- Japan win gold in Wheelchair Rugby
- Sri Lanka win their first medal of the games
- India’s SUMIT secures gold again
Having come 4th in London, then taking bronze in Rio and Tokyo, Japan’s Wheelchair Rugby team finally got the chance to get their hands on the gold medal. They started the match against the USA slowly and were three goals down at the end of the first quarter, but then turned it around with Hashimoto scoring in the dying seconds of the second quarter to give them one point lead. They built on this and in the end, it was a convincing 48-41 victory. Speaking after the match, captain Yukinobu IKE said, “When we finished with bronze in Tokyo, I said we would celebrate our opponent, and we will come back even stronger together to win gold. We accomplished that dream together today.”
At the Para Athletics, Thailand, (Chaiwat RATTANA Men’s 100m T34 Paralympic record) Uzbekistan (Bobirjon OMONOV Men’s Shot Put F41 Paralympic Record) and Iran (ALIPOUR DARBEID Amirhossein Men’s Shot Put F11, Asian record) all won gold medals. SUMIT from India retained his Paralympic crown, winning the Men’s Javelin Throw F64 with a Paralympic record. Speaking afterwards, SUMIT said; “ I feel fantastic. The crowd was awesome and it was great to compete in front of such a crowd and defend the title. It was a totally different experience for me than Tokyo. I’ve never competed in front of a crowd of such size. I was a bit nervous at first seeing the crowd but they got me motivated more”
In this event, Dulan KODITHUWAKKU from Sri Lanka won silver setting a World Record for his classification (F44) and getting his country onto the medal table for the first time in these games.
In the final day of Para Badminton, eight Asian NPCs picked up an incredible 29 medals, including twelve gold medals. China won seven of these with LI Fengmei, LIU Yu Tong and QU Zi Mo winning their second gold medal of the games.
It was also the final day of the individual events in Boccia and Hong Kong, China won two Gold medals (John LOUNG Men’s BC1 and HO Yuen Kei Women’s BC3) and a silver which put them up to 25th on the overall medal table. Korea (JEONG Howon Men’s BC3) and China (LIN Ximei Women’s BC4) also won gold. The Teams and Pairs events will follow with more hopes for medals for Asian NPCs.
In Goalball, China and Japan’s men both won their quarterfinal matches (CHN 12 v 2 FRA, USA 4-6 JPN) and will meet in the semi-final on Wednesday 4th September. Quarter finals in the women’s competition take place on 3rd September with China meeting France in a replay of the men’s match, Japan play Brazil and Korea face Turkey.
At the end of day 5, the medal table for Asian nations looks like this
| Rank on overall table | Country | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | China | 43 | 30 | 14 | 87 |
| 9 | Uzbekistan | 6 | 4 | 4 | 14 |
| 11 | Japan | 5 | 6 | 7 | 18 |
| 14 | Republic of Korea | 3 | 7 | 8 | 18 |
| 15 | India | 3 | 5 | 7 | 15 |
| 17 | Thailand | 3 | 4 | 6 | 13 |
| 22 | I.R. Iran | 2 | 6 | 3 | 11 |
| 24 | Hong Kong, China | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
| 27 | Singapore | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 31 | Indonesia | 1 | 6 | 5 | 12 |
| 36 | Mongolia | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 41 | Malaysia | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 54 | Chinese Taipei | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 56 | Kazakhstan | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 56 | Sri Lanka | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 64 | Iraq | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 64 | Kuwait | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 64 | Nepal | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
