Everything you need to follow along with night two of 2016 Paralympic swimming finals action. The first event dives in at 5:30 local time. Hit refresh for the latest coverage.<\/p>\n
Ukraine’s\u00a0Hennadii Boiko\u00a0<\/strong>destroyed the field, finishing in a new world record of 2:08.01. In a tight battle for second his teammate Anton Kol<\/strong>\u00a0wound up third with a 2:27.45.\u00a0Francesco Bettella\u00a0<\/strong>of Italy earned silver in 2:27.06.<\/p>\n Greek teammates\u00a0Christos Tampaxis\u00a0<\/strong>(2:54.23) and\u00a0Dimitrios Karypidis\u00a0<\/strong>(3:12.73) finished fourth and sixth. Ukraine’s\u00a0Oleksandr Golovko\u00a0<\/strong>(3:03.83) was fifth and Colombia’s\u00a0Luis Rojas Osorno\u00a0<\/strong>(3:42.24) touched seventh.<\/p>\n This morning\u00a0China’s Benying Liu<\/strong> swam a new world record time of 1:50.67. Tonight three swimmers were faster than that mark.\u00a0Liankang Zou\u00a0<\/strong>of China was first to the wall in 1:45.25 to take down that and the Paralympic record. Liu earned silver in 1:48.29. Ukraine’s\u00a0Serhii Palamarchuk\u00a0<\/strong>won bronze in 1:49.76.<\/p>\n China’s\u00a0Yang Yang\u00a0<\/strong>finished fourth in 2:00.06. Ukrainian teammates Ievgen Panibratets\u00a0<\/strong>(2:07.00) and\u00a0Roman Bondarenko\u00a0<\/strong>(2:14.10) were fifth and sixth. Poland’s\u00a0Jacek Czeh\u00a0<\/strong>(2:17.08) and\u00a0Aristeidis Makrodimitris\u00a0<\/strong>of Greece (2:22.45) completed the top eight.<\/p>\n Singapore’s\u00a0Pin Xiu Yip\u00a0<\/strong>touched the wall in world record setting fashion, clocking a 2:07.09. China’s\u00a0Yazhu Feng\u00a0<\/strong>finished in 2:18.65 for silver. Bronze went to Ukraine’s\u00a0Iryna Sotska\u00a0<\/strong>in 2:21.98.<\/p>\n Hungary’s\u00a0Zsanett\u00a0<\/strong>Adami\u00a0<\/strong>edged Greece’s\u00a0Maria Kalpakidou\u00a0<\/strong>3:00.71 to 3:00.72. Italy’s\u00a0Gloria Boccanera\u00a0<\/strong>finished sixth with a 3:18.38.<\/p>\n Another world record came down as China’s\u00a0Shiyun Pan\u00a0<\/strong>touched the wall in 27.35. Ukraine’s\u00a0Ievgenii Bogodaiko\u00a0<\/strong>was just behind, finishing in 27.64 for silver. Colombia’s\u00a0Carlos Serrano Zarate\u00a0<\/strong>took bronze in 28.60.<\/p>\n Finishing just off the medal stand was Australia’s\u00a0Matthew Levy\u00a0<\/strong>in 28.68. China’s\u00a0Jingang Wang\u00a0<\/strong>(29.50) and Great Britain’s\u00a0Jonathan Fox\u00a0<\/strong>(29.52) and\u00a0Michael Jones\u00a0<\/strong>(29.82) also cleared 30. Germany’s\u00a0Tobias Pollap\u00a0<\/strong>(30.04) rounded out the final.<\/p>\n This morning\u00a0McKenzie Coan<\/strong>\u00a0of the United States set a Paralympic record with a time of 32.57. Tonight, she lowered the mark and earned gold in 32.42. Silver went to Germany’s\u00a0Denise Grahl\u00a0<\/strong>in 33.16.\u00a0Susannah Rodgers\u00a0<\/strong>of Great Britain snuck onto the podium by .07, touching in 33.26.\u00a0Cortney Jordan\u00a0<\/strong>of the USA finished fourth in 33.33.<\/p>\n Canadians\u00a0Tess Routliffe\u00a0<\/strong>(33.89) and\u00a0Sarah Mehain\u00a0<\/strong>(34.57) were fifth and seventh while China’s\u00a0Yajing Huang\u00a0<\/strong>(34.12) and\u00a0Liting Ke\u00a0<\/strong>(35.62) finished sixth and eighth.<\/p>\n The Chinese swept the podium tonight.\u00a0Qing Xu\u00a0<\/strong>touched in Paralympic and World record time of 29.89.\u00a0Tao Zheng\u00a0<\/strong>also snuck under 30 with a 29.93. Bronze went to\u00a0Lichao Wang\u00a0<\/strong>in 30.95.