There are still plenty of great athletes to watch as the Tokyo 2020 Games reach day 11. In athletics, British wheelchair racer Hannah Cockroft won back-to-back gold medals in the women's 100m T54 event and will run aiming to do the same in the 800m T54 final.
NDO – Team USA reclaimed the third position on the medal tally on Day 10 at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games on September 3.
American Para swimmer Jessica Long stormed to her sixth medal at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games in the women’s 100m butterfly S8 final dominating the pool on September 3.
Hungary’s rising star in canoe sprint, Peter Kiss, was the favourite going into the men’s kayak single 200m KL1, and he didn’t disappoint winning the first gold medal of the competition on Day 10 at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games on September 3.
With two days to go for the end of the Paralympic Games, 55 gold medals will be contested on the 10th day of competitions on September 3.
NDO – Vietnam relinquished a one-goal lead to go down 1-3 to Saudi Arabia in their opening Group B match of the final round of the Asian qualifiers for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 at King Saud University Stadium in Riyadh on September 3 (Vietnamese time).
Experienced athletes like Chinese Hongzhuan Zhou, who has dominated the T53 athletics class for more than a decade, and Cuba's multi-medallist sprinter Omara Durand, who has already won a gold in Tokyo 2020, will be on stage again in this day 9 of the Games.
The first day of September will have 43 medals decided with athletics and swimming offering the most of them. Para badminton will start its debut with preliminary round matches while preliminary round matches will continue in goalball, sitting volleyball and wheelchair basketball.
Cristiano Ronaldo completed a medical in Lisbon over the weekend ahead of his return to Manchester United and he has agreed personal terms on a two-year contract with the Premier League club, Sky Sports reported on Monday.
NDO – China topped the podium for the seventh time on day 6 of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games on Monday (August 30).
Germany's Felix Streng became the new Paralympic champion after winning the 100m T64 event, in a closely fought battle to the finish line on August 30.
Jiang Yuyan became the youngest Paralympic gold medallist from China in this edition of the Paralympic Games after winning the women's 50m butterfly S6 held at the Tokyo Aquatic Centre on August 30.