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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 results are attributed to the IPC country code as currently displayed by the IPC database. Usually, a single code corresponds to a single National Paralympic Committee (NPC). When different codes are displayed for different years, medal counts are combined in the case of a simple change of IPC code (such as from RHO to ZIM for Zimbabwe ) or ...
Gawilan set a new Philippine national record in the men's 200 m individual medley, surpassing his own record of 2:53.41 he set in the 2018 Asian Para Games. [27] Gawilan became the first athlete representing the Philippines to qualify for a final in a Paralympic swimming event when he secured a place in the men's 400 m freestyle S7 final. [28]
The Games featured 539 medal events in 22 sports, with badminton and taekwondo both making their Paralympic debut to replace football 7-a-side and sailing. China topped the medal table for the fifth consecutive Paralympics, with 96 golds and 207 total medals. Great Britain finished second for the ninth time, with 41 golds and 124 total medals.
Athletics at the XVI Paralympic Games Athletics pictogram of the 2020 Summer Paralympics Venue Tokyo National Stadium Dates 27 August – 5 September 2021 Competitors 1100 in 168 events from 129 nations ← 2016 2024 → Athletics at the 2020 Summer Paralympics were held in the National Stadium in Tokyo. There was 167 medal events: 93 for men, 73 for women and one mixed event. It was the ...
The 24-year-old cemented his legendary status after he took the top spot in the men’s floor and vault events, making him the first male athlete in the Philippines' history to win a gold medal.
The much better funded Philippine Olympic athletes had likewise failed to win any medals in the 2008 Summer Olympics. The 2012 London Paralympic Games saw 9 Filipino athletes competing in four sports. The Philippine Paralympic team was the biggest Philippine delegation since the 1988 Paralympics in South Korea.
The Philippines left Tokyo with its best Olympic performance ever, bringing home four medals (a record later surpassed in Paris 2024). This surpassed the three medals the country won at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. The first-ever gold medal for the Philippines was won by weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz.