Athletics at the 2020 Summer Paralympics were to be held at the Tokyo National Stadium between 25 August and 6 September. Following the COVID-19 pandemic they have been rescheduled to between 24 August and 5 September 2021.
Timeline
As of March 2021.
| Means of qualification | Date | Venue | Berths |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 World Para Athletics Marathon Championships | 28 April 2019 |  London |
20 |
| 2019 World Para Athletics Championships | 7–15 November 2019 |  Dubai |
648 |
| 2020 World Para Athletics Grand Prix Most events were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic |
14 – 17 March 2020 | |
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| 26–28 March 2020 |  | ||
| 2–5 April 2020 |  | ||
| 6–8 May 2020 |  | ||
| 22–24 May 2020 |  | ||
| 28–30 May 2020 |  | ||
| 26–28 June 2020 |  | ||
| 2021 World Para Athletics Grand Prix | 10–13 February 2021 | Dubai |
— |
| 18–20 March 2021 | Tunis
| ||
| 16–18 April 2021 | Jesolo
| ||
| 23–25 April 2021 |  Beijing
| ||
| 5–7 May 2021 | Paris
| ||
| 14–16 May 2021 | Nottwil
| ||
| 2021 European Championships | 1–5 June 2021 |  Bydgoszcz |
— |
| Qualification Ranking Allocation | 1 April 2019 – 1 April 2021 | — | 408 |
| Representation Allocation | — | — | TBD |
| Marathon Qualification Ranking Allocation | — | — | 10 |
| High Performance Allocation | 29 November 2019 – 6 June 2021 | — | TBD |
| Bipartite Commission Invitation Allocation | May – June 2020 | — | 14 |
| Total | 1100 |
Qualification
Allocations of qualification slots are awarded to the individual athlete, not to the NPC.
- Maximum number of slots awarded to an NPC is 45 male qualification slots and 35 female qualification slots (80 total slots). However, exception may be granted through the Bipartite Commission Invitation Allocation method which starts in early May 2021.
- An NPC can enter a maximum of three eligible athletes per medal event.
- An NPC can enter one team (four athletes per team) in a relay event.
- An NPC can enter a maximum of six eligible athletes in each marathon event - only three athletes can enter in one medal event as their only event.
- During the 2019 World Championships, the top four ranked athletes in each individual medal event (excluding marathon events) will achieve one qualification slot.
Athlete eligibility
- Athletes have to achieve one minimum entry standard (MES) performance at any World Para Athletics recognised competitions between 1 October 2018 to 1 August 2021 as shown in the qualified slots.
- During the 2019 World Championships, if an athlete is ranked first to fourth in more than one medal event, they can only obtain one qualification slots for their NPC.
- In the Qualification Ranking Allocation, the top six athletes will obtain a qualification slot in each individual medal event.
Event removal
In December 2019, the IPC removed the women's 100m T52 due to the event not meeting the minimum required eligible criteria and lack of competitors: there were only five athletes from four countries who competed at the 2019 World Para Athletics Championships one month earlier. As well as this sprint event, the NPCs were also informed about the men's high jump T64, women's javelin F13 and the universal 4 × 100 m relay because of the issues regarding the minimum eligible criteria, they would removed without replacement events being added to the medal event programme for the Games. The medal events will have 93 male, 73 female and 1 mixed however the athlete quota allocation remains unaffected at 1100 athletes.
