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Karl Forsman\u00a0<\/strong>posted a 1:34.27 to earn gold for Sweden. Korea’s\u00a0Woo Geun Lim\u00a0<\/strong>raced to a 1:35.18 for silver and Mexico’s\u00a0Pedro Rangel\u00a0<\/strong>claimed bronze in 1:37.84.<\/p>\n Italy’s\u00a0Marco Maria Dolfin\u00a0<\/strong>finished fourth in 1:38.27 and fifth went to Brazil’s\u00a0Roberto Rodriguez\u00a0<\/strong>(1:39.06).<\/p>\n Greece’s\u00a0Georgios Sfaltos\u00a0<\/strong>(1:40.05), Vietnam’s\u00a0Thahn Hai Do\u00a0<\/strong>(1:40.31), and Brazil’s\u00a0Adriano De Lima\u00a0<\/strong>(1:46.18) rounded out the heat.<\/p>\n Yelyzaveta Mereshko <\/strong>jumped out to a half second lead at the 50 and held off her Ukrainian teammate to claim gold in 1:41.63.\u00a0Viktoriia Savtsova\u00a0<\/strong>took silver with a 1:42.14. China’s\u00a0Lingling Song\u00a0<\/strong>earned bronze in 1:45.21.<\/p>\n Germany’s\u00a0Verena Schott\u00a0<\/strong>(1:46.07) and Hungary’s\u00a0Fanni Illes\u00a0<\/strong>(1:48.14) were fourth and fifth.<\/p>\n Vietnam’s\u00a0Thi Bich Nhu Trinh\u00a0<\/strong>(1:51.07) and Italy’s\u00a0Emanuela Romano\u00a0<\/strong>(1:52.33) rounded out the heat as\u00a0Sabine Weber-Treiber\u00a0<\/strong>was disqualified.<\/p>\n The podium swimmers had a fairly tight finish this evening. Italy’s\u00a0Federico Morlacchi\u00a0<\/strong>got to the wall first in 2:16.72 while Hungary’s\u00a0Tamas Sors\u00a0<\/strong>finished second in 2:17.33. Bronze went to Australia’s\u00a0Timothy Disken\u00a0<\/strong>in 2:17.72.<\/p>\n Tamas Toth\u00a0<\/strong>of Hungary was fourth (2:19.40). Australia’s\u00a0Timothy Hodge\u00a0<\/strong>(2:21.14) finished fifth and his teammate\u00a0Brendan Hall\u00a0<\/strong>was disqualified.\u00a0Cody Bureau\u00a0<\/strong>(2:24.63) of the USA and\u00a0James Crisp\u00a0<\/strong>of Great Britain\u00a0(2:24.96) finished sixth and seventh.<\/p>\n In what was one of the most back and forth and closest races of the week so far, Spain’s\u00a0Nuria Marques Soto\u00a0<\/strong>turned at the halfway mark in 1:10.52. Just behind was Great Britain’s\u00a0Amy Marren\u00a0<\/strong>in 1:11.84. With a strong breaststroke leg\u00a0Madeline Scott\u00a0<\/strong>of Australia was tied with Marren with a 50 to go. China’s\u00a0Ping Lin\u00a0<\/strong>barreled home and held off an also charging\u00a0Sarai Gascon\u00a0<\/strong>of Spain. Lin touched first in 2:35.64, two tenths ahead of Gascon in 2:35.84. Marren held on for bronze in 2:36.26.<\/p>\n China’s\u00a0Jialing Xu\u00a0<\/strong>finished just off the podium in 2:36.48. Marques Soto stopped the clock in 2:37.30. Scott finished sixth with a 2:37.65.<\/p>\n Canada’s\u00a0Katarina Roxon\u00a0<\/strong>(2:37.87) and Great Britain’s\u00a0Claire Cashmore\u00a0<\/strong>(2:38.34) completed the heat, which was only spread by two and a half seconds.<\/p>\n While the women in the event before had a tight battle, the men in the 100 breaststroke raise the standard. While\u00a0Ukraine’s\u00a0Oleksii Fedyna\u00a0<\/strong>led by .34 at the halfway mark, he and Uzbekistan’s\u00a0Firdavsbek Musabekov\u00a0<\/strong>both touched the wall in 1:04.94 to tie for gold! Belarus’\u00a0Ihar Boki\u00a0<\/strong>claimed bronze in 1:06.71.<\/p>\n Liam Bekric\u00a0<\/strong>of Australia finished fourth (1:08.70). Brazil’s\u00a0Guilherme Silva\u00a0<\/strong>(1:13.58) then led a strong of 1:13s as Greece’s Gerasimos Lignos<\/strong>,\u00a0<\/strong>Australia’s\u00a0Sean Russo\u00a0<\/strong>and Spain’s\u00a0Ivan Salguero Oteiza\u00a0<\/strong>finished in 1:13.68, 1:13.86, and 1:13.95.