Contents

PartⅠ

Games Overview 6

Olympic Sports 8

Paralympic Sports 9

Additional Sports for the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 10

Competition Schedule 12

Daily Highlights: Olympic Games 15

Daily Highlights: Paralympic Games 99

PartⅡ

Olympic Torch Relay 142

Paralympic Torch Relay 156

TOKYO 2020 NIPPON FESTIVAL 160

Tokyo 2020 Official Art Posters 163

Opening and Closing Ceremonies 164

Tokyo 2020 Mascots 168

Volunteers 170

Venues 172

Tokyo 2020 Marketing Partners 178

Par tⅠ
 Games Overview

Games Schedule

Official Name Official Name

Games of the XXXII Olympiad Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games

Period of the Games Period of the Games

Friday 23 July – Sunday 8 August 2021 Tuesday 24 August – Sunday 5 September 2021

Number of Sports Number of Sports

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Games Vision

Sport has the power to change

the world and our future.
The Tokyo 1964 Games completely transformed Japan.
The Tokyo 2020 Games, as the most innovative in history,
will bring positive reform to the world by building on three core concepts:
“Striving for your personal best (Achieving Personal Best)”
“Accepting one another (Unity in Diversity)”
“Passing on Legacy for the future (Connecting to Tomorrow)”

Games Motto

The Games Motto is a message that distills the Games vision into a few words, capturing the essence
of the ideas and concepts that the Tokyo 2020 Games wish to share with the world. In recent
Olympic and Paralympic Games, the Games Motto has played an important role as a message seen at the
competition venues, included in city dressing, and posted on digital media.

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Tokyo 2020 Emblems

Harmonised chequered emblem

・The Games emblems are composed of checkered patterns

in the traditional Japanese colour of indigo blue, and
express a refined elegance that exemplifies Japan.

・Composed of three varieties of rectangular shapes, the

designs incorporate the message of “Unity in Diversity".

・Both the Olympic and Paralympic emblems consist of 45

rectangular pieces.

The Tokyo 2020 Games by Numbers

Olympic Athlete quota The number of events in the

Olympic Programme

Paralympic Athlete quota The number of events in the

Paralympic Programme

All information valid as of

July 2021.
Source: The Tokyo
Metropolitan
Venues, including 8 new permanent The number of Olympic sports The number of Paralympic Sports Government and the
legacy sites Tokyo Organising
Committee of the
Olympic and Paralympic
Games.

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 Olympic Sports

A total of 339 events in 33 sports were featured in the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020.

Sports
Aquatics Football Shooting

Archery Golf Skateboarding

Athletics Gymnastics Sport Climbing

Badminton Handball Surfing

Baseball/Softball Hockey Table Tennis

Basketball Judo Taekwondo

Boxing Karate Tennis

Canoe Modern Pentathlon Triathlon

Cycling Rowing Volleyball

Equestrian Rugby Weightlifting

Fencing Sailing Wrestling

The overall event programme for the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 was approved by the Executive Board of the International Olympic
Committee (IOC) in June 2017.
This approval marks a key milestone in the evolution of the Olympic programme by introducing youth - and urban - oriented sports,
such as 3x3 Basketball and BMX Freestyle, as well as Sport Climbing and Skateboarding. In terms of athletes, six major sports achieved
gender balance for the first time (Canoe, Judo, Rowing, Sailing, Shooting and Weightlifting).
The IOC approval has led to a net increase of 15 events with an overall reduction of 285 athletes compared to the Rio 2016 Games.

New Events
Aquatics (Swimming) 800m Freestyle (Men), 1500m Freestyle (Women), 4x100m Mixed Medley Relay

Archery Mixed Team

Athletics 4x400m Mixed Relay

Basketball 3x3 Basketball (Men/Women)

Cycling (BMX Freestyle) Park (Men/Women)

Cycling (Track) Madison (Men/Women)

Fencing Team Sabre (Men), Team Foil (Women)

Judo Mixed Team

Table Tennis Mixed Doubles

Triathlon Mixed Relay

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Paralympic Sports

A total of 22 sports (539 events) featured at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games. Taekwondo and Badminton made their debut
following their adoption by the IPC.

Sports
Archery Goalball Taekwondo

Athletics Judo Triathlon

Badminton Powerlifting Wheelchair Basketball

Boccia Rowing Wheelchair Fencing

Canoe Shooting Wheelchair Rugby

Cycling Sitting Volleyball Wheelchair Tennis

Equestrian Swimming

Football 5-a-side Table Tennis

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 Additional Sports for the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020

Following the release of Olympic Agenda 2020 in 2014, the IOC established a system in which the Organising Committee of the host
city can propose additional sport for the Games. This has allowed sport to be added to the Olympic programme in a new and
unprecedented way.
Tokyo 2020 is the first Organising Committee to embrace the opportunity. The proposed 18 additional events – drawn from five very
different sports – were approved at the 129th IOC Session in Rio in August 2016.
This package of events features both traditional and emerging, youth-focused events, all of which are popular in Japan and
internationally. They reflect the Tokyo 2020 Games Vision and acted as a driving force to further promote the Olympic movement and
its values, enhancing the Games by engaging the Japanese population and new audiences worldwide.

Baseball/Softball

Baseball and softball are hugely popular

sports in Japan. These events ignited public
passion nationwide, engage fans of all
generations and add tremendous value to
the Tokyo 2020 Games.

Karate

Originating in Japan, Karate has grown into a

truly international sport. Its inclusion in the
Tokyo 2020 Games showcased Japan’s
sporting culture to the world, capturing the
imagination of global audiences.

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Skateboarding

Skateboarding is the perfect addition to a

Games that promises to be the most
innovative in history. It attracted massive
global attention, generate excitement
among young people and enhance the
sporting and the entertainment value of the
Games.

Sport Climbing

The vision of sport climbing is “Faster,

Higher, Stronger ” with a fresh, youth-
oriented approach, climbing brought a new
dimension to the Olympic Games that of
vertical elevation!

Surfing

Surfing brought a dynamic sporting

dimension to the Games. Surfing embodies
youthful values, and its blend of high
performance, style and integration with the
surfing festival holds great appeal to young
people.

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 Competition Schedule

Olympic Competition Schedule

Medal session Qualifying round

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Paralympic Competition Schedule

Medal session Qualifying round

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Daily Highlights: Olympic Games
21 July – 8 August 2021
 21 July

The opening round for Softball started on the 21st of July, and aiming for the gold, Japan played the opening game against Australia, winning 8-1 after the game
was called at the end of the fifth inning.
Under the Games principle of an "Olympic Games of Recovery", the competition of the Tokyo 2020 Games opened in Fukushima, which suffered extensive
damage from the Great East Japan Earthquake. To comply with the COVID-19 countermeasures, the baseball stadium allowed no spectators.