<\/p>\n Nelson Crispin Corzo\u00a0<\/strong>finished fourth in 31.30 ahead of Japan’s\u00a0Kyosuke Oyama\u00a0<\/strong>(31.98) and Great Britain’s\u00a0Sascha Kindred\u00a0<\/strong>(32.91).\u00a0Nathan Clement\u00a0<\/strong>of Canada out touched Brazil’s\u00a0Talisson Glock\u00a0<\/strong>33.13 to 33.14.<\/p>\n Ellie Robinson\u00a0<\/strong>of Great Britain sprinted her way to the top of the podium in 35.58. Ukraine’s\u00a0Oksana Khrul\u00a0<\/strong>(36.45) and Australia’s\u00a0Tiffany Thomas Kane\u00a0<\/strong>(36.81) won silver and bronze.<\/p>\n China’s\u00a0Dong Lu\u00a0<\/strong>and Ireland’s\u00a0Nicole Turner\u00a0<\/strong>touched in 37.06 and 37.31 for fourth and fifth.\u00a0Ozlem Kaya\u00a0<\/strong>of Turkey (40.60), Ukraine’s\u00a0Olena Fedota\u00a0<\/strong>(41.58) and Vietnam’s\u00a0Thi Bich Nhu Trinh\u00a0<\/strong>(42.58) completed the top eight.<\/p>\n Ukrainian teammates\u00a0Maksym Krypak\u00a0<\/strong>(23.33) and\u00a0Denys Dubrov\u00a0<\/strong>(23.75) finished on the podium with gold and bronze medals. Touching between the duo was Brazil’s\u00a0Phelipe Rodrigues\u00a0<\/strong>in 23.56. His teammate\u00a0Andre Brasil\u00a0<\/strong>was fourth with a 23.78.<\/p>\n Canadians\u00a0Nathan Stein\u00a0<\/strong>(24.00) and\u00a0Alec Elliot\u00a0<\/strong>(24.84) were fifth and eighth. Australians\u00a0Rowan Crothers\u00a0<\/strong>(24.09) and\u00a0Guy Harrison-Murray\u00a0<\/strong>(24.47) finished sixth and seventh.<\/p>\n Another Paralympic record was broken this morning by\u00a0Aurelie Rivard<\/strong> of Canada with a time of 27.83. Rivard lowered that mark tonight, setting a Paralympic and world record of 27.37. Joining her on the podium was New Zealand’s\u00a0Sophie Pascoe\u00a0<\/strong>in 27.72 and China’s\u00a0Yi Chen\u00a0<\/strong>in 28.21.<\/p>\n The Netherlands’\u00a0Chantalle Zijderveld\u00a0<\/strong>and France’s\u00a0Elodie Lorandi\u00a0<\/strong>did not miss by much, finishing in 28.26 and 28.34.<\/p>\n Chantal Molenkamp\u00a0<\/strong>(28.93) of the Netherlands,\u00a0Mariana Ribeiro\u00a0<\/strong>(29.30) of Brazil and Sweden’s\u00a0Lina Watz\u00a0<\/strong>(29.69) completed the heat.<\/p>\n Dmytro Zalevskyi\u00a0<\/strong>of Ukraine won gold in Paralympic and World record time of 1:06.66 tonight. Poland’s\u00a0Wojciech Makowski\u00a0<\/strong>and the USA’s\u00a0Brandley Snyder\u00a0<\/strong>tied for silver in 1:08.28.<\/p>\n In fourth was\u00a0Viktor Smyrnov\u00a0<\/strong>of Ukraine in 1:08.55. His teammate Oleksandr Mashchenko\u00a0<\/strong>was eighth with a 1:15.85.\u00a0Australia’s\u00a0Jeremy Mcclure\u00a0<\/strong>touched fifth in 1:09.11. Chinese teammates\u00a0Bozun Yang\u00a0<\/strong>(1:09.89) and\u00a0Chenquan Lou\u00a0<\/strong>(1:12.20) were sixth and seventh.<\/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 even faster tonight, lowering the Paralympic record and taking down the world mark with a 1:17.96.<\/p>\n Earning silver was\u00a0Liwen Cai<\/strong> of China in 1:20.29. Bronze went to\u00a0Maja Reichard\u00a0<\/strong>of Sweden after she touched in 1:21.46.<\/p>\n Ukraine’s\u00a0Maryna Piddubna\u00a0<\/strong>(1:21.86) and\u00a0Kateryna Tkachuk\u00a0<\/strong>(1:22.69) followed. China’s\u00a0Guizhi Li\u00a0<\/strong>(1:22.97), Italy’s\u00a0Cecilia Camellini\u00a0<\/strong>(1:23.12), and Japan’s\u00a0Chikako Ono\u00a0<\/strong>(1:25.40) rounded out the heat.