The Chinese team wins another eight gold wheelchair women’s basketball team to set a record
Xinhua News Agency, Tokyo, August 31 (Reporter Wang Zijiang, Wang Yaguang, Li Hao) The Tokyo Paralympic Games ended on the 31st of the seventh competition day. Chinese players won 8 more gold medals. The total number of gold medals reached 62, ranking among the medals list. The second place British team gave 33 gold more.
The track team performed well that day, and the Chinese national anthem sounded five times in the New National Arena. Zhang Liangmin threw a world record of 40m83 in the women’s discus F11 class and successfully won the gold; Zou Lijuan won the women’s shot put F34 championship; Liu Li won the men’s shot put F32 final; Zhou Zhaoqian won the women’s 1500 Meter T54 wheelchair racing gold medal; Jiang Fenfen won the women’s 400 meter T37 championship.
Liu Cuiqing added a silver medal to the Chinese team in the women’s 100-meter T11 final. This is also the second medal Liu Cuiqing won at the Paralympic Games after winning the 400-meter T11 gold medal. She will also participate in the 200-meter race at this level.
That day was the first race day of the Paralympic Road Cycling Race. Chinese athletes participated in 6 races and won 1 gold and 1 silver. Chen Jianxin won the men’s T1-2 level competition. In the women’s H4-5 level competition, Sun Bianbian, who participated in the Paralympic Games for the first time, won the runner-up.
The archery competition continued. In the compound bow men’s open finals, He Zihao defeated the Iranian player to win the gold medal. This was the second gold he and Lin Yueshan had won after winning the compound bow mixed team open finals. His teammate Ai Xinliang Won the bronze medal.
In the men’s 10m air pistol P1-SH1 shooting final, Rio Paralympic champion Yang Chao successfully defended his title and set a new Paralympic record. Teammate Huang Xing ranked second with a difference of 0.4 ring.
The Chinese team had a bronze medal in the swimming field that day. In the women’s 100m freestyle S7 finals, the 16-year-old Jiang Yuyan and Ukrainian player Meleshko touched the wall at the same time, and finally tied for third. Jiang Yuyan just won the women’s 50m butterfly S6 champion the day before.
Good news came from the Chinese team in three collective events. The Chinese wheelchair women’s basketball team defeated the British team 47:33 and entered the semi-finals, creating the team’s best record in the Paralympics; blind goalball men’s quarter-finals , The Chinese team defeated the Japanese team 7:4 to advance to the semi-finals; in the Group A match of the five-a-side men’s blind football match, the Chinese team also defeated the host Japanese team with a score of 2:0.
The wheelchair tennis women’s singles competed in the quarter-finals. Two Chinese players Zhu Zhenzhen and Wang Ziying lost to their opponents and missed the semifinals.
The Chinese delegation has collected 62 golds, 38 silvers and 32 bronzes, and the total number of medals has reached 132. The British team ranked second with a record of 29 golds, 23 silvers and 28 bronzes.
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