Swimming at the 2012 Summer Paralympics – Men's 100 metre backstroke S7

Men's 100 metre backstroke S7 at the XIV Paralympic Games
Venue	London Aquatics Centre
Dates	30 August
Competitors	16 from 11 nations
Medalists
01 ! Jonathan Fox  Great Britain 02 ! Yevheniy Bohodayko  Ukraine 03 ! Mihovil Spanja  Croatia

01 !		Jonathan Fox	Great Britain
02 !		Yevheniy Bohodayko	Ukraine
03 !		Mihovil Spanja	Croatia

Swimming at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
Men's events
50 m freestyle		S2		S4	S5
	S6	S7	S8	S9	S10
	S11	S12	S13
100 m freestyle		S2		S4	S5
	S6	S7	S8	S9	S10
	S11	S12	S13
200 m freestyle		S2		S4	S5
				S14
400 m freestyle	S6	S7	S8	S9	S10
	S11	S12	S13
50 m backstroke	S1	S2	S3	S4	S5
100 m backstroke	S6	S7	S8	S9	S10
	S11	S12	S13	S14
50 m breaststroke		SB2	SB3
100 m breaststroke				SB4	SB5
	SB6	SB7	SB8	SB9
	SB11	SB12	SB13	SB14
50 m butterfly					S5
	S6	S7
100 m butterfly			S8	S9	S10
	S11	S12	S13
150 m medley			SM3	SM4
200 m medley	SM6	SM7	SM8	SM9	SM10
	SM11	SM12	SM13
Freestyle relays	4 × 100 m (34pts)
Medley relays	4 × 100 m (34pts)

The men's 100 metre backstroke S7 event at the 2012 Paralympic Games took place on 30 August, at the London Aquatics Centre in the Olympic Park, London. The event was for athletes included in the S7 classification, which is for competitors with physical impairments. Sixteen swimmers took part, representing a total of eleven different nations. Great Britain's Jonathan Fox set a new world record in the heats and went on to win the gold medal.

Two heats were held, each with eight swimmers; the swimmers with the eight fastest times advanced to the final. The heats took place on 30 August starting at 10:39 BST.

Yevheniy Bohodayko of Ukraine won the first heat in a time of one minute 12.79 seconds. Bohodayko qualified for the final along with Mihovil Spanja of Croatia, fellow Ukrainian Marian Kvasnytsia and China's Nan Gao. Nan Gao set a new Asian record time of one minute 15.05 seconds.

British swimmer Jonathan Fox broke his own world record, setting a time of one minute 9.86 seconds to win heat 2 and qualify fastest for the final. Other qualifiers from the second heat were Guillermo Marro of Argentina, Andrey Gladkov of Russia and Ievgen Poltavskyi of Ukraine.

The final took place on 30 August 2012 at 18:52 BST. Jonathan Fox won the gold medal in a time of one minute 10.46 seconds, earning Great Britain's first swimming gold medal of the Games. Silver went to Ukraine's Bohodayko, who finished 0.85 seconds behind the winner, and the bronze to Spanja of Croatia. Chinese swimmer Nan Gao finished in seventh position but broke the Asian record which he had set in the heats. Marian Kvasnytsia was disqualified.

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