Summing up
Right, that’s today’s action done and dusted. Only one day remains of a memorable, intense and frequently magnificent summer’s action in Tokyo. So here’s a quick recap of today’s main events:
- A second Tokyo gold for GB’s Hannah Cockroft, in the T34 800m
- A fifth consecutive gold for the Brazilian men’s football team
- Gold for Britain’s Charlotte Henshaw in the kayak single 200m KL2 and for her compatriot Laura Sugar in the kayak single KL3 200m
- The Dutch women smash the doubles wheelchair tennis final
- Gordon Reid beat his doubles partner Alex Hewett to take bronze in the wheelchair tennis singles
- Cuba’s Elias Durand set a new world record in winning the women’s 200m T12 in 23.02sec
- GB’s Aled Davies took gold in the men’s shot put F63 final
- Iran win volleyball gold
We’ll be back tomorrow for the final day and closing ceremony. Thanks for reading and commenting. Bye.
And here’s a report and roundup of today’s action from Martin Belam:
Netherlands win women's wheelchair basketball gold!
Wheelchair basketball: An emphatic 50-31 triumph for the Dutch in the end, outscoring China 29-17 in the final two quarters to win gold. And an upgrade on the Netherlands’ bronze in Rio.
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“Will the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games ever be held in Japan ever again?” asks Kurt Perleberg in an email. I would say they both can and should, given crowds were denied an opportunity this summer. The infrastructure is all there, and given the backlash against Olympic new-build white elephants, a bias towards places with pre-existing facilities should stand Japan in good stead – should it people want it.
Shingo Kunieda wins men's wheelchair tennis final
Wheelchair tennis: Kunieda has a fifth championship point and finally converts it, when Tom Egberink dumps a forehand into the net to complete a thumping 6-1, 6-2 victory. And it’s a third triumph for the Japanese player.
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Taekwondo: Iran’s Asghar Aziziaghdam has won gold in the K44 +75kg, beating Ivan Mikulic in the final.
And let’s have a look at the old scoreboard. Italy have moved up to ninth in the medal table, and Britain’s second-place stranglehold has been strengthened today thanks to the likes of Hannah Cockroft and Aled Davies.
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Italy 1-2-3 in the women's 100m T63!
Italy’s golden summer of sport rolls on, and in stunning style. Ambra Sabatini has set a new world record of 14.11sec in her first Paralympics, taking gold ahead of her compatriots Martina Cairoti (silver) and Monica Graziana Contrafatto (bronze).
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Thanks for a smooth leg Geoff. Still to come today are the women’s 100m T63 final, the conclusions of the men’s Taekwondo K44 +75kg final, the women’s wheelchair basketball gold medal match - in which the Netherlands currently lead China 25-18 – and the wheelchair tennis men’s final, where Shingo Kunieda of Japan leads 6-1, 3-1 against Tom Egberink of the Netherlands.
What happened today? As of about 9:15pm Tokyo time
That is that, as far as my part in this day is concerned. I’ll be back for one more dance around the mulberry bush tomorrow, with the closing ceremony.
What did happen today? Things like:
- Five golds in a row for the Brazilian men’s football team
- The Dutch women smash the doubles wheelchair tennis final...
- ...while it was British friendly fire in the men’s bronze match
- Bronze medals for Australia on track and in field
- A perfect golden sprinting double for Venezuela
- Taekwondo bronze for Great Britain and Australia
- Iran win a near inevitable volleyball gold
The tennis gold match is still going, as is the women’s b-ball. The marathons get run very early tomorrow morning Tokyo time. Then this marathon of an event will come to an end.
For now, to switch to a relay metaphor, the baton is in the hand of Tom Davies. Anchors away.
Wheelchair tennis: In the men’s singles gold medal match, Kunieda Shingo has won the first set 6-1 against Dutchman Tom Egberink.
