At the Tokyo Paralympic table tennis, Natalia Partyka of Poland, who also participated in the Olympic Games, won a gold medal in a class with disabilities in the arms and legs of a women's team, and played a humiliation of singles whose consecutive championships were interrupted.
The 32-year-old Partika has no point from her right elbow since she was born.
He started playing table tennis at the age of 7, and his first Paralympic Games was the 2000 Sydney Games, where he participated at the age of 11.
Since then, he has participated in six consecutive tournaments, and has won four consecutive women's singles titles from the Athens Games to the Rio de Janeiro Games.
He has also participated in the Olympic Games for four consecutive games, from the 2008 Beijing Games to the Tokyo Games.
At the Tokyo Paralympics, I was aiming for the fifth straight victory in the women's singles, but in the semi-finals I lost at the end of the full game and became a bronze medal, breaking the record of consecutive wins.
Nevertheless, Partyka advanced to the final in the women's team that participated with Carolina Baek, who was nine years younger, and played against Australia on the 3rd.
The doubles of the first game were entangled up to the full game, and the final fifth game was also competing with 9 to 9 until the end, but Poland took 2 points in a row with Partika's serve etc. and Poland took 11 to 9 and the game I won the game with a count of 3 to 2.
In the second match of the singles, Partyka played against Zhang Yang, who lost in the semifinals of the singles.
From the first game, Partyka shot powerful shots one after another to accumulate points, and won a straight 3-0 victory to play a singles humiliation.
As a result, Poland beat Australia 2-0 to win the gold medal, making it the sixth Paralympic gold medal for Partyka.
Partyka "I wanted to revenge a single"
Partika said, "I just wanted to revenge the singles and fought with the belief that I could win. I was happy to play and I am very happy to win the gold medal. I was able to participate in both the Olympics and the Paralympics this time. I'm really happy. However, I feel a little lonely after losing the singles, so I'll try to recover this loss at the next Paris Games. "