Chronological summary of the 2020 Summer Paralympics explained

This is a chronological summary of the major events of the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan, which was postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The opening ceremony is scheduled on the 24th of August with the last day of competition and the closing ceremony on 5 September.^[1]

Day-by-day summaries

Day 0 — Tuesday 24 August

Opening ceremony

• The opening ceremony was held at Japan National Stadium at 20:00 JST (UTC+9).^[1]

Day 1 — Wednesday 25 August

Sport	Event	Gold medalist(s)			Silver medalist(s)		Bronze medalist(s)
		Competitor(s)			Competitor(s)		Competitor(s)
Cycling	Men's individual pursuit B	Tristan Bangma piloted by Patrick Bos					Marcin Polak piloted by Michał Ładosz
	Women's individual pursuit C1–3	Paige Greco			Wang Xiaomei		Denise Schindler
	Women's individual pursuit C4	Emily Petricola
	Women's individual pursuit C5	Sarah Storey			Crystal Lane-Wright		Marie Patouillet
Swimming	Men's 50 metre freestyle S10	Rowan Crothers			Maksym Krypak		Phelipe Rodrigues
	Women's 50 metre freestyle S6	Yelyzaveta Mereshko			Elizabeth Marks		Anna Hontar
	Women's 50 metre freestyle S10	Anastasiia Gontar			Chantalle Zijderveld		Aurélie Rivard
	Men's 100 metre freestyle S8	Ben Popham			Andrei Nikolaev		Dimosthenis Michalentzakis
	Men's 200 metre freestyle S5	Francesco Bocciardo		PR	Antoni Ponce Bertran		Daniel Dias
	Women's 200 metre freestyle S5	Zhang Li			Tully Kearney		Monica Boggioni
	Men's 400 metre freestyle S9	William Martin		PR	Ugo Didier
	Women's 400 metre freestyle S9	Lakeisha Patterson			Zsófia Konkoly		Toni Shaw
	Men's 100 metre backstroke S1	Iyad Shalabi			Anton Kol		Francesco Bettella
	Men's 100 metre backstroke S2	Alberto Abarza			Gabriel Geraldo Araújo		Vladimir Danilenko
	Women's 100 metre backstroke S2	Yip Pin Xiu			Miyuki Yamada		Fabiola Ramírez
	Men's 50 metre breaststroke SB3	Roman Zhdanov		WR	Miguel Luque Ávila		Tatayuki Suzuki
	Men's 100 metre butterfly S13	Ihar Boki		PR	Oleksii Virchenko		Islam Aslanov
	Men's 100 metre butterfly S14	Gabriel Bandeira		PR	Reece Dunn		Benjamin Hance
	Women's 100 metre butterfly S13	Carlotta Gilli			Alessia Berra
	Women's 100 metre butterfly S14	Valeriia Shabalina		WR	Paige Leonhardt		Ruby Storm
Wheelchair fencing	Men's sabre A	Li Hao			Artem Manko		Tian Jianquan
	Men's sabre B	Feng Yanke			Adrian Castro		Panagiotis Triantafyllou
	Women's sabre A	Bian Jing			Nino Tibilashvili		Yevheniia Breus
	Women's sabre B	Tan Shumei			Olena Fedota		Xiao Rong

Day 2 — Thursday 26 August

Sport	Event	Gold medalist(s)			Silver medalist(s)		Bronze medalist(s)
		Competitor(s)			Competitor(s)		Competitor(s)
Cycling	Women's time trial B	Larissa Klaassen piloted by Imke Brommer		PR	Aileen McGlynn piloted by Helen Scott		Griet Hoet piloted by Anneleen Monsieur
	Men's time trial C4–5	Alfonso Cabello		WR			Jozef Metelka
	Men's individual pursuit C1	Mikhail Astashov			Tristen Chernove		Li Zhangyu
	Men's individual pursuit C2	Alexandre Léauté		WR	Darren Hicks		Liang Guihua
	Men's individual pursuit C3	Jaco van Gass			Finlay Graham		David Nicholas
Equestrian	Dressage Individual Test Grade II	Lee Pearson			Pepo Puch		Georgia Wilson
	Dressage Individual Test Grade IV	Sanne Voets			Rodolpho Riskalla		Manon Claeys
	Dressage Individual Test Grade V	Michèle George			Sophie Wells		Frank Hosmar
Powerlifting	Men's 49 kg	Omar Qarada			Lê Văn Công		Parvin Mammadov
	Men's 54 kg	David Degtyarev			Axel Bourlon		Dimitrios Bakochristos
	Women's 41 kg	Guo Lingling			Ni Nengah Widiasih		Clara Fuentes Monasterio
	Women's 45 kg	Latifat Tijani			Cui Zhe		Justyna Kozdryk
Swimming	Men's 100 metre freestyle S4	Takayuki Suzuki		PR	Luigi Beggiato		Roman Zhdanov
	Men's 100 metre freestyle S5	Francesco Bocciardo			Wang Lichao		Daniel de Faria Dias

Day 4 — Saturday 28 August

External links

• Tokyo 2020

Notes and References

1. Web site: Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games - Opening and Closing Ceremonies. 4 July 2021. 24 August 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210824154122/https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/en/paralympics/ceremonies/. dead.