400 metres: What were we just saying - not many golds for Morocco? Here’s another one. Ayoub Sadni wins the men’s 400m T47 final ahead of a Brazilian double of Thomaz de Moraes and Petrucio Ferreira dos Santos.
A new world record for Sadni, too. His 47.38 sneaks past the 47.69 set by the Australian Heath Francis all the way back in 2008 in Beijing.
Wheelchair basketball: Half time in the women’s gold match, a low-scoring affair so far with Netherlands on 21 leading China on 14.
Iran win the sitting volleyball gold
It ends 3-1 over the Russian committee men’s team, perhaps unsurprisingly given Iran have star player Morteza Mehrzad Selakjani who is eight-foot-one, or 246 centimetres. Even sitting down that makes him a sizeable challenge.
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Athletics: Results in from the field as well. A second gold medal at these games for Morocco, with Zakariae Derhem winning the F33 shot put final ahead of Algeria’s Kamel Kardjena and Croatia’s Deni Cerni.
In the women’s F37 discus, it’s a Chinese double for Mi Na and Li Yingli. Mexico’s Rosa Carolina Castro wins bronze.
Women’s 400 metres T38: It’s another world record, they’ve fallen by the boatload at these Games. Lindy Ave gets through in exactly one minute, a nice neat 1:00.00 to get Germany a gold medal. The Russian Margarita Goncharova wins silver, Darian Jimenez Sanchez bronze for Colombia.
GB’s Kadeena Cox comes in fourth.
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Taekwondo bronze for Janine Watson
She demolishes her opponent! That’s 63-0 against the hapless Ukrainian Yuliya Lypetska. Who won both her early bouts and lost a semifinal, unlike Watson who made it to this match through the repechage, but the extra work hasn’t hurt the Australian. The women’s K44 58kg+ medal is Janine Watson’s.
Men’s 200m: In the T64 final, Sherman Isidro Guity Guity sets a new Games record after setting the last one earlier today in the heats. He wins in 21.43, heading Felix Streng of Germany and the USA pair Jarryd Wallace (bronze) and Jonathan Gore (fourth).
Vera Andrade's golden double
The Venezuelan sprinter has it: the 100m and 200m double in the women’s T47. Lisbeli Marina Vera Andrade runs through in 24.52, just seven hundredths of a second outside world record time. Brittni Mason has to take silver once again, after she was deeply upset not to have won the shortest sprint. She does have a gold at these Games from the 100m universal relay. Bronze tonight goes to Alicja Jeromin of Poland.
Javelin: Sun of China does indeed win the men’s F41. Unchallengable. Before today he had the world record, set in 2019 with 44. 35 metres. Today he broke that mark three times out of five throws. The last of them was the longest at 47.13, just an extra three metres or so. So yeah. He’s been in the gym.
Iran get silver courtesy of Sadegh Beit Sayah, and Iraq bronze from Wildan Nukhailawi. Third medal for the Games for Iraq, with two bronze and a silver. India’s Navdeep comes fourth.
Long jump bronze for Nicholas Hum, gold for Malaysia
The Australian has one more attempt, and he’s done a hamstring mid jump. He gives that approach everything. He is on track to clear 7 metres, too, maybe not by enough to change the result but possibly. The hammy gives way while he’s midair, and his injured leg comes down and touches the sand at 6.09.
Still - bronze, and he accepts the flag of celebration rather than accepting the attention of the medics.
Prodromou has one more shot at gold, but lands short at 7.04.
Romly does not jump again. His 7.45 will be enough for today.
Long jump: Nicholas Hum gets bumped into third. Greek jumper Athanasios Prodromou reaches 7.17 with his fifth jump, 5 centimetres clear. Romly up the top has beaten that distance three times out of five, comfortably clear.
Taekwondo bronze for Amy Truesdale
Quite the comeback, after losing her semifinal and then losing the opening round of this bout 8-13 to the Iranian fighter Rayeheh Shahab. But Truesdale dominates the second round 4-16, and narrowly wins the third to take the medal.
