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In the announcement of the Refugee Paralympic Team, it was stated that the team would enter first in the parade of nations. [8] The rest of the countries entered in the Japanese Gojūon alphabetical order, with the last three teams being the United States, France, and Japan as the current host of the Paralympics as the final team and the next two hosts being Los Angeles 2028 and Paris 2024, so ...
The 17-year-old broke her own world record in the 400m freestyle S11 to win the United States' first gold medal at the Tokyo Paralympics on Thursday night in Japan. It was the first international ...
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]
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 ...
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]
Japan entered seven athletes for the Paralympic games. Katsuyoshi Yagi and Natsuki Wada qualified for Paris 2024 by virtue of their gold medal results, in their respective class, at the 2022 Asian Para Games in Hangzhou ; [ 9 ] meanwhile the other athletes qualified for the games through the allocations of ITTF final world ranking.
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.