<\/p>\n Australia’s\u00a0Brenden Hall\u00a0<\/strong>finished five seconds ahead of the next best swimmer in his heat to take gold in 4:12.73. Italy’s\u00a0Federico Morlacchi\u00a0<\/strong>stopped the clock in 4:17.91 for silver. Great Britain’s\u00a0Lewis White\u00a0<\/strong>earned bronze with a 4:21.38.<\/p>\n White’s teammate\u00a0Jonathan Booth\u00a0<\/strong>(4:24.02) finished fifth. In fourth was Spain’s\u00a0Jose Anthonio Mari Alcaraz\u00a0<\/strong>with a 4:23.04.<\/p>\n Croatia’s\u00a0Kristijan Vincetic\u00a0<\/strong>(4:26.28), Australia’s\u00a0Logan Powell\u00a0<\/strong>(4:27.22) and Portugal’s\u00a0David Grachat\u00a0<\/strong>(4:27.73) completed the final.<\/p>\n In the closest race for gold of the night, Spain’s\u00a0Nuria Marques Soto\u00a0<\/strong>came out on top by .02, touching in 4:42.56 to Australia’s\u00a0Ellie Cole\u00a0<\/strong>in 4:42.58. China’s\u00a0Jialing Xu\u00a0<\/strong>earned bronze with a 4:43.66.<\/p>\n Manon Vermarien\u00a0<\/strong>of the Netherlands finished fourth with a 4:53.42 while Great Britain’s\u00a0Amy Marren\u00a0<\/strong>was fifth in 4:55.38. Hungary’s\u00a0Zsofia Konkoly\u00a0<\/strong>(4:55.77), South Africa’s\u00a0Emily Gray\u00a0<\/strong>(4:59.18) and the USA’s\u00a0Natalie Sims\u00a0<\/strong>(5:04.88) also raced tonight.<\/p>\n For the second time tonight, the Chinese swept the podium. At the top was\u00a0Maodang Song\u00a0<\/strong>in a new Paralympic and World record and the only swimmer under a minute with a 59.19.\u00a0Haijiao Xu\u00a0<\/strong>took silver in 1:00.08 and bronze went to\u00a0Guanglong Yang\u00a0<\/strong>in 1:01.18.<\/p>\n France’s\u00a0Charles Rozoy\u00a0<\/strong>finished just off the podium in 1:01.40. Mexico’s\u00a0Luis Armando Andrade Guillen \u00a0<\/strong>(1:03.30), Austria’s\u00a0Andreas Onea\u00a0<\/strong>(1:05.23), Australia’s\u00a0Jesse Aungles\u00a0<\/strong>(1:06.60), and the USA’s\u00a0Evan Austin\u00a0<\/strong>(1:07.75) completed tonight’s final.<\/p>\n Ukraine’s\u00a0Kateryna Istomina\u00a0<\/strong>set a Paralympic record of 1:09.04 on her way to gold. Britain’s\u00a0Stephanie Slater\u00a0<\/strong>edged American\u00a0Jessica Long\u00a0<\/strong>1:10.32 to 1:10.53 for silver.<\/p>\n Chinese swimmers\u00a0Weiyuan Lu\u00a0<\/strong>(1:11.68) and\u00a0Xiaoqin Jin\u00a0<\/strong>(1:13.52) were fourth and fifth. Australians\u00a0Maddison Elliott\u00a0<\/strong>(1:13.80) and\u00a0Lakeisha Patterson\u00a0<\/strong>(1:18.99) were sixth and eighth and American\u00a0Mallory Weggmann\u00a0<\/strong>finished in between them in 1:17.41.<\/p>\n China used a strong backhalf to take hold by seven seconds, finishing in 2:18.03. Silver went to Brazil in 2:25.45 while Ukraine earned bronze with a 2:30.66.<\/p>\n Italy (2:33.16), Greece (2:39.35), and Australia (2:39.92) followed. Israel was disqualified.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Everything you need to follow along with night two of 2016 Paralympic swimming finals action. The first event dives in at 5:30 local time. 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Men’s 50m Butterfly S6<\/h3>\n
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Women’s 50m Freestyle S10<\/h3>\n
Men’s 100m Backstroke S11<\/h3>\n
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Men’s 400m Freestyle S9<\/h3>\n
Women’s 400m Freestyle S9<\/h3>\n
Men’s 100m Butterfly S8<\/h3>\n
Women’s 100m Butterfly S8<\/h3>\n
Mixed 4x50m Freestyle Relay- 20 Points<\/h3>\n