Chronological summary of the 2020 Summer Paralympics

This is a chronological summary of the major events of the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan, which was postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The opening ceremony is scheduled on the 24th of August with the last day of competition and the closing ceremony on 5 September.^[1]

Calendar

The preliminary schedule was announced on 19 October 2018.^[2] The finalized schedule was released on 13 August 2019.^[3][4]

The original schedule was from 25 August to 10 September 2020. To postpone the Paralympics until 2021, all events were delayed by 364 days (one day less than a full year to preserve the same days of the week), giving a new schedule of 24 August to 9 September 2021.^[5]

All times and dates use Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

OC

Opening ceremony

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Event competitions

1

Gold medal events

CC

Closing ceremony

August/September 2021		August								September					Events
		24th Tue	25th Wed	26th Thu	27th Fri	28th Sat	29th Sun	30th Mon	31st Tue	1st Wed	2nd Thu	3rd Fri	4th Sat	5th Sun
Ceremonies		OC												CC	—
Archery					●	1	1	2	2		1	1	1		9
Athletics					13	16	19	17	21	17	18	17	24	5	167
Badminton										●	●	●	7	7	14
Boccia						●	●	●	●	4	●	●	3		7
Cycling	Road								19	6	5	4			51
	Track		4	5	5	3
Equestrian (dressage)				3	2	●	1	5							11
Football 5-a-side							●	●	●		●		1		1
Goalball			●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	2			2
Judo					4	4	5								13
Paracanoe											●	4	5		9
Paratriathlon						4	4								8
Powerlifting				4	4	4	4	4							20
Rowing					●	●	4								4
Shooting								3	2	2	1	2	2	1	13
Sitting volleyball					●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	1	1	2
Swimming			16	14	14	14	13	15	14	15	15	16			146
Table tennis			●	●	●	5	8	8	●	●	5	5			31
Taekwondo											2	2	2		6
Wheelchair basketball			●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	1	1	2
Wheelchair fencing			4	4	2	4	2								16
Wheelchair rugby			●	●	●	●	1								1
Wheelchair tennis					●	●	●	●	●	1	1	2	2		6
Daily medal events			24	30	44	55	62	54	58	45	48	55	49	15	539
Cumulative total			24	54	98	153	215	269	327	372	420	475	524	539
August/September 2021		24th Tue	25th Wed	26th Thu	27th Fri	28th Sat	29th Sun	30th Mon	31st Tue	1st Wed	2nd Thu	3rd Fri	4th Sat	5th Sun	Total events
		August								September

Medal table

Part of this section is transcluded from 2020 Summer Paralympics medal table. (edit | history)

  *   Host nation (Japan)

2020 Summer Paralympics medal table^[6]

Rank	NPC	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China	96	60	51	207
2	Great Britain	41	38	45	124
3	United States	37	36	31	104
4	RPC	36	33	49	118
5	Netherlands	25	17	17	59
6	Ukraine	24	47	27	98
7	Brazil	22	20	30	72
8	Australia	21	29	30	80
9	Italy	14	29	26	69
10	Azerbaijan	14	1	4	19
11–86	Remaining teams	209	230	279	718
Totals (86 entries)		539	540	589	1,668

Day-by-day summaries

Day 0 — Tuesday 24 August

24 August 2021 — detailed results
Opening ceremony The opening ceremony was held at Japan National Stadium at 20:00 JST (UTC+9).[1]

Day 1 — Wednesday 25 August

25 August 2021 — summary table

Sport Event Gold medalist(s) Silver medalist(s) Bronze medalist(s) Ref Competitor(s) Team Rec Competitor(s) Team Competitor(s) Team Cycling Men's individual pursuit B Tristan Bangma piloted by Patrick Bos  Netherlands Steve Bate piloted by Adam Duggleby  Great Britain Marcin Polak piloted by Michał Ładosz  Poland Women's individual pursuit C1–3 Paige Greco  Australia WR Wang Xiaomei  China Denise Schindler  Germany Women's individual pursuit C4 Emily Petricola  Australia Shawn Morelli  United States Keely Shaw  Canada Women's individual pursuit C5 Sarah Storey  Great Britain Crystal Lane-Wright  Great Britain Marie Patouillet  France Swimming Men's 50 metre freestyle S10 Rowan Crothers  Australia Maksym Krypak  Ukraine Phelipe Rodrigues  Brazil Women's 50 metre freestyle S6 Yelyzaveta Mereshko  Ukraine Elizabeth Marks  United States Anna Hontar  Ukraine Women's 50 metre freestyle S10 Anastasiia Gontar  RPC Chantalle Zijderveld  Netherlands Aurélie Rivard  Canada Men's 100 metre freestyle S8 Ben Popham  Australia Andrei Nikolaev  RPC Dimosthenis Michalentzakis  Greece Men's 200 metre freestyle S5 Francesco Bocciardo  Italy PR Antoni Ponce Bertran  Spain Daniel Dias  Brazil Women's 200 metre freestyle S5 Zhang Li  China Tully Kearney  Great Britain Monica Boggioni  Italy Men's 400 metre freestyle S9 William Martin  Australia PR Ugo Didier  France Alexander Tuckfield  Australia Women's 400 metre freestyle S9 Lakeisha Patterson  Australia Zsófia Konkoly  Hungary Toni Shaw  Great Britain Men's 100 metre backstroke S1 Iyad Shalabi  Israel Anton Kol  Ukraine Francesco Bettella  Italy Men's 100 metre backstroke S2 Alberto Abarza  Chile Gabriel Geraldo Araújo  Brazil Vladimir Danilenko  RPC Women's 100 metre backstroke S2 Yip Pin Xiu  Singapore Miyuki Yamada  Japan Fabiola Ramírez  Mexico Men's 50 metre breaststroke SB3 Roman Zhdanov  RPC WR Miguel Luque Ávila  Mexico Tatayuki Suzuki  Japan Men's 100 metre butterfly S13 Ihar Boki  Belarus PR Oleksii Virchenko  Ukraine Islam Aslanov  Uzbekistan Men's 100 metre butterfly S14 Gabriel Bandeira  Brazil PR Reece Dunn  Great Britain Benjamin Hance  Australia Women's 100 metre butterfly S13 Carlotta Gilli  Italy Alessia Berra  Italy Daria Pikalova  RPC Women's 100 metre butterfly S14 Valeriia Shabalina  RPC WR Paige Leonhardt  Australia Ruby Storm  Australia Wheelchair fencing Men's sabre A Li Hao  China Artem Manko  Ukraine Tian Jianquan  China Men's sabre B Feng Yanke  China Adrian Castro  Poland Panagiotis Triantafyllou  Greece Women's sabre A Bian Jing  China Nino Tibilashvili  Georgia Yevheniia Breus  Ukraine Women's sabre B Tan Shumei  China Olena Fedota  Ukraine Xiao Rong  China

Day 2 — Thursday 26 August

26 August 2021 — summary table

Sport Event Gold medalist(s) Silver medalist(s) Bronze medalist(s) Ref Competitor(s) Team Rec Competitor(s) Team Competitor(s) Team Cycling Women's time trial B Larissa Klaassen piloted by Imke Brommer  Netherlands PR Aileen McGlynn piloted by Helen Scott  Great Britain Griet Hoet piloted by Anneleen Monsieur  Belgium Men's time trial C4–5 Alfonso Cabello  Spain WR Jody Cundy  Great Britain Jozef Metelka  Slovakia Men's individual pursuit C1 Mikhail Astashov  RPC Tristen Chernove  Canada Li Zhangyu  China Men's individual pursuit C2 Alexandre Léauté  France WR Darren Hicks  Australia Liang Guihua  China Men's individual pursuit C3 Jaco van Gass  Great Britain Finlay Graham  Great Britain David Nicholas  Australia Equestrian Dressage Individual Test Grade II Lee Pearson  Great Britain Pepo Puch  Austria Georgia Wilson  Great Britain Dressage Individual Test Grade IV Sanne Voets  Netherlands Rodolpho Riskalla  Brazil Manon Claeys  Belgium Dressage Individual Test Grade V Michèle George  Belgium Sophie Wells  Great Britain Frank Hosmar  Netherlands Powerlifting Men's 49 kg Omar Qarada  Jordan Lê Văn Công  Vietnam Parvin Mammadov  Azerbaijan Men's 54 kg David Degtyarev  Kazakhstan Axel Bourlon  France Dimitrios Bakochristos  Greece Women's 41 kg Guo Lingling  China WR Ni Nengah Widiasih  Indonesia Clara Fuentes Monasterio  Venezuela Women's 45 kg Latifat Tijani  Nigeria Cui Zhe  China Justyna Kozdryk  Poland Swimming Men's 100 metre freestyle S4 Takayuki Suzuki  Japan PR Luigi Beggiato  Italy Roman Zhdanov  RPC Men's 100 metre freestyle S5 Francesco Bocciardo  Italy Wang Lichao  China Daniel de Faria Dias  Brazil

Day 3 — Friday 27 August

27 August 2021 — summary table

Day 4 — Saturday 28 August

28 August 2021 — summary table