The Tokyo Paralympic Games were held on the 9th day of the tournament, and Japan won three medals, including Hidetaka Sugimura, who won a gold medal in a class with mild disabilities such as Boccia's individual cerebral palsy.

Boccia

In Boccia, Sugimura played against a Thai player who won a gold medal in the previous tournament in the final of a class with mild disabilities such as cerebral palsy.


In the early stages, he took the lead with a highly accurate pitch, and after that he repelled the opponent's ball to make space, then widened the lead with accurate control to move his ball to the closest position and won a gold medal 5-0. Did.


This is the first time for Japanese people to win a gold medal in Boccia, and it is also the first time for an individual to win a medal.

Swimming

In the final of the men's 100-meter breaststroke visually impaired class, Japanese ace Keiichi Kimura returned to the top in the first 50 meters in a speedy swim from the first half.

In the second half, he fought for the top with a Dutch player swimming in the next lane without slowing down, but unfortunately he lost due to the difference in touch and won the silver medal with a time of 1: 11.78.

Kimura, who has participated in four consecutive tournaments, won the first medal in this tournament and became the seventh medal in the Paralympic Games.



Takuro Yamada, who will participate in the 5th Paralympic Games in a row, finished 8th in the final of the motor dysfunction class of the men's 200m individual medley.

Wheelchair tennis

In the quad doubles, where players with disabilities not only in their legs but also in their arms and hands participate in wheelchair tennis, the game was entangled by midnight because the play was temporarily suspended due to the rain. , Mitsuteru Moroishi and Koji Kanno won the bronze medal by beating the British pair with a set count of 2: 1.



In the women's doubles semi-final, the pair of Yui Kamiji and Momoko Ohtani lost to the Dutch pair with a set count of 0 to 2, and went to the bronze medal match.



In the men's singles, the leading player Shingo Kunieda decided to advance to the semi-finals by winning a fierce battle with a French player for more than 2 hours with a set count of 2-0 in the quarter-finals.

Wheelchair basketball

In the men's quarter-finals, Japan beat Australia 61-55, deciding to advance to the semi-finals for the first time in this event.

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The women's 100-meter wheelchair class final was held, and Momoka Muraoka, a gold medalist of the winter para-alpine skiing and alpine skiing, finished sixth with a time of 16.71 seconds.



In the men's long jump prosthesis class, German Markus Rehm won the gold medal in a jump of 8 meters and 18 centimeters.

Although he could not exceed the record of the gold medal of the men's long jump of the Tokyo Olympics, which he was aiming for, he won the tournament for the third consecutive time with overwhelming strength that makes a big difference to the second place.

badminton

In badminton, the qualifying league has begun, and Ayako Suzuki, who is ranked first in the world ranking in the class with disabilities in women's singles, beats Indian players straight, and in the class with relatively heavy disabilities in women's singles wheelchairs, she is the world's number one. Sarina Satomi, who is in the top position, also got off to a good start with a straight victory over the Korean player.

Goalball

The women's quarter-finals were held, and Japan, aiming for the gold medal for the first time in two tournaments, defeated Israel 4-1 and decided to advance to the semi-finals.

archery

Aiko Okazaki advanced to the quarterfinals of the women's individual "W1" who has a severe disability in a wheelchair.

At the age of 19, Okazaki was involved in a derailment accident on the JR Fukuchiyama Line and became a wheelchair.

In the quarter-finals, he played against a Chinese player who ranked first in the ranking round and lost 129 to 132, but finished fifth in the first Paralympic Games.

Table tennis

In the table tennis women's team, a class with disabilities in their arms and legs, Japan lost to Poland 0-2 in the quarterfinals of the first match and did not advance to the semifinals.