After an unprecedented one-year postponement

due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, the Olym-
pic Games Tokyo 2020 opened on the 21st with
Softball played in Fukushima City in the morning,
and Women’s Football played in the afternoon at
Sapporo Dome in Sapporo City. Japan played Can-
ada in the opening match and drew 1-1 in their first
group-league match.

At the Olympic Women’s Football match between Great Britain and Chile
that took place on 21 July at Sapporo Dome, players from both sides took the
knee before kickoff in support of the fight against racism and discrimination.
Players of Team GB had expressed their intention in advance and took the
knee before kickoff. The Chilean players followed suit. There was no discus-
sion between the two sides about kneeling together. Said Karen Araya of
Chile: “We saw the GB players kneeling and we thought we would do it too.”
Steph Houghton, Captain of GB, explained, “We wanted to show our unity
and solidarity.”

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22 July

The group stage of Men’s Football kicked off, and

making its seventh consecutive Olympic appear-
ance and eleventh altogether, Japan played their
first Group A match against South Africa, dismiss-
ing them with a 1-0 score. KUBO Takehide scored
the only goal of the match in the second half.

In their second game of Softball’s opening round,

Japan captured a walk-off victory over Mexico at
the bottom of the eighth inning.
Japan’s UENO Yukiko was the starting pitcher for
the second day in a row. Japan was leading 2-1,
but Ueno gave up clutch hits in the seventh inning,
allowing Mexico to tie the game. GOTO Miu came
on to relieve Ueno and silenced Mexico, and the
game went into extra innings. At the bottom of
the eighth inning, one out and a runner at third,
Atsumi singled on a bunt and Yamada scored. Ja-
pan walked off with a 3-2 score and gained their
second opening-round win.

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 23 July

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The aerobatic demonstration team of the Japan Air Self-De-
fence Force, Blue Impulse, flew over central Tokyo on 23 July.
The team took off around 12:20 p.m. from Iruma Air Base in
Saitama Prefecture, and about 30 minutes later, around 12:50
p.m., flew over the Olympic Stadium and drew the five rings
in blue, yellow, black, green and red smoke. The performance
celebrated the opening of the Olympic Games prior to the
Opening Ceremony, which took place after dark. Blue Impulse
flew during the day to highlight the coloured smoke.
Blue Impulse is based in Matsushima Air Base in Miyagi Pre-
fecture. The base sustained heavy damage from the tsunami
during the Great East Japan Earthquake, but Blue Impulse
returned to its home base in 2013. This was the second
time Blue Impulse performed to commemorate the Olympic
Games (the first being the Tokyo 1964 Games), and this time
they added a special mark to the ‘recovery Games’.

The Games of the XXXII Olympiad (the Olympic Games Tokyo

2020) officially opened on 23 July, with the Opening Cere-
mony held in the evening at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo’s
Shinjuku Ward. Postponed for one year due to the worldwide
COVID-19 pandemic, the Games opened amid the state of
emergency declared throughout Tokyo. Almost all of the com-
petitions, as well as the Opening Ceremony, had no spectators
in the stands. Because of concerns about the increasing cases
of COVID-19 and the confusion caused by last-minute chang-
es by the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee, the celebration
of sport, full of unprecedented events, kicked off on a sombre
tone.
Tokyo hosts the Olympic Games for the second time since
the Tokyo 1964 Games held 57 years ago. About 11,000 ath-
letes from 205 NOCs, excluding DPR Korea and including the
IOC Refugee Olympic Team, are participating in the Olympic
Games Tokyo 2020, which took place over 17 days from 23
July to 8 August and will feature 33 sports and 339 events.

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 During the Opening Ceremony for the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, a silent
prayer was offered to the victims of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic.
Actor MORIYAMA Mirai, originally from Hyogo Prefecture, came out dressed
in white and gave a dance performance in memory of all those who fell victim
to COVID-19. The dance performance was followed by a moment of silence.
His Majesty the Emperor, Prime Minister SUGA Yoshihide, IOC President
Thomas Bach and other VIPs offered a silent prayer from the VIP stand at
the Olympic Stadium.

TSUBATA Arisa was hoping to compete in the Women’s Boxing mid-

dle-weight class. She was introduced at the beginning of the Opening
Ceremony, an athlete training in solitude towards her goal.
Tsubata works in the medical field, which is pressed with care for COV-
ID-19 patients, and she uses her precious free time training. Due to the
pandemic, the final qualifying round was cancelled, and Tsubata’s chal-
lenge for the Tokyo 2020 Games ended there.
Said Tsubata this spring: “Many people are dying from the disease. I
don’t blame the people who are against holding the Olympic Games.
But the athletes are devoting their lives every day to competing in the
Games, and I sincerely want them to fulfil their dreams.”

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Popular and world-famous, Japan’s game and manga culture added a cheerful tone to the
Opening Ceremony. The Parade of Nations featured familiar tunes of well-known games
such as Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy and Monster Hunter. The placards held by the plac-
ard bearers who led each delegation were designed with a speech balloon evoking manga.
These playful touches lifted the mood of the ceremony and offered an entertaining flavour.

For the first time in history, the NOC delegations marched into the stadium during the Opening Ceremony Parade of Nations in the order of the Japanese
alphabet (a-i-u-e-o).
In the past Games hosted in Japan, the Tokyo 1964 Games, the Sapporo 1972 Winter Games and the Nagano 1998 Winter Games, the English alphabetical order
was used to prioritise the international standard.
The first delegation to enter was Greece, to honour the country where the Modern Olympic Games began, followed by the Refugee Team. After that, delega-
tions entered in alphabetical order by the names of the nations as they are spelled in the Japanese alphabet. The last three delegations to enter were: the USA,
host of the 2028 Games in Los Angeles; France, host of the 2024 Games in Paris; and host of the 2020 Games, Japan.
As part of the initiative for gender equality, one male and one female athlete.

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 Patty Mills, Australia’s men’s basketball national team mem-
ber who plays in the NBA, served as a flag bearer for Austral-
ia. Mills is the first indigenous athlete to be selected as Aus-
tralia’s flag bearer. He and swimmer Cate Campbell led the
Australian delegation holding the national flag of Australia.
According to the Australian Embassy, 16 of the nearly 500
athletes in their delegation were indigenous. This is just an-
other example of the ‘diversity and inclusion’ initiative of the
Tokyo 2020 Games.