Tennis bronze for Gordon Reid
That was hard to watch, which suggests how hard it was to play. Almost no reaction from Reid after he strikes the winning volley at the net to beat his doubles partner and friend Alfie Hewett. Reid wheels around for a minute looking completely blank. Comes to the net to embrace Hewett and talk. After which there are no arms in the air, no fist pumps, no waving to the crowd. None of what we’ve seen from so many others. A medal, but none of that came the way that he wanted. A tough match after a week of tough matches, won 7-5 in the third.
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Long jump: Nicholas Hum ups his best jump from 7.09 to 7.12 to buy a little insurance in the silver spot. Two jumps to go.
Gold for India in the badminton
The men’s SL3 singles gold goes to Pramod Bhagat, beating GB’s Daniel Bethell in straight games 2-0.
Taekwondo: Australia’s Janine Watson wins through her repechage semi in convincing style, 32-12. She’s into the bronze medal bout while will take place about 35 minutes from now, 8:30pm local.
Wheelchair tennis: Hewett breaks back in the third set! After their epic yesterday, you would really thing these guys would have had enough. But Hewett will now serve to level up with Reid at 5-5.
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Women’s 200m: The T12 category is run immediately afterwards, with gold to Cuba in a world record time. Omara Durand Elias ran the existing record of 23.03 all the way back in 2015. Now, in a night of rain on a wet track, she runs 23.02 to win. Ukraine’s Oksana Boturchuk wins silver, the Russian Anna Kulinich-Sorokina bronze.
Women’s 200m: In the T11 visually impaired race, gold and silver go the same way as the 400 metres: Liu Cuiqing of China, Thalita Simplicio de Silva of Brazil. The latter’s compatriot Jerusa Geber dos Santos takes bronze. The Venezuelan Linda Perez Lopez won gold in the 100, but comes fourth here.
Javelin: Halfway through the men’s F41 throws and Sun Pengxiang has already broken his existing world record with 45.82 metres. So we can pretty safely say he’s going to win today.
Long jump: Australia’s Nicolas Hum is currently second in the men’s T20 category. He jumped 7.03 metres with his second effort. The Malaysian Abdul Latif Romly has 7.45. Greece third, Japan fourth. The field currently has three to four jumps remaining.
Wheelchair tennis: Reid has broken Hewett’s serve in the deciding set and leads 3-0.
Wheelchair basketball: The USA women win bronze over Germany 51-64. They controlled most of the match, withstanding a few streaks by Germany to keep pushing that lead back out.
Bronze for Australia in the 1500 metres T38
Canada’s Nate Riech gets himself a mile in front and holds that lead. Deon Kenzie the Australian tries to catch him a couple of times but can’t close the gap. He spends too many petrol tickets doing that, probably, and Abdelkrim Krai is able to pip Kenzie in the final straight to give Algeria the silver.
Athletics: Getting started with the track and field events now. It’s pouring rain again at the stadium.
Wheelchair tennis: These two just can’t quit. Hewett wins the second set and will take the bronze singles match to three. (Bronze singles sounds like a 1980s dating service.)
Badminton: The men’s singles SL3 gold is between India’s Pramod Bhagat and GB’s Daniel Bethell. Bhagat takes the first set.
Wheelchair basketball: The USA women have got this. Extended their lead out to 43-54 over Germany with a few minutes to play.
Brazil win gold in the men's 5-a-side football
Withstanding the last few minutes of increasingly frenzied Argentine attacks, the Brazilians emerge with their 1-0 lead intact. They’ve never won anything but gold since this sport was introduced, with today making it five Paralympic wins in a row.
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Wheelchair basketball: Germany make up two points near the three-quarter time break to trail 39-44. Not completely out of it, but it will be tough with the US holding that advantage.
Football: Espenillo nearly draws Argentina level! A powerful snap shot on his right while approaching goal from the left, and Luan has to produce a reflex save. Still 1-0 Brazil.
Football: Brazil score! Raimundo Mendes, aka Nonato, dribbles left of a defender, passes another, then unleashes a left-foot curler just inside the right-hand goalpost. Beats the keeper’s dive. Unerring accuracy from a blindfolded player. With 7 minutes left, Brazil lead 1-0.
Wheelchair basketball: A long streak of missed shots by both teams before Mareike Miller brings Germany back to 30-35. Third quarter.
Sitting volleyball: Brazil’s women win bronze over Canada, three sets to one.
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Archery: It ain’t happening for the British pair of Phillips and Chaisty. They shoot 5 and 7 to start with. Iran shoot double 9s. And GB is done as Chaisty hits a 6. Phillips shoots 9 but it doesn’t matter. Iran’s Zahra Nemati and Gholamreza Rahimi go through to the semis.
Archery: Great Britain in the mixed team recurve quarterfinal, but they’re trailing Iran. Lost the first two sets. That second set was a horror for everybody: GB shot 6, 10, 5, 7, but Iran shot 7 and 6 to start with before a 9 and 8 to win it.
Wheelchair tennis: Gordon Reid wins the first set 6-4 against Alfie Hewett.
Boccia: Korea wins the pairs BC3 match. Gold for Jeong Howon, Choi Yejin, and (presumably) reserve player Kim Hansoo.
Wheelchair basketball: At one point the USA get out to a 20-31 lead, but the Germans close that back up to 26-31 by the half time break. It’s been a real game of streaks so far, rather than shot for shot.
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Boccia: The pairs BC3 gold match we talked about a while ago is still going, Japan and Korea locked 4-4 after four ends.
Taekwondo: Great Britain’s Amy Truesdale loses her semifinal in the women’s K44 58kg+ division, in a 14-60 margin across four rounds to Uzbekistan’s Guljonoy Naimova.
Football: Half time in the cinco-por-cinco. It’s been physical, it’s been intense, and it is yet to see a side break through.
Wheelchair tennis: Oh man, this match is flat. Three-day old lemonade. Reid and Hewett both look like they’re watching television. Mid afternoon. Nothing good on. It’s 3-3 in the first, and there hasn’t been a facial expression from either player. Understandable.
Wheelchair basketball: It turns quickly. Two missed shots for Germany, two defensive rebounds for the USA, and they move downcourt both times to hit the hoop and race out to 26-19. Second quarter.
Wheelchair basketball: Germany have stormed back to a 19-20 margin, as we reach a timeout in the second quarter.
Wheelchair tennis: The men’s bronze singles match is underway. It’s really poignant, it must be said. Two British players, Gordon Reid and Alfie Hewett, who each know the other so well as the top-ranked doubles pairing in the world. They both lost their singles semifinals. Then they lost the doubles final together. Now they have to play in the bronze match to try to deny the other one a medal. It seems cruel.
Games on serve, 2-2.
Wheelchair basketball: Bronze medal match for the women nearing quarter time, and the USA have just kicked away to 16-11 after a close opening period. An exchange of baskets makes it 18-13 over Germany, as the break nears.
Football: Still 0-0 with 12 minutes left in the first half, but Brazil have had a couple of set pieces and a couple of near-things in open play. Collisions aplenty, free kicks dished out as well.
Football: Luan the Brazilian keeper makes an early save (the keepers in this game either have full vision or at least partial vision, and don’t wear eye masks, like the outfield players do).
The men's football final is underway
Five-a-side for vision-impaired players, and it’s the major football battle of the titans in any format: Argentina v Brazil. They’ve kicked off.
Taekwondo: Australia’s Janine Watson wins through the women’s K44 +58kg repechage quarters, into the semis, with the ref stopping her contest after three dominant rounds.
Boccia: The BC3 pairs gold match is underway, Japan and the Republic of Korea still playing the first end.
Dominant tennis gold for Netherlands
Diede de Groot and Aniek van Koot wipe them off the court, 6-0, 6-1. Lucy Shuker and Jordanne Whiley take silver for Great Britain.
Wheelchair tennis: The Dutch pair are up a break in the second set of the women’s final. Great Britain running out of road...
Ade is also in Tokyo, and has been writing strongly. Well worth a read with this one.
That men’s tennis final I mentioned from yesterday was a classic, truly extraordinary. Worth reading through yesterday’s blog for, if you’re interested. Our reporter Paul Mac was at the game, this is his write-up of the emotional aftermath.
Wheelchair tennis: Shuker and Whiley have won their first game of the match, so that’s something. 1-0 on serve in the second set.
Wheelchair tennis: In fact, the women’s doubles final is already underway. Shuker and Whiley, sounding like the law firm that Kim Wexler joined for a while in Better Call Saul, have been bageled in the first set by the Dutch rhyming pair van Koot and de Groot.
What's on?
Good indeterminate time of day to you, friendly reader. In Tokyo, the late afternoon begins to look towards evening, and evening is when the events come out in force, flocking thickly towards us like fruit bats across the dusking sky.
For the next five hours, I will attempt to keep you updated on the following, as listed with their approximate local time of commencement.
- 5pm - Boccia BC3 gold medal match, Japan and Korea
- 5pm - Taekwondo alllll night long
- Indeterminate times - Wheelchair tennis, with GB’s Shuker and Whiley in the women’s doubles gold match, and men’s doubles partners Hewett and Reid playing each other for bronze
- 5:30 - Football men’s gold medal match, Argentina and Brazil
- 5:30 - Wheelchair basketball women’s bronze match, USA and Germany
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6:30 - Archery, Great Britain and Iran in men’s recurve mixed team quarterfinal, then straight on into semis
6:30 - Badminton singles SL3 gold match between Great Britain and India
7pm - Finals for men’s long jump T20, shot put F33, javelin F41, and 1500m T38
7pm - Sitting volleyball men’s gold match, Iran and RPC
7:30 - Finals for women’s 200m T11 and T12, discus F38
8pm - Finals for men’s shot put F63, women’s 200m T47, men’s 200m T64
8:30 - Final for women’s 400m T38
8:30 - Wheelchair basketball women’s gold match, Netherlands and China
9pm - Finals for men’s 400m T47, women’s 100m T63
Handing you over now to Geoff Lemon. Take it away.
Wheelchair tennis: ParalympicsGB are in the women’s doubles final. Lucy Shuker and Jordanne Whiley are on the hunt for gold but have gone down an early break against Dutch duo Diede de Groot and Aniek van Koot.
Wheelchair basketball: The Australian men’s team have finished in fifth thanks to a comfortable 74-58 victory over Turkey.
Football five-a-side: Morocco have taken the bronze medal in the country’s second Paralympics appearance, with visually impaired player Zouhair Snisla scoring all four goals against China.
It's #Bronze for Morocco in #Football5ASide!
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The gold medal match is a Superclásico de las Américas with a kick between defending champions Brazil and Rio 2016 bronze medallists Argentina. Keep an eye on Brazil star Thiago Da Silva.
Boccia: The bronze medal matches for today have finished and their results are as follows:
Pairs – BC3: Greece 7-0 Hong Kong
Team – BC1/BC2: Portugal 3-4 Japan
Pairs – BC4: Russian Paralympic Committee 5-1 Portugal
Gold medal matches to come:
Pairs – BC4: Slovakia v Hong Kong
Pairs – BC3: Japan v Korea
Team – BC1/BC2: China v Thailand
Here is the medal table as it stands, and it’s safe to say China will not be overtaken in the next 24 hours.
Badminton: The sport is making its Paralympic debut and the SL3-SU5 mixed doubles semi-final between Indonesia’s Leani Ratri Oktila and Hary Susanto and Indian duo Palak Kohli and Pramod Bhagat is under way. A Chinese and Japanese team have also started their men’s doubles WH semi.
