Athletics at the 2012 Summer Paralympics – Men's 1500 metres T54

Men's 1500 metres T54 at the XIV Paralympic Games
Venue	London Olympic Stadium
Dates	3 to 4 September
Competitors	21 from 14 nations
Winning time	3:12.09
Medalists
David Weir  Great Britain Prawat Wahoram  Thailand Kim Gyu Dae  South Korea

Athletics at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
Classification
T/F11–13: Blind and visually impaired
T/F20: Intellectual disability
T/F31–38: Cerebral palsy
F40: Les Autres
T/F42–46: Amputees
T/F51–58: Spinal cord disability
Men T/F51–58
Track
100 m		T51		T52		T53		T54
200 m				T52		T53
400 m				T52		T53		T54
800 m				T52		T53		T54
1500 m								T54
5000 m								T54
4×400 m relay						T53-54
Road
Marathon								T54
Field
Shot put			F52-3				F54-6
			F57-8
Club throw			F31-32/51
Discus throw			F51-3				F54-6
			F57-8
Javelin throw			F52-3				F54-6
			F57-8
Women T/F51–58
Track
100 m				T52		T53		T54
200 m				T52		T53
400 m						T53		T54
800 m						T53		T54
1500 m								T54
5000 m								T54
Road
Marathon								T54
Field
Shot put							F54-6
			F57-8
Club throw			F31-32/51
Discus throw			F51-3
			F57-8
Javelin throw		F33-34/52-53					F54-6
			F57-8

The Men's 1500 metres T54 event at the 2012 Summer Paralympics took place at the London Olympic Stadium from 3 to 4 September.^[1]

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 World and Paralympic records were as follows:

World record	David Weir (GBR)	2:55.72	29 June 2007	Atlanta, United States
Paralympic record	Prawat Wahorum (THA)	3:00.10	15 September 2008	Beijing, China

Results

Round 1

Competed 3 September 2012 from 10:40. Qual. rule: first 3 in each heat (Q) plus the 2 fastest other times (q) qualified.

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Marcel Hug	Switzerland	3:11.17	Q
2	Prawat Wahoram	Thailand	3:11.31	Q
3	David Weir	Great Britain	3:11.35	Q
4	Zhang Lixin	China	3:11.40	q
5	Mohammad Vahdani	United Arab Emirates	3:13.58
6	Hiroyuki Yamamoto	Japan	3:14.36
7	Aaron Pike	United States	3:15.04

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Kurt Fearnley	Australia	3:19.18	Q
2	Liu Chengming	China	3:19.35	Q
3	Josh Cassidy	Canada	3:19.54	Q
4	Hong Sukman	South Korea	3:19.72
5	Nobukazu Hanaoka	Japan	3:19.84
6	Ahmed Aouadi	Tunisia	3:20.35
7	Tomasz Hamerlak	Poland	3:20.42

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Saichon Konjen	Thailand	3:14.81	Q
2	Kim Gyu Dae	South Korea	3:14.90	Q
3	Liu Yang	China	3:15.07	Q
4	Julien Casoli	France	3:15.18
5	Joshua George	United States	3:15.76
6	Masazumi Soejima	Japan	3:17.11
7	Fernando Sanchez Nava	Mexico	3:17.16

Final

Competed 4 September 2012 at 21:37.

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	David Weir	Great Britain	3:12.09
	Prawat Wahoram	Thailand	3:12.32
	Kim Gyu Dae	South Korea	3:12.57
4	Marcel Hug	Switzerland	3:12.76
5	Saichon Konjen	Thailand	3:12.84
6	Liu Chengming	China	3:12.86
7	Kurt Fearnley	Australia	3:13.23
8	Liu Yang	China	3:13.63
9	Zhang Lixin	China	3:14.05
10	Josh Cassidy	Canada	3:14.70

Q = qualified by place. q = qualified by time.

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