Chronological summary of the 2020 Summer Paralympics

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2020 Summer Paralympics

This is a chronological summary of the major events of the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan, which was postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The opening ceremony is scheduled on the 24th of August with the last day of competition and the closing ceremony on 5 September.[1]

Calendar

The preliminary schedule was announced on 19 October 2018.[2] The finalized schedule was released on 13 August 2019.[3][4]

The original schedule was from 25 August to 10 September 2020. To postpone the Paralympics until 2021, all events were delayed by 364 days (one day less than a full year to preserve the same days of the week), giving a new schedule of 24 August to 9 September 2021.[5]

All times and dates use Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)
OC Opening ceremony ● Event competitions 1 Gold medal events CC Closing ceremony
August/September 2021 August September Events
24th
Tue 		25th
Wed 		26th
Thu 		27th
Fri 		28th
Sat 		29th
Sun 		30th
Mon 		31st
Tue 		1st
Wed 		2nd
Thu 		3rd
Fri 		4th
Sat 		5th
Sun
Ceremonies OC CC —
Archery ● 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 9
Athletics 13 16 19 17 21 17 18 17 24 5 167
Badminton ● ● ● 7 7 14
Boccia ● ● ● ● 4 ● ● 3 7
Cycling Road 19 6 5 4 51
Track 4 5 5 3
Equestrian (dressage) 3 2 ● 1 5 11
Football 5-a-side ● ● ● ● 1 1
Goalball ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● 2 2
Judo 4 4 5 13
Paracanoe ● 4 5 9
Paratriathlon 4 4 8
Powerlifting 4 4 4 4 4 20
Rowing ● ● 4 4
Shooting 3 2 2 1 2 2 1 13
Sitting volleyball ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● 1 1 2
Swimming 16 14 14 14 13 15 14 15 15 16 146
Table tennis ● ● ● 5 8 8 ● ● 5 5 31
Taekwondo 2 2 2 6
Wheelchair basketball ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● 1 1 2
Wheelchair fencing 4 4 2 4 2 16
Wheelchair rugby ● ● ● ● 1 1
Wheelchair tennis ● ● ● ● ● 1 1 2 2 6
Daily medal events 24 30 44 55 62 54 58 45 48 55 49 15 539
Cumulative total 24 54 98 153 215 269 327 372 420 475 524 539
August/September 2021 24th
Tue 		25th
Wed 		26th
Thu 		27th
Fri 		28th
Sat 		29th
Sun 		30th
Mon 		31st
Tue 		1st
Wed 		2nd
Thu 		3rd
Fri 		4th
Sat 		5th
Sun 		Total events
August September


Medal table

Part of this section is transcluded from 2020 Summer Paralympics medal table. (edit | history)

  *   Host nation (Japan)

2020 Summer Paralympics medal table[6]
RankNPCGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 China966051207
2 Great Britain413845124
3 United States373631104
4 RPC363349118
5 Netherlands25171759
6 Ukraine24472798
7 Brazil22203072
8 Australia21293080
9 Italy14292669
10 Azerbaijan141419
11–86Remaining teams209230279718
Totals (86 entries)5395405891,668