Qualified slots
Men's track
100 metres
200 metres
400 metres
800 metres
1500 metres
5000 metres
Marathon
Men's field
Long jump
High jump
| Event | Class(es) | Minimum Entry Standard (MES) |
No. of athletes |
NPC | Qualified athletes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High jump T47 | T45 T46 T47 |
1.50m | 2 |  India (IND) |
Nishad Kumar Ram Pal |
| 2 |  United States (USA) |
Roderick Townsend-Roberts Dallas Wise | |||
| 1 | Brazil (BRA) |
Paulo Guerra | |||
| 1 |  China (CHN) |
Chen Hongjie | |||
| 1 |  Ireland (IRL) |
Jordan Lee | |||
| 1 |  RPC (RPC) |
Georgii Margiev | |||
| 1 |  Thailand (THA) |
Angkarn Chanaboon | |||
| Total | 9 | ||||
| High jump T63 | T42 T64 |
1.50m | 3 | India (IND) |
Varun Singh Bhati Sharad Kumar Mariyappan Thangavelu |
| 2 | United States (USA) |
Ezra Frech Sam Grewe | |||
| 1 | Brazil (BRA) |
Flavio Reitz | |||
| 1 |  Egypt (EGY) |
Hamada Hassan | |||
| 1 |  Ghana (GHA) |
Yusif Amadu | |||
| 1 |  Poland (POL) |
Łukasz Mamczarz | |||
| Total | 9 | ||||
| High jump T64 | T44 T64 |
1.40m | 1 | Brazil (BRA) |
Jeohsah Beserra dos Santos |
| 1 |  Great Britain (GBR) |
Jonathan Broom-Edwards | |||
| 1 | India (IND) |
Praveen Kumar | |||
| 1 |  Japan (JPN) |
Toru Suzuki | |||
| 1 | Poland (POL) |
Maciej Lepiato | |||
| 1 |  Uzbekistan (UZB) |
Temurbek Giyazov | |||
| 1 |  Venezuela (VEN) |
Rafael Augusto Uribe Pimentel | |||
| Total | 7 | ||||
Club throw
| Event | Class(es) | Minimum Entry Standard (MES) |
No. of athletes |
NPC | Qualified athletes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Club throw F32 | F31 F32 |
22.00m | 3 |  Algeria (ALG) |
Lahouari Bahlaz Walid Ferhah Ahmed Mehideb |
| 1 | China (CHN) |
Liu Li | |||
| 1 |  Czech Republic (CZE) |
Frantisek Serbus | |||
| 1 |  Greece (GRE) |
Athanasios Konstantinidis | |||
| 1 |  Oman (OMA) |
Mohammed Al Mashaykhi | |||
| 1 | Poland (POL) |
Maciej Sochal | |||
| 1 | RPC (RPC) |
Aleksei Churkin | |||
| 1 |  Tunisia (TUN) |
Abdennacer Feidi | |||
| Total | 10 | ||||
| Club throw F51 | F51 | 17.00m | 2 | India (IND) |
Amit Kumar Saroha Dharambir Nain |
| 1 |  Belarus (BLR) |
Uladzislau Hryb | |||
| 1 | Czech Republic (CZE) |
Michal Enge | |||
| 1 |  Mexico (MEX) |
Mario Santana Ramos Hernandez | |||
| 1 | RPC (RPC) |
Musa Taimazov | |||
| 1 |  Serbia (SRB) |
Zeljko Dimitrijevic | |||
| 1 |  Slovakia (SVK) |
Marian Kureja | |||
| Total | 8 | ||||
Discus throw
Javelin throw
Shot put
Women's track
100 metres
200 metres
400 metres
800 metres
| Event | Class(es) | Minimum Entry Standard (MES) |
No. of athletes |
NPC | Qualified athletes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 800m T34 | T33 T34 |
2:50.00 | 2 | Great Britain (GBR) |
Kare Adenegan Hannah Cockroft |
| 2 | United States (USA) |
Alexa Halko Eva Houston | |||
| 1 | RPC (RUS) |
Veronika Doronina | |||
| Total | 4 | ||||
| 800m T53 | T53 | 2:22.00 | 2 |  Turkey (TUR) |
Hamide Dogangun Zeynep Acet |
| 1 |  Australia (AUS) |
Madison de Rozario | |||
| 1 | China (CHN) |
Zhou Hongzhuan | |||
| 1 | Great Britain (GBR) |
Samantha Kinghorn | |||
| 1 |  Switzerland (SUI) |
Catherine Debrunner | |||
| 1 | United States (USA) |
Kelsey LeFevour | |||
| Total | 7 | ||||
| 800m T54 | T54 | 2:05.00 | 4 | United States (USA) |
Hannah Dederick Jenna Fesemyer Amanda McGrory Susannah Scaroni |
| 1 | Australia (AUS) |
Eliza Ault-Connell | |||
| 1 | China (CHN) |
Zou Lihong | |||
| 1 |  Germany (GER) |
Merle Menje | |||
