Swimming at the 2008 Summer Paralympics – Men's 4 x 50 metre medley relay – 20 points

Men's 4x50m Medley Relay 20 points at the XIII Paralympic Games
Venue	Beijing National Aquatics Center
Dates	15 September
Competitors	9
Winning time	2:33.15
Medalists
China (CHN) Du Jianping, Tang Yuan, Xu Qing, Yang Yuanrun    Brazil (BRA) Daniel Dias, Ivanildo Vasconcelos, Luis Silva, Clodoaldo Silva    Spain (ESP) Pablo Cimadevila, Vicente Gil, Daniel Vidal, Sebastián Rodríguez

Swimming at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
Men's events
50m freestyle		S2	S3	S4	S5
	S6	S7	S8	S9	S10
	S11	S12	S13
100m freestyle		S2	S3	S4	S5
	S6	S7	S8	S9	S10
	S11	S12	S13
200m freestyle		S2	S3	S4	S5
400m freestyle	S6	S7	S8	S9	S10
	S11	S12	S13
50m backstroke	S1	S2	S3	S4	S5
100m backstroke	S6	S7	S8	S9	S10
	S11	S12	S13
50m breaststroke			SB3
100m breaststroke				SB4	SB5
	SB6	SB7	SB8	SB9
	SB11	SB12	SB13
50m butterfly					S5
	S6	S7
100m butterfly			S8	S9	S10
	S11	S12	S13
150m medley				SM4
200m medley					SM5
	SM6	SM7	SM8	SM9	SM10
		SM12	SM13
Freestyle relays	4 × 50m (20pts) 4 × 100m (34pts)
Medley relays	4 × 50m (20pts) 4 × 100m (34pts)

The men's 4x50m medley relay 20 points event at the 2008 Summer Paralympics took place at the Beijing National Aquatics Center on 15 September. There were two heats; the teams with the eight fastest times advanced to the final.

Results

Heats

Competed from 10:37.

Heat 1

Rank	Lane	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Notes
1	5	United States	Lantz Lamback Dave Denniston Roy Perkins Joe McCarthy	2:46.20	Q
2	4	Spain	Pablo Cimadevila Vicente Gil Ricardo Ten Vicente Javier Torres	3:00.44	Q
3	3	China	He Junquan Li Hanhua Li Peng Tian Rong	3:00.46	Q
4	6	Greece	Stylianos Tsakonas Konstantinos Karaouzas Konstantinos Fykas Ioannis Kostakis	3:15.09	Q

Heat 2

Rank	Lane	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Notes
1	5	Ukraine	Iaroslav Semenenko Dmytro Vynohradets' Iurii Andriushin Dmytro Kryzhanovskyy	2:51.26	Q
2	4	Brazil	Francisco Avelino Ivanildo Vasconcelos Adriano Lima Clodoaldo Silva	2:54.05	Q
3	2	Thailand	Prajim Rieangsantiea Taweesook Samuksaneeto Somchai Duangkeaw Voravit Kaewkham	2:55.24	Q
4	6	Mexico	Juan Reyes Pedro Rangel Vidal Dominguez Jose Castorena	3:06.32	Q
	3	Russia	Albert Bakaev Alexey Fomenkov Ruslan Sadvakasov Ivan Khmelnitskiy		DSQ

Final

Competed at 20:27.

Rank	Lane	Nation	Swimmers	Time	Notes
	7	China	Du Jianping Tang Yuan Xu Qing Yang Yuanrun	2:33.15	WR
	3	Brazil	Daniel Dias Ivanildo Vasconcelos Luis Silva Clodoaldo Silva	2:39.31
	2	Spain	Pablo Cimadevila Vicente Gil Daniel Vidal Sebastián Rodríguez	2:40.38
4	4	United States	Lantz Lamback Dave Denniston Roy Perkins Joe McCarthy	2:43.00
5	5	Ukraine	Iaroslav Semenenko Dmytro Vynohradets' Iurii Andriushin Dmytro Kryzhanovskyy	2:45.44
6	6	Thailand	Prajim Rieangsantiea Taweesook Samuksaneeto Somchai Duangkeaw Voravit Kaewkham	2:54.38
7	1	Mexico	Juan Reyes Pedro Rangel Vidal Dominguez Jose Castorena	3:04.44
8	8	Greece	Stylianos Tsakonas Konstantinos Karaouzas Konstantinos Fykas Ioannis Kostakis	3:08.79

Q = qualified for final. WR = World Record.

References

Official Beijing 2008 Paralympics Results: Heats
Official Beijing 2008 Paralympics Results: Final