After participating in Olympic Games Rio 2016, the

IOC Refugee Olympic Team was seen once again
marching proudly in the Parade of Nations during the
Olympic Opening Ceremony. For the second time,
athletes from Afghanistan, Syria and other nations
in conflict comprising the Refugee Team marched
cheerfully together smiling and waving.
The Refugee Team includes 29 athletes from 11 na-
tions, and they entered clad in a navy uniform. They
were second in order in the Parade of Nations, and
the flag bearers hoisted the Olympic flag up high.
Some of the athletes clapped their hands as they
marched along.

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 Four-time Olympic gold medallist, Sue Bird,
served as a flag bearer for the USA delega-
tion in the Opening Ceremony. The veteran
basketball player, selected in a vote made by
fellow athletes, led the huge US delegation
holding the Star-Spangled Banner.
“I still can’t believe I was chosen as a flag
bearer. I had so much fun,” beamed Bird.

Basketball’s HACHIMURA Rui and wrestiling’s SUSAKI Yui

marched in front of the 148 athletes representing Japan that in-
cluded a total of 583 athletes, its largest in history. The Japanese
delegation appeared at the last of the 205 NOCs including the
Refugee Olympic Team.

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 In his speech during the Olympic Games Opening Ceremony, IOC President
Thomas Bach said passionately, “Today is a moment of hope. Let us cherish this
moment. Finally we are all here together.” And he even spoke in Japanese to
thank the hosts for making the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 possible.
Touching upon the Great East Japan Earthquake and the coronavirus pandem-
ic, President Bach expressed that “it was a difficult journey with unprecedented
challenges.”
President Bach extended his gratitude over and over again to the Japanese peo-
ple, the volunteers and the medical professionals who contribute to contain the
pandemic: “We can only be all together here, because of you, our gracious hosts,
the Japanese people, to whom we would like to express all our appreciation and
respect.”

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 Baseball legends NAGASHIMA Shigeo and OH Sadaharu, accompanied by MATSUI Hideki, who
also played for the New York Yankees, took part in the final leg of the Olympic Torch Relay at the
Olympic Stadium. The three are former star players of professional baseball’s Yomiuri Giants,
and they are also recipients of the People’s Honour Award bestowed by the Japanese Govern-
ment. Japan’s baseball heroes came out to celebrate Baseball/Softball’s return to the Games for
the first time since Olympic Games Beijing 2008.
Supported by Matsui, Nagashima, whose right side of his body is paralysed from a stroke, held
the torch in his left hand and received the Olympic flame from the previous torchbearer. He
then handed the torch to Oh, and the three of them walked slowly toward the next torchbearer.
At the highlight of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Opening Ceremony, the final torchbearer
entrusted with the prestigious task of lighting the Olympic cauldron was 23-year-old tennis
player OSAKA Naomi, four-time women’s single Grand Slams champion.
Osaka received the Olympic flame from a group of six children representing Iwate, Miyagi and
Fukushima, three prefectures that were seriously affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake.
She ran slowly towards the stairs and ascended carefully up the steps to where the sphere-
shaped cauldron was set. At the top of the stairs, Osaka held the torch high to the left and to
the right. She then held the torch in both hands as she lit the cauldron. She looked relieved and
content after completing her important role.

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 24 July

YANG Qian of China claimed the Shooting Women 10m Air Rifle title, becoming
the first athlete to win the gold medal in the Tokyo 2020 Games.

The Olympic flame that was lit inside the Olympic Stadium during the Opening Ceremony was transferred to a lantern and moved to a second location at the
waterfront area in Koto-ku, Tokyo, where it was placed in a smaller cauldron. The Olympic flame remained alight throughout the Olympic Games.
The second cauldron, which was the same design as the cauldron in the Olympic Stadium, was located nearby the pedestrian bridge Yume-no-Ohashi.

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On 24 July, Day 2 of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, TONAKI Funa lost to Distria Krasniqi (Kosovo) in Judo’s Women -48kg final. Tonaki’s silver was the first
medal for Japan in the Tokyo 2020 Games, and Japan’s 500th Olympic medal in the summer and winter Games combined.

On the second day of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, TAKATO Naohisa beat Taiwan’s YANG Yung Wei in Judo’s Men -60kg event, capturing Japan’s first gold
medal of the Tokyo 2020 Games. The festive mood in the host country skyrocketed with the victory in the national sport of judo.
Takato first won the World Judo Championships title in 2013 at the age of 20. He was expected to win gold in Rio but finished with a bronze medal. Earning the
World Judo Championships title again in 2017 and 2018, Takato was determined to get his revenge in Tokyo. Takato moved around freely and showed sharp
foot techniques to advance through the competition and earn the title.
This was Japan’s first gold medal in the Men -60kg class since NOMURA Tadahiro won three consecutive Olympic titles from Atlanta 1996 to Athens 2004.

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 Aron Szilagyi (HUN) won his third
gold in Fencing Men's Sabre Indi-
vidual. He became the first athlete
to win three consecutive Olympic
golds in a men's individual event.

The Republic of Korea won the gold medal in Archery Mixed Team,
which made its debut in the Tokyo 2020 Games. The Netherlands
came in second and Mexico finished third.

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 Gold medallist Wongpattanakit of
Thailand defeated Spain’s Iglesias
(on the right) in the Women’s Taek-
wondo -49kg final.

The preliminary round of the Women’s Water Polo event opened, and Japan made its Olympic debut. Japan faced two-time champion USA in their first Group
B match, losing with an overwhelming 4 – 25 score.
Participating as the host country, Japan showed good effort at the onset, but by the end of the first period they were trailing 3 – 8 and from there it was a
one-sided competition.

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 25 July

Reigning world champion HORIGOME Yuto scored 37.18 points and became Skateboarding’s first Olympic gold medallist. Horigome was ranked sixth in the
qualifying round with 33.75 points, but in the final he earned over 9 points consecutively in the tricks section.

Kelvin Hoefler (BRA) won the silver medal, Jagger Eaton (USA) won the bronze medal.

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Swimming events kicked off, and Japan’s OHASHI Yui became champion of the Women
400m Individual Medley, winning with a time of 4:32.08. This was Japan’s first swimming
medal at the Tokyo 2020 Games. Ohashi became the first Japanese swimmer to conquer
the individual medley. The only other Japanese swimmer who won a medal in this event is
TAJIMA Yasuko, who was a silver medallist at the Sydney 2000 Games.
Ohashi trained under HIRAI Norimasa, who coached KITAJIMA Kosuke to two consecutive
Olympic titles. For several years Ohashi suffered from anaemia, but she overcame her con-
dition with an unyielding spirit unlike no other.
Australia won gold with a new world record of 3:29.69. in the Women 4 x 100m Medley
Relay.

