12.38am EDT
00:38
12.31am EDT
00:31
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at 12.32am EDT
12.14am EDT
00:14
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at 12.29am EDT
12.06am EDT
00:06
Malaysia win gold in powerlifting, bronze to Team GB
12.02am EDT
00:02
11.55pm EDT
23:55
11.46pm EDT
23:46
Gold to Great Britain in the mixed team sprint
11.37pm EDT
23:37
11.32pm EDT
23:32
Gold to Uzbekistan in the discus
11.19pm EDT
23:19
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at 11.23pm EDT
11.17pm EDT
23:17
Netherlands take long jump gold and bronze
Updated
at 11.19pm EDT
11.07pm EDT
23:07
Greetings to you all, wherever you are. Thank you to Geoff Lemon for his great work today and the kind suggestion that you offer me baked goods. There’s plenty going on and I’m already on my third coffee so any confectionary is welcome. If not, I’ll settle for some comments, which are open at the bottom of the blog.
Let’s crack on, shall we?
11.02pm EDT
23:02
That’s enough for me today. Taking the wheel for the next few hours is Luke Henriques-Gomes. Don’t just sit there, offer him a biscuit.
11.01pm EDT
23:01
Gold and a world record for Neil Fachie
10.55pm EDT
22:55
10.53pm EDT
22:53
Liu Cuiqing wins gold in the women’s 400m
10.46pm EDT
22:46
10.43pm EDT
22:43
10.42pm EDT
22:42
10.39pm EDT
22:39
10.32pm EDT
22:32
10.27pm EDT
22:27
10.24pm EDT
22:24
10.16pm EDT
22:16
World record in the long jump
10.12pm EDT
22:12
The wheelchair tennis is happening
9.50pm EDT
21:50
Gold and world record in shot put
9.46pm EDT
21:46
9.45pm EDT
21:45
China beat USA in wheelchair basketball
9.42pm EDT
21:42
9.27pm EDT
21:27
Extraordinary 5000m gold for Susannah Scaroni and USA
9.10pm EDT
21:10
9.08pm EDT
21:08
9.06pm EDT
21:06
Australia’s Jaryd Clifford silver in the 5000 metres
8.59pm EDT
20:59
More triathlon gold for USA and for Spain
8.53pm EDT
20:53
8.50pm EDT
20:50
8.40pm EDT
20:40
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8.38pm EDT
20:38
8.32pm EDT
20:32
8.30pm EDT
20:30
8.29pm EDT
20:29
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at 8.36pm EDT
8.21pm EDT
20:21
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at 8.31pm EDT
8.10pm EDT
20:10
Triathlon gold for France and USA
8.05pm EDT
20:05
8.00pm EDT
20:00
Preamble
Hello world, welcome to our ongoing coverage of these 2020 Paralympic Games. Some athletes are already up and running (and swimming and cycling), with four triathlon races starting early. More on those in a tick.
For now, and courtesy of my colleague Martin Belam, here are the other main points of focus on another busy day in Tokyo.
All events are listed here in local Tokyo time. Add an hour for Sydney, subtract eight hours for Sheffield, 13 hours for New York and 16 hours for San Francisco.
- 9am-7.36pm Archery – there are qualifying rounds all day tomorrow, but we get to our first medals at 7.16pm with the mixed team W1 bronze and gold contests ?
- 9am-11.18am and 5pm-7.47pm Swimming – there are another 14 finals in the second session, which concludes with the mixed 4x100m freestyle relay S14 final ?
- 9am-3pm and 4.30pm-9.30pm Table Tennis – we get the first medals, with 42 semi-finals in the morning session guaranteeing a bronze for whoever loses. Yes, I said 42. This is not some kind of Douglas Adams in-joke. The afternoon session then has five gold medal finals ?
- 9.30am-12.50pm and 7pm-9.49pm Athletics – there are 16 gold medals available on Saturday in a packed stadium programme ?
- 9.30am-2.20pm and 4pm-8.50pm Boccia – this gets under way on Saturday with a whole range of individual pool matches.
- 10am-12.50pm Track cycling – after some qualifying races the medals today come in the men’s B 1000m time trial, the women’s B 3000m individual pursuit and the mixed C1-5 750m team sprint ?
- 11am-6.30pm Powerlifting – four competitions throughout the day, with the medals in the men’s -72kg and -80kg topping and tailing the women’s -61kg and -67kg ?
- 2.15pm and 5.30pm Wheelchair rugby – the mixed competition reaches the semi-final stage
- 4pm-6.40pm Judo – the medal bouts on Saturday come in the women’s -57kg and -63kg and men’s -73kg and -81kg ?
- 5.30pm-8pm Wheelchair fencing – after a day of competition, by 5.30pm it is time for the medal bouts of the men’s and women’s foil individual in both category A and category B.
- ??am-??pm Wheelchair tennis – after today’s heat debacle, I’ve genuinely got no idea what time the tennis will start or end, and currently on the Paralympics schedule there are still some TBDs in the match listings which suggest an 11am start. So, there will be some wheelchair tennis at some point is all I can say with any confidence.
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