Still to come in the shooting is the final of the mixed 50m rifle prone SH2, with Brits Tim Jeffery and Ryan Cockbill in the eight-person field. That’s at 2.45pm local time.
Shooting: Manish Narwal has won gold (Paralympic record of 218.2), and Singhraj silver in P4 mixed 50m Pistol SH1 pistol final. It’s a one-two for India, with Russian Sergey Malyshev taking bronze.
Wheelchair basketball: The Rollers are leading Turkey 25-18 at quarter-time in their fifth-place play-off.
Big matches of the day still to come with the women’s bronze medal match between Germany and the United States before the Netherlands and China play for the gold.
Wheelchair tennis: Dylan Alcott choked back tears as he spoke about what his gold medal means to him in his post-match interview with Seven.
“I’m not coming back to the Paralympics ever again. I just, I love the Paralympic games so much, it means so much to me. When I was 17 I got to go with the Rollers and we won gold and it was life changing — but Paralympic sport in general saved my life, it did. It was the best thing that ever happened to me, and, I owe it so much.
“I’m just so thankful and grateful that it came into my life and iIcan perform on the big stage and change perceptions along the way of what people think of us, people with disabilities. Not just as athletes, hopefully this is changing perceptions beyond that.
“Not every person with a disability can be a Paralympian. But they can be a doctor, a lawyer, a mum, a dad, a teacher, an educator, politician whatever it is. But they don’t often get the opportunities that we get here to play sport.”
Athletics: Australian James Turner says he will learn from a contentious start which cost him the T36 100m title and a second gold to match his 400m crown.
The 25-year-old, who has cerebral palsy, was favoured to win the double after entering the sprint final as world record holder and fastest qualifier. But he was put off on the startline by Malaysia’s Mohamad Puzi, who moved on the line in the next to him.
China’s Deng Peicheng in a time of 11.85 seconds, well off Turner’s world mark of 11.72. Australian officials considered lodging a protest but decided against it given it would have likely only seen fourth-placed Puzi disqualified rather than a re-run.
“I absolutely let myself get distracted,” Turner told the Seven Network. “I saw movement next to me and my body wanted to go with it and I let it so I’ve really got to put the blinders on for next time. It was my mistake to let that get to me and I’ve got to learn from it.”
Athletics: Great Britain’s Hannah Cockroft gave a demonstration of her supremacy in T34 class racing, as she won her second gold medal of Tokyo 2020, and her seventh at a Paralympic Games, in the 800m.
Depending on the angle you viewed the race from, it was possible to think that Cockroft was out on the track by herself, so great was the distance between herself and the rest of the eight strong field. She won in a Paralympic record time and finished just shy of her own world record, despite sodden conditions in the Olympic Stadium.
The 29-year-old clocked in at 1:48.99, a little more than a tenth of a second short of her best. She was, however, a whole 11 seconds clear of compatriot Kare Adenegan, famously the only racer to have beaten Cockroft in international competition, who claimed silver. Fabienne Andre just missed out on making it a British 1,2,3 as she finished behind the American Alexa Halko.
More to follow
Wheelchair tennis: Dylan Alcott’s dream of a “golden slam” is alive after the Australian won the quad singles final against Dutchman Sam Schröder.
World No 1 Alcott edged Schroder 7-6 (7-2), 6-1 on Saturday to successfully defend his Paralympic wheelchair title from Rio.
The 30-year-old will depart Tokyo for the US Open, where he will try to make it a perfect five from five after also winning the Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon crowns in 2021.
The singles win was sweet revenge for Alcott after he and Heath Davidson surrendered their Paralympic doubles crown to Schroder and Niels Vink.
Para-canoe: Some big results earlier and let’s start with an Australian for those on this timezone. Curtis McGrath has capped a remarkable 24 hours by winning the final of the men’s VL3 200m, an event on debut in Tokyo which is raced in a va’a – an outrigger canoe with a single-blade paddle.
