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The 2020 Summer Paralympics (Japanese: 東京2020パラリンピック競技大会, Hepburn: Tōkyō Nizeronizero Pararinpikku Kyōgi Taikai), branded as the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, were an international multi-sport parasports event held from 24 August to 5 September 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. They were the 16th Summer Paralympic Games as organized by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC).

Originally scheduled to take place from 25 August to 6 September 2020, both the 2020 Summer Olympics and Paralympics were postponed by a year in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with the rescheduled Games still referred to as Tokyo 2020 for marketing and branding purposes. As with the Olympics, the Games were largely held behind closed doors with no outside spectators due to a state of emergency in the Greater Tokyo Area and other prefectures. The Games were the second Summer Paralympics hosted by Tokyo since 1964, and the third Paralympics held in Japan overall since the 1998 Winter Paralympics in Nagano. Due to the postponement of the Paralympics because of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was also the first (and only) Paralympic Games to be held in an odd-numbered year and the first Summer Paralympics to be held in a non-leap year.

The Games featured 539 medal events in 22 sports, with

The host of the 2020 Summer Olympics would also host the 2020 Summer Paralympics, according to a 2001 agreement between the International Paralympic Committee and the International Olympic Committee. At the 125th IOC Session, Tokyo was awarded the 2020 Summer Olympics and Paralympics via a tie-breaker in the second round of voting.

Preparations

Transport

Ahead of the 2016 Summer Paralympics closing ceremony, Governor of Tokyo Yuriko Koike advocated for the city to improve its accessibility as a legacy project for the Games. She cited narrow roadways with no sidewalks, buildings constructed with narrow doorways, and low ceilings, as challenges that needed to be overcome. In particular, she called for a transition to underground power lines to facilitate the widening of roads.^[4][5][6]

A number of Toyota e-Palette self-driving vehicles had been adapted to provide transport to athletes in the Paralympic Games village. On 27 August, however, the use of the vehicles was suspended after one collided with an athlete^[7] before all vehicles were re-used 3 days later.^[8][9]

Volunteers

In September 2018, applications to be volunteers at the Olympic and Paralympic Games were released. By January 2019 186,101 applications had been received. Interviews to whittle the numbers down began in February 2019 and training taking place in October 2019.^[10] The volunteers at the venues were known as "Field Cast" and the volunteers in the city were known as "City Cast". These names were chosen from a shortlist of four out of an original 149 pairs of names. The other shortlisted names were "Shining Blue and Shining Blue Tokyo", "Games Anchor and City Anchor" and "Games Force and City Force". The names were chosen by the people who had applied to be volunteers at the games.^[11]

Medals

The designs of the medals for the 2020 Summer Paralympics were unveiled on 25 August 2019;

The 2020 Summer Olympics were largely held behind closed doors due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan, and a state of emergency in Tokyo issued by Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, though events in some regions could be held with up to 10,000 spectators or 50% capacity (whichever is smaller) if they were not subject to a state of emergency. The declaration was originally in effect from 12 July through 22 August 2021 (two days before the Paralympic opening ceremony); on 2 August, citing worsening rates of infection, Suga announced that the existing state of emergency would be extended through 31 August, and expanded to several other prefectures (including three that neighbour Tokyo).^[16]

New daily cases in Tokyo reached over 4,000 by 11 August 2021; it was anticipated that no public spectators would be admitted during the Paralympics in Tokyo and other affected regions, as with the Olympics. Organizers discussed other options for some form of spectator presence, such as inviting local school students to attend events (a program which was also employed during the Olympics, and largely scaled back due to the pandemic).^[17][18][19] It was later confirmed that there would be no public spectators at venues in the Tokyo, Chiba, and Saitama prefectures.^[20] On 19 August, the state of emergency was extended through 12 September 2021, and expanded to include Shizuoka.^[21]

On 20 August 2021, Tokyo Organizing Committee delivery officer Hidemasa Nakamura stated that the biosecurity protocols for the Paralympics had been expanded upon those from the Olympics due to the increased vulnerability to COVID-19 among its athletes, but that Tokyo was facing deteriorating hospital capacity, and that "It's a fight against time so we need to make sure that sufficient communication is taken at a speedy manner."^[22] Paula Tesoriero of the New Zealand delegation stated that the Tokyo Organizing Committee and IPC had "worked tirelessly to create the safest and secure environment possible with a focus on continuing to stay vigilant".^[23]

