diff --git a/awswrangler/athena.py b/awswrangler/athena.py
index 35c5e6fd5..6759ed209 100644
--- a/awswrangler/athena.py
+++ b/awswrangler/athena.py
@@ -563,6 +563,7 @@ def read_sql_table(
     table: str,
     database: str,
     ctas_approach: bool = True,
+    categories: List[str] = None,
     chunksize: Optional[int] = None,
     s3_output: Optional[str] = None,
     workgroup: Optional[str] = None,
@@ -614,6 +615,9 @@ def read_sql_table(
     ctas_approach: bool
         Wraps the query using a CTAS, and read the resulted parquet data on S3.
         If false, read the regular CSV on S3.
+    categories: List[str], optional
+        List of columns names that should be returned as pandas.Categorical.
+        Recommended for memory restricted environments.
     chunksize: int, optional
         If specified, return an generator where chunksize is the number of rows to include in each chunk.
     s3_output : str, optional
@@ -645,6 +649,7 @@ def read_sql_table(
         sql=f'SELECT * FROM "{table}"',
         database=database,
         ctas_approach=ctas_approach,
+        categories=categories,
         chunksize=chunksize,
         s3_output=s3_output,
         workgroup=workgroup,
diff --git a/testing/test_awswrangler/test_data_lake.py b/testing/test_awswrangler/test_data_lake.py
index 2b2ae8f8a..7bcbd24ec 100644
--- a/testing/test_awswrangler/test_data_lake.py
+++ b/testing/test_awswrangler/test_data_lake.py
@@ -646,6 +646,8 @@ def test_category(bucket, database):
     ensure_data_types_category(df2)
     df2 = wr.athena.read_sql_query("SELECT * FROM test_category", database=database, categories=list(df.columns))
     ensure_data_types_category(df2)
+    df2 = wr.athena.read_sql_table(table="test_category", database=database, categories=list(df.columns))
+    ensure_data_types_category(df2)
     df2 = wr.athena.read_sql_query(
         "SELECT * FROM test_category", database=database, categories=list(df.columns), ctas_approach=False
     )