The Tokyo Paralympic Games were held on the 5th, the final day of the tournament, before the closing ceremony, and the Japanese team won three gold medals in the marathon and badminton on land, and also won the silver medal in the men's wheelchair basketball. Won eight medals.
Athletics Marathon Michishita Gold Medal
Of these, a total of 10 athletes from Japan participated in the men's and women's marathon on land, which was held on a course in central Tokyo.
Of these, in the women's visually impaired class, 44-year-old Misato Michishita, who holds the world record, won the gold medal in a time of 3 hours 0 minutes 50 seconds, a difference of more than 3 minutes from the 2nd place.
This is the medal acquisition following the silver medal of the previous tournament.
In the men's visually impaired class, 33-year-old Tadashi Horikoshi won the bronze medal in a time of 2 hours 28 minutes 1 second.
Horikoshi became the first medal in four consecutive tournaments.
In the class with a disability in the men's arm, Tsutomu Nagata, 37, who participated for the first time, won the bronze medal in a time of 2 hours 29 minutes 33 seconds.
In addition, 46-year-old Wakako Tsuchida was 4th in the women's wheelchair class, Tsubasa Kina was 7th in the men's wheelchair class, and Tomoki Suzuki was 7th in the men's wheelchair class.
In addition, Yutaka Kumagai, who participated for the first time in the men's visually impaired class, was in 7th place, Shinya Wada, who won silver and bronze medals in this tournament, was in 9th place, and the women's visually impaired class was 56. Yumiko Fujii, aged 66, was 5th, the oldest player in the Japanese team, and Mihoko Nishijima, 66, was 8th.
Gold medal in badminton men's singles and women's doubles
In the new competition of this tournament, badminton, the final of the men's singles wheelchair class with relatively light obstacles was held, and 19-year-old Daiki Kajiwara, who is 6th in the world ranking, has a game count of 2 against the Korean player who is 1st in the world. I won the gold medal with a straight win of 0.
In the women's doubles wheelchair class final, the pair of Sarina Satomi and Yuma Yamazaki, who ranked first in the world, won the gold medal against the Chinese pair, who ranked second in the world, with a game count of 2: 1.
In the men's doubles wheelchair class bronze medal, the pair of Kajiwara and Hiroshi Murayama, who ranked 3rd in the world, beat the Thai pair, who ranked 8th in the world, with a game count of 2-0 and won the bronze medal.
In the 3rd place playoff of the mixed doubles class with disabilities in the arms and legs, the pair of Daisuke Fujiwara and Akiko Sugino won the bronze medal by beating the Indian pair with a game count of 2-0.
Japan won a total of nine medals in the new competition badminton.
Wheelchair basketball lost to the previous winner, the silver medal
In wheelchair basketball, the men's final was held, and Japan lost to the United States, which won the previous tournament, 60 to 64, and became a silver medal.
This is the first time Japan has won a medal in this event.
Shooting Watanabe does not advance to the final
In shooting, Yusuke Watanabe was in 30th place in the SH1 class qualifying for mixed rifle prone shooting, and the top eight players did not advance to the final.