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Swimming At The 2008 Summer Paralympics – Men's 50 Metre Freestyle S11
The men's 50m freestyle S11 event at the 2008 Summer Paralympics took place at the Beijing National Aquatics Center The National Aquatics Centre (), and colloquially known as the Water Cube () and the Ice Cube (), is an aquatics center at the Olympic Green in Beijing, China. The facility was originally constructed to host the aquatics competitions at the ... on 14 September. There were three heats; the swimmers with the eight fastest times advanced to the final. Results Heats Competed from 09:00. Heat 1 Heat 2 Heat 3 Final Competed at 17:00. Q = qualified for final. WR = World Record. References * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Swimming at the 2008 Summer Paralympics - Men's 50 metre freestyle S11 Swimming at the 2008 Summer Paralympics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beijing National Aquatics Center
The National Aquatics Centre (), and colloquially known as the Water Cube () and the Ice Cube (), is an aquatics center at the Olympic Green in Beijing, China. The facility was originally constructed to host the aquatics competitions at the 2008 Summer Olympics and Paralympics. During the Olympics — where it hosted diving, swimming and synchronized swimming events — 25 world records were broken in swimming. In July 2010, a renovation of the facility was completed, which included the addition of a public water park. With Beijing being awarded the 2022 Winter Olympics, the Water Cube became known as the Ice Cube as part of the Water Cube was renovated in 2019 to allow the hosting of curling events. Architecture In July 2003 the Water Cube design was chosen from 10 proposals in an international architectural competition for the aquatic center project. The Water Cube was specially designed and built by a consortium made up of PTW Architects (an Australian architecture ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enhamed Enhamed
Enhamed Enhamed Mohamed Yahdih (born 11 September 1987 in Las Palmas, Canary Islands) is a Paralympic swimmer from Spain. He is an B1/S11 type swimmer. Personal Enhamed is blind. A motivational speaker, Enhamed likes to describe the moment that he became blind at the age of eight, as "the day I won my blindness". His family immigrated to Spain from Morocco. Swimming A vision impaired swimmer, he has a "tapper" who taps him so he knows when he has to initiate a turn in the water. In 2010, he raced at the Tenerife International Open. Before the 2010 Adapted Swimming World Championship in the Netherlands, he went to a swimming camp with the national team that was part of the Paralympic High Performance Program (HARP Program). He raced at the 2011 IPC European Swimming Championships in Berlin, Germany. Paralympics He raced at the 2004 Summer Paralympics. He finished third in the 400 meter Freestyle and 100 meter Butterfly races. He raced at the 2008 Summer Paralympics. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Junichi Kawai
is a Japanese Paralympic swimmer competing mainly in category S11 events. Career Junichi has competed in five summer paralympics winning a total of 21 medals, five gold nine silver and seven bronze. His first games came in 1992 when he competed in the 400m freestyle and won bronze in the 100m backstroke, 200m backstroke and 200m Medley and silver in both the 50m and 100m freestyle. In 1996 in Atlanta he competed in the 100m breaststroke and butterfly and won bronze in the 200m Medley, silver in the 100m backstroke and gold in both the 50m and 100m freestyle. In the 2000 Summer Paralympics he defended his 50m freestyle title but slipped to second in the 100m freestyle but also won a gold as part of the Japanese 4 × 100 m medley team and added a further two silver medals in the 100m backstroke and 200m medley. 2004 would see him win his third consecutive gold at the 50m freestyle, he also won silvers in the 100m butterfly and freestyle and bronze ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Chekurov
Alexander Chekurov (Russian: Александр Николаевич Чекуров, born 26 May 1974) is a Paralympic swimmer from Russia competing mainly in category S11 events. Alexander won the bronze medal in the 50m freestyle at the 2008 Summer Paralympics The 2008 Summer Paralympic Games (), the 13th Summer Paralympic Games, took place in Beijing, China from September 6 to 17, 2008. As with the 2008 Summer Olympics, equestrian events were held in Hong Kong and sailing events in Qingdao. It was ... as well as finishing seventh in the 100m freestyle and competing in the heats of the 100m butterfly References External links * Paralympic swimmers for Russia Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Paralympics Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Paralympics Paralympic bronze medalists for Russia Living people 1974 births Medalists at the 2008 Summer Paralympics S11-classified para swimmers Paralympic medalists in swimming Russian male freestyle swimmers Russian male butt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008 Summer Paralympics
The 2008 Summer Paralympic Games (), the 13th Summer Paralympic Games, took place in Beijing, China from September 6 to 17, 2008. As with the 2008 Summer Olympics, equestrian events were held in Hong Kong and sailing events in Qingdao. It was first time the new Paralympic logo featured in the Summer Paralympics since its rebranding after the 2004 Summer Paralympics. 3,951 athletes from 146 countries took part,"Beijing 2008" the largest number of nations ever (ten more than the 2004 Games in Athens). Five countrie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yang Bozun
Yang Bozun (born March 23, 1986) is a Chinese Paralympic swimmer. At the 2012 Summer Paralympics The 2012 Summer Paralympics, branded as the London 2012 Paralympic Games, were an international multi-sport parasports event held from 29 August to 9 September 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. They were the 14th Summer Paralympic Gam ... he won three gold medals, two silver medals and one bronze medal. References Paralympic swimmers for China Paralympic gold medalists for China Living people World record holders in paralympic swimming 1986 births Paralympic silver medalists for China Paralympic bronze medalists for China Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Paralympics Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2012 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2008 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2022 Asian Para Games S11-classified para swimmers Paralympic medalists in swimming Chinese male medley swimmers Chinese male freestyle swimmers Chinese ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
