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The games were held in Tokyo, Japan from 24 August to 5 September 2021. There were 539 medal events. 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.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
August 26, 2021 at 3:15 PM. ... Gold medalist Anastasia Pagonis of Team United States reacts during the women's 400m freestyle S11 medal ceremony on day 2 of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games.
However, since coming sixth in the medal table at the 2012 Paralympics in London, there has been a steady improvement in the United States’ position, coming fourth in Rio in 2016 and third in ...
4 September 2021 XVI: Tokyo, Japan [31] T51: 1:20.82 Peter Genyn Belgium 17 September 2016 XV: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil [26] T52: 55.39 Tomoki Sato Japan 27 August 2021 XVI: Tokyo, Japan [32] T53: 46.61 Pongsakorn Paeyo Thailand 29 August 2021 XVI: Tokyo, Japan [33] T54: 44.87 Athiwat Paeng-Nuea Thailand 29 August 2021 XVI: Tokyo, Japan [34] T62 ...
From this list, around 6 achieved gold medals in all editions until 2024: Australia, France, Great Britain, Italy, the Netherlands and the United States. The United States was the top-ranking (medals) nation for eight Paralympic Summer Games: 1964, 1968, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992 and 1996.