On August 24, the 16th Summer Paralympic Games will begin in Tokyo, which, like the Olympics, were postponed for a year. Competitions will be held at the same sports facilities where two weeks ago…

Paralympics in Tokyo: cheer for ours!

The competitions will be held at the same sports venues where the participants of the 2020 Summer Olympic Games competed two weeks ago. More than 240 athletes from 50 regions of the country, including five representatives of Chuvashia, have already arrived in Japan as part of the delegation of the Russian Paralympic Committee (RPC).

The Paralympic Games in Tokyo will last almost two weeks – until September 5th. During these days, 539 sets of awards in 22 sports will be played.

The most medal-intensive sport is athletics. Four athletes from Chuvashia will compete in this discipline at once. Elena Ivanova, three-time champion of the 2012 Paralympic Games in London, will be the first to compete for medals. Her crown running distances – 200 and 100 meters among athletes with a lesion of the musculoskeletal system (class T36) are scheduled for August 28 – 29 and September 1, respectively.

Sergey Biryukov will compete for medals in the long jump sector on September 2. In this discipline, Sergey, the master of sports of Russia in the sport of persons with PDA, is the country's record holder (class T37).

On September 5, the closing day of the Paralympic Games, the winners in the marathon run will be determined. The distance of 42 km 195 meters among blind and visually impaired athletes will have to be overcome by Denis Gavrilov, who will be accompanied by an athlete – leader Sergey Ivanov throughout the entire route.

Parabadminton competitions, which were included in the program of the Summer Paralympic Games for the first time, will start on September 1. In the women's singles tournament, our country will be represented by the representative of Chuvashia, Tatyana Gureeva, an international master of sports, the absolute champion of the country among wheelchair athletes.

The live broadcast of the opening ceremony of the Paralympics on Tuesday will be shown by the Match TV channel at 14:00 Moscow time:

Prior to the broadcast of the Ceremony at 13:30, a special broadcast of the All for the Match! program dedicated to the opening of the Games will be aired.