On 4 September, after four consecutive days without any new COVID-19 cases within the Paralympic bubble, the IPC commended the Tokyo Organizing Committee for their work in handling the pandemic, with a spokesperson stating that "the amount of work that has gone in behind the scenes to deliver what you have seen over the past three weeks has been phenomenal."^[24]

Torch relay

The details of the torch relay route were announced on 21 November 2019. There was a Heritage Flame Celebration that was held in Stoke Mandeville. and flame lighting festivals that took place in 43 of Japan's 47 prefectures between 13 and 17 August 2020. In the second phase of the relay, another 4 rituals were performed in the 3 other prefectures that were jointly hosting the events with Tokyo between 18 and 20 August throughout the three prefectures that co-hosted Paralympic events during the run-up to the Paralympic Opening Ceremony and the last day the Tokyo Prefecture torch was lit. The flames from each of the flame lighting festivals hosted in each prefecture were brought together in Tokyo. On the night of August 21, at the front of the Akasaka Palace all the 48 flames were unified and the third and last phase of the relay began and lasted 4 days. This rote was the same used for the last legs of the 2020 Summer Olympics torch relay.^[25][26][27]

Aluminium was taken from temporary housing in Fukushima to make the torches for the Olympic and Paralympic flames. More than 10,000 pieces of aluminium were used and organizers contacted local authorities to see which houses were no longer being used.^[28]

The Games

Sports

The 2020 Summer Paralympics featured 539 events in 22 sports.

On 9 December 2019, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) banned Russia from all international sport for a period of four years, after the Russian government was found to have tampered with lab data that it provided to WADA in January 2019 as a condition of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency being reinstated. On 26 April 2021, it was confirmed Russian athletes would represent the Russian Paralympic Committee, with the acronym 'RPC'.^[34]

At least five countries withdrew from the Games due to COVID-19-related concerns, including

On 16 August 2021, Afghanistan (representing the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan) withdrew from the Games due to violence and instability in the country following the Taliban's capture of Kabul, which left their team of Zakia Khudadadi (taekwondo) and Hossain Rasouli (athletics) unable to travel to Tokyo. Their national flag was still paraded during the opening ceremony as a signal of solidarity.^[37][38][39] However, after a "major global operation", the two athletes were successfully evacuated to France, where they trained at INSEP in Paris before arriving in a flight with the Paris 2024 delegation in Tokyo on 28 August.^[40][41] IPC president Andrew Parsons stated that the team would not be available to press conferences and were given special permission to skip interacting with other athletes at the village.^[42] Rasouli missed the event where he was originally intended to compete, the men's 100m T47. After declining an offer to compete in the 400m event as an alternative, Rasouli accepted an extra spot in the men's long jump T47.^[40][41]

The following 162 teams qualified at least one athlete. Six of them, Bhutan, Grenada, Guyana, Maldives, Paraguay, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, made their debut appearances at the Paralympic Games. Two of them returned to the Games after not sending delegations in 2016: Barbados (that for the first time in its history it had not classified its athletes for the Games) along with Luxembourg (who had classified athletes for the last time in Beijing 2008).

Number of athletes by National Paralympic Committee

4,403 athletes from 162 NPCs: Ranking listed by number of athletes. As of 24 August 2021^{[update][2][43]}