<\/p>\n Rebecca Redfern\u00a0<\/strong>took down the first Paralympic record of the morning. The English woman touched in 1:17.08 in prelims. Tonight, she was over three seconds faster but finished second in 1:13.81. Gold went to\u00a0Fotimakhon Amilova\u00a0<\/strong>of Uzbekistan in a new Paralympic and World record of 1:12.45.\u00a0American\u00a0Colleen Young\u00a0<\/strong>held on for bronze in 1:17.02.<\/p>\n Cyprus’\u00a0Karolina Pelendritou\u00a0<\/strong>(1:17.22) and Germany’s\u00a0Elena Krawzow\u00a0<\/strong>(1:17.46) finished just off the podium.<\/p>\n Finishing sixth through eighth were Australia’s\u00a0Prue Watt\u00a0<\/strong>(1:18.16), Belarus’\u00a0Anastasiya Zudzilava\u00a0<\/strong>(1:19.79), and the USA’s\u00a0Martha Ruether\u00a0<\/strong>(1:20.48).<\/p>\n Daniel Fox\u00a0<\/strong>turned in the first men\u2019s Paralympic record of the morning with a 1:57.19. While he was faster tonight, it was not quite enough. The top three finishers were under the old mark, but\u00a0Wai Lok Tang\u00a0<\/strong>of Hong Kong got to the wall first in 1:56.32 after leading start to finish. Britain’s\u00a0Thomas Hamer\u00a0<\/strong>was just behind in 1:56.58 while Fox settled for bronze in 1:56.69.<\/p>\n Iceland’s\u00a0Jon Margeir Sverrisson\u00a0<\/strong>finished fourth in 1:57.50. Australia’s\u00a0Liam Schluter\u00a0<\/strong>was also under two minutes in 1:59.38.<\/p>\n Japan’s\u00a0Keichi Nakajima\u00a0<\/strong>(2:00.61), Korea’s\u00a0Won Sang Cho\u00a0<\/strong>(2:00.83) and Brazil’s\u00a0Felipe Vila Real\u00a0<\/strong>(2:02.33) completed the heat.<\/p>\n Bethany Firth\u00a0<\/strong>made it two in a row for downed Paralympic records, stopping the clock in 2:05.96 this morning. Tonight, she was over two seconds faster, moving the mark to 2:06.92. Her British teammate\u00a0Jessica-Jane Applegate\u00a0<\/strong>won silver in 2:06.92. For bronze\u00a0Marlou Van Der Kluk\u00a0<\/strong>of the Netherlands finished in 2:10.20.<\/p>\n Sweden’s\u00a0Pernilla Lindberg\u00a0<\/strong>(2:12.54), Spain’s\u00a0Michelle Alonso Morales\u00a0<\/strong>(2:16.65), Italy’s\u00a0Xenia Francesca Palazzo\u00a0<\/strong>(2:19.21), Belarus’\u00a0Michelle Franssen\u00a0<\/strong>(2:19.91), and Germany’s\u00a0Janina Breuer\u00a0<\/strong>(2:22.16) rounded out tonight’s final.<\/p>\n This morning\u00a0Denys Dubrov <\/strong>of Ukraine set\u00a0a new Paralympic mark of 2:09.23. Tonight he was a good bit faster and took down the World mark as well, stopping the clock in 2:06.87. His teammates joined him in sweeping the podium.\u00a0Maksym Krypak\u00a0<\/strong>was also under the old Paralympic record in 2:08.10.\u00a0Dmytro Vanzenko\u00a0<\/strong>went a 2:10.48 for bronze.<\/p>\n Benoit Huot\u00a0<\/strong>of Canada finished fourth in 2:11.85 and the Netherlands’\u00a0Olivier Van de Voort\u00a0<\/strong>was fifth in 2:13.72.<\/p>\n South Africa’s\u00a0Kevin Paul\u00a0<\/strong>(2:16.25), Belarus’\u00a0Sven Decaesstecker\u00a0<\/strong>(2:16.94), and Canada’s\u00a0Isaac Bouckley\u00a0<\/strong>(2:17.33) also raced tonight.<\/p>\n Sophie Pascoe\u00a0<\/strong>of New Zealand then took down both marks in the women’s event, stopping the clock in 2:24.90. Canada’s\u00a0Aurelie Rivard\u00a0<\/strong>was runner up with a 2:30.03 and Hungary’s\u00a0Bianka Pap\u00a0<\/strong>won bronze in 2:31.46.<\/p>\n The Netherlands’\u00a0Lisa Kruger\u00a0<\/strong>finished fourth in 2:32.81 just ahead of\u00a0Yi Chen\u00a0<\/strong>of China in 2:33.06 and her teammate\u00a0Chantalle Zijderveld\u00a0<\/strong>in 2:33.10.