Athletics at the 2024 Summer Paralympics – Women's 800 metres T53

Women's 800 metres T53 at the XVII Paralympic Games
Venue	Stade de France
Dates	1 September 2024
Competitors	7 from 6 nations
Winning time	1:41.04 PR
Medalists
Catherine Debrunner  Switzerland Samantha Kinghorn  Great Britain Zhou Hongzhuan  China
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Athletics at the 2024 Summer Paralympics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men	women
4×100 m relay	mixed
Road events
Marathon	men	women
Field events
Long jump	men	women
High jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Club throw	men	women
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The women's 800 metres T53 event at the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris, took place on 1 September 2024.

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

Prior to the competition, the existing records were as follows:^[1]

World Record	Catherine Debrunner (SUI)	1:37.96	Sharjah	4 February 2024
Paralympic Record	Madison de Rozario (AUS)	1:45.99	Tokyo	29 August 2021

Area	Time		Athlete	Location	Date
Africa	2:13.00		Anne Wafula	Nairobi	25 July 2003 (2003-07-25)
America	1:45.90		Chelsea McClammer	Arbon	28 May 2017 (2017-05-28)
Asia	1:47.45		Zhou Hongzhuan	Rio de Janeiro	17 September 2016 (2016-09-17)
Europe	1:37.96	WR	Catherine Debrunner	Sharjah	4 February 2024 (2024-02-04)
Oceania	1:45.53		Madison de Rozario	Canberra	21 February 2019 (2019-02-21)

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
	Catherine Debrunner	Switzerland	1:41.04	PR
	Samantha Kinghorn	Great Britain	1:42.96
	Zhou Hongzhuan	China	1:46.83	AR
4	Hamide Dogangun	Turkey	1:51.70	SB
5	Gao Fang	China	1:51.81	PB
6	Angela Ballard	Australia	1:56.83
7	Chelsea Stein	United States	2:11.91
Source:[2]