NPC Athletes  Japan (host) 254  Brazil 234  China 248   RPC 242  United States 235  Great Britain 207  Australia 174  France 137  Ukraine 137  Germany 134  Spain 127  Canada 126  Italy 113  Poland 90  Turkey 87  South Korea 86  Netherlands 70  Thailand 74  Colombia 61  Iran 62  Mexico 60  Algeria 57  Argentina 54  India 54  Egypt 49  Greece 44  Uzbekistan 47  Hungary 37  Morocco 35  Azerbaijan 36  Belgium 31  Portugal 33  South Africa 34  Israel 32  New Zealand 29  Ireland 27  Czech Republic 28  Sweden 26  Slovakia 27  Venezuela 26  Kazakhstan 26  Austria 24  Denmark 25  Tunisia 25  Hong Kong 24  Indonesia 23  Croatia 22  Malaysia 21  Nigeria 22  Switzerland 21  Serbia 20  Belarus 19  Chile 19  Cuba 16  Finland 17  Iraq 19  Bosnia and Herzegovina 16  Norway 15  Georgia 13  Rwanda 14  United Arab Emirates 12  Lithuania 11  Peru 11  Singapore 10  Chinese Taipei 10  Jordan 10  Costa Rica 9  Kenya 9  Romania 9  Sri Lanka 9  Ecuador 8  Latvia 7  Saudi Arabia 7  Slovenia 7  Vietnam 7  Iceland 6  Moldova 6  Philippines 6  Refugee Paralympic Team 6  Dominican Republic 5  Estonia 5  Montenegro 5  Bulgaria 4  Jamaica 4  Mauritius 4  Mongolia 4  Uganda 4  Bhutan 3  Cameroon 3  Cyprus 3  El Salvador 3  Ethiopia 3  Ghana 3  Ivory Coast 3  Kuwait 3  Namibia 3  Oman 3  Panama 3  Puerto Rico 3  Senegal 3  Solomon Islands 3  Syria 3  Afghanistan 2  Angola 2  Bahrain 2  Benin 2  Botswana 2  Burkina Faso 2  Burundi 2  Cape Verde 2  Fiji 2  Gabon 2  The Gambia 2  Grenada 2  Guatemala 2  Guinea-Bissau 2  Kyrgyzstan 2  Liberia 2  Libya 2  Maldives 2  Mali 2  Malta 2  Mozambique 2  Nicaragua 2  Niger 2  Pakistan 2  Paraguay 2  Palestine 2  Papua New Guinea 2  Qatar 2  Republic of the Congo 2  Sierra Leone 2  Tanzania 2  Uruguay 2  Yemen 2  Zimbabwe 2  Armenia 1  Aruba 1  Barbados 1  Bermuda 1  Cambodia 1  Central African Republic 1  Faroe Islands 1  Guinea 1  Guyana 1  Haiti 1  Honduras 1  Laos 1  Lebanon 1  Lesotho 1  Luxembourg 1  Madagascar 1  Malawi 1  Nepal 1  North Macedonia 1  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 1  São Tomé and Príncipe 1  Somalia 1  Tajikistan 1  Togo 1  Virgin Islands 1  Zambia 1 Total 4,399

Test events

There were test events before the Olympic and Paralympic Games;^[44][45] these were contested from June 2019 to June 2020 before the start of the 2020 Summer Olympics. The selected Paralympic sports were athletics (2–3 May 2020), goalball (28–29 September 2019), paratriathlon (15–18 August 2019), powerlifting (26–27 September 2019), swimming (16 April 2020) and wheelchair rugby (12–15 March 2020). It was announced in February 2019 that test events would be under the banner "Ready, Steady, Tokyo". 22 of the 56 events would be organised by the Tokyo organising committee and the rest by national and international organisations. World Sailing's World Cup Series, held at Enoshima, was the first test event, while the last the Tokyo Challenge Track Meet in May 2020.^[46]

All test events scheduled after 12 March 2020 were postponed due to COVID-19.

Medal summary

See also:

RPC3633491185 Netherlands251717596 Ukraine244727987 Brazil222030728 Australia212930809 Italy1429266910 Azerbaijan14141911–86Remaining teams

209230279718Totals (86 entries)5395405891668

Podium sweeps

There were five podium sweeps, as follows:

Date	Sport	Event	Team	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref
27 August	Swimming	Men's 50 metre butterfly S5	China	Zheng Tao	Wang Lichao	Yuan Weiyi	[48]
28 August	Swimming	Women's 100m backstroke S11	China	Cai Liwen	Wang Xinyi	Li Guizhi	[49]
30 August	Swimming	Men's 50m backstroke S5	China	Zheng Tao	Ruan Jingsong	Wang Lichao	[50]
1 September	Swimming	Men's 50m freestyle S5	China	Zheng Tao	Yuan Weiyi	Wang Lichao	[51]
4 September	Athletics	Women's 100 metres T63	Italy	Ambra Sabatini	Martina Caironi	Monica Contrafatto	[52]

Calendar

See also: Chronological summary of the 2020 Summer Paralympics

The preliminary schedule was announced on 19 October 2018.^[53] The finalized schedule was released on 13 August 2019.^[54][55]

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.^[56]

All times and dates use

UTC+9

)

