- Iraq and Kuwait win their first gold medals
- Jordan with their second gold and JIANG gets her seventh
- Gold for Japan teen sensation at the Wheelchair Tennis
On the penultimate day of competition in Paris today two Asian NPCs won their first gold of the games, Iraq’s Najlah AL-DAYYENI winning gold in the Women’s Singles WS6 Table Tennis event and Kuwait’s Faisal SOROUR, who threw a season best 15,63m in the Men’s Shot Put F63 to claim the gold medal for his country.
Jordan added a second gold medal to their tally in Powerlifting in the Men’s up to 97kg final when Abdelkareem Mohmmad Ahmad KHATTAB lifted 270kg, setting a new World Record as well as winning the gold medal.

Japan won two gold medals today, the first was won by Keiko SUGIURA in the Para Cycling Women’s C1-3 Road Race, the other was the young Wheelchair Tennis sensation Takita ODA who beat world number 1, GBR’s Hewett to win the Men’s Singles. It was a dramatic contest at Roland Garros, with the score tied five games apiece in the third set, the teenager Oda urged the crowd to get behind him, then claimed two straight games to seal the win.
On the podium, he was flanked by two of his childhood heroes Hewett and bronze medallist Argentina’s Gistavo FERNANDEZ who had inspired him to take up the sport. Afterwards he paid tribute them saying “The fact that Gustavo and Alfie were next to me on the podium made me really emotional. They are both players who I tried to imitate when I was growing up. I am so good at copying their playing styles. I developed my backhand after watching Gustavo’s backhand shots, I remember practicing with Alfie, thinking ‘Wow, this is Alfie’ when I met him for the first time. And now they were next to me, and I was in the centre. I have no words to describe it.”
The Women’s Sitting Volleyball concluded with China having to settle for silver after they lost the final versus the USA 3-1.
In the final day of Para Swimming, China won four gold medals, including an incredible seventh for JIANG Yuyan, the most gold medals won by any athlete at the Paris games.
At the end of the penultimate day of competition, the medal table for Asian nations looks like this
Day 10 | |||||
Rank on overall table | Country | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
1 | China | 94 | 73 | 49 | 216 |
10 | Japan | 14 | 10 | 15 | 39 |
13 | Uzbekistan | 10 | 9 | 7 | 26 |
16 | India | 7 | 9 | 13 | 29 |
19 | Thailand | 6 | 11 | 13 | 30 |
20 | Republic of Korea | 6 | 10 | 14 | 30 |
22 | I.R. Iran | 6 | 10 | 7 | 23 |
31 | Hong Kong, China | 3 | 4 | 1 | 8 |
39 | Kazakhstan | 2 | 3 | 4 | 9 |
41 | Malaysia | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
43 | Singapore | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
47 | Jordan | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
49 | Indonesia | 1 | 8 | 5 | 14 |
57 | Mongolia | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
58 | Iraq | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
60 | Kuwait | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
64 | Saudi Arabia | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
67 | Chinese Taipei | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
74 | Sri Lanka | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
79 | Nepal | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
79 | Pakistan | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
79 | Vietnam | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |