Tokyo2020 Paralympics thread

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August 24 - September 5

540 events in 22 sports

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new sports: amputee football, badminton, power hockey, powerchair football, taekwondo



Opening Ceremony

first nation to enter during parade is the Refugee Paralympic team


performers

Japanese pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii

Australian opera singer Tim McCallum


dignitaries in attendance

Colombia – Presidential Advisor for the Participation of Persons with Disabilities of Colombia Jairo Clopatofsky

International Olympic Committee - The IOC President Thomas Bach

International Paralympic Committee – President of the International Paralympic Committee Andrew Parsons

Japan – Minister of State for the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games Tamayo Marukawa, Chief Cabinet Secretary of Japan Katsunobu Katō, Emperor of Japan Naruhito

South Korea – Korean Paralympic Committee President Lee Myung-ho
United States – Second Gentleman of the United States Doug Emhoff

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Double Paralympic gold medallist Kadeena Cox says that repeating her Rio heroics in Tokyo will be tough.

Cox won gold in cycling and athletics at the 2016 Games and carried the GB flag at the closing ceremony.

The pandemic, injuries and her multiple sclerosis have challenged Cox before the Games, which start on Tuesday.

"I am in a great place with my cycling. With athletics, I haven't had as much running as I would have liked," she told BBC Sport.

"But I'm hoping it comes together at the right moment."I'm excited to go there and do the two things I love and hopefully show the world what I've got."

The 30-year-old will start her busy programme on Friday, 27 August when she defends her C4-5 500m time trial title before linking up with team-mates Jody Cundy and Jaco van Gass for the mixed team sprint event the following day.

She will then switch attention to athletics and bid to retain her T38 400m crown in a straight final on Saturday, 4 September.

While athletics has been part of her life for many years, her MS diagnosis in 2014 led to a journey into Para-sport which has not only yielded global medals but also television appearances on The Jump, Great Celebrity Bake Off, Robot Wars, Celebrity MasterChef and Celebrity Gogglebox.

However, there have been downs since Rio - a knee injury has caused her issues over the past few years, she was sidelined for 11 weeks last year with concussion and she has spoken openly about dealing with disordered eating.

And a busy schedule which sees her travel between the Manchester Velodrome, athletics training in Loughborough and family in Leeds does take its toll.

"I spend a lot of time thinking and worrying about fatigue. It is the thing I struggle with the most," she said.

"I have to miss some sessions because my spasms make it unsafe for me to be on a bike. There are times when I'm on the athletics track when I can't control my movement or I'm not able to maintain my hip stability and I am wobbling all over the place.

"It can be frustrating but we work on ways to manage it and I get the rest when I need to.

"The way I am now after races is a lot worse to what it was in Rio. I put everything in and recovering is a challenge. I get really bad spasms and the test in Tokyo will be to try to recover from that, and the race itself, and then go out and perform again the next day.

"I never push myself to that point in training because I am scared of not being able to recover."

While athletics has always been in her background, it is in cycling where Cox has grown most as a sportswoman over the past five years. As well as her own development, she is looking at bringing on the next generation of cyclists through her KC Academy which aims to have greater diversity in elite cycling.

"I think I can now call myself a cyclist. I definitely wasn't a cyclist in Rio," she laughed.

"In 2016 I was fresh and raw and it was grit and determination which got me to the gold medal. Nobody really knew me and what I was capable of.

"Now I have far more technical abilities which I hope will help me in Tokyo. Before Rio, I had never been at the top of the velodrome track but now I train from the top of the track.

"I understand the track far more and am more confident in my abilities and I know the bike better now.

"It puts me in a different position - I think I feel more pressure. But now I am a cyclist who people know and the expectation is there. I am more nervous but I am also excited."

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Track Cycling

men's individual Pursuit B

1. Tristan Bangma (Netherlands)
2. Stephen Bate (GB)
3. Marcin Polak (Poland)


Women's

C1-3

1. Paige Greco (Australia)
2. Wang Xiaomei (China)
3. Denise Schindler (Germany)


C4

1. Emily Petricola (Australia)
2. Shawn Morelli (USA)
3. Keely Shaw (Canada)


C5

1. Sarah Storey (GB)
2. Crystal Lane-Wright (GB)
3. Marie Patouillet (France)

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Swimming:

50m men freestyle

S10

1. Rowan Cruthers (Australia)
2. Maxim Krypak (Ukraine)
3. Phelipe Andrews Melo Rodrigues (Brazil)

50m women freestyle

S6

1. Yelyzaveta Mereshko (Ukraine)
2. Elizabeth Marks (USA)
3. Anna Hontar (Ukraine)

S10

1. Anastasia Gontar (ROC-Russia)
2. Chantalle Zijderveld (Netherlands)
3. Aurelie Rivard (Canada)


men's 100m butterfly

S13

1. Ihar Boki (Belarus)
2. Olexey Virchenko (Ukraine)
3. Islam Aslanov (Uzbekistan)

S14

1. Gabriel Bandeira (Brazil)
2. Reece Dunn (GB)
3. Benjamin Hance (Australia)


Women's 100m butterfly

S13

1. Carlotta Gilli (Italy)
2. Alessia Berra (Italy)
3. Daria Pikalova (ROC-Russia)

S14

1. Valeriia Shabalina (ROC-Russia)
2. Paige Leonhardt (Australia)
3. Ruby Storm (Australia)



Men's 100m backstroke

S1

1. Iyad Shalabi (Israel)
2. Anton Kol (Ukraine)
3. Francesco Bettella (Italy)

S2

1. Alberto Abarza (Chile)
2. Gabriel Geraldo dos Santos Araujo (Brazil)
3. Vladimir Danilenko (ROC-Russia)


Women's 100m backstroke

S2

1. Yip Pin Xiu (Singapore)
2. Miyuki Yamada (Japan)
3. Fabiola Ramirez (Mexico)


men's 50m breaststroke

SB3

1. Roman Zhdanov (ROC-Russia)
2. Miguel Luque (Spain)
3. Takayuki Suzuki (Japan)


Men's 400m freestyle

S9

1. William Martin (Australia)
2. Ugo Didier (France)
3. Alexander Tuckfield (Australia)

Women's 400m freestyle

S9

1. Lakeisha Patterson (Australia)
2. Zsofia Konkoly (Hungary)
3. Toni Shaw (GB)


Men's 200m freestyle

S5

1. Francesco Bocciardo (Italy)
2. Antoni Ponce (Spain)
3. Daniel de Faria Dias (Brazil)

Women's 200m freestyle

S5

1. Zhang Li (China)
2. Tully Kearney (GB)
3. Monica Boggioni (Italy)

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Fencing

men's sabre

A

1. Li Hao (China)
2. Artem Manko (Ukraine)
3. Tian Jianquan (China)

B

1. Feng Yanke (China)
2. Adrian Castro (Poland)
3. Panagiotis Triantafyllou (Greece)


Sabre women's

A

1. Bian Jing (China)
2. Nino Tibilashvili (Georgia)
3. Yevgenia Breus (Ukraine)

B

1. Tan Shumei (China)
2. Olena Fedota (Ukraine)
3. Xiao Rong (China)

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track cycling:

women's time trial

B

1. Netherlands (Larissa Klaassen, piloted by Imke Brommer)

2. GB (Aileen McGlynn, piloted by Helen Scott)

3. Belgium (Griet Hoet, piloted by Anneleen Monsieur)

men's time trial

C4-5

1. Alfonso Cabello (Spain)
2. Jody Cundy (GB)
3. Jozef Metelka (Slovakia)


men's individual pursuit

C2

1. Alexandre Léauté (France)
2. Darren Hicks (Australia)
3. Liang Guihua (China)


C1

1. Mikhail Astashov (ROC-Russia)
2. Tristen Chernove (Canada)
3. Li Zhangyu (China)


Powerlifting

men's 49kg

1. Omar Qarada (Jordan)
2. Le Van Cong (Vietnam)
3. Parvin Mammadov (Azerbaijan)

women's 41kg

1. Guo Lingling (China)
2. Ni Nengah Widiasih (Indonesia)
3. Clara Fuentes Monastero (Venezuela)



Swimming

men's 100m freestyle

S8

1. Ben Popham (Australia)
2. Andrei Nikolaev (ROC-Russia)
3. Dimosthenis Michalentzakis (Greece)

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Ireland's first Gold :lovedup:

Well Done Ellen, 1st in the SB8 100m breaststroke

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awkward of our failing dutch national tv again when we not broadcast a single minute of this live and we already having won many gold medals :facepalm:

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medal standings top 10 after day 3

1. China
2. GB
3. ROC-Russia
4. Australia
5. USA
6. Brazil
7. Netherlands
8. Italy
9. Ukraine
10. Azerbaijan

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medal standings top 10 after day 3

1. China
2. GB
3. ROC-Russia
4. Australia
5. USA
6. Brazil
7. Netherlands
8. Italy
9. Ukraine
10. Azerbaijan

Watch out China!:fist:

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Silver for Ireland in cycling :love:

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