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

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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)

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.

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
1st place, gold medalist(s) 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
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 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
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 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.