Day-by-day summaries

Day 0 — Tuesday 24 August

24 August 2021 — detailed results
Opening ceremony

Day 1 — Wednesday 25 August

25 August 2021 — summary table
Sport Event Gold medalist(s) Silver medalist(s) Bronze medalist(s) Ref
Competitor(s) Team Rec Competitor(s) Team Competitor(s) Team
Cycling Men's individual pursuit B Tristan Bangma
piloted by Patrick Bos 		 Netherlands Steve Bate
piloted by Adam Duggleby 		 Great Britain Marcin Polak
piloted by Michał Ładosz 		 Poland
Women's individual pursuit C1–3 Paige Greco  Australia WR Wang Xiaomei  China Denise Schindler  Germany
Women's individual pursuit C4 Emily Petricola  Australia Shawn Morelli  United States Keely Shaw  Canada
Women's individual pursuit C5 Sarah Storey  Great Britain Crystal Lane-Wright  Great Britain Marie Patouillet  France
Swimming Men's 50 metre freestyle S10 Rowan Crothers  Australia Maksym Krypak  Ukraine Phelipe Rodrigues  Brazil
Women's 50 metre freestyle S6 Yelyzaveta Mereshko  Ukraine Elizabeth Marks  United States Anna Hontar  Ukraine
Women's 50 metre freestyle S10 Anastasiia Gontar  RPC Chantalle Zijderveld  Netherlands Aurélie Rivard  Canada
Men's 100 metre freestyle S8 Ben Popham  Australia Andrei Nikolaev  RPC Dimosthenis Michalentzakis  Greece
Men's 200 metre freestyle S5 Francesco Bocciardo  Italy PR Antoni Ponce Bertran  Spain Daniel Dias  Brazil
Women's 200 metre freestyle S5 Zhang Li  China Tully Kearney  Great Britain Monica Boggioni  Italy
Men's 400 metre freestyle S9 William Martin  Australia PR Ugo Didier  France Alexander Tuckfield  Australia
Women's 400 metre freestyle S9 Lakeisha Patterson  Australia Zsófia Konkoly  Hungary Toni Shaw  Great Britain
Men's 100 metre backstroke S1 Iyad Shalabi  Israel Anton Kol  Ukraine Francesco Bettella  Italy
Men's 100 metre backstroke S2 Alberto Abarza  Chile Gabriel Geraldo Araújo  Brazil Vladimir Danilenko  RPC
Women's 100 metre backstroke S2 Yip Pin Xiu  Singapore Miyuki Yamada  Japan Fabiola Ramírez  Mexico
Men's 50 metre breaststroke SB3 Roman Zhdanov  RPC WR Miguel Luque Ávila  Mexico Tatayuki Suzuki  Japan
Men's 100 metre butterfly S13 Ihar Boki  Belarus PR Oleksii Virchenko  Ukraine Islam Aslanov  Uzbekistan
Men's 100 metre butterfly S14 Gabriel Bandeira  Brazil PR Reece Dunn  Great Britain Benjamin Hance  Australia
Women's 100 metre butterfly S13 Carlotta Gilli  Italy Alessia Berra  Italy Daria Pikalova  RPC
Women's 100 metre butterfly S14 Valeriia Shabalina  RPC WR Paige Leonhardt  Australia Ruby Storm  Australia
Wheelchair fencing Men's sabre A Li Hao  China Artem Manko  Ukraine Tian Jianquan  China
Men's sabre B Feng Yanke  China Adrian Castro  Poland Panagiotis Triantafyllou  Greece
Women's sabre A Bian Jing  China Nino Tibilashvili  Georgia Yevheniia Breus  Ukraine
Women's sabre B Tan Shumei  China Olena Fedota  Ukraine Xiao Rong  China

Day 2 — Thursday 26 August

26 August 2021 — summary table
Sport Event Gold medalist(s) Silver medalist(s) Bronze medalist(s) Ref
Competitor(s) Team Rec Competitor(s) Team Competitor(s) Team
Cycling Women's time trial B Larissa Klaassen
piloted by Imke Brommer 		 Netherlands PR Aileen McGlynn
piloted by Helen Scott 		 Great Britain Griet Hoet
piloted by Anneleen Monsieur 		 Belgium
Men's time trial C4–5 Alfonso Cabello  Spain WR Jody Cundy  Great Britain Jozef Metelka  Slovakia
Men's individual pursuit C1 Mikhail Astashov  RPC Tristen Chernove  Canada Li Zhangyu  China
Men's individual pursuit C2 Alexandre Léauté  France WR Darren Hicks  Australia Liang Guihua  China
Men's individual pursuit C3 Jaco van Gass  Great Britain Finlay Graham  Great Britain David Nicholas  Australia
Equestrian Dressage Individual Test Grade II Lee Pearson  Great Britain Pepo Puch  Austria Georgia Wilson  Great Britain
Dressage Individual Test Grade IV Sanne Voets  Netherlands Rodolpho Riskalla  Brazil Manon Claeys  Belgium
Dressage Individual Test Grade V Michèle George  Belgium Sophie Wells  Great Britain Frank Hosmar  Netherlands
Powerlifting Men's 49 kg Omar Qarada  Jordan Lê Văn Công  Vietnam Parvin Mammadov  Azerbaijan
Men's 54 kg David Degtyarev  Kazakhstan Axel Bourlon  France Dimitrios Bakochristos  Greece
Women's 41 kg Guo Lingling  China WR Ni Nengah Widiasih  Indonesia Clara Fuentes Monasterio  Venezuela
Women's 45 kg Latifat Tijani  Nigeria Cui Zhe  China Justyna Kozdryk  Poland
Swimming Men's 100 metre freestyle S4 Takayuki Suzuki  Japan PR Luigi Beggiato  Italy Roman Zhdanov  RPC
Men's 100 metre freestyle S5 Francesco Bocciardo  Italy Wang Lichao  China Daniel de Faria Dias  Brazil

Day 3 — Friday 27 August

27 August 2021 — summary table

Day 4 — Saturday 28 August

28 August 2021 — summary table

References

  1. ^ a b "Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games - Opening and Closing Ceremonies". Archived from the original on 24 August 2021. Retrieved 4 July 2021.
  2. ^ "Tokyo 2020 Unveils Paralympic Competition Schedule". tokyo2020.org. 19 October 2018. Archived from the original on 23 March 2019. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
  3. ^ "Paralympic Competition Schedule". tokyo2020.org. 13 August 2019. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
  4. ^ "Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games schedule announced". tokyo2020.org. 13 August 2019. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
  5. ^ Ingle, Sean (30 March 2020). "Tokyo Olympics to start in July 2021 after coronavirus rescheduling". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 March 2020.
  6. ^ "Tokyo 2020: Paralympic Medal Count". Olympics.com. Archived from the original on 10 March 2020. Retrieved 24 August 2021.