Women's 400 metres T54 at the XVII Paralympic Games
Venue	Stade de France
Dates	5 September 2024
Competitors	13 from 9 nations
Winning time	53.05
Medalists
Lea Bayekula  Belgium Manuela Schär  Switzerland Zhou Zhaoqian  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 400 metres T54 event at the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris, took place on 5 September 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.

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

World Record	Lea Bayekula (BEL)	50.91	Paris	14 June 2024
Paralympic Record	Chantal Petitclerc (CAN)	51.91	Athens	25 September 2004

Area	Time		Athlete	Location	Date
Africa	52.70		Noemi Alphonse	Dubai	14 February 2024 (2024-02-14)
America	51.39		Tatyana McFadden	Nottwil	9 June 2024 (2024-06-09)
Asia	52.03		Tian Yajuan	Dubai	28 February 2023 (2023-02-28)
Europe	50.91	WR	Lea Bayekula	Paris	14 June 2024 (2024-06-14)
Oceania	53.24		Eliza Ault-Connell	Arbon	30 May 2019 (2019-05-30)

First 3 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) advance to the Final.

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	4	Manuela Schär	Switzerland	53.69	Q
2	3	Zhou Zhaoqian	China	53.73	Q, SB
3	8	Tatyana McFadden	United States	54.01	Q
4	5	Amanda Kotaja	Finland	54.28	q
5	6	Jéssica Gabrieli Soares Giacomelli	Brazil	56.29
6	7	Alexandra Helbling	Switzerland	57.26
Source:[2]

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	7	Lea Bayekula	Belgium	52.25	Q
2	4	Hannah Dederick	United States	54.62	Q
3	5	Melanie Woods	Great Britain	55.47	Q
4	8	Tian Yajuan	China	55.72	q
5	9	Noemi Alphonse	Mauritius	56.04
6	6	Licia Mussinelli	Switzerland	57.96
7	3	Hannah Babalola	Nigeria	1:01.37
Source:[3]

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
	5	Lea Bayekula	Belgium	53.05
	6	Manuela Schär	Switzerland	53.14
	8	Zhou Zhaoqian	China	54.01
4	7	Hannah Dederick	United States	54.68
5	3	Amanda Kotaja	Finland	54.89
6	9	Melanie Woods	Great Britain	55.39
7	2	Tian Yajuan	China	55.55
—	4	Tatyana McFadden	United States	DQ	R18.2(c)
Source:[4]