Athletics at the 2020 Summer Paralympics – Men's 100 metres T53
# Athletics at the 2020 Summer Paralympics – Men's 100 metres T53

The men's 100 metres T53 event at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, took place on 1 September 2021.

The T53 category is for wheelchair athletes with normal use of arms and hands, no or limited trunk function, and no leg function.

## Records

Prior to the competition, the existing records were as follows:

| World Record | Brent Lakatos (CAN) | 14.10 | Arbon, Switzerland | 27 May 2017 |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Paralympic Record | Brent Lakatos (CAN) | 14.43 | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 9 September 2016 |
| Area | Time | Athlete | Nation |
| Africa | 15.72 | Walid Ktila | Tunisia |
| America | 14.10 WR | Brent Lakatos | Canada |
| Asia | 14.40 | Pongsakorn Paeyo | Thailand |
| Europe | 14.47 | Mickey Bushell | Great Britain |
| Oceania | 15.66 | Richard Colman | Australia |

## Results

### Heats

Heat 1 took place on 1 September 2021, at 11:00:

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 7 | Brent Lakatos | Canada | 14.49 | Q, SB |
| 2 | 4 | Fahad Al-Ganaidl | Saudi Arabia | 15.08 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Ariosvaldo Fernandes | Brazil | 15.30 | Q |
| 4 | 6 | Pichet Krungget | Thailand | 15.30 | q, SB |
| 5 | 8 | Yang Shaoqiao | China | 15.46 | SB |
| 6 | 5 | Nicolas Brignone | France | 15.81 | |

Heat 2 took place on 1 September 2021, at 11:07:

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 3 | Pongsakorn Paeyo | Thailand | 14.30 | Q, GR |
| 2 | 3 | Abdulrahman Al-Qurashi | Saudi Arabia | 14.52 | Q, PB |
| 3 | 8 | Pierre Fairbank | France | 15.09 | Q |
| 4 | 6 | Vitalii Gritsenko | RPC | 15.26 | q, PB |
| 5 | 4 | Brian Siemann | United States | 15.32 | SB |
| 6 | 5 | Yoo Byung-hoon | South Korea | 15.37 | SB |
| 7 | 7 | Pürevtsogiin Enkhmanlai | Mongolia | 15.97 | PB |

### Final

The final took place on 1 September 2021, at 19:20:

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | 6 | Pongsakorn Paeyo | Thailand | 14.20 | GR |
| | 4 | Brent Lakatos | Canada | 14.55 | |
| | 5 | Abdulrahman Al-Qurashi | Saudi Arabia | 14.76 | |
| 4 | 9 | Ariosvaldo Fernandes | Brazil | 15.41 | |
| 5 | 8 | Pierre Fairbank | France | 15.41 | |
| 6 | 2 | Pichet Krungget | Thailand | 15.43 | |
| 7 | 7 | Fahad Al-Ganaidl | Saudi Arabia | 15.48 | |
| 8 | 3 | Vitalii Gritsenko | RPC | 15.55 | |
