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

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

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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	—N/a
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]

Rank	NPC	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China	96	60	51	207
2	Great Britain	41	38	45	124
3	United States	37	36	31	104
4	RPC	36	33	49	118
5	Netherlands	25	17	17	59
6	Ukraine	24	47	27	98
7	Brazil	22	20	30	72
8	Australia	21	29	30	80
9	Italy	14	29	26	69
10	Azerbaijan	14	1	4	19
11–86	Remaining teams	209	230	279	718
Totals (86 entries)		539	540	589	1,668

Day-by-day summaries

Day 0 — Tuesday 24 August

24 August 2021 — detailed results
Opening ceremony The opening ceremony was held at Japan National Stadium at 20:00 JST (UTC+9). [1]

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. "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.

External links

• Tokyo 2020 Archived 1 September 2021 at the Wayback Machine