2020_Summer_Paralympics_medal_table

2020 Summer Paralympics medal table

2020 Summer Paralympics medal table

List of medals won by Paralympic delegations


The medal table of the 2020 Summer Paralympics ranks the participating National Paralympic Committees (NPCs) by the number of gold medals that are won by their athletes during the competition. The 2020 Paralympics were the sixteenth Games to be held, a quadrennial competition open to athletes with physical and intellectual disabilities. The games were held in Tokyo, Japan from 24 August to 5 September 2021. There were 539 medal events.

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Visualisation of the number of gold medals won, in each discipline, by the top 10 ranked countries at the Tokyo Paralympics

Athletes from Costa Rica,[1] Ecuador,[2] El Salvador,[3][4] Montenegro,[5] and Oman[6] won their first Paralympic medals. El Salvador and Oman had never won an Olympic medal. Costa Rica, Ecuador,[7] Ethiopia,[8] Pakistan,[9] and Sri Lanka[10] won their first Paralympic gold medals.

Medal table

Judo, table tennis and taekwondo award two bronze medals per discipline - the table tennis to losing semi-finalists,a first since the 1996 Summer Paralympics and the two combat sports by a repechage system whereby defeated athletes up to the semi-final stage rejoin competition for a bronze medal.

Two silver medals were awarded for a second-place tie in the men's high jump T47 athletics event. No bronze medal was awarded as a result.

Two bronze medals were awarded for a third-place tie in the men's 100 metres T64 athletics event.

Two bronze medals were awarded for a third-place tie in the women's 100 metre freestyle S7 swimming event.

Due to the disqualification of two participants, a bronze medal was not awarded in the women's 100 metres T11 athletics event.

Key

  *   Host nation (Japan)

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Podium sweeps

Changes

Marcin Polak was provisionally suspended from the men's individual pursuit B pending an adjudication following a positive test for a banned substance.[17]

See also


References

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  3. Balushi, Adil Al (2021-08-31). "Al Mashaykhi clinches historic medal in Tokyo". Oman Observer. Retrieved 2021-09-01.
  4. "Super Sunday sees fastest 100m in Paralympics and Ecuador's first gold". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 2021-08-30.
  5. "Mengistu takes Ethiopia to the top in Tokyo". Paralympics. 28 August 2021. Retrieved 29 August 2021.
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  11. "Swimming - Final Results". olympics.com. 1 September 2021. Archived from the original on 1 September 2021. Retrieved 1 September 2021.
  12. "Athletics - Final Results". olympics.com. 4 September 2021. Archived from the original on 3 September 2021. Retrieved 4 September 2021.

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