# Swimming at the 2016 Summer Paralympics – Women's 100 metre backstroke

The women's 100 m backstroke swimming events for the 2016 Summer Paralympics take place at the Rio Olympic Stadium from 8 to 17 September. A total of ten events are contested for ten different classifications.

## Competition format

Each event consists of two rounds: heats and final. The top eight swimmers overall in the heats progress to the final. If there are less than eight swimmers in an event, no heats are held and all swimmers qualify for the final.

## Results
### S2

The S2 event took place on 9 September.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 4 | Yip Pin Xiu | Singapore | 2:07.09 | WR |
| | 3 | Feng Yazhu | China | 2:18.98 | |
| | 5 | Iryna Sotska | Ukraine | 2:21.98 | |
| 4 | 6 | Zsanett Adami | Hungary | 3:00.71 | |
| 5 | 2 | Maria Kalpakidou | Greece | 3:00.72 | |
| 6 | 7 | Gloria Boccanera | Italy | 3:18.38 | |

### S6

The S6 event took place on 8 September.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 4 | Song Lingling | China | 1:21.43 | WR |
| | 5 | Lu Dong | China | 1:21.65 | |
| | 2 | Oksana Khrul | Ukraine | 1:26.82 | |
| 4 | 3 | Yelyzaveta Mereshko | Ukraine | 1:28.99 | |
| 5 | 7 | Emanuela Romano | Italy | 1:32.45 | |
| 6 | 1 | Vianney Trejo Delgadillo | Mexico | 1:33.56 | AM |
| 7 | 8 | Natalya Zvyagintseva | Kazakhstan | 1:34.59 | |
| – | 6 | Tiffany Thomas Kane | Australia | DSQ | |

### S7

The S7 event took place on 8 September.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | 4 | Ke Liting | China | 1:23.06 |
| | 6 | Zhang Ying | China | 1:23.34 |
| | 5 | Rebecca Dubber | New Zealand | 1:23.85 |
| 4 | 2 | Huang Yajing | China | 1:24.53 |
| 5 | 7 | McKenzie Coan | United States | 1:25.17 |
| 6 | 3 | Nikita Howarth | New Zealand | 1:25.37 |
| 7 | 1 | Cortney Jordan | United States | 1:25.95 |
| 8 | 8 | Denise Grahl | Germany | 1:29.87 |

### S8

The S8 event took place on 13 September.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 4 | Stephanie Millward | Great Britain | 1:13.02 | PR |
| | 7 | Maddison Elliott | Australia | 1:17.16 | OC |
| | 5 | Jessica Long | United States | 1:18.12 | |
| 4 | 2 | Lakeisha Patterson | Australia | 1:18.27 | |
| 5 | 6 | Stephanie Slater | Great Britain | 1:19.42 | |
| 6 | 1 | Cleo Keijzer | Netherlands | 1:22.09 | |
| 7 | 8 | Lu Weiyuan | China | 1:22.17 | AS |
| 8 | 3 | Elizabeth Marks | United States | 1:22.67 | |

### S9

The S9 event took place on 16 September.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 5 | Ellie Cole | Australia | 1:09.18 | PR |
| | 4 | Nuria Marques Soto | Spain | 1:09.57 | |
| | 3 | Hannah Aspden | United States | 1:10.67 | |
| 4 | 2 | Wang Jiexin | China | 1:13.54 | |
| 5 | 7 | Elizabeth Smith | United States | 1:14.48 | |
| 6 | 6 | Amy Marren | Great Britain | 1:14.58 | |
| 7 | 8 | Tupou Neiufi | New Zealand | 1:14.94 | |
| 8 | 1 | Ellen Keane | Ireland | 1:16.27 | |

### S10

The S10 event took place on 10 September.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | 4 | Sophie Pascoe | New Zealand | 1:07.04 |
| | 5 | Bianka Pap | Hungary | 1:07.95 |
| | 3 | Alice Tai | Great Britain | 1:09.62 |
| 4 | 6 | Aurelie Rivard | Canada | 1:09.62 |
| 5 | 2 | Lisa Kruger | Netherlands | 1:10.59 |
| 6 | 1 | Mariana Ribeiro | Brazil | 1:11.03 |
| 7 | 7 | Anaelle Roulet | France | 1:12.21 |
| 8 | 8 | Marije Oosterhuis | Netherlands | 1:13.07 |

### S11

The S11 event took place on 9 September.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 4 | Mary Fisher | New Zealand | 1:17.96 | WR |
| | 5 | Cai Liwen | China | 1:20.29 | |
| | 1 | Maja Reichard | Sweden | 1:21.46 | |
| 4 | 3 | Maryna Piddubna | Ukraine | 1:21.86 | |
| 5 | 6 | Kateryna Tkachuk | Ukraine | 1:22.69 | |
| 6 | 7 | Li Guizhi | China | 1:22.97 | |
| 7 | 2 | Cecilia Camellini | Italy | 1:23.92 | |
| 8 | 8 | Chikako Ono | Japan | 1:25.40 | |

### S12

The S12 event took place on 14 September.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 4 | Hannah Russell | Great Britain | 1:06.06 | WR |
| | 5 | Yaryna Matlo | Ukraine | 1:11.97 | |
| | 3 | Maria Delgardo Nadal | Spain | 1:12.73 | |
| 4 | 6 | Racquel Viel | Brazil | 1:15.24 | |
| 5 | 7 | Maryna Stavrovska | Ukraine | 1:21.33 | |
| 6 | 2 | Anna Luz Pallitero | Argentina | 1:21.73 | |
| 7 | 1 | Anabel Moro | Argentina | 1:22.79 | |
| 8 | 8 | McClain Hermes | United States | 1:26.75 | |

### S13

The S13 event took place on 17 September.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 5 | Anna Stetsenko | Ukraine | 1:08.30 | WR |
| | 4 | Abby Kane | Great Britain | 1:09.30 | |
| | 6 | Katja Dedekind | Australia | 1:12.25 | |
| 4 | 3 | Colleen Young | United States | 1:12.93 | |
| 5 | 2 | Karina Petricovicova | Slovakia | 1:14.61 | |
| 6 | 7 | Sanne Hoffmann | Netherlands | 1:14.70 | |
| 7 | 1 | Jenna Jones | Australia | 1:15.14 | |
| 8 | 8 | Anastasiya Zudzilva | Belarus | 1:16.32 | |

### S14

The S14 event took place on 8 September.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 4 | Bethany Firth | Great Britain | 1:04.05 | WR |
| | 5 | Marlou van der Kulk | Netherlands | 1:06.33 | |
| | 3 | Jessica-Jane Applegate | Great Britain | 1:08.67 | |
| 4 | 6 | Kang Jung Eun | South Korea | 1:13.95 | |
| 5 | 2 | Pernilla Lindberg | Sweden | 1:15.40 | |
| 6 | 7 | Janina Breuer | Germany | 1:16.02 | |
| 7 | 1 | Leslie Cichocki | United States | 1:16.76 | |
| 8 | 8 | Xenia Palazzo | Italy | 1:17.64 | |