- Kuwait and Iraq win their first medals
- Japan through to Wheelchair Rugby finals
The first medals in Boccia were won today. Asian countries were dominant in Tokyo, taking five of the top ten places on the medal table so medal hopes were high ahead of this competition. In the first medal event of the day, Thailand’s Watcharaphon VONGSA who won gold in the Individual BC2 in Rio, then silver in Tokyo, took bronze, giving him his sixth Paralympic medal. Countryman Worawut SAENGAMPA won gold in the same event, ahead of Indonesia’s Muhammed Bintang HERLANGGA, making it an all-Asian podium.
Women’s individual Boccia medal events make their debut in Paris and four Asian women made it onto the podium – KOR’s JEONG Soyeong (Silver BC2) and KANG Sunhee (Bronze, BC3) JPN’s ENDO Hiromi (Bronze BC1) and INA’s Gischa ZAYANA (bronze BC2).
In Para Athletics, China won an amazing 12 medals, six of which were gold including second gold medals for ZHOU Xia (Women’s 200m T35) and WEN Xiaoyan (Women’s Long Jump T37). For ZHOU this means she has won two gold medals at the last three Paralympic Games and WEN, having won an incredible three gold medals in Tokyo, will be hoping to add to her tally with two more events to go. Thailand, traditionally strong in wheelchair racing, got off to a great start with PAEYO Pongsakorn winning gold in the Men’s 400m T53 to add to his tally of 5 Paralympic gold medals. With two more events to go, he too will be looking to be a multi-Paralympic gold medallist in Paris. Both Malaysia and Iraq won their first medals of the Games (Iraq’s Garrah TNAIASH in the Men’s Shot Put F40 and for Malaysia Eddy BERNARD in the Men’s 100m T44).
At the Para Badminton, China won both the golds on offer. LUI/YIN beat Japan’s SATOMI/YAMAZAKI in the Women’s Doubles WH1-WH2 final and MAI/QU beat Korea’s JEONG/YU in the corresponding men’s event.
In the Para Rowing, the only Asian NPC to win a medal was China with a Silver medal in the Mixed Double Skulls.
In the pool, China won three gold and four silver medals and Hong Kong, China’s 14 year old NG Cheuk Yan won bronze in the Women’s 100m Breaststroke SB6.

The final medals in the doubles events were awarded in Table Tennis, with China and Thailand going head to head in the Mixed Doubles XD7 and Men’s Doubles MD14. It was honours even with both NPCs winning a gold and silver apiece. The singles events will now commence with Asian hopes high for more medals in this.
The Women’s Wheelchair Basketball pool matches concluded with China securing a quarterfinal slot against Great Britain. They will be feeling confident having won all of their groups stage games, including beating GBR 62-47 in their pool match. Japan’s women will unfortunately bow out of the tournament after their final group game on 2nd September.
In the Wheelchair Rugby, Japan faced Australia to secure a place in the final. With the scores even at the end of full time at 47-47. The game went to overtime and Japan won it 52-51. The Tokyo bronze medallists will now face the USA in the final.
At the end of the day, the medal table for Asian nations looks like this
Day 4 | |||||
Rank on overall table | Country | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
1 | China | 33 | 27 | 11 | 71 |
9 | Uzbekistan | 5 | 3 | 3 | 11 |
18 | Japan | 2 | 5 | 6 | 13 |
18 | Republic of Korea | 2 | 5 | 6 | 13 |
20 | Thailand | 2 | 3 | 5 | 10 |
25 | Singapore | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
21 | I.R. Iran | 1 | 4 | 3 | 8 |
27 | India | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 |
27 | Mongolia | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
47 | Indonesia | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
51 | Hong Kong, China | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
52 | Chinese Taipei | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
54 | Kazakhstan | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
61 | Iraq | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
61 | Kuwait | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
61 | Malaysia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
61 | Nepal | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |