(Tokyo Paralympic Games) General news: 8 gold China half-time 54 gold over the same period in Rio

　　China News Service, Tokyo, August 30. On the sixth day of the Tokyo Paralympic Games, the Chinese delegation won 8 more gold medals, with 54 golds, 35 silvers and 30 bronzes totaling 119 medals in the gold medal and medal list.

　　After the six-day battle, the Tokyo Paralympic Games were more than halfway through, and the total number of gold medals and medals for the Chinese delegation exceeded that of the Rio Paralympic Games (50 gold, 40 silver, 28 bronze, a total of 118 medals).

Swimming (13 gold), track and field (11 gold) and wheelchair fencing (11 gold) have become the three major "pillars" of the Chinese Army in the first half of the Paralympic Games.

Swimming 5 golds: both male and female "armless flying fish" earn the third gold

　　On the evening of the 30th, "Volunteer March" sounded 5 times in the Tokyo Paralympic Swimming Stadium. Among them, Zheng Tao, Ruan Jingsong and Wang Lichao once again won the gold, silver and bronze medals in the men's 50m backstroke S5 finals. Gold medalist Zheng Tao also took 31 seconds. 42 broke the world record held by him.

　　This is also the third gold medal won by the "armless flying fish" Zheng Tao at this Paralympic Games.

During the game, he used his teeth to bite the towel in the hands of the staff when he started, and hit the pool wall with his head when he reached the finish line, which shocked and moved countless spectators.

　　In the men's 50m butterfly S6 and women's 200m individual medley SM11, Chinese players Wang Jingang, Jia Hongguang, Ma Jia and Cai Liwen won the championship and runner-up respectively.

Among them, Ma Jia broke the world record of SM11 in the women's 200m individual medley with a time of 2:42.14.

　　In the women's 50m freestyle S11 final in a rematch on the 29th, Ma Jia won the gold medal with a world record.

Ma Jia, 23, was born into a peasant family in Hebei Province with congenital visual disabilities.

In 2012, she started to practice swimming when she was 14 years old and had no foundation.

　　In the women's 50m backstroke S5 finals, the female "armless flying fish" Lu Dong won the championship with 37.18 seconds and broke the world record. She also won her third gold medal in this Paralympic Games.

　　It is worth mentioning that in the women's 50m butterfly S5 podium on the 27th, the gold medalist Lu Dongjian, the silver and bronze medal winners were all in wheelchairs and squatted to maintain the same height as them during the group photo.

Many netizens consider this scene to be the most moving moment of this Paralympic Games.

　　On the 30th, Jiang Yuyan also won the women's 50m butterfly S6 champion.

1 gold each for shooting, weightlifting, and table tennis

　　The shooting competition with 13 gold medals started on the 30th to win the first shot. In the 3 finals held that day, the Chinese team won 1 gold and 1 silver.

　　In the men's 10m air rifle standing position R1-SH1 level competition, Dong Chao, the four-dynasty veteran, won the first gold in this Paralympic shooting for the Chinese team and achieved his three consecutive championships in the event.

　　Dong Chao, born in 1985, is from Zigong, Sichuan. At the age of 3, his left leg was amputated in a high position due to a car accident.

In 2003, the 18-year-old Dong Chao started to practice table tennis and switched to shooting the following year.

This time in Tokyo, he signed up for 4 competitions.

　　In the women's 10m air rifle standing position R2-SH1 level competition, Chinese player Zhang Cuiping won the silver medal.

　　In the finals of the last four events in weightlifting, the Chinese team that played in two also won 1 gold and 1 silver.

　　In the women's 86 kg and above finals, Deng Xuemei won the championship with 153 kg, and Zheng Feifei won the silver medal in the women's 86 kg or less.

　　The weightlifting competition of this Paralympic Games produced a total of 20 gold medals. The Chinese team won 7 golds, 6 silvers and 13 medals. The number of gold medals and medals is far ahead in this event.

　　The table tennis competition continued. In 8 gold medal competitions of different levels in men's and women's singles, two Chinese players who entered the finals won and lost.

　　In the men's 8th finals, the 26-year-old Chinese one-armed Zhao Shuai defeated the Ukrainians 3-1, achieving three consecutive Paralympic titles.

In the women's 9th finals, Chinese player Xiong Guiyan lost to Australia 2:3 and won the silver medal.

　　In the track and field stadium where 15 gold medals were produced that day, although the Chinese team did not receive any medals, it still tops the gold medal list with 11 gold medals.

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