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.
Records , the existing World and Paralympic records were as follows. World record4:23.76Sheffield, Great Britain30 July 2016Paralympic record4:26.25Beijing, China9 September 20082016 World leading4:23.76Sheffield, Great Britain30 July 2016
Heats Heat 1 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 Wang Yinan 4:41.10 Q 2 3 Xu Haijiao 4:41.18 Q 3 5 Josef Craig 4:41.93 Q 4 6 Bohdan Hrynenko 4:51.81 5 2 Ernie Gawilan 4:54.24 6 7 Evan Austin 4:56.85
Heat 2 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 Oliver Hynd 4:31.90 Q 2 3 Robert Griswold 4:38.46 Q 3 5 Caio Oliveira 4:40.64 Q 4 6 Blake Cochrane 4:41.06 Q 5 2 Jesse Aungles 4:43.87 Q 6 7 Torben Schmidtke 4:56.29
Final Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 4 Oliver Hynd 4:21.89 WR 7 Xu Haijiao 4:25.65 2 Wang Yinan 4:32.78 4 3 Caio Oliveria 4:33.97 5 5 Robert Griswold 4:36.26 6 1 Josef Craig 4:39.04 7 6 Blake Cochrane 4:39.79 8 8 Jesse Aungles 4:48.23
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