Chronological summary of the 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

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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

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  *   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

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Day 0 — Tuesday 24 August

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24 August 2021 — detailed results
  Opening ceremony

Day 1 — Wednesday 25 August

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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

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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

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27 August 2021 — summary table

Day 4 — Saturday 28 August

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28 August 2021 — summary table

References

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  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.
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