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List of medals won by Paralympic delegations
Award
2020 Summer Paralympics medals
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Location
| Tokyo
,
Japan
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Most gold medals
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China
(96)
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Most total medals
|
China
(207)
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The
medal table
of the
2020 Summer Paralympics
ranks the participating
National Paralympic Committees
(NPCs) by the number of gold medals that are won by their athletes during the competition. The 2020 Paralympics were the sixteenth
Games
to be held, a quadrennial competition open to athletes with
physical
and
intellectual disabilities
. The games were held in
Tokyo
,
Japan
from 24 August to 5 September 2021. There were 539 medal events.
Athletes from
Costa Rica
,
[1]
Ecuador
,
[2]
El Salvador
,
[3]
[4]
Montenegro
,
[5]
and
Oman
[6]
won their first Paralympic medals. El Salvador and Oman had
never won an Olympic medal
.
Costa Rica
,
Ecuador
,
[7]
Ethiopia
,
[8]
Pakistan
,
[9]
and
Sri Lanka
[10]
won their first Paralympic gold medals.
Medal table
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Judo
,
table tennis
and
taekwondo
award two bronze medals per discipline - the table tennis to losing semi-finalists,a first since the
1996 Summer Paralympics
and the two combat sports by a repechage system whereby defeated athletes up to the semi-final stage rejoin competition for a bronze medal.
Two silver medals were awarded for a second-place tie in the men's
high jump T47
athletics event. No bronze medal was awarded as a result.
Two bronze medals were awarded for a third-place tie in the men's
100 metres T64
athletics event.
Two bronze medals were awarded for a third-place tie in the women's
100 metre freestyle S7
swimming event.
Due to the disqualification of two participants, a bronze medal was not awarded in the women's
100 metres T11
athletics event.
- Key
*
Host nation (
Japan
)
Podium sweeps
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Changes
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Marcin Polak
was provisionally suspended from the
men's individual pursuit B
pending an adjudication following a positive test for a banned substance.
[17]
See also
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