# Swimming at the 2020 Summer Paralympics – Women's 50 metre freestyle

The Women's 50 metre freestyle swimming events for the 2020 Summer Paralympics took place at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre from 25 August to 2 September 2021. A total of six events were contested over this distance.

## Schedule

| H | Heats | ½ | Semifinals | F | Final |
| Date | Wed 25 | Wed 25 | Thu 26 | Thu 26 | Fri 27 | Fri 27 | Sat 28 | Sat 28 | Sun 29 | Sun 29 | Mon 30 | Mon 30 | Tue 31 | Tue 31 | Wed 1 | Wed 1 | Thu 2 | Thu 2 |
| Event | M | E | M | E | M | E | M | E | M | E | M | E | M | E | M | E | M | E |
| S4 50m | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | H | F |
| S6 50m | H | F | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| S8 50m | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | H | F | | |
| S10 50m | H | F | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| S11 50m | | | | | | | | | H | F | | | | | | | | |
| S13 50m | | | | | | | | | H | F | | | | | | | | |

## Medal summary

The following is a summary of the medals awarded across all 50 metre freestyle events Due to opposition by a participating nation, S11 was postponed and took place on 29 August 2021.
| Classification | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| S4 details | Rachael Watson Australia | 39.36 PR | Arjola Trimi Italy | 40.32 WR | Marta Fernández Infante Spain | 40.85 |
| S6 details | Yelyzaveta Mereshko Ukraine | 33.11 PR | Elizabeth Marks United States | 33.15 | Anna Hontar Ukraine | 33.40 |
| S8 details | Viktoriia Ishchiulova RPC | 29.91 | Cecília Jerônimo de Araújo Brazil | 30.83 | Xenia Palazzo Italy | 31.17 |
| S10 details | Anastasiia Gontar RPC | 27.38 | Chantalle Zijderveld Netherlands | 27.42 | Aurélie Rivard Canada | 28.11 |
| S11 details | Ma Jia China | 29.20 WR | Li Guizhi China | 29.72 | Karolina Pelendritou Cyprus | 29.79 |
| S13 details | Maria Carolina Santiago Brazil | 26.82 | Anna Krivshina RPC | 27.06 | Carlotta Gilli Italy | 27.07 |

## Results

The following were the results of the finals only of each of the Women's 50 metre freestyle events in each of the classifications. Further details of each event, including where appropriate heats and semi finals results, are available on that event's dedicated page.

### S4

The S4 category is for swimmers who have function in their hands and arms but can't use their trunk or legs to swim, or they have three amputated limbs.
The final in this classification took place on 2 September 2021:
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 2 | Rachael Watson | Australia | 39.36 | PR |
| | 3 | Arjola Trimi | Italy | 40.32 | WR |
| | 4 | Marta Fernández Infante | Spain | 40.85 | |
| 4 | 5 | Patrícia Pereira | Brazil | 41.56 | |
| 5 | 6 | Nely Miranda | Mexico | 42.31 | |
| 6 | 7 | Zhou Yanfei | China | 43.16 | |
| 7 | 1 | Nataliia Butkova | RPC | 43.75 | |
| 8 | 8 | Zulfiya Gabidullina | Kazakhstan | 48.12 | |

### S6

The S6 category is for swimmers who have short stature, arm amputations, or some form of coordination problem on one side of their body.
The final in this classification took place on 25 August 2021:
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 5 | Yelyzaveta Mereshko | Ukraine | 33.11 | PR |
| | 4 | Elizabeth Marks | United States | 33.15 | |
| | 3 | Anna Hontar | Ukraine | 33.40 | |
| 4 | 2 | Jiang Yuyan | China | 33.55 | |
| 5 | 1 | Viktoriia Savtsova | Ukraine | 33.68 | |
| 6 | 6 | Sara Vargas Blanco | Colombia | 33.97 | |
| 7 | 7 | Song Lingling | China | 34.40 | |
| 8 | 8 | Nicole Turner | Ireland | 35.29 | |

### S8

The S8 category is for swimmers who have a single amputation, or restrictive movement in their hip, knee and ankle joints.
The final in this classification took place on 1 September 2021:
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | 4 | Viktoriia Ishchiulova | RPC | 29.91 |
| | 5 | Cecília Jerônimo de Araújo | Brazil | 30.83 |
| | 3 | Xenia Francesca Palazzo | Italy | 31.17 |
| 4 | 7 | Kateryna Denysenko | Ukraine | 31.47 |
| 5 | 6 | Tupou Neiufi | New Zealand | 31.48 |
| 6 | 8 | Morgan Bird | Canada | 32.16 |
| 7 | 2 | Mallory Weggemann | United States | 32.66 |
| 8 | 1 | McKenzie Coan | United States | 33.18 |

### S10

The S10 category is for swimmers who have minor physical impairments, for example, loss of one hand.
The final in this classification took place on 25 August 2021:
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | 4 | Anastasiia Gontar | RPC | 27.38 |
| | 3 | Chantalle Zijderveld | Netherlands | 27.42 |
| | 5 | Aurélie Rivard | Canada | 28.11 |
| 4 | 2 | Alessia Scortechini | Italy | 28.26 |
| 5 | 6 | Mariana Ribeiro | Brazil | 28.58 |
| 6 | 7 | María Barrera Zapata | Colombia | 28.70 |
| 7 | 1 | Zara Mullooly | Great Britain | 28.73 |
| 8 | 8 | Zhang Meng | China | 28.96 |

### S11

The S11 category is for swimmers who have severe visual impairments and have very low or no light perception, such as blindness; they are required to wear blackened goggles to compete. They use tappers when competing in swimming events.
The final in this classification took place on 29 August 2021:
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 3 | Ma Jia | China | 29.20 | WR |
| | 5 | Li Guizhi | China | 29.72 | |
| | 4 | Karolina Pelendritou | Cyprus | 29.79 | |
| 4 | 6 | Liesette Bruinsma | Netherlands | 30.19 | |
| 5 | 7 | Wang Xinyi | China | 30.24 | |
| 6 | 1 | Maryna Piddubna | Ukraine | 30.65 | |
| 7 | 2 | Tomomi Ishiura | Japan | 30.85 | |
| 8 | 8 | Anastasia Pagonis | United States | 30.91 | |

### S13

The S13 category is for swimmers who have minor visual impairment and have high visual acuity. They are required to wear blackened goggles to compete. They may wish to use a tapper.
The final in this classification took place on 29 August 2021:
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 4 | Maria Carolina Gomes Santiago | Brazil | 26.82 | PR |
| | 5 | Anna Krivshina | RPC | 27.06 | PR |
| | 3 | Carlotta Gilli | Italy | 27.07 | |
| 4 | 6 | Katja Dedekind | Australia | 27.14 | OC |
| 5 | 2 | Daria Pikalova | RPC | 27.39 | |
| 6 | 1 | Hannah Russell | Great Britain | 27.58 | |
| 7 | 7 | Ayano Tsujiuchi | Japan | 27.59 | |
| 8 | 8 | Anna Stetsenko | Ukraine | 27.68 | |