| 1 | Great Britain (GBR) |
Melanie Woods | |||
| Total | 6 | ||||
1500 metres
| Event | Class(es) | Minimum Entry Standard (MES) |
No. of athletes |
NPC | Qualified athletes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1500m T11 | T11 | 6:20.00 | 2 |  Kenya (KEN) |
Nancy Chelangat Koech Mary Waithera Njoroge |
| 1 | China (CHN) |
He Shanshan | |||
| 1 | India (IND) |
Rakshitha Raju | |||
| 1 | Mexico (MEX) |
Mónica Olivia Rodríguez | |||
| 1 |  Spain (ESP) |
Susana Rodriguez Gacio | |||
| 1 | Turkey (TUR) |
Oznur Akbulut | |||
| Total | 7 | ||||
| 1500m T13 | T12 T13 |
5:35.00 | 2 | Kenya (KEN) |
Hanah Ngendo Mwangi Nelly Nasimiyu Munialo |
| 2 | RPC (RUS) |
Elena Pautova Veronika Zotova | |||
| 1 |  Colombia (COL) |
Francy Osorio | |||
| 1 | India (IND) |
Radha Venkatesh | |||
| 1 |  Morocco (MAR) |
Fatima Ezzahra El Idrissi | |||
| 1 | Turkey (TUR) |
Sevda Kilinc Cirakoglu | |||
| Total | 8 | ||||
| 1500m T20 | T20 | 5:20.00 | 2 |  Hungary (HUN) |
Bernadett Biacsi Ilona Biacsi |
| 1 | Great Britain (GBR) |
Hannah Taunton | |||
| 1 | Poland (POL) |
Barbara Bieganowska | |||
| 1 |  Ukraine (UKR) |
Liudmyla Danylina | |||
| Total | 4 | ||||
| 1500m T54 | T53 T54 |
3:50.00 | 4 | United States (USA) |
Hannah Dederick Jenna Fesemyer Amanda McGrory Susannah Scaroni |
| 1 | Australia (AUS) |
Madison de Rozario | |||
| 1 | China (CHN) |
Zou Lihong | |||
| 1 | Germany (GER) |
Merle Menje | |||
| Total | 7 | ||||
5000 metres
| Event | Class(es) | Minimum Entry Standard (MES) |
No. of athletes |
NPC | Qualified athletes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5000m T54 | T53 T54 |
13:30.00 | 1 | Australia (AUS) |
Madison de Rozario |
| 1 | China (CHN) |
Zou Lihong | |||
| 1 | Germany (GER) |
Merle Menje | |||
| 1 |  Netherlands (NED) |
Nikita den Boer | |||
| 1 | United States (USA) |
Susannah Scaroni | |||
| Total | 4 | ||||
Marathon
| Event | Class(es) | Minimum Entry Standard (MES) |
No. of athletes |
NPC | Qualified athletes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marathon T12 | T11 T12 |
3:35:00 | 1 | Brazil (BRA) |
Edneusa de Jesus Santos Dorta |
| 1 | Japan (JPN) |
Misato Michishita | |||
| 1 |  Lithuania (LTU) |
Aušra Garunkšnytė | |||
| 1 | Morocco (MAR) |
Meryem An-Nourhi | |||
| 1 | RPC (RUS) |
Elena Pautova | |||
| 1 | Spain (ESP) |
Maria Del Carmen Paredes Rodriguez | |||
| Total | 6 | ||||
| Marathon T54 | T53 T54 |
1:58:00 | 2 | Australia (AUS) |
Eliza Ault-Connell Madison de Rozario |
| 2 | United States (USA) |
Tatyana McFadden Susannah Scaroni | |||
| 1 | Japan (JPN) |
Tsubasa Kina | |||
| 1 | Netherlands (NED) |
Nikita den Boer | |||
| 1 | Switzerland (SUI) |
Manuela Schaer | |||
| Total | 7 | ||||
Women's field
Long jump
Club throw
| Event | Class(es) | Minimum Entry Standard (MES) |
No. of athletes |
NPC | Qualified athletes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Club throw F32 | F31 F32 |
13.00m | 1 | Algeria (ALG) |
Mounia Gasmi |
| 1 | Great Britain (GBR) |
Gemma Prescott | |||
| 1 | Tunisia (TUN) |
Maroua Ibrahmi | |||
| 1 | Ukraine (UKR) |
Anastasiia Moskalenko | |||
| 1 |  United Arab Emirates (UAE) |
Noura Alktebi | |||
| Total | 4 | ||||
| Club throw F51 | F51 | 10.00m | 2 | India (IND) |
Ekta Bhyan Kashish Lakra |
| 1 | Great Britain (GBR) |
Joanna Butterfield | |||
| 1 | RPC (RUS) |
Elena Gorlova | |||
| 1 | Ukraine (UKR) |
Zoia Ovsii | |||
| 1 | United States (USA) |
Cassie Mitchell | |||
