Swimming at the 2020 Summer Paralympics – Men's 50 metre backstroke S5
# Swimming at the 2020 Summer Paralympics – Men's 50 metre backstroke S5

The men's 50 metre backstroke S5 event at the 2020 Paralympic Games took place on 30 August 2021, at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre.

## Heats

The swimmers with the top eight times, regardless of heat, advanced to the final.

| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 1 | 5 | Ruan Jingsong | China | 33.27 | Q, PR |
| 2 | 2 | 5 | Yaroslav Semenenko | Ukraine | 35.07 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | 4 | Wang Lichao | China | 36.21 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | 4 | Zheng Tao | China | 37.15 | Q |
| 5 | 2 | 3 | Daniel de Faria Dias | Brazil | 37.19 | Q |
| 6 | 1 | 3 | Igor Plotnikov | RPC | 37.93 | Q |
| 7 | 2 | 6 | Andrew Mullen | Great Britain | 37.99 | Q |
| 8 | 1 | 6 | Antoni Ponce Bertran | Spain | 38.57 | Q |
| 9 | 2 | 2 | Võ Thanh Tùng | Vietnam | 40.07 | |
| 10 | 1 | 2 | Kaede Hinata | Japan | 41.97 | |
| 11 | 2 | 7 | Beytullah Eroğlu | Turkey | 41.99 | |
| 12 | 2 | 1 | Siyazbek Daliyev | Kazakhstan | 42.61 | |
| 13 | 2 | 8 | Dmitrii Cherniaev | RPC | 42.99 | |
| 14 | 1 | 1 | Artur Kubasov | RPC | 43.19 | |
| 15 | 1 | 7 | Abbas Karimi | Refugee Paralympic Team | 46.48 | |

## Final

50m backstroke final :

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