Australia won the gold medal in Women’s

Swimming 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay, marking
a new world record of 3:29.69.

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 On Day 3 of the Tokyo 2020 Games, Judo’s Men -66kg ABE Hifumi
and Women -52kg ABE Uta both won their events in Judo on the
same day. According to the Japan Olympic Committee (JOC), it is the
first time a brother and a sister won the Olympic gold in different
events at the same Games.

Hifumi had been expected to become the ‘star of the Tokyo 2020 Games’
from an early stage, and Uta was right behind him following in his foot-
steps. They both won the 2018 World Judo Championships title, and they
competed in the final on the same day again at the Tokyo 2020 Games. Uta
was the first to claim gold, and seeing his younger sister’s performance,
Hifumi was determined to win the title too.
The siblings had been in the media spotlight, and they lived up to every-
one’s expectations in the Games held in their home country.

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 In Artistic Gymnastics, all four members of the German Women Team wore full-length unitards,
which cover the legs down to the ankles. The team marked high scores in the Uneven Bars but
could not overcome Japan and finished ninth, failing to qualify for the final round. “It wasn’t the
result we expected,” said Sarah Voss with tears of disappointment in her eyes.
Germany’s women gymnasts started wearing unitards from the European Championships in
April to stand against sexualisation in the sport, such as sexual images photographed and posted
online. Voss commented, “We wanted to show that every athlete should decide what to wear.
Feeling comfortable about what you’re wearing should allow athletes to focus on performing at
their best.”

Oksana Chusovitina (UZB), who was a member of the Unified Team that secured the gold medal
in the Artistic Gymnastics Women Team event at Olympic Games Barcelona 1992, announced
her retirement from competition after the Tokyo 2020 Games. Chusovitina holds the gymnastics
record of eight Olympic appearances. In the qualifying round for the Vault here at the Tokyo 2020
Games, she successfully performed a difficult skill named after her but unfortunately did not
make it to the final round. Despite her disappointing finish, Chusovitina said with satisfaction, “I
used up all my energy for the Olympic Games.”
Chusovitina received a standing ovation from the gymnasts and coaches on the floor. “I am both
happy and sad,” she commented with tears in her eyes. Asked about her future, Chusovitina re-
sponded, “Let me think about it after I recuperate in a sauna,” and received laughter and applause.

Ashleigh Barty (Australia), who was at the top of the WTA single rankings, was upset in the first round
of the Women’s Singles event. Barty lost 4-6, 3-6 to Spain’s Sara Sorribes Tormo, ranked 48.
“It wasn’t my day. I’m really disappointed,” sighed Barty, as she quietly exited from the competition.
Barty came into the Olympic Games after winning at Wimbledon on 10 July, but she had difficulty fight-
ing off her tenacious opponent. Barty, 25, is also competing in the Doubles event. “I’m going to con-
tinue fighting for the gold,” she said with determination as she turned her focus on to her next match.

The International Golf Federation announced on 25 July that world’s number one ranked Jon Rahm (Spain), who is a gold medal prospect at the Tokyo 2020
Games, tested positive for COVID-19 before departing for Japan and was forced to withdraw from the Games.
Two weeks later, he won the 2021 US Open Championship.
Bryson DeChambeau (USA), who also has a US Open title under his belt, tested positive before departing to Japan as well. He was replaced by Patrick Reed,
who had played for Team USA in Olympic Games Rio 2016.

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 26 July

13-year-old NISHIYA Momiji, who was the runner-up

in Women’s Street at the World Skateboarding
Championships, scored 15.26 points and became
the first Olympic Skateboarding champion in the
event. NAKAYAMA Funa, who placed sixth at the
World Championships, marked 14.49 points and
earned the bronze medal. The silver medal went to
Brazil’s Rayssa Leal. World Championship title hold-
er, NISHIMURA Aori, finished in eighth place with
6.92 points.

In the Table Tennis Mixed Doubles final, second-seeded Japanese

pair, MIZUTANI Jun and ITO Mima, defeated top-seeded Chinese
pair, XU Xin and LIU Shiwen, 4-3 and captured Japan’s first gold in
table tennis.
The Japanese pair, who share the same hometown of Iwata-shi in
Shizuoka Prefecture, were seeded second and steadily advanced to
the final. They crushed the 2019 World Championships titleholder
pair in the final to earn the gold medal.

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 In Judo’s Men -73kg final, ONO Shohei beat Rio bronze medallist
Lasha Shavdatuashvili (GEO) in golden score, winning his second
Olympic gold and defended his title. 29-year-old Ono won his first
three matches by ippon, and defeated Tsogtbaatar Tsend-Ochir
(MGL) by waza-ari in golden score. This makes Ono Japan’s fourth
judoka to capture two consecutive Olympic Judo titles and the first
since UCHISHIBA Masato, who won the Men -66kg gold in 2004
and 2008. AN Changrim from Kyoto, a third-generation Korean liv-
ing in Japan, won bronze.

In Judo’s Women -57kg, YOSHIDA Tsukasa made her

Olympic debut and lost to Nora Gjakova (KOS) in the
semi-final. Going up against Eteri Liparteliani (GEO) in the
bronze medal contest, Yoshida defeated her opponent by
ippon and won the bronze medal. Japan has won a medal
in this class in three consecutive Olympic Games.

Japan’s HASHIMOTO Daiki, KITAZONO Takeru, KAYA Kazuma and TANIGAWA Wataru competed in the Artistic Gymnastics Men’s Team final. After performing
six events, Japan earned a total score of 262.397 and won the silver medal. Although they could not defend their title, it was the fifth consecutive Olympic
medal for Japan. With a score of 262.500, ROC won gold for the first time since 1996. China took bronze.
Japan was in first place after the qualifying round, and continued to perform stably in the first event, the floor exercise. They were at third place going into the
final event, the horizontal bar, and put pressure on the other teams with Hashimoto’s 15.100 performance, but they lost to ROC with a mere 0.103-point margin.
The scores in the qualifying round do not count toward the teams’ total in the fi-
nal round. Three out of the four gymnasts on the team perform in each of the six
events, and the total of the three gymnasts are added up as each team’s score.
Hashimoto: “I wanted to finish with a good performance. I was determined to
give my best without thinking about the colour of the medal. That is why I think
I was able to land perfectly in the last event. My teammates (Kaya, Tanigawa
and Kitazono) gave me a lot of support, and I tried to express my appreciation
through my performance.”

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 Adam Peaty of Great Britain won the Men’s 100m Breaststroke and defended his
title.

