Despite missing out on qualification, one Paralympian felt like a champion after getting a surprise from her partner - and guide - on the track.
Cape Verde para-athlete Keula Nidreia Pereira Semedo failed to qualify for the semi-finals of the women’s T11 200m after coming last in her heat.
The Paralympic spirit was clear to see when her guide Manuel Antonio Vaz de Vega got down on one knee and asked her to marry him on the track immediately after the race concluded.
He ran over to the visually-impaired Semedo, who was wearing a blindfold, at the National Stadium and led over the other competitors to create a unique moment.
To the cheers and applause of each and every individual within the stadium, Semedo said yes as the newly-engaged couple embraced on the track.
Delighted with the news despite her on-track disappointment, the 32-year-old showed off her ring to the cameras.
The Paralympic sprinter had told the official Olympics and Paralympics website before the Games that her guide was the biggest influence on her career.
Semedo began competing in athletics at the age of 15 after being encouraged by a teacher at school, and she was awarded the Medal of Sports Merit from her national government before leaving Cape Verde.
Along with her mother, she moved to Portugal in the early 2010s to be closer to her father who worked in Europe - and she took up sport again in 2012 after taking time to settle following their relocation.
She received a diploma in physiotherapy in Lisbon and has described herself as a digital influencer on her social media pages.
It is not the first engagement we have seen at the Olympics or Paralympics in Tokyo this summer, with fencer Maria Belen Perez Maurice proposed to by her trainer at the Games in late July.
Shortly after she was knocked out, the Argentine’s coach and partner of 17 years made a dramatic attempt for her hand in marriage with a handwritten sign that read: ‘Will you marry me? Please’.
It was the second attempt by Lucas Guillermo Saucedo after his 2010 proposal at the World Fencing Championships was turned down.
Eleven years later, Perez Maurice accepted before breaking down in tears.
Saucedo later revealed he had asked an Olympic volunteer for a sheet of paper to write the proposal on, but the volunteer refused - until the coach offered to trade an Olympic pin for the paper.
