PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS
![Matt Stutzman competes at the Toronto 2015 Parapan American Games.](/sites/default/files/images/150811063739457_DSC_2912.jpg)
Day 4: Paralympic Games preview
A total of 56 gold medals will be at stake in nine different sports in an action-packed day at Tokyo 2020
China causes upset to take two golds on day two
Qi Yongkai beats powerlifting legend Sherif Osman in men’s up to 59kg and Hu Dandan wins the women's up to 50kg at the Tokyo International Forum
![Latifat Tijani](/sites/default/files/2021-08/Latifat.jpg)
Latifat celebrates win with James Brown’s hit number – ‘I feel Good’
Nigerian set a personal best of 107kg to clinch gold in the women’s -45kg Para Powerlifting competition at the Tokyo 2020 Games
![Zahra Nemati](/sites/default/files/images/130529114315131_151217424.jpg)
Tokyo 2020 Day 3: Ones to Watch
Zahra Nemati (Iran), Jessica Long (USA) and Raoua Tlili (Tunisia) feature on Day 3 of the Paralympics
![Sanne Voets with first medal at Tokyo 2020](/sites/default/files/2021-08/GettyImages-1336515092.jpg)
Sanne Voets gold medal win gives hope for triple-triple in Para equestrian
First day of Para equestrian also saw Great Britain's Lee Pearson retain dominance
![male sitting volleyball player Morteza Mehrzadselakjani blocks a ball over the net](/sites/default/files/images/181011115403643_Morteza-Mehrzadselakjani-Indonesia.jpg)
Another chapter for Iran-Bosnia rivalry in sitting volleyball at the Paralympic Games
Squads have played the last five men's event finals and the Iranians have a 3-2 overall record, including Rio 2016
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Four rowers to defend Paralympic titles in Japan
Ukraine's Polianskyi and British Rowles, Whiteley and Fox look for back-to-back gold medals at the Sea Forest Waterway
![Diede De Groot of the Netherlands playing against Yui Kamiji JPN in the Women's Singles Bronze Medal Match. Wheelchair Tennis at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.](/sites/default/files/images/160915103550806_BB1-0349.jpg)
De Groot and Alcott aim for Golden Slam in wheelchair tennis at Tokyo 2020
Dutch and Australian enter the court attempting to win all four Grand Slams and the Paralympic Games in the same season
![Takayuki Suzuki screams in joy after winning gold at Tokyo 2020](/sites/default/files/2021-08/Suzuki-Japan.jpg)
Day 2 review: Suzuki wins Japan’s first gold in home Paralympics
Medal events across track cycling, equestrian, powerlifting, swimming and wheelchair fencing light up Thursday’s action in Tokyo
![US archer Lia Coryell aiming at the target](/sites/default/files/2023-08/Lia-Coryell.jpg)
Lia Coryell painted mental picture of Tokyo in fight for life against Covid-19
'I spent many days in the hospital looking at the ceiling, breathing and mentalising (the Paralympic Games). I just see it, it’s on my head all the time'