17-year-old Lydia Jacoby (USA), the first

American Olympic swimmer from the
state of Alaska, captured the gold medal
in Swimming Women's 100m Breaststroke.

Watching the Olympic Games at home while knitting? No. This

is the spectators' stand at the venue for Diving events. Thomas
Daley (GBR), gold medallist in Men's Diving Synchronised 10m
Platform, is known for his hobby in knitting. Rumour has it that he
also knitted a pouch for his gold medal.

Great Britain's Thomas Daley (left) and Matty Lee won the gold medal in Men's Diving
Synchronised 10m Platform.

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Japan’s KAWATA Yuki, FURUKAWA Takaharu and MUTO Hiroki competed against the Netherlands in the Archery Men’s Team bronze medal match. Japan
gained a 5-4 victory in the shoot-off and won the first Archery Men’s Team medal for Japan.
Japan finished the ranking round in fourth place and was seeded in the knock-out stage. In the first match against the USA, Japan earned an overwhelming 5-1
quarter-final victory. Facing powerhouse Republic of Korea in the semi-final, Japan lost by a narrow 4-5 margin in the shoot-off and was sent off to the bronze
medal match.
The final was played between the Republic of Korea and Chinese Taipei. Korea won the gold to defend their title and conquered all three Archery Team events
(Men’s, Women’s and Mixed) at the Tokyo 2020 Games.

The gold medallist of Canoe Slalom Men’s Canoe was

Slovania’s Benjamin Savsek, who finished with 98.25
points.

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 In Men's Shooting Skeet, the winner was Vincent Hancock (USA), gold medallist at Beijing
2008 and London 2012.

Hong Kong's flag bearer at the Opening Ceremony Parade

of Nations, CHEUNG Ka Long, won the title for Fencing
Men's Foil Individual.

Hidilyn Diaz (PHI) lifted 97kg in snatch and 127kg in clean and jerk, total- In Triathlon Men's Individual, Kristian Blummenfelt (NOR) finished in
ling 224kg to win the gold medal. This was the first ever Olympic gold 1:45.04 and won the event.
medal for the Philippines.

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27 July

1 2

1 In Men’s Surfing, Japan’s IGARASHI Kanoa won the silver medal, 2 while
TSUZUKI Amuro took bronze in the women’s event.
In the semi-final, Igarashi faced off Gabriel Medina (BRA), season leader of
professional surfing’s pinnacle Championship Tour (CT). Igarashi scored 17.00
and defeated Medina with a narrow 0.24 margin to advance to the final.
Waiting for Igarashi in the final was CT runner-up, Italo Ferreira (BRA), who
crushed Igarashi with an 8.54 score advantage to claim the title. Igarashi fin-
ished with a score of 6.60.
Tsuzuki lost in the semi-final to CT season leader Carissa Moore (USA) by a
0.90 margin, completing the heat with a score of 7.43. In the bronze medal
match, Tsuzuki gained a score of 6.80 and beat Caroline Marks (USA) by a
2.54 margin.

Flora Duffy brings first gold to Bermuda in Triathlon Women’s Individual.

News of Typhoon No. 8 approaching had the cities hosting Tokyo 2020 Games competitions on the
27th preparing for heavy rain and strong winds. Women’s Football was scheduled to take place in
the evening at Rifu City, Miyagi Prefecture. Miyagi announced the cancellation of the participation of
about 280 volunteers who were scheduled to guide spectators.
According to Tokyo 2020, Rowing events were postponed a day, and the start time of Archery events
was delayed. In Tokyo, Women’s Triathlon took place in the early morning of the 27th at the Odaiba
Marine Park, and the race started 15 minutes later than scheduled.
In Ichinomiya, Chiba, the venue for Surfing, the final heat scheduled for the 28th was moved to the
27th in consideration of the wave conditions.

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 Japan and USA faced off in Softball’s final on Day 5 of the Tokyo 2020 Games.
Japan shut out USA 2-0, claiming their second consecutive Olympic gold
since softball was last played in the Beijing 2008 Games. Japan’s ace pitcher,
UENO Yukiko, showed an impressive performance to help Japan defeat rival
USA, the same opponent they faced in the Beijing final.
Japan won silver in Sydney 2000 and bronze in Athens 2004. They have
won a medal at all four Games in which softball was part of the Olympic
programme.
Japan used Ueno as the starting pitcher, followed by the team’s youngest
player, GOTO Miu, and showed dominance with four straight wins in the
opening round. Japan suffered a loss in the last opening round match on the
26th against USA but got their revenge in the final.

OSAKA Naomi was defeated in the third round of Tennis Wom-

en’s Singles on the 27th and failed to complete her quest for the
Olympic gold medal.
Osaka failed to play stably like she did in her first two matches.
She lost 1-6 and 4-6 to Marketa Vondrousova (CZE), who was
42nd in the world rankings and was the runner-up in the 2019
French Open Tennis.

In the Judo Men -81kg final, NAGASE Takanori earned a win over Saeid Mollaei (MGL)
by waza-ari in golden score and won the gold. Since the first day of judo at the Tokyo
2020 Games, Japan has won all four men’s events so far. Earning four gold medals
in the current seven-class men’s event is a record for Japan. It is the same number
Japan earned in Los Angeles 1984, where there were eight weight classes including
the open category (no weight limit). The last Japanese judoka to win in this weight
class was TAKIMOTO Makoto in Sydney 2000.

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 In the Artistic Gymnastics Women Team event, the gold medal
went to ROC, who earned 169.528 and became champion for the
first time since the Barcelona 1992 Games when they entered as
The Artistic Gymnastics Women Team event took place, and a star gymnast the Unified Team consisting of former Soviet Union republics. ROC
shocked the world by pulling out after her first apparatus. reigned in both the men’s and women’s team events.
Team USA’s Simone Biles, winner of four gold medals at Rio 2016, pulled out of Aiming for their third consecutive Olympic title, USA gained a score
the team competition after performing the vault. of 166.096 and came in second. Great Britain claimed the bronze
Biles jumped the vault, failing to complete a twist, and her expression suddenly medal.
changed. “I wasn’t injured, but I thought if I stayed in the competition, the team
would be risking the chance of winning a medal. I decided they should finish
without me.” Biles entrusted the rest to her teammates and cheered them on
from the bench.

Two women’s weight categories were held, and ANDO Mikiko of

the 59kg class lifted 94kg in snatch and 120kg in clean and jerk,
totalling 214kg to win the bronze medal.
Estonia claims first gold in Fencing Women’s Épée Team. Japan has now won a women’s weightlifting medal in three con-
secutive Olympic Games. MIYAKE Hiromi won a medal in London
2012 and Rio 2016.
The champion of the Women’s 59kg class was KUO Hsing-Chun
(TPE), who lifted 103kg in snatch and 133kg in clean and Jerk, with
a total of 236kg.

