2020 Summer Paralympics medal table

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2020 Summer Paralympics medals
Location Tokyo, Flag of Japan.svg  Japan
Highlights
Most gold medalsFlag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China  (96)
Most total medalsFlag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China  (207)
  2016  · Paralympics medal tables ·  2024  
Visualisation of the number of gold medals won, in each discipline, by the top 10 ranked countries at the Tokyo Paralympics Summer Paralympic Games 2020 Top Ten Countries Gold Medal Tally per Discipline.svg
Visualisation of the number of gold medals won, in each discipline, by the top 10 ranked countries at the Tokyo Paralympics

The medal table of the 2020 Summer Paralympics ranks the participating National Paralympic Committees (NPCs) by the number of gold medals that are won by their athletes during the competition. The 2020 Paralympics were the sixteenth Games to be held, a quadrennial competition open to athletes with physical and intellectual disabilities. The games were held in Tokyo, Japan from 24 August to 5 September 2021. There were 539 medal events.

Contents

Athletes from Costa Rica, [1] Ecuador, [2] El Salvador, [3] [4] Montenegro, [5] and Oman [6] won their first Paralympic medals. El Salvador and Oman had never won an Olympic medal. Costa Rica, Ecuador, [7] Ethiopia, [8] Pakistan, [9] and Sri Lanka [10] won their first Paralympic gold medals.

Medal table

Judo, table tennis and taekwondo award two bronze medals per discipline - the table tennis to losing semi-finalists,a first since the 1996 Summer Paralympics and the two combat sports by a repechage system whereby defeated athletes up to the semi-final stage rejoin competition for a bronze medal.

Two silver medals were awarded for a second-place tie in the men's high jump T47 athletics event. No bronze medal was awarded as a result.

Two bronze medals were awarded for a third-place tie in the men's 100 metres T64 athletics event.

Two bronze medals were awarded for a third-place tie in the women's 100 metre freestyle S7 swimming event.

Due to the disqualification of two participants, a bronze medal was not awarded in the women's 100 metres T11 athletics event.

Key

  *   Host nation (Japan)

2020 Summer Paralympics medal table [11]
RankNPCGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 966051207
2Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 413845124
3Flag of the United States.svg  United States 373631104
4Flag placeholder.svg  RPC 363349118
5Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 25171759
6Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 24472798
7Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 22203072
8Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 21293080
9Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 14292669
10Flag of Azerbaijan.svg  Azerbaijan 141419
11Flag of Japan.svg  Japan*13152351
12Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 13121843
13Flag of Iran.svg  Iran 1211124
14Flag of France.svg  France 11152955
15Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 9151236
16Flag of Uzbekistan.svg  Uzbekistan 85619
17Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 761124
18Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 75416
19Flag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland 74314
20Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 721322
21Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 63312
22Flag of Israel.svg  Israel 6219
23Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 510621
24Flag of India.svg  India 58619
25Flag of Thailand.svg  Thailand 55818
26Flag of Slovakia.svg  Slovakia 52411
27Flag of Belarus.svg  Belarus 5117
28Flag of Tunisia.svg  Tunisia 45211
29Flag of Algeria.svg  Algeria 44412
30Flag of Morocco.svg  Morocco 44311
31Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium 43815
32Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland 4217
33Flag of Nigeria.svg  Nigeria 41510
34Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 4127
35Flag of Cuba.svg  Cuba 4116
36Flag of Jordan.svg  Jordan 4015
37Flag of Colombia.svg  Colombia 371424
38Flag of Venezuela.svg  Venezuela 3227
39Flag of Malaysia.svg  Malaysia 3205
40Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark 3115
41Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea 2101224
42Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey 24915
43Flag of Indonesia.svg  Indonesia 2349
44Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic 2338
45Flag of Chile.svg  Chile 2316
Flag of Serbia.svg  Serbia 2316
47Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 2024
48Flag of Singapore.svg  Singapore 2002
49Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 1539
50Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 1528
51Flag of Greece.svg  Greece 13711
52Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 1315
Flag of Kazakhstan.svg  Kazakhstan 1315
54Flag of the United Arab Emirates.svg  United Arab Emirates 1113
55Flag of Costa Rica.svg  Costa Rica 1102
56Flag of Ecuador.svg  Ecuador 1023
57Flag of Cyprus.svg  Cyprus 1012
Flag of Sri Lanka.svg  Sri Lanka 1012
59Flag of Ethiopia.svg  Ethiopia 1001
Flag of Mongolia.svg  Mongolia 1001
Flag of Pakistan.svg  Pakistan 1001
Flag of Peru.svg  Peru 1001
63Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina 0549
64Flag of Egypt.svg  Egypt 0527
65Flag of Croatia.svg  Croatia 0347
66Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 0325
67Flag of Georgia.svg  Georgia 0303
68Flag of Hong Kong.svg  Hong Kong 0235
69Flag of Bulgaria.svg  Bulgaria 0202
70Flag of Iraq.svg  Iraq 0123
71Flag of Kuwait.svg  Kuwait 0112
Flag of Namibia.svg  Namibia 0112
Flag of Romania.svg  Romania 0112
Flag of Slovenia.svg  Slovenia 0112
75Flag of Vietnam.svg  Vietnam 0101
76Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania 0033
77Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal 0022
78Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina.svg  Bosnia and Herzegovina 0011
Chinese Taipei Paralympic Flag.svg  Chinese Taipei 0011
Flag of El Salvador.svg  El Salvador 0011
Flag of Kenya.svg  Kenya 0011
Flag of Montenegro.svg  Montenegro 0011
Flag of Oman.svg  Oman 0011
Flag of Qatar.svg  Qatar 0011
Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg  Saudi Arabia 0011
Flag of Uganda.svg  Uganda 0011
Totals (86 entries)5395405891668

Podium sweeps

DateSportEventTeamGoldSilverBronzeRef
27 August Swimming Men's 50 metre butterfly S5 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China Zheng Tao Wang Lichao Yuan Weiyi [12]
28 August Swimming Women's 100m backstroke S11 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China Cai Liwen Wang Xinyi Li Guizhi [13]
30 August Swimming Men's 50m backstroke S5 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China Zheng Tao Ruan Jingsong Wang Lichao [14]
1 September Swimming Men's 50m freestyle S5 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China Zheng Tao Yuan Weiyi Wang Lichao [15]
4 September Athletics Women's 100 metres T63 Flag of Italy.svg  Italy Ambra Sabatini Martina Caironi Monica Contrafatto [16]

Changes

Marcin Polak was provisionally suspended from the men's individual pursuit B pending an adjudication following a positive test for a banned substance. [17]

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