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The next Summer Paralympics in 2020 was held again in Tokyo. [1] Japan is represented by the Japan Paralympic Committee. Japan was the only Asian country to compete at the 1964 Paralympics and also the only Asian country present at the inaugural Winter Games, making it the first Asian nation to have participated in either the Summer or Winter ...
The Japanese women's goalball team qualified for the paralympic games by virtue of the results at the 2023 Asia-Pacific Championships in Hangzhou, China. Team roster. Coach: Mihoko Tsuji. The following is the Japan squad in the goalball tournament of the 2024 Summer Paralympics. [6]
The 2026 Asian Para Games (Japanese: 2026年アジアパラ競技大会, romanized: 2026-Nen ajiapara kyōgi taikai), also known as the 5th Asian Para Games and commonly known as the Aichi-Nagoya 2026 Asian Para Games, will be a multi-sport event that parallel the 2026 Asian Games which will be held for Asian athletes with disabilities in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan from 18 to 26 October 2026. [1]
Japan competed at the 2022 Winter Paralympics in Beijing, China which took place between 4–13 March 2022. [1] [2] In total, 29 athletes were scheduled to compete. [1] [3] Team captain and para-alpine skier, Momoka Muraoka, became the most successful athlete after winning four medals at once. She won the downhill, Super-G, and giant slalom events.
Japan qualified two boats in the women's single sculls and mixed coxed four events for the games. Women's single sculls crews qualified by winning the gold medal at the 2021 FISA Asian & Oceanian Qualification Regatta in Tokyo , while mixed coxed four received the bipartite commission invitation allocation quotas.
The Japan women's national goalball team qualified for the Rio Games after finishing first at the 2015 IBSA Goalball Asian-Pacific Championships. [9] [10] Japan's women enter the tournament ranked 3rd in the world. [11] The following is the Japan roster in the women's goalball tournament of the 2016 Summer Paralympics. [12]
Japan won gold by defeating Team USA 48-41 in the wheelchair rugby final at the 2024 Paralympics on Monday.
The International Paralympic Committee anticipated that the 2020 Summer Paralympics would be seen by a global audience of at least 4.25 billion viewers, an increase over the estimated 4.1 billion of the 2016 Games. [65] Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS) provided live broadcasts for 19 of the 22 sports, an increase from 16 in Rio. [66]