2023 World Para Athletics Championships – Men's 400 metres

The men's 400 metres at the 2023 World Para Athletics Championships were held across 13 classifications at Charlety Stadium, Paris, France, from 11 to 17 July.

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
T11	Felipe Gomes  Brazil	Gerard Descarrega  Spain	Timothée Adolphe  France
T12	Rouay Jebabli  Tunisia	Yamil Acosta  Colombia	Oğuz Akbulut  Turkey
T13	Ryota Fukunaga  Japan	Johannes Nambala  Namibia	Buinder Bermúdez  Colombia
T20	Samuel Oliveira  Brazil	Daniel Martins  Brazil	Yovanni Philippe  Mauritius
T34	Chaiwat Rattana  Thailand	Mohamed Hammadi  United Arab Emirates	Austin Smeenk  Canada
T36	James Turner  Australia	William Stedman  New Zealand	Alexis Sebastian Chavez  Argentina
T37	Yaroslav Okapinskyi  Ukraine	Michał Kotkowski  Poland	Bartolomeu Chaves  Brazil
T38	Jaydin Blackwell  United States	Zachary Gingras  Canada	Ali Al-Rikabi  Iraq
T47	Ayoub Sadni  Morocco	Tanner Wright  United States	Jose Martins  Brazil
T52	Maxime Carabin  Belgium	Tomoki Sato  Japan	Tatsuya Ito  Japan
T53	Pongsakorn Paeyo  Thailand	Brent Lakatos  Canada	Brian Siemann  United States
T54	Hu Yang  China	Athiwat Paeng-Nuea  Thailand	Dai Yunqiang  China
T62	Johannes Floors  Germany	Blake Leeper  United States	Olivier Hendriks  Netherlands

T11

The event took place on 12 July.^[1]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	7	Felipe Gomes	Brazil	51.00	SB
	3	Gerard Descarrega	Spain	51.18
	5	Timothée Adolphe	France	51.21	SB
4	1	Gauthier Makunda	France	52.38

T12

The final in this event took place at 19:55 on Sat 15 Jul 2023.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Rouay Jebabli	Tunisia	48.33	SB
	3	Yamil Acosta	Colombia	48.73	PB
	7	Oguz Akbulut	Turkey	49.24	SB
4	1	Kissanapong Tisuwan	Thailand	51.21

T13

The final of this event was held at 20:05 on 15 Jul 2023.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	3	Fukunaga Ryota	Japan	47.79	=AR
	5	Johannes Nambala	Namibia	48.14	SB
	4	Buinder Bermúdez	Colombia	49.21	AR
4	8	Jakkarin Dammunee	Thailand	49.41	PB
5	7	Max Marzillier	Germany	49.79	SB
6	6	Ivan Hernandez	Spain	50.18	PB
7	1	Vegard Dragsund Sverd	Norway	50.61	PB
8	2	Edwin Masuge	Botswana	50.67

T20

The final of this event was held at 19:45 on 15 Jul 2023.

The applicable records entering the event were as follows:

Record	Athlete
World record	46.86  : Daniel Tavares
Championship record	47.38  : Yovanni Philippe

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	3	Samuel Oliveira	Brazil	47.2	CR
	8	Daniel Tavares	Brazil	47.3	SB
	5	Yovanni Philippe	Mauritius	47.48
4	6	Charles-Antoine Kouakou	France	47.59	AR
5	4	Torkamani Milad Ramazani	Iran	47.8	AR
6	2	Columba Blango	Great Britain	48.9
7	1	Deliber Rodriguez	Spain	49.01
	7	Anderson Colorado	Ecuador	DNF

T34

The event took place on 11 July.^[2]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	6	Chaiwat Rattana	Thailand	48.65	WR
	5	Mohamed Hammadi	United Arab Emirates	49.21	PB
	3	Austin Smeenk	Canada	49.32	AR
4	4	Walid Ktila	Tunisia	49.47
5	7	Gong Wenhao	China	49.69	PB
6	1	Wang Yang	China	50.86
7	8	Roberto Michel	Mauritius	50.95
8	2	Rheed McCracken	Australia	51.51