OC

Opening ceremony

●

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

Venues

The venues for the Paralympic games as detailed on the Tokyo 2020 official website:^[57]

Heritage Zone

• Japan National Stadium (Olympic Stadium) – Athletics, Opening and closing ceremonies
• Nippon Budokan – Judo
• Equestrian
• Tokyo International Forum – Powerlifting
• Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium – Table tennis
• Yoyogi National Stadium – Badminton, Wheelchair rugby^[58]
• Musashino Forest Sport Plaza – Wheelchair basketball (secondary venue)

Tokyo Bay Zone

• Aomi Urban Sports Venue – Football 5-a-side
• Ariake Arena – Wheelchair basketball (main venue)
• Ariake Tennis Park – Wheelchair tennis
• Dream Island Archery Park – Archery
• Makuhari Messe – Goalball, Sitting volleyball, Taekwondo, Wheelchair fencing
• Odaiba Marine Park – Paratriathlon
• Tokyo Aquatics Centre – Swimming
• Ariake Gymnastics Centre – Boccia
• Sea Forest Waterway – Rowing, Paracanoe

Venues outside 10 km area

• Asaka Shooting Range – Shooting
• Izu Velodrome – Track cycling
• Fuji Speedway – Road cycling

Non-competition venues

• Harumi Futo – Paralympic Village
• Tokyo Big Sight Conference Tower – International Media and Broadcast Centre

Marketing

Logo

The emblems of the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics were unveiled on 25 April 2016. The Paralympic emblem features a hand fan in a circle form, filled with an indigo-colored checkerboard pattern. The design is meant to "express a refined elegance and sophistication that exemplifies Japan".^[59] The designs replaced a previous emblem which had been scrapped due to allegations that it plagiarized the logo of the Théâtre de Liège in Belgium.^[60][61]

Mascot

Main article: Miraitowa and Someity

The shortlist of mascots for the Tokyo Games was unveiled on 7 December 2017 and the winning entry was announced on 28 February 2018. Candidate pair A, created by Ryo Taniguchi, received the most votes (109,041) and was declared the winner, defeating Kana Yano's pair B (61,423 votes) and Sanae Akimoto's pair C (35,291 votes). Someity is a figure with pink chequered patterns inspired by the Games' official logo, as well as cherry blossom flowers. It is calm but powerful, nature-loving, and it can speak to wind. Both Miraitowa and Someity were named by the Organising Committee on 22 July 2018.^[62]

Animated shorts

Main article: Animation x Paralympic

Japanese public broadcaster NHK produced a series of short films called Animation x Paralympic: Who Is Your Hero? Each short features a different Paralympic sport, and is designed and produced in collaboration with well-known creators of anime and manga, sometimes featuring crossovers with popular series or with real-life athletes.^[63][64]

Broadcasting

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] Japanese broadcaster NHK aired coverage of selected events in 8K.^[67][68] In markets without and with a dedicated rightsholder, the IPC streamed the Games on its YouTube, Twitter and Facebook pages.^[69]

In the United Kingdom, these were third Summer Paralympics to be broadcast by Channel 4, which planned to air at least 300 hours of coverage on free-to-air TV (with More4 dedicated primarily to team events), 1,200 hours of coverage via streaming, as well as a highlights program and The Last Leg nightly. The broadcaster launched a trailer directed by Bradford Young entitled "Super. Human." in mid-July 2021, which aimed to focus on the "realities" of the lives of Paralympic athletes, and "the sacrifices they make in pursuit of greatness".^[70][71][72]

In the

primetime), which "[showcased] the incredible backstories of the athletes and teams competing in Tokyo".^[73]

Canadian media rights was once again led by the CBC, with 120 hours of television coverage, along with broadcasts by Sportsnet and AMI-tv.^[74]

In Australia, the Seven Network offered one free-to-air channel broadcast via either their Channel 7 or 7mate channels and up to 16 free streaming channels via the online 7plus service.^[75]

In New Zealand, the Games were broadcast by

geoblocking for the IPC's official streams on YouTube.^[69]

In India,

Eurosport India and Discovery+ debuted as a new local rightsholder, focusing on coverage of events involving Indian athletes.^[76]

For the first time in Chile, the Paralympics were broadcast on TVN.^[77]

In Brazil, the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games were broadcast on

