Swimming at the 2012 Summer Paralympics – Men's 100 metre freestyle S6
# Swimming at the 2012 Summer Paralympics – Men's 100 metre freestyle S6

The men's 100m freestyle S6 event at the 2012 Summer Paralympics took place at the London Aquatics Centre on 8 September. There were two heats; the swimmers with the eight fastest times advanced to the final.

## Results

### Heats

Competed from 09:49.

**Heat 1**

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 5 | Lorenzo Perez Escalona | Cuba | 1:10.64 | Q |
| 2 | 3 | Matthew Haanappel | Australia | 1:10.95 | Q, OC |
| 3 | 6 | Matthew Whorwood | Great Britain | 1:11.47 | Q |
| 4 | 4 | Xu Qing | China | 1:12.29 | Q |
| 5 | 2 | Nelson Crispin | Colombia | 1:13.68 | |
| 6 | 7 | Swen Michaelis | Germany | 1:14.44 | |
| 7 | 1 | Daniel Londono | Colombia | 1:14.55 | |
| 8 | 8 | Yoav Valinsky | Israel | 1:14.65 | |

**Heat 2**

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 4 | Sebastian Iwanow | Germany | 1:09.80 | Q |
| 2 | 2 | Darragh McDonald | Ireland | 1:10.59 | Q |
| 3 | 6 | Adriano de Lima | Brazil | 1:10.96 | Q |
| 4 | 5 | Anders Olsson | Sweden | 1:11.04 | Q |
| 5 | 3 | Tang Yuan | China | 1:12.76 | |
| 6 | 1 | Aaron Rhind | Australia | 1:14.48 | |
| 7 | 8 | Reagan Wickens | Australia | 1:17.15 | |
| 8 | 7 | Kyosuke Oyama | Japan | 1:19.16 | |

### Final

Competed at 17:44.

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | 8 | Xu Qing | China | 1:05.82 | PR |
| | 4 | Sebastian Iwanow | Germany | 1:07.34 | |
| | 3 | Lorenzo Perez Escalona | Cuba | 1:08.01 | AM |
| 4 | 5 | Darragh McDonald | Ireland | 1:08.92 | |
| 5 | 6 | Matthew Haanappel | Australia | 1:09.88 | OC |
| 6 | 7 | Anders Olsson | Sweden | 1:10.12 | |
| 7 | 1 | Matthew Whorwood | Great Britain | 1:11.21 | |
| 8 | 2 | Adriano de Lima | Brazil | 1:11.32 | |

Q = qualified for final. PR = Paralympic Record. AM = Americas Record. OC = Oceania Record.

