Athletics at the 2012 Summer Paralympics – Women's 800 metres

The Women's 800m athletics events for the 2012 Summer Paralympics took place at the London Olympic Stadium from 31 August to 8 September.

A total of two events were contested over this distance for two different classifications.

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

The event consisted of a single race.

Typically this may be caused by a lower spinal cord injury or spinal cord birth defect.