Rede Globo free-to-air channel at late nights and early mornings. The games were sublicensed to a public broadcasters consortium led by TV Brasil and TV Cultura.^[78][79]

In Malaysia, the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games were broadcast on Astro Arena HD channel 801.^[80]

In Singapore, selected live events were telecast on

meWATCH. Selected highlights also appeared on the Mediacorp Entertainment YouTube channel.^[81]

In the Philippines, the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games were broadcast on cable channel TAP Sports and was streamed online on TAP Go.^[82]

Concerns and controversies

Student attendees and COVID-19

Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike pressed ahead for students to be allowed to attend the Paralympics with the Paralympic organizing committee in Tokyo arguing "it's important to have students view athletes with disabilities" for their education on disability. This has been remarked on due to their being a state of emergency in Tokyo concerning the illness.^[83] Chiba Prefecture later dropped from the program due to two teachers being found to have COVID-19 infections.^[84]

Assault by a member of the Georgian team

The reigning judo paralympic champion from Georgia, Zviad Gogotchuri, was arrested after assaulting a security guard at a Tokyo hotel on 16 August 2021.^[85] The visually impaired judoka from Georgia was later ejected from the games.^[86]

Men's judo 81 kg

Japan's Aramitsu Kitazono was scheduled to compete in the round of 16 events of the men's 81 kg category. However, he was forced to withdraw at the last minute, two days before his scheduled event after sustaining injuries to his head and legs during an incident that happened on 26 August 2021 at the Paralympics Village.^[87] It was revealed Aramitsu was hit by a Toyota e-Palette driverless vehicle, which was under manual control by an operator, when he was walking on the pedestrian crossing.^[88] His opponent Dmytro Solovey of Ukraine automatically qualified to the quarterfinals as a result of Aramitsu's late withdrawal.

Men's shot put (F20) final

Malaysian shot putter (F20 class), Muhammad Ziyad Zolkefli, arrived three minutes late for the event but was cleared to compete.^[89] In this event on 31 August 2021, he originally won the gold medal in the men's shot put F20 event, thus defending his title in Rio 2016 and breaking a new world record. However, after the event had finished, his gold was stripped after a protest from the Ukrainian delegation, citing that Ziyad came late to the call room. Other than Ziyad, Australian Todd Hodgets and Ecuadorian Jordi Villalba were also disqualified from the event for 'Failure to Report to the Call Room'.^[90][91]

Later, Malaysian Youth and Sports Minister, Ahmad Faizal Azumu issued a statement via his Twitter account, stating that the National Paralympic Committees of Malaysia, Australia, and Ecuador has made a joint-counter protest to opposing the protest made by the Ukrainian delegation.

However, the appeal from three NPC's has been rejected, and Ukrainian Maksym Koval remains as the gold medal winner.^[92]

After the events, some social media accounts from Ukraine were spammed by hateful comments from Malaysians, including Ukrainian president

Volodymyr Zelensky's Instagram account. Koval's Instagram account was also hacked by Malaysian cyber troopers due to the result.^[93] This action caused the official Facebook account of the Ukrainian Embassy in Malaysia to be deactivated, and the Embassy's official Twitter account set to private.^[94]

Other incidents

Forty officers from Yamanashi Prefectural Police [ja], who were tasked to support local police at venues and to control traffic during the Games, were removed from duty by Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department (TMPD) and sent home following numerous incidents. This included visiting brothels, drinking in their dormitories (which is against regulations) and in bars surrounding Kinshichō Station, Sumida, which then descended into drunken brawls with civilian bystanders. That latter incident led the TMPD to intervene, which led to the officers being caught.^[95]

See also

• 2020 Summer Olympics
• #WeThe15

Notes

1. ^ Only an English version motto is used during the Games. The Japanese equivalent of the motto was not adopted.^[1]
2. ^ Originally, each Russian athlete participated as an individual qualification, so such a special note corresponding to the nation is not an appropriate description.^[3]
3. ^ Neutral athletes from Russia competed under a flag depicting a one-off emblem representing the Russian Paralympic Committee.

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External links

• Tokyo 2020 on the International Paralympic Committee website
• Tokyo 2020 Official Homepage

Preceded by Rio de Janeiro

Summer Paralympics Tokyo XVI Paralympic Summer Games (2020)

Succeeded by Paris