It was his second medal after the former solider, who lost both of his legs in Afghanistan, defended his Rio 2016 men’s kayak single 200m KL2 title.
McGrath got off to a slow start but stormed home in the back end of the 200m to finish 1.611 seconds clear of Brazilian Giovane Vieira de Paula. Great Britain’s Stuart Wood, who set a Paralympic best time in the heat, collected bronze.
That was just one of four medals for GB at the Sea Forest Waterway, where Charlotte Henshaw and Emma Wiggs pulled off a one-two in the women’s kayak single 200m KL2 and compatriot Laura Sugar won gold in the women’s kayak single 200m KL3.
Brazilian Fernando Rufino de Paulo won the men’s va’a Single 200m VL2 and German Edina Müller rounded out the gold medals in the women’s kayak single 200m KL1.
Preamble
Hello and welcome to our day 11 coverage of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games. This is the penultimate day. The one before the last one. The one with a tendency to bring on bouts of nostalgia for the preceding days and weeks we wish we could all relive. We have already witnessed some of those moments today, and I’ll do my best to catch you up on those events before heading full steam ahead into the next 10 or so hours. But first, some highlights below to watch out for, courtesy of my colleague Martin Belam.
All events are listed here in local Tokyo time. Add an hour for Sydney, subtract eight hours for Exeter, 13 hours for New York and 16 hours for San Francisco.
If you only watch one thing: 9.30am Paracanoe – after a morning of semi-finals, by 10.48am it is time for the finals. The women go in the kayak single 200m in three classes where Emma Wiggs is attempting to defend her Rio title, and the men have two finals in the va’a single
- 9am Badminton – settle in for another long day at the Yoyogi National Stadium as eventually we get to seven bronze play-offs and seven finals. There’s no precise timings for the later matches and the schedule indicates that the session could go as long as to 9pm
- 9.30am and 7pm Athletics – it is nearly all finals today with 24 golds available (10 of those have already been won) making it the busiest day on the podium of the athletics program.
- 10am and 5pm Taekwondo – there are two finals at the end of these sessions – the men’s K44 +75kg and the women’s K44 +58kg bouts for the gold medal should start around 9pm
- 11.30am and 5.30pm Football 5-a-side – China v Morocco for the bronze medal first, and then in the early evening it is the final between Argentina and Brazil. Brazil haven’t let in a single goal all Paralympics yet
- 12.15pm Shooting – after an earlier qualification round there are two finals today. First on at 12.15pm is the mixed 50m pistol SH1 final. At 2.45pm it is the mixed 50m rifle prone SH2
- 2pm and 4.30pm and 7pm Sitting volleyball – the men play-off for bronze as Brazil face Bosnia-Herzegovina, then the women’s bronze is available as Brazil play Canada. The evening match is the men’s final: the Russian Paralympic Committee v Iran. The women’s final is on Sunday
- 5.20pm Boccia – there’s an earlier session from 9.30am with semi-finals and bronze medal play-offs, but the main attraction is a short sharp evening session of finals in the BC4 pairs, BC3 pairs, and the BC1/BC2 team
- 5.30pm Archery – the mixed team recurve contest reaches the quarter-final stage, and by 8pm we’ll know the winner of the final archery medal of Tokyo 2020
- 8.30pm Wheelchair basketball – the women’s bronze medal match between Germany and the US is earlier at 5.45pm, and the evening session has the Netherlands v China setting out to win gold
- 10am Wheelchair tennis – The day on centre court at the Ariake Tennis Park started with Australia’s Dylan Alcott winning gold in the quad singles. It is followed by the women’s doubles bronze match and then the women’s doubles gold where the Dutch pair of Diede de Groot and Aniek van Koot take on British pair Lucy Shuker and Jordanne Whiley. After that it is the ParalympicsGB bronze showdown between doubles partners Gordon Reid and Alfie Hewett. *draws deep breath* Then the day concludes with the men’s singles gold match. Phew