T36

The event took place on 11 July.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	James Turner	Australia	52.26	SB
	3	William Stedman	New Zealand	53.62	SB
	6	Alexis Sebastian Chavez	Argentina	54.57	AR
4	8	Takeru Matsumoto	Japan	55.85	AR
5	5	Krzysztof Ciuksza	Poland	56.47
6	7	Deng Peicheng	China	59.64	PB
7	2	Marian Petria	Romania	1:06.06
8	1	Refilwe Mosifane	South Africa	1:10.15

T37

The event took place on 14 July.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Yaroslav Okapinskyi	Ukraine	52.23	PB
	3	Michał Kotkowski	Poland	52.62	SB
	6	Bartolomeu Chaves	Brazil	53.04	SB
4	8	Sofiane Hamdi	Algeria	54.68	SB
5	5	Mykola Raiskyi	Ukraine	55.47
6	7	Petrus Karuli	Namibia	56.20
7	2	Clader Aguas	Ecuador	56.96	PB
8	1	Apisit Taprom	Thailand	58.81	SB

T38

The event took place on 13 July.^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Jaydin Blackwell	United States	48.49	WR
	6	Zachary Gingras	Canada	50.23	PB
	7	Ali Al-Rikabi	Iraq	50.61	PB
4	3	Nick Mayhugh	United States	50.98
5	8	Ryan Medrano	United States	51.07	PB
6	4	José Rodolfo Chessani	Mexico	51.89
7	2	Mohamed Farhat Chida	Tunisia	51.91	SB
8	1	Angus Hincksman	Australia	55.34

T47

The event took place on 14 July.^[6]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	6	Ayoub Sadni	Morocco	46.78	WR
	7	Tanner Wright	United States	48.95	PB
	3	Jose Martins	Brazil	49.00	PB
4	5	Dilip Mahadu Gavit	India	49.08	PB
5	8	Lucas de Sousa Lima	Brazil	49.43
6	2	Thomas Normandeau	Canada	50.25	SB
7	1	Nur Ferry Pradana	Indonesia	50.31
	4	Riccardo Bagaini	Italy	DSQ

T52

The event took place on 13 July.^[7]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	6	Maxime Carabin	Belgium	54.19	WR
	3	Tomoki Sato	Japan	56.41
	7	Tatsuya Ito	Japan	1:00.84	PB
4	4	Leonardo de Jesús Pérez Juárez	Mexico	1:00.96	SB
5	5	Hirokazu Ueyonabaru	Japan	1:03.27
6	2	Cristian Torres	Colombia	1:04.64
7	8	Pichaya Kurattanasiri	Thailand	1:05.46
8	1	Anthony Bouchard	Canada	1:05.93

T53

The event took place on 11 July.^[8]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Pongsakorn Paeyo	Thailand	46.11	WR
	6	Brent Lakatos	Canada	46.22	AR
	4	Brian Siemann	United States	48.30	PB
4	3	Pichet Krungget	Thailand	48.35	PB
5	8	Pierre Fairbank	France	48.53	AR
6	1	Yoo Byung-hoon	South Korea	49.41	SB
7	7	Nicolas Brignone	France	50.26	SB
8	2	Ariosvaldo Fernandes	Brazil	50.34	SB

T54

The event took place on 12 July.^[9]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Hu Yang	China	45.68
	6	Athiwat Paeng-Nuea	Thailand	46.23
	3	Dai Yunqiang	China	46.26
4	7	Daniel Sidbury	Great Britain	46.52
5	4	Nathan Maguire	Great Britain	46.78
6	8	Zhang Ying	China	47.93
7	2	Putharet Khongrak	Thailand	48.07
8	1	Tomoki Ikoma	Japan	48.64

T62

The event took place on 17 July.^[10]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	3	Johannes Floors	Germany	45.81	SB
	4	Blake Leeper	United States	47.84	PB
	5	Olivier Hendriks	Netherlands	48.76	SB
4	8	Tebogo Mofokeng	South Africa	52.35	SB
	7	Jafa Seapla	Thailand	DQ
	6	Hunter Woodhall	United States	DNS