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 An athlete from the IOC Refugee Olympic Team gave a press
conference on 27 July and talked about the joy of finally com-
ing to the Games after all the hardships she had to endure.
The IOC Refugee Olympic Team athlete pledged to exert her
best efforts to deliver hope to all the refugees across the
world.
Rose Nathike Liconyen from South Sudan competed in the
Athletics Women’s 800m race on 30 July. She served as the
flag bearer of the first IOC Refugee Olympic Team which was
organised for Rio 2016. She expressed her appreciation to-
wards the scholarship and support saying, “The IOC Refugee
Olympic Team athletes are encouraged by the support, and
we can now concentrate on training in our sport. I came here
to give hope to the refugees around the world who live in
harsh conditions.”
The delegation was made up of 29 athletes representing 11
nations, an increase from the delegation in Rio of 10 athletes
from 4 nations.

1 Kimia Alizadeh Zenozi of the IOC Refugee Olympic

Team in the Taekwondo Women -57kg bronze med-
al match (25 July)
2 Eldric Sella Rodriguez of the IOC Refugee Olympic
Team in the Boxing Men’s Middle (69 – 75kg) pre-
liminary round (26 July)

1 2

Jolanda Neff (SUI) wins Cycling Mountain Bike Women’s Cross-Country.

Switzerland dominated the podium by capturing gold, silver and bronze.

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28 July

After winning the Women 400m Individual Medley, OHASHI Yui competed
in the 200m Individual Medley on Day 6 of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020
and gained her second gold. The only Japanese swimmer who has won
multiple gold medals in individual events is KITAJIMA Kosuke, who won
two titles in both Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008. Ohashi is the first female
swimmer to accomplish this feat.
Training with HIRAI Norimasa, who also coached Kitajima, Ohashi adapted
her form to reduce water resistance and emerged as Japan’s top female
swimmer after Rio 2016. She came in second in the 200m individual med-
ley at the 17th FINA World Championships 2017, and finished third in the
400m individual medley at the 18th FINA World Championships 2019.

Ariarne Titmus (AUS) won the Women's Swimming

200m Freestyle event, earning her second gold fol-
lowing the 400m Freestyle title.

19-year-old HONDA Tomoru captured the silver medal in Swim-

ming Men’s 200m Butterfly. Gold medallist Kristof Milak (HUN)
set a new Olympic record.

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 The Artistic Gymnastics Men’s All-Around event turned out to be a competi-
tion to determine who will succeed two-time Olympic gold medallist UCHI-
MURA Kohei as the “absolute champion”. XIAO Ruoteng (CHN), winner of the
2017 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, finished with a silver medal.
2018 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships titleholder, Artur Dalaloyan
(ROC), finished in sixth place. Nikita Nargonyy (ROC), 2019 champion of the
World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, won the bronze. All these world
champions could not defeat HASHIMOTO Daiki of Japan.
Xiao was the leader going into the final rotation on the horizontal bar, which
he nailed without falling, but the pressure did not affect Hashimoto’s hori-
zontal bar performance. Xiao praised his rival’s mentality under pressure;
“I expected Hashimoto to perform flawlessly, so I thought I would finish in
second.”

On Day 6 of the Tokyo 2020 Games, ARAI

Chizuru won the gold medal in Judo’s Wom-
en -70kg. This was the second gold for the
Japanese women judo team, following the
victory in the -52kg class by ABE Uta, and
the first time since Beijing 2008 to conquer
two classes.
In Rio 2016, TACHIMOTO Haruka won the
Women -70kg, which was the sole gold med-
al for Japan in Women’s Judo. Arai and Ta-
chimoto fought for the 2016 Olympic ticket,
and Arai lost. Starting over again, Arai won
the World Judo Championships title in 2017
and 2018 with the uchimata as her best tech-
nique, and became recognised as one of the
top judokas in the world.

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The men’s and women’s final for 3x3, Basketball took place. In the women’s final between USA and ROC, USA won 18-15 to capture the first Olympic 3x3 title.
In the men’s final, Latvia defeated ROC 21-18 and seized the gold medal.
In the bronze medal match, Serbia overwhelmed Belgium 21-10 and won the men’s title, while China beat France 16-14 to win the women’s bronze.

In the Equestrian Grand Prix Freestyle Individual final, Jessica von

Bredow-Werndl (GER) seized the gold medal, her second in the To-
kyo 2020 Games following Germany’s win in the Dressage Team
Grand Prix Special on the 27th. Her teammate, Isabell Werth, came
in second and Charlotte Dujardin (GBR) finished in third place.

Primoz Roglic (SLO) took gold in Cycling Road Men’s Individual Time Trial
(44.2km). It was the second consecutive Olympic Games for Roglic, who fin-
ished in 55:04.19.

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 In the men’s final for Rugby Sevens, defending champion Fiji defeated New Zealand 27-12 and won their second Olympic gold in the event which debuted in
the last Games.

Popole Misenga (EOR), who escaped to Brazil from the conflict-ridden Congo,
participated in Judo’s Men -90kg as a member of the IOC Refugee Olympic Team.
This marked his second consecutive Games. Although he was eliminated in his
first match, the Elimination Round of 32, with an ippon, Misenga commented,
“I am very happy to be part of a team that represents all the refugees to deliver
hope and dreams to people.” Misenga will also compete in the Mixed Team event,
which debuts in Tokyo, featuring three men and three women judokas compet-
ing as one team. “We have made great strides as a team. I’m very proud that I
can give it my all in this competition,” said Misenga, who was overwhelmed with
emotions.

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29 July

WOLF Aaron made his Olympic debut in Judo’s Men -100kg, defeating 2018 World Judo Championships title-holder CHO Guham (KOR) in golden score by ippon
to capture the gold medal. It was the fifth gold for Japan in men’s Judo, breaking the record made in Los Angeles 1984 which had eight classes, one extra than
today. Wolf’s victory was the first in his class (-100kg) for Japan since the current head coach, INOUE Kosei, became the -100kg champion in Sydney 2000.

In the Women's -78kg final, HAMADA Shori went up against 2019 World Judo Championships winner Madeleine Malonga (FRA) and won by ippon. It was the
first time Japan conquered this class in women’s judo since the Athens 2004 Games when ANNO Noriko won the gold. Japan’s eighth judo gold in Tokyo ties
the record marked in Athens 2004.