| Total | 5 | ||||
Discus throw
| Event | Class(es) | Minimum Entry Standard (MES) |
No. of athletes |
NPC | Qualified athletes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Discus throw F11 | F11 | 18.00m | 2 | China (CHN) |
Tang Hongxia Zhang Liangmin |
| 1 | Brazil (BRA) |
Izabela Campos | |||
| 1 |  Italy (ITA) |
Assunta Legnante | |||
| Total | 4 | ||||
| Discus throw F38 | F37 F38 |
22.00m | 2 | China (CHN) |
Li Yingli Mi Na |
| 1 |  Canada (CAN) |
Renee Danielle Foessel | |||
| 1 |  South Africa (RSA) |
Simone Kruger | |||
| Total | 4 | ||||
| Discus throw F41 | F40 F41 |
17.00m | 2 | Morocco (MAR) |
Hayat El Garaa Youssra Karim |
| 1 | Ireland (IRL) |
Niamh McCarthy | |||
| 1 | Tunisia (TUN) |
Raoua Tlili | |||
| Total | 4 | ||||
| Discus throw F53 | F51 F52 F53 |
6.00m | 2 | Ukraine (UKR) |
Iana Lebiedieva Zoia Ovsii |
| 1 | Brazil (BRA) |
Elizabeth Rodrigues Gomes | |||
| 1 | RPC (RUS) |
Elena Gorlova | |||
| 1 | United States (USA) |
Cassie Mitchell | |||
| Total | 5 | ||||
| Discus throw F55 | F54 F55 |
14.50m | 1 | China (CHN) |
Dong Feixia |
| 1 | Colombia (COL) |
Érica Castaño | |||
| 1 |  Latvia (LAT) |
Diana Dadzite | |||
| 1 | Mexico (MEX) |
Rosa Maria Guerrero Cazares | |||
| Total | 4 | ||||
| Discus throw F57 | F56 F57 |
19.00m | 2 | Algeria (ALG) |
Safia Djelal Nassima Saifi |
| 1 | China (CHN) |
Xu Mian | |||
| 1 | Germany (GER) |
Martina Willing | |||
| 1 | Mexico (MEX) |
Floralia Estrada Bernal | |||
| Total | 5 | ||||
| Discus throw F64 | F43 F44 F62 F64 |
18.00m | 1 | Australia (AUS) |
Sarah Edmiston |
| 1 | China (CHN) |
Yao Juan | |||
| 1 |  Denmark (DEN) |
Kristel Walther | |||
| 1 | Poland (POL) |
Faustyna Kotlowska | |||
| Total | 4 | ||||
Javelin throw
Shot put
Mixed events
| Universal relay | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Event | Class(es) | Minimum Entry Standard (MES) |
Slots | Qualified NPCs | |
| 2019 World Para Athletics Championships | T11-13 T33-34/T51-54 T35-38 T42-47/T61-64 |
— | 3 | United States (USA) China (CHN) RPC (RPC)
| |
| Universal Relay Qualification Ranking | — | 7 | Brazil (BRA) Canada (CAN) France (FRA) Germany (GER) Great Britain (GBR) Indonesia (INA) Japan (JPN)
| ||
| Total | 10 | ||||
See also
References
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- "Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics: New dates confirmed for 2021". BBC Sport. 30 March 2020. Retrieved 30 March 2020.
- "Para Athletics Grand Prix 2020". International Paralympic Committee. 2 March 2020. Archived from the original on 2 March 2020.
- "World Para Athletics announces 2021 calendar". World Para Athletics. 22 October 2020. Archived from the original on 24 October 2020.
- "2020 Summer Paralympics Qualification Guide" (PDF). International Paralympic Committee. 17 November 2020.
- "IPC remove women's T52 100m from Paralympic Games". World Para Athletics. 5 December 2019. Archived from the original on 5 December 2019.
- "Results - Men's Ambulant Marathon (T11/12, T45/46)". Virgin Money London Marathon. 16 June 2019. Archived from the original on 9 August 2021.
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- "Results - Women's Ambulant Marathon (T11/12)". Virgin Money London Marathon. 16 June 2019. Archived from the original on 9 August 2021.
- "Results - Women's Wheelchair Marathon (T53/54)". Virgin Money London Marathon. 16 June 2019. Archived from the original on 9 August 2021.