Swimming at the 2016 Summer Paralympics – Men's 400 metre freestyle S8

Men's 400 metre freestyle S8 at the XV Paralympic Games
Venue	Olympic Aquatics Stadium
Dates	8 September 2016
Competitors	12 from 8 nations
Medalists
Oliver Hynd  Great Britain Xu Haijiao  China Wang Yinan  China

Swimming at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
Men's events
50 m freestyle	S3	S4	S5	S6	S7
	S8	S9	S10	S11	S12
	S13
100 m freestyle	S4	S5	S6	S7	S8
	S9	S10	S11	S13
200 m freestyle	S2	S3	S4	S5	S14
400 m freestyle	S6	S7		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	S13
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 400 metre freestyle S8 event at the 2016 Paralympic Games took place on 8 September, at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium.

Two heats were held, both with six swimmers. The swimmers with the eight fastest times advanced to the final.

Prior to the competition, the existing World and Paralympic records were as follows.

World record	Oliver Hynd (GBR)	4:23.76	Sheffield, Great Britain	30 July 2016
Paralympic record	Sam Hynd (GBR)	4:26.25	Beijing, China	9 September 2008
2016 World leading	Oliver Hynd (GBR)	4:23.76	Sheffield, Great Britain	30 July 2016

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Wang Yinan	China	4:41.10	Q
2	3	Xu Haijiao	China	4:41.18	Q
3	5	Josef Craig	Great Britain	4:41.93	Q
4	6	Bohdan Hrynenko	Ukraine	4:51.81
5	2	Ernie Gawilan	Philippines	4:54.24
6	7	Evan Austin	United States	4:56.85

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Oliver Hynd	Great Britain	4:31.90	Q
2	3	Robert Griswold	United States	4:38.46	Q
3	5	Caio Oliveira	Brazil	4:40.64	Q
4	6	Blake Cochrane	Australia	4:41.06	Q
5	2	Jesse Aungles	Australia	4:43.87	Q
6	7	Torben Schmidtke	Germany	4:56.29

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Oliver Hynd	Great Britain	4:21.89	WR
	7	Xu Haijiao	China	4:25.65
	2	Wang Yinan	China	4:32.78
4	3	Caio Oliveria	Brazil	4:33.97
5	5	Robert Griswold	United States	4:36.26
6	1	Josef Craig	Great Britain	4:39.04
7	6	Blake Cochrane	Australia	4:39.79
8	8	Jesse Aungles	Australia	4:48.23

• "Men's 400m Freestyle - S8". Archived from the original on 22 September 2016. Retrieved 8 September 2016.