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 Kosovo is shining brightly at the Tokyo 2020 Judo competitions. Two fe-
male judokas representing the small country of Kosovo, with a population
of about 1.9 million, have captured the gold medal in the Women -48kg
and -57kg classes, both defeating Japanese opponents on their way. The Jessica Fox (AUS) won gold in the Women’s Slalom Canoe.
two judokas who trained together at the same dojo (judo training centre)
achieved their goal of bringing home medals together in the best possible
way.

Caeleb Dressel (USA) won the Men's 100m Butterfly, marking a new world In Swimming, China won the Women's 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay, setting a
record of 49.45. new world record of 7:40.33.

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 Third-seeded ITO Mima played in the Women’s Singles bronze medal match
for Table Tennis and defeated YU Mengyu (SGP) 4-1 to win the bronze medal.
This was the first medal for Japan in the Women’s Singles event at the Olym-
pic Games. Before winning bronze, Ito lost to second-seeded SUN Yingsha
(CHN) 0-4 in the semi-final.

In the Women’s Singles final, top-seeded CHEN Meng (CHN) beat SUN Yingsha (CHN) 4-2 and captured the gold medal.

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 The ITF announced on 28 July that in consideration of the impact of the heat on the players' health, matches
will start at 3 p.m. from the 29 July onwards. Matches were originally set to start at 11 a.m. up to 29 July and
at 12 noon from 30 July to August 1.

NISHIKORI Kei, who claimed the bronze medal in Rio 2016, lost to Novak
Djokovic (SRB) 2-6, 0-6 in the quarter-final.

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30 July

The Fencing Men's Épée Team final between Japan and ROC
ended in a 45-36 victory for Japan. The Japanese team fea-
tured Yamada, Kano, Uyama and Minobe. This was the first
medal in this event for Japan. The last medal Japan received
in Fencing was the silver in Men’s Foil Team at London 2012.
Japan defeated USA 45-39 in the Table of 16, then surprised
defending champion France in the quarter-final with a 45-44
victory. France was going for their fourth consecutive Olympic
title. Japan went on to crush the Rep. of Korea 45-38 in the
semi-final.

In Archery, AN San (KOR) won the Individual event title, capturing her
third gold after wining the Mixed and Women's Team events.

The Table Tennis Men’s Singles final featured two Chinese players, and
second-seeded MA Long defeated first-seeded FAN Zhendong 4-2 and
won his second consecutive Olympic gold.
In the bronze medal match, seventh-seeded Dimitrij Ovtcharov (GER)
beat fifth-seeded LIN Yun Ju (TPE) 4-3 and captured the bronze medal.

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 In Women's Judo +78kg, SONE Akira defeated London 2012 champion Idalys Ortiz (CUB) in the final and won the gold medal. The match went into golden
score, and Ortiz received three shidos, which gave Sone a victory by ippon. Sone, who made her debut in the Tokyo 2020 Games, won all three matches up
to the semi-final by ippon executing a waza. Sone's victory in this class is the first since TSUKADA Maki took the title in Athens 2004. Sone is only 162cm high
and is small compared to other athletes in the same class, but with outstanding stamina gained from training, she fought tenaciously to reach the final. Sone
first competed in the All Japan Women's Judo Championship in 2018 when she was in her last year at Fukuoka's Nanchiku High School, and she won this open-
weight tournament. Seizing the title again the following year and also winning at the 2019 World Judo Championships, Japan's most promising judoka captured
another world title here in Tokyo.

In Men's Judo +100kg, Teddy Riner (FRA) lost to Tamerlan Bashaev (ROC) in the quarter-final and failed to secure his third consecutive gold. Riner advanced to
the repechage contest. Rio silver medallist HARASAWA Hisayoshi was defeated by Lukas Krpalek (CZE), Rio 2016 champion in the Men's -100kg. In the Bronze
Medal match, Harasawa lost to Riner by ippon on penalties.

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In the Women's Cycling BMX Racing final, 22-year-old Bethany Shriever (GBR) won the gold medal and denied Mariana Pajon (COL) her chance to win here third
consecutive title. Pajon finished second in the race. In the Men's event, Niek Kimmann (NED) captured the gold medal.

In the Trampoline Gymnastics Women’s final, ZHU Xueying (CHN), who In Canoe Slalom, Jiri Prskavec (CZE) seized the Men's Kayak (K-1) final to
placed second in the qualification round, won her first Olympic gold. LIU capture the gold medal.
Lingling, also representing PR China, came in second. Canada’s Rosan-
nagh Maclennan, who was going for her third consecutive gold, finished
in fourth place.

New Zealand won the title for Rowing Men’s Eight. Team New Zealand
won three golds and two silvers in Rowing here in Tokyo and gained its
best ever result in the sport.

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 On Day 8 of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, Japan’s WATANABE Yuta and HI-
GASHINO Arisa played in the Badminton Mixed Doubles bronze medal match
against the Hong Kong pair, TANG Chun Man and TSE Ying Suet, and won 2-0 to
capture the bronze medal. This was the first medal for Japan in this event, and
Watanabe also became the first to win a medal in a Men’s Badminton event.
Watanabe and Higashino, have been playing as a pair since they attended Tomio-
ka High School. They are ranked fifth in the world. The pair was defeated by the
Chinese pair in the semis, but their combination was nearly perfect in the final and
they maintained the upper hand to seize a victory.

Two Croatian pairs played in the Men’s Doubles final, and Me-
ktic/Pavic defeated Cilic/Dodig 6-4, 3-6, 10-6 in a tie breaker
victory to capture the gold medal. New Zealand’s Daniell/Ve-
nus seized the bronze medal match.

In Tennis, world’s number one ranked Novak Djokovic (SRB) lost to Alexander Zverev (GER)
6-1, 3-6, 1-6 in the semi-final. In the other semi-final match, Karen Khachanov (ROC) beat
Pable Carreno Busta (ESP) 6-3, 6-3 and advanced to the final.

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 In the Women's 200m Breaststroke, Tat-
jana Schoenmaker (RSA) marked a world
record with 2:18.95 and won the gold
medal.

In Round 1 of the Athletics Men’s 3000m Steeplechase, In Women’s Football, Japan finished third in Group
19-year-old MIURA Ryuji marked 8:09.92 and renewed his E, advancing to the quarter-final where they played
personal record. Miura came in second in Heat 1 and qual- Sweden, the silver medallist in Rio 2016 who fin-
ified for the final. ished top of Group G. Sweden scored the opening
goal in the first half, but Japan quickly equalised
with a goal by Tanaka. Conceding two more goals in
the second half, Japan lost to Sweden 1-3 and was
knocked out of the tournament.
Although the Netherlands lost in the semi-finals,
their forward, Vivianne Miedema, scored 10 goals
during the tournament and set a new top scorer
record.

