The men's 1500 metres T54 event at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo took place between 30 and 31 August 2021.
Records Prior to the competition, the existing records were as follows:
Area Time Athlete Nation Africa 2:54.18 Yassine Gharbi America 2:51.84 Brent Lakatos Asia 2:53.38 Zhang Yong Europe 2:52.11 Richard Chiassaro Oceania 2:58.88 Jake Lappin
Results Heats Heat 1 took place on 30 August 2021, at 12:44: Rank Athlete Nation Class Time Notes 1 Prawat Wahoram T54 3:03.07 2 Zhang Yong T54 3:03.45 , 3 Julien Casoli T54 3:03.48 4 Masayuki Higuchi T54 3:03.60 5 Brent Lakatos T53 3:03.72 6 Brian Siemann T53 3:03.84 7 Dai Yunqiang T54 3:04.24 8 Richard Chiassaro T54 3:05.44 Alexey Bychenok T54
Heat 2 took place on 30 August 2021, at 12:51: Rank Athlete Nation Class Time Notes 1 Marcel Hug T54 2:54.63 , 2 Zhang Ying T54 2:55.66 , 3 Daniel Romanchuk T54 2:55.83 4 David Weir T54 2:55.84 5 Putharet Khongrak T54 2:56.03 6 Daniel Sidbury T54 2:56.26 , 7 Tomoki Suzuki T54 2:56.34 , 8 Vitalii Gritsenko T53 2:56.96 9 Aaron Pike T54 2:57.49 10 Alhassane Baldé T54 2:58.92
Final The final took place on 31 August 2021, at 11:46: Rank Athlete Nation Class Time Notes Marcel Hug T54 2:49.55 Prawat Wahoram T54 2:50.20 Putharet Khongrak T54 2:50.68 4 Zhang Yong T54 2:50.78 5 Daniel Romanchuk T54 2:50.86 6 Daniel Sidbury T54 2:51.11 7 Julien Casoli T54 2:51.69 8 Zhang Ying T54 2:53.26 9 Tomoki Suzuki T54 2:53.60 10 David Weir T54 2:53.84
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