Athletics at the 2020 Summer Paralympics – Men's 1500 metres T54
# Athletics at the 2020 Summer Paralympics – Men's 1500 metres T54

The men's 1500 metres T54 event at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo took place between 30 and 31 August 2021.

The T54 category is for wheelchair athletes with no leg function, but near full arm function and reasonable to normal trunk function. Typically this may be caused by a lower spinal cord injury or spinal cord birth defect.

## Records

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

| World Record | Brent Lakatos (CAN) | 2:51.84 | Nottwil, Switzerland | 3 June 2017 |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Paralympic Record | Prawat Wahoram (THA) | 3:00.10 | Beijing, China | 15 September 2008 |
| Area | Time | Athlete | Nation |
| Africa | 2:54.18 | Yassine Gharbi | Tunisia |
| America | 2:51.84 WR | Brent Lakatos | Canada |
| Asia | 2:53.38 | Zhang Yong | China |
| Europe | 2:52.11 | Richard Chiassaro | Great Britain |
| Oceania | 2:58.88 | Jake Lappin | Australia |

## Results

### Heats

Heat 1 took place on 30 August 2021, at 12:44:

| Rank | Athlete | Nation | Class | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Prawat Wahoram | Thailand | T54 | 3:03.07 | Q |
| 2 | Zhang Yong | China | T54 | 3:03.45 | Q, SB |
| 3 | Julien Casoli | France | T54 | 3:03.48 | Q |
| 4 | Masayuki Higuchi | Japan | T54 | 3:03.60 | |
| 5 | Brent Lakatos | Canada | T53 | 3:03.72 | |
| 6 | Brian Siemann | United States | T53 | 3:03.84 | |
| 7 | Dai Yunqiang | China | T54 | 3:04.24 | SB |
| 8 | Richard Chiassaro | Great Britain | T54 | 3:05.44 | SB |
| | Alexey Bychenok | RPC | T54 | DNS | |

Heat 2 took place on 30 August 2021, at 12:51:

| Rank | Athlete | Nation | Class | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Marcel Hug | Switzerland | T54 | 2:54.63 | Q, GR |
| 2 | Zhang Ying | China | T54 | 2:55.66 | Q, PB |
| 3 | Daniel Romanchuk | United States | T54 | 2:55.83 | Q |
| 4 | David Weir | Great Britain | T54 | 2:55.84 | q |
| 5 | Putharet Khongrak | Thailand | T54 | 2:56.03 | q |
| 6 | Daniel Sidbury | Great Britain | T54 | 2:56.26 | q, PB |
| 7 | Tomoki Suzuki | Japan | T54 | 2:56.34 | q, SB |
| 8 | Vitalii Gritsenko | RPC | T53 | 2:56.96 | PB |
| 9 | Aaron Pike | United States | T54 | 2:57.49 | |
| 10 | Alhassane Baldé | Germany | T54 | 2:58.92 | |

### Final

The final took place on 31 August 2021, at 11:46:

| Rank | Athlete | Nation | Class | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | Marcel Hug | Switzerland | T54 | 2:49.55 | WR |
| | Prawat Wahoram | Thailand | T54 | 2:50.20 | AR |
| | Putharet Khongrak | Thailand | T54 | 2:50.68 | PB |
| 4 | Zhang Yong | China | T54 | 2:50.78 | PB |
| 5 | Daniel Romanchuk | United States | T54 | 2:50.86 | AR |
| 6 | Daniel Sidbury | Great Britain | T54 | 2:51.11 | PB |
| 7 | Julien Casoli | France | T54 | 2:51.69 | PB |
| 8 | Zhang Ying | China | T54 | 2:53.26 | PB |
| 9 | Tomoki Suzuki | Japan | T54 | 2:53.60 | PB |
| 10 | David Weir | Great Britain | T54 | 2:53.84 | PB |