<\/p>\n Britain’s\u00a0Harriet Lee\u00a0<\/strong>(2:34.91) and China’s\u00a0Meng Zhang\u00a0<\/strong>(2:36.53) were seventh and eighth.<\/p>\n Two Chinese swimmers topped the podium tonight.\u00a0Yinan Wang\u00a0<\/strong>registered a 56.80 for gold and\u00a0Maodang Song\u00a0<\/strong>swam a 58.13 for silver. Bronze went to\u00a0Joseph Craig\u00a0<\/strong>in 58.19. His British teammate\u00a0Oliver Hynd\u00a0<\/strong>finished just off the podium in 58.85.<\/p>\n China’s\u00a0Guanglong Yang\u00a0<\/strong>was fifth in 59.17. Also under a minute was Ukraine’s\u00a0Bohdan Hrynenko\u00a0<\/strong>in 59.74. Canada’s\u00a0Zack Mcallister\u00a0<\/strong>(1:01.37) and Mexico’s\u00a0Luis Armando Andrade Guillen\u00a0<\/strong>(1:01.90) were seventh and eighth.<\/p>\n After a tight morning, things were close again tonight. Australia’s\u00a0Maddison Elliott\u00a0<\/strong>held a slight lead at the 50 and held on to set a Paralympic record of 1:04.73 tonight. Her teammate\u00a0Lakeisha Patterson\u00a0<\/strong>swam a 1:05.08 for silver. Taking bronze was\u00a0Stephanie Millward\u00a0<\/strong>of Great Britain in 1:05.16.<\/p>\n Jessica Long\u00a0<\/strong>of the USA finished six tenths off the podium in 1:05.72.<\/p>\n Canada’s\u00a0Morgan Bird\u00a0<\/strong>(1:09.67) and her teammate\u00a0Abi Tripp\u00a0<\/strong>(1:10.40) were fifth and seventh. Brazil’s\u00a0Cecilia Jeronimo De Araujo\u00a0<\/strong>(1:09.83) and American\u00a0Mallory Weggemann\u00a0<\/strong>(1:11.80) finished sixth and eighth.<\/p>\n China’s\u00a0Junsheng Li\u00a0<\/strong>edged\u00a0Daniel Dias\u00a0<\/strong>of Brazil 1:35.96 to 1:36.13 for gold. Colombia’s\u00a0Moises Fuentes Garcia\u00a0<\/strong>out touched Greece’s\u00a0Antonios Tsapatakis\u00a0<\/strong>1:37.40 to 1:37.69 for bronze.<\/p>\n Spain’s\u00a0Ricardo Ten\u00a0<\/strong>(1:38.07), Vietnam’s\u00a0Thanh Trung Nguyen\u00a0<\/strong>(1:49.67) and Italy’s\u00a0Andrewa Massussi\u00a0<\/strong>(1:51.96) followed.\u00a0Shiwei He\u00a0<\/strong>of China was disqualified.<\/p>\n Sarah Louise Rung\u00a0<\/strong>won gold for Norway in 1:44.94. Nearly six seconds behind her was Italy’s\u00a0Giulia Ghiretti\u00a0<\/strong>in 1:50.58. Another five seconds back was Singapore’s\u00a0Rui Si Theresa Goh\u00a0<\/strong>in 1:55.55 for bronze.<\/p>\n China’s\u00a0Li Zhang\u00a0<\/strong>also broke two minutes in 1:58.13.<\/p>\n Belarus’\u00a0Natallia Shavel\u00a0<\/strong>(2:00.71), Israel’s\u00a0Inbal Pezaro\u00a0<\/strong>(2:01.02), Greece’s\u00a0Chrysoula Antoniadou\u00a0<\/strong>(2:06.24), and China’s\u00a0Cuan Yao\u00a0<\/strong>(2:07.64) completed the final.<\/p>\n China\u2019s\u00a0Liangkang Zou\u00a0<\/strong>set the lone world record of the morning, and took down the Paralympic mark with a 3:49.37. Tonight, his teammate\u00a0Benying Liu\u00a0<\/strong>got to the wall first in 3:41.54 to take\u00a0both records. While Zou was faster tonight, his 3:42.58 was only good for silver. Ukraine’s\u00a0Serhii Palamarchuk\u00a0<\/strong>was also under the old marks with a bronze winning 3:43.69.<\/p>\n China’s Yang Yang\u00a0<\/strong>was fourth in 4:11.20. In 4:29.80 Ukraine’s\u00a0Roman Bondarenko\u00a0<\/strong>finished fifth. Greece’s\u00a0Aristeidis Makrodimitris\u00a0<\/strong>(4:57.90), and Israel’s\u00a0Itzhak Mamistvalov\u00a0<\/strong>(5:09.96) and\u00a0Iad Joseph Shalabi\u00a0<\/strong>(5:22.39) rounded out the top eight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Everything you need to follow along live with day four finals at the 2016 Paralympic Games. Hit refresh for the latest coverage. 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