Swimming at the 2020 Summer Paralympics – Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay 34pts

The women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay - 34 points swimming events for the 2020 Summer Paralympics took place at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre on 29 August 2021.

Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay - 34 points
at the XVI Paralympic Games
VenueTokyo Aquatics Centre
Dates29 August 2021
Competitors32 from 8 nations
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Italy (ITA)
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Australia (AUS)
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Canada (CAN)

Competition format edit

Relay teams are based on a point score. The sport class of an individual swimmer is worth the actual number value i.e. sport class S6 is worth six points, sport class S12 is worth twelve points, and so on. The total of all the competitors must add up to 34 points or less.[1]

Records edit

Prior to the competition, the World record was as follows:[2]

World record   Australia 4:16.65 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 15 September 2016
Paralympic record   Australia 4:16.65 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 15 September 2016

Final edit

19:39 29 August 2021:[2]

Rank Lane Nation Swimmers Time Notes
  3   Italy Xenia Francesca Palazzo (S8) (1:07.06)
Vittoria Bianco (S9) (1:07.55)
Giulia Terzi (S7) (1:08.75)
Alessia Scortechini (S10) (1:01.49)
4:24.85
  7   Australia Ellie Cole (S9) (1:03.41)
Isabella Vincent (S7) (1:15.78)
Emily Beecroft (S9) (1:04.24)
Ashleigh McConnell (S9) (1:03.39)
4:26.82
  6   Canada Morgan Bird (S8) (1:11.66)
Katarina Roxon (S9) (1:06.91)
Sabrina Duchesne (S7) (1:13.73)
Aurelie Rivard (S10) (58.10)
4:30.40
4 2   China Jialing Xu (S9) (1:05.37)
Zhang Meng (S10) (1:02.63)
Jiang Yuyan (S6) (1:11.25)
Lingling Song (S6) (1:13.96)
4:33.21
5 1   Hungary Zsófia Konkoly (S9) (1:04.10)
Fanni Illés (S6) (1:23.14)
Kata Payer (S9) (1:09.10)
Bianka Pap (S10) (1:02.32)
4:38.66
6 8   RPC Ani Palian (S7) (1:17.44)
Mariia Pavlova (S8) (1:13.33)
Elena Kliachkina (S9) (1:08.57)
Anastasiia Gontar (S10) (1:02.44)
4:41.78
4   Great Britain Stephanie Millward (S9) (1:07.81)
Zara Mullooly (S10)
Grace Harvey (S6)
Toni Shaw (S9)
DSQ
5   United States Natalie Sims (S9) (1:05.28)
Morgan Stickney (S8)
Jessica Long (S8)
Hannah Aspden (S9)

Notes edit

  1. ^ "Swimming Rules". Swimming Australia. Retrieved 2 October 2016.
  2. ^ a b "Women's 4x100m Freestyle - 34pts". 2020 Summer Paralympics. Archived from the original on 30 August 2021. Retrieved 30 August 2021.