Australian par Olympic swimmer Ahmed Kelly faced a chaotic moment at the men's 150 M medle sm3 heat when he was wrongly disqualified for using a butterfly stroke instead of front CW during the freestyle leg of the event despite the freestyle rules allowing any stroke except backstroke or breast stroke Kelly who is missing both arms below the elbow and both legs below the knee had come in second place behind fellow Australian Grant Patterson swimming Australia quickly appealed and a disqualification was overturned allowing Kelly to compete in the final where he won silver this successful appeal and his subsequent medal performance contributed to Australia's tally of 22 medals placing them six overall at the Paris Olympics