| Men's 100 metre backstroke S8 at the XVI Paralympic Games | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | Tokyo Aquatics Centre | ||||||||||||
| Dates | 27 August 2021 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 11 from 10 nations | ||||||||||||
| Medalists | |||||||||||||
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| Men's events | |||||
| 50 m freestyle | S3 | S4 | S5 | S7 | S9 |
| S10 | S11 | S13 | |||
| 100 m freestyle | S4 | S5 | S6 | S8 | S10 |
| S12 | |||||
| 200 m freestyle | S2 | S3 | S4 | S5 | S14 |
| 400 m freestyle | S6 | S7 | S8 | S9 | S10 |
| S11 | S13 | ||||
| 50 m backstroke | S1 | S2 | S3 | S4 | S5 |
| 100 m backstroke | S1 | S2 | 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 | S14 | ||||
| 150 m medley | SM3 | SM4 | |||
| 200 m medley | SM6 | SM7 | SM8 | SM9 | SM10 |
| SM11 | SM13 | SM14 | |||
| Freestyle relays | 4 × 100 m (34pts) | ||||
| Medley relays | 4 × 100 m (34pts) | ||||
The Men's 100 metre backstroke S8 event at the 2020 Paralympic Games took place on 27 August 2021, at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre.
Records
| World Record |  Zhou Cong (CHN) |
1:08.92 | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 13 September 2016 |
| Paralympic Record | Zhou Cong (CHN) |
1:09.86 | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 13 September 2016 |
Heats
The swimmers with the top 8 times, regardless of heat, advanced to the final.
Heat 1
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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| 1 | 4 | Iñigo Llopis Sanz |  Spain |
1:07.90 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | Liu Fengqi | China |
1:08.57 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | Joseph Perppersack |  United States |
1:09.30 | Q |
| 4 | 3 | Pavel Kuklin |  RPC |
1:09.77 | Q |
| 5 | 6 | Matthew Torres | United States |
1:14.03 |
Heat 2
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | Robert Griswold | United States |
1:05.49 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | Jesse Aungles |  Australia |
1:08.28 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Jurijs Semjonovs |  Latvia |
1:09.88 | Q |
| 3 | 6 | Kota Kubota |  Japan |
1:09.88 | Q |
| 5 | 2 | Sergio Salvador Martos Minguet | Spain |
1:12.15 | |
| 6 | 7 | Diogo Cancela |  Portugal |
1:15.63 |
Final
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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4 | Robert Griswold | United States |
1:02.55 | WR |
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5 | Iñigo Llopis Sanz | Spain |
1:06.82 | |
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6 | Liu Fengqi | China |
1:07.09 | |
| 4 | 3 | Jesse Aungles | Australia |
1:07.94 | |
| 5 | 8 | Kota Kubota | Japan |
1:09.09 | |
| 6 | 7 | Pavel Kuklin | RPC |
1:09.26 | |
| 7 | 2 | Joseph Perppersack | United States |
1:09.45 | |
| 8 | 1 | Jurijs Semjonovs | Latvia |
1:10.44 |