title: Swimming at the 2020 Summer Paralympics – Men's 50 metre backstroke S5
text: # Swimming at the 2020 Summer Paralympics – Men's 50 metre backstroke S5
  
  The men's 50 metre backstroke S5 event at the 2020 Paralympic Games took place on 30 August 2021, at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre.
  
  ## Heats
  
  The swimmers with the top eight times, regardless of heat, advanced to the final.
  
  | Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | 1 | 5 | Ruan Jingsong | China | 33.27 | Q, PR |
  | 2 | 2 | 5 | Yaroslav Semenenko | Ukraine | 35.07 | Q |
  | 3 | 1 | 4 | Wang Lichao | China | 36.21 | Q |
  | 4 | 2 | 4 | Zheng Tao | China | 37.15 | Q |
  | 5 | 2 | 3 | Daniel de Faria Dias | Brazil | 37.19 | Q |
  | 6 | 1 | 3 | Igor Plotnikov | RPC | 37.93 | Q |
  | 7 | 2 | 6 | Andrew Mullen | Great Britain | 37.99 | Q |
  | 8 | 1 | 6 | Antoni Ponce Bertran | Spain | 38.57 | Q |
  | 9 | 2 | 2 | Võ Thanh Tùng | Vietnam | 40.07 | |
  | 10 | 1 | 2 | Kaede Hinata | Japan | 41.97 | |
  | 11 | 2 | 7 | Beytullah Eroğlu | Turkey | 41.99 | |
  | 12 | 2 | 1 | Siyazbek Daliyev | Kazakhstan | 42.61 | |
  | 13 | 2 | 8 | Dmitrii Cherniaev | RPC | 42.99 | |
  | 14 | 1 | 1 | Artur Kubasov | RPC | 43.19 | |
  | 15 | 1 | 7 | Abbas Karimi | Refugee Paralympic Team | 46.48 | |
  
  ## Final
  
  50m backstroke final :
  
  | Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  