Tokyo Paralympics detailed schedule decision Next year August 30th 63rd event and final August 13th 15:00
The details of the Tokyo Paralympic Games schedule next year will be finalized, and the largest number of 63 races will be held on the first Sunday of the tournament on the 6th day of the tournament so that more people can watch the game. It was.
The organizing committee of the tournament announced the opening and closing ceremony of the Tokyo Paralympics and the detailed schedule of 22 events and 540 events on the 13th.
The opening ceremony on August 25th and the closing ceremony on September 6th at the new national stadium began at 8pm and ended at 11pm at the same night time as the Olympics.
In order to continue the excitement throughout the tournament period, there are 270 gold medals determined in the first half and the second half of the tournament, and the first gold medal will be decided on a bicycle track on August 26, the day after the opening ceremony.
Also, to have many children watch the Paralympic Games and think about diversity and a symbiotic society, August 30th, the 6th day of the tournament, is the first Sunday that is easy to visit with family. It is positioned as a special day as "Golden Sunday".
On this day, the 63 finals will be held, including wheelchair rugby, which is expected to be a gold medal in Japan.
There will be a new competition at the end of the tournament,
▽ Taekwondo is from September 3rd to 5th
▽ Badminton on September 5th and 6th
The finals will be held respectively.
In wheelchair tennis, where men and women are singles and expect gold medals, the final for women will be held on September 4th and the final for boys on September 5th.
Based on this schedule, the Organizing Committee will accept general ticket purchase applications from the official sales site on the 22nd of this month.
The final schedule for the event of interest
This is the schedule for the finals that are attracting attention.
It is land.
On the night of August 29th, Atsushi Yamamoto, who won the silver medal at the last Rio de Janeiro tournament, aimed at the men's long jump prosthetic leg class, and the 400m arm of the girl who was the bronze medalist for the last tournament, Sae Shigemoto Classes with disabilities will be held.
Both the wheelchair class and Tomohiro Sato have world records. Men's 400 meters are the night of August 28 and men's 1500 meters are the night of August 30.
The visually impaired class of the women's marathon where Misato Doshita, who has the world record in the last tournament silver medal, will start on the last day, the early morning of September 6.
It is swimming.
In the afternoon of September 4th, the 100-meter butterfly that Keiichi Kimura, who is good at ace and four ace silver medals and bronze medals, was the most visually impaired class in the previous tournament.
In the afternoon of August 27th, the 100-meter freestyle motor dysfunction class for men, who has won five medals in four tournaments, has a world record.
In the triathlon girls, the motor dysfunction class that Makai Tani wants to participate is August 30 in the morning of August 29. Each in the morning of the day.
Wheelchair tennis. On September 5th, Shingo Kunieda, who has been selected as the representative, will aim for the third gold medal for the first time in two tournaments.
Women's singles, who won a bronze medal at the previous tournament and also have Yui Uechi who is also a representative, will be held on September 4th.
The Boccia organization, which won the silver medal at the last competition and last year's world championship, will be held on the afternoon of September 5.
The wheelchair rugby that won the bronze medal at the last competition and won the last year's world championship will be held on the night of August 30th.
The first wheelchair basketball game will be held on September 6th.
The schedule also considers “heat”
At the Tokyo Paralympic Games, measures against heat were included in the competition schedule. Of these, both the triathlon and marathon started 30 minutes ahead of schedule.
As a result, the male and female triathlons on August 29th and 30th will start at 7.30am and the male and female marathon on September 6th will start at 6.30am.
In addition, in the equestrian period, the competition schedule, which was initially 4 days, is increased by 1 day to 5 days from August 27 to August 31, and the start time of the competition is delayed by up to 3 hours to avoid the heat peak. I made it.