Athletics at the 2024 Summer Paralympics – Men's 5000 metres T54
| Men's 5000 metres T54 at the XVII Paralympic Games | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | Stade de France | ||||||||||||
| Dates | 31 August 2024 | ||||||||||||
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| Men's · T11 · T13 · T54 · Women's · T54 |
The men's 5000 metres T54 event at the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris, took place on 30 August 2024.
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
[edit]Prior to the competition, the existing records were as follows[1]:
| World Record |  Marcel Hug (SUI) |
9:13.84 |  Dubai |
15 Feb 2024 |
| Paralympic Record | Marcel Hug (SUI) |
9:53.26 |  Tokyo |
27 August 2021 |
Final
[edit]This event went straight to final.
The final in this classification took place on 31 August 2024, at 20:39:[2]
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Daniel Romanchuk |  United States |
10:55.28 | |
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Marcel Hug |  Switzerland |
10:55.78 | |
 |
Faisal Alrajehi |  Kuwait |
10:55.99 | |
| 4 | Ma Zhuo |  China |
10:56.20 | SB |
| 5 | Saichon Konjen |  Thailand |
10:56.26 | |
| 6 | Luo Xingchuan | China |
10:56.48 | SB |
| 7 | Brent Lakatos |  Canada |
10:56.73 | |
| 8 | David Weir |  Great Britain |
10:56.88 | |
| 9 | Brian Siemann | United States |
12:47.92 | |
| — | Putharet Khongrak | Thailand |
DNF |
References
[edit]- ^ Paris 2024 : Athletics : Men's 5000m T54 records
- ^ "Men's 5000 metres — T54 — Final results" (PDF). Paralympics. 31 August 2024. Retrieved 2 September 2024.