\n Rounding out the top eight were China’s\u00a0Liting Ke<\/strong> and\u00a0Canada’s\u00a0Sarah Mehain<\/strong> in 34.81 and 34.91, respectively.<\/p>\n Once again this morning the Chinese team proved to be very dominant. Taking the top two spots,\u00a0Lichao Wang<\/strong> and\u00a0Tao Zheng<\/strong> finished in 30.89 and 31.25. Colombia’s\u00a0Nelson Crispin Corzo<\/strong> was third in 31.27. The third Chinese swimmer,\u00a0Qing Xu<\/strong>, took fourth place in 31.74.<\/p>\n Fifth place went to Great Britain’s\u00a0Sascha Kindred<\/strong> in 32.76, while Japan’s\u00a0Kyosuke Oyama<\/strong> was sixth in 33.06.\u00a0Talisson Glock<\/strong> of Brazil was seventh in 33.74.\u00a0Nathan Clement\u00a0<\/strong>from Canada took the final spot in tonight’s final in 34.04.<\/p>\n Great Britain’s\u00a0Ellie Robinson<\/strong> holds a solid lead coming out of the morning with a top time of 36.62. Second to her was the Ukraine’s\u00a0Oksana Khrul<\/strong> in 37.16.\u00a0Tiffany Thomas Kane<\/strong> of Australia was third in 37.81.<\/p>\n Ireland’s\u00a0Nicole Turner<\/strong> was fourth in 38.44. Following in fifth place was China’s\u00a0Dong Lu\u00a0<\/strong>in 39.11.\u00a0Ozlem Kaya<\/strong> of Turkey touched sixth in 40.65.<\/p>\n Seventh place went to\u00a0Thi Bich Nhu Trinh<\/strong> of Vietnam in 42.08, while\u00a0Olena Fedota<\/strong> of the Ukraine was eighth in 42.75.<\/p>\n Ukrainian teammates\u00a0Maksym Krypak\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Denys Dubrov<\/strong> took this morning’s top two spots with times of 23.45 and 24.01 respectively. Just behind Dubrov was Brazil’s\u00a0Phelipe Rodrigues<\/strong> in 24.07.<\/p>\n Nathan Stein\u00a0<\/strong>from Canada was fourth in 24.34, while Brazilian\u00a0Andre Brasil<\/strong> was fifth in 24.36. Sixth place went to Australia’s\u00a0Rowan Crothers\u00a0<\/strong>with a time of 24.49.<\/p>\n Stein’s Canadian teammate\u00a0Alec Elliot<\/strong> took seventh in 25.04. Rounding out the top eight was Australian\u00a0Guy Harrison-Murray<\/strong> with a time of 25.08.<\/p>\n Another Paralympic record was broken this morning, this time by\u00a0Aurelie Rivard<\/strong> of Canada with a time of 27.83. Rivard was just ahead of New Zealand’s\u00a0Sophie Pascoe<\/strong>, who touched in 27.95. China’s\u00a0Yi Chen<\/strong> rounded out the top three in 28.20.<\/p>\n Fourth place went to France’s\u00a0Elodie Lorandi<\/strong> with a time of 28.89. Just behind her was\u00a0Lina Watz\u00a0<\/strong>of Sweden in 28.93.<\/p>\n Chantal Molenkamp\u00a0<\/strong>of the Netherlands took sixth place in 28.99, out-touching\u00a0Brazil’s\u00a0Mariana Ribeiro<\/strong> in 29.02.\u00a0Chantalle Zijderveld\u00a0<\/strong>from the Netherlands took tonight’s final spot in 29.06.<\/p>\n Poland’s\u00a0Wojciech Makowski<\/strong> led the men’s backstroke this morning with a time of 1:09.40. Close behind him was Australian\u00a0Jeremy McClure<\/strong> in 1:09.79. China’s\u00a0Bozun Yang<\/strong> was third in 1:10.40, just ahead of American\u00a0Bradley Snyder\u00a0<\/strong>in 1:10.44.<\/p>\n Snyder was followed by Ukrainian teammates\u00a0Dmytro Zalevskyi\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Viktor Smyrnov<\/strong> for fifth and sixth places with times of 1:10.84 and 1:11.36, respectively.\u00a0Chenquan<\/strong>\u00a0Lou<\/strong> of China took seventh in 1:11.64.\u00a0Oleksandr Mashchenko<\/strong> was the third Ukrainian to make it into the final with a time of 1:13.69.<\/p>\n With a dominant swim and a new Paralympic record, New Zealand’s\u00a0Mary Fisher<\/strong> took the top spot for tonight’s final with a time of 1:18.68. Fisher was nearly two full seconds behind her next closest competitor, China’s\u00a0Liwen Cai<\/strong>, who touched in 1:20.59. Following Cai were two Ukrainian teammates,\u00a0Maryna Piddubna\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Kateryna Tkachuk<\/strong> in 1:21.81 and 1:21.90, respectively.<\/p>\n Italian\u00a0Cecilia Camellini\u00a0<\/strong>was fifth in 1:22.01.\u00a0Guizhi Li<\/strong> of China touched sixth in 1:23.34. In seventh and eighth places were Sweden’s\u00a0Maja Reichard<\/strong> in 1:25.19 and Japan’s\u00a0Chikako Ono<\/strong> in 1:25.36.<\/p>\n In the longest event of the morning, Australian\u00a0Brenden Hall<\/strong> took the top seed with a time of 4:20.46. He was followed by Italian\u00a0Federico Morlacchi<\/strong> in 4:22.20. Just behind Morlacchi was Great Britain’s\u00a0Lewis White<\/strong> in 4:22.63.<\/p>\n Portugal’s\u00a0David Grachat<\/strong> took fourth in 4:22.86, just out-touching Spain’s\u00a0Jose Antonio Mari Alcaraz<\/strong> in 4:22.89. Sixth place went to White’s British teammate\u00a0Jonathan Booth\u00a0<\/strong>in 4:24.86.<\/p>\n Croatia’s\u00a0Kristijan Vincetic\u00a0<\/strong>and Australia’s\u00a0Logan Powell<\/strong> finished in seventh and eighth places, with times of 4:27.87 and 4:28.94, respectively.<\/p>\n In the women’s distance, another Australian took the top seed, with\u00a0Ellie Cole\u00a0<\/strong>finishing in a time of 4:50.19. Cole was exactly a second ahead of second place finisher\u00a0Jialing Xu <\/strong>of China with a time of 4:51.19. Third place went to\u00a0Manon Vermarien\u00a0<\/strong>of the Netherlands in 4:53.26.<\/p>\n Great Britain’s Amy Marren\u00a0<\/strong>took fourth in 4:54.44, while Spain’s\u00a0Nuria Marques Soto<\/strong> was fifth in 4:54.98.\u00a0Emily Gray<\/strong> of South Africa touched sixth in 4:58.10.<\/p>\n Rounding out the top eight were Hungary’s Zsofia Konkoly<\/strong> in 4:59.81 and American\u00a0Natalie Sims<\/strong> in 5:04.69.<\/p>\n In yet another event this morning, the Chinese dominated, with\u00a0Haijiao Xu\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Guanglong Yang<\/strong> taking the top two spots in tonight’s final with times of 1:01.01 and 1:01.02, respectively. France’s\u00a0Charles Rozoy<\/strong> was just behind in 1:01.15. The third Chinese swimmer,\u00a0Maodang Song<\/strong>, took fourth in 1:01.56.<\/p>\n Fifth place went to Mexico’s\u00a0Luis Armando Andrade Guillen<\/strong> with a time of 1:03.91.\u00a0Andreas Onea<\/strong> of Austria was sixth in 1:04.84, while Australian\u00a0Jesse Aungles\u00a0<\/strong>was seventh in 1:05.37. American\u00a0Evan Austin\u00a0<\/strong>took the eight spot for\u00a0tonight’s final with a time of 1:05.94.<\/p>\n The Ukraine’s\u00a0Kateryna Istomina<\/strong> had a dominant morning swim, leading the heats with a time of 1:10.36. She was followed by\u00a0Jessica Long\u00a0<\/strong>from the United States in 1:11.56. Third place went to China’s\u00a0Weiyuan Lu<\/strong> in 1:12.29.<\/p>\n Maddison Elliott<\/strong> from Australia took fourth place with a time of 1:16.18, while Great Britain’s\u00a0Stephanie Slater<\/strong> was fifth in 1:16.32. Seventh place went to China’s\u00a0Xiaoqin Jin<\/strong> in 1:16.94.<\/p>\n Another American swimmer,\u00a0Mallory Weggemann<\/strong> finished seventh in 1:18.44.\u00a0Lakeisha Patterson<\/strong> of Australia was eighth in 1:19.96.<\/p>\n To continue their strong morning, the\u00a0Ukrainian<\/strong> team took the top seed with a time of 2:32.19. Following behind them was team\u00a0Brazil<\/strong> in 2:33.94.\u00a0Italy<\/strong> was third in 2:38.01.<\/p>\n China<\/strong> took the fourth spot for tonight in 2:41.29, while\u00a0Greece<\/strong> was fifth in 2:43.43.\u00a0Australia\u00a0<\/strong>finished sixth in 2:46.43.\u00a0The final spot in tonight’s final went to\u00a0Israel\u00a0<\/strong>in 3:10.00.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After nine Paralympic and eight world records fell on night one of the 2016 Paralympic Games, the swimmers were back in action for morning number two. 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Women’s 50m Freestyle S7<\/h1>\n
Men’s 50m Butterfly S6<\/h1>\n
Women’s 50m Butterfly S6<\/h1>\n
Men’s 50m Freestyle S10<\/h1>\n
Women’s 50m Freestyle S10<\/h1>\n
Men’s 100m Backstroke S11<\/h1>\n
Women’s 100m Backstroke S11<\/h1>\n
Men’s 400m Freestyle S9<\/h1>\n
Women’s 400m Freestyle S9<\/h1>\n
Men’s 100m Butterfly S8<\/h1>\n
Women’s 100m Butterfly S8<\/h1>\n
Mixed 4x50m Freestyle Relay<\/h1>\n