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In the Women's Athletics 100m race, Elaine Thompson-Herah of Jamaica thrust out her left hand as
she crossed the finish line, convinced of victory, and became the fourth sprinter to win this event
two consecutive times. She pointed to the electronic scoreboard, which flashed 'New OR'. Thomp-
son-Herah broke Florence Joyner's Olympic record set in Seoul 1988 by .01 second and now holds
the second fastest record in the world. "Im lost for words. I'm so happy, I can't help screaming," said
Thompson-Herah as she let out a huge outcry of joy.

In the Women's Tennis Singles, Belinda Bencic (SUI) defeated Marketa

Vondrousova (CZE) 7-5, 2-6, 6-3 and won the gold medal.

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In the Men's Swimming 100m Butterfly final, Caeleb Dressel (USA) finished in 49.45 and set a new world record.
This was Dressel's third gold medal after winning the 100m Freestyle and the 400m Relay.

In the Women's 800m Freestyle, Kathleen Ledecky (USA) finished first at 8:12.57 and won her second gold
after winning the 1500m Freestyle.
Australia's Kaylee McKeown seized the Women's 200m Backstroke in 2:04.68. Following her victory in the
100m Backstroke, this was her second gold medal at the Tokyo 2020 Games.

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 France won the gold medal in the Judo Mixed event. Japan ended up with a silver medal in Mixed Team, Judo's new event debuting in Tokyo. With nine golds in
Judo, five Men's and four Women's, Japan came to the final with an impressive line-up, but could not finish with a victory.

The 4 x 400 Mixed Relay made its debut in the Tokyo 2020 Games, and Poland took the first title. Team Poland's last runner Kajetan Duszynski was handed the
baton in third place, and he took over the Netherlands and Dominican Republic to claim the gold medal. The excited Duszynski commented, "I can't believe it.
This was my dream since I was a child, and today it came true." The mixed relay team is comprised of two male and two female runners. Team Poland's four
athletes embraced each other after the race to celebrate their victory. Responding to the media's question about the race, Duszynski, the biggest contributor
to Poland's victory, said, "I don't know. I can't remember," as he tasted the joy and thrill of conquering the world.

Team Great Britain became the first

Olympic champion of the new Triathlon
event, Mixed Relay.

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In the Rugby Sevens Women's final, Rio 2016 silver medallist New Zea-
land defeated France 26-12 to win their first gold medal in the event.

In the Men's Badminton Doubles final, LEE Yang and WANG Chi-Lin of Chinese
Taipei shut out the Chinese pair, LEE Jun Hui and LIU Yu Chen, 2-0 and celebrated
their debut Games with a gold medal.

In Weightlifting Men's 96kg,

Fares Ibrahim Elbakh captured
the first gold medal for Qatar.

The first medal Belarus gained in the Tokyo 2020

Games was gold. 20-year-old Ivan Litvinovich was the
last athlete to perfom in the Trampoline Gymnastics
Men's final, and he successfully performed the most
difficult routine of all eight finalists, winning the gold
medal. Overcome with emotion, Litvinovich said, "If
the Games weren't postponed, I would not have been
able to perform this well. I still can't believe it."
With Litvinovich's victory, Belarus won gold in two
consecutive Games in Trampoline Gymnastics. "I want In Men's Football, Japan finished the qualifying round at the top of Group A with three
to dedicate my victory to my late grandmother, who straight wins and advanced to the quarter-final, where they faced New Zealand, ranked
supported me since I was little," said Litvinovich. second in Group B. Neither team could produce a goal in 90 minutes and the match went
into extra time. Still at a scoreless draw, a penalty shootout had to decide the match.
Japan came out as the winner with a 4-2 shootout victory and advanced to the semi-final
for the first time since London 2012.

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In the Athletics Men's 100m final, Italy's Lamont Marcel Jacobs broke the
European record in 9.80 and captured the first gold in this event for Italy.
With a wind factor of +0.1m/s, Fred Kerley (USA) came in second and Andre
de Grasse (CAN) finished third.

SU Bingtian (CHN), who came in sixth

place in the final, set a new Asian record
in the semi-final with 9.83.

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In the Athletics Men's High Jump final, Mutaz Essa Barshim (QAT) and Gianmarco Tamberi (ITA) shared the gold
medal. Both jumpers cleared 2.37 metres in their first jump but failed three times when the bar was raised to
2.37 metres. Since they cleared all their previous jumps successfully, they were both declared the winner by
regulation. There is a 'Jump-off' rule where the leading athletes take turns jumping until the winner is deter-
mined. If a jump-off does not take place, including the case where the leading athletes decide not to compete
further, they are declared co-winners. Upon discussion, Barshim and Tamberi decided not to compete in a
jump-off, and when they were both declared the winner, they expressed their joy together.

Yulimar Rojas (VEN) seized the Women's Triple

Jump, setting a new world record. This marked
the first world record set in Tokyo's new Olympic
Stadium. Rohjas' gold medal was also the first for
Venezuela in Athletics.

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 In Swimming, Team USA won the Men's gold setting a new world record of 3:26.78 in the Men’s
4 x 100m Medley Relay, while Team Australia captured the Women's title with 3:51.60 in the
Women’s 4 x 100m Medley Relay.
USA's Caeleb Dressel won his fifth gold in Tokyo.

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1 In Cycling BMX Freestyle, Logan Martin (AUS), who won this year's World Championships title, marked 93.30 and captured the gold medal.
2 Silver medallist Daniel Dhers (VEN) was the oldest Cycling competitor at the age of 36.

3 In Women’s Park, the winner of the gold medal was Charlotte Worthington (GBR).

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 In the Tennis Women's Doubles final, Czech Republic's Barbora Krejcikova
and Katerina Siniakova became the first Czech female athletes to win a
gold medal. The pair that also won the French Open title this season said
together, "We're so proud to win the gold medal."
The heat returned on the final day of Tennis, and they exerted all their re-
maining power to defeat the Swiss pair. Switzerland's Belinda Bencic was
In the Tennis Men's Singles final, Alexander Zverev (GER) overwhelmed
denied her second gold medal after winning the Women's Singles. The
Karen Khachanov (ROC) 6-3, 6-1 and won the gold medal.
Czech pair seemed to enjoy meeting other athletes at the Olympic Village
which is something they cannot experience on the usual tour. Comment-
ed Krejcikova, "Next time in Paris 2024, I'd like to visit other competition
venues to support other Czech athletes."

Japan’s MATSUYAMA Hideki had five

birdies and three bogies, scoring 69 on
the final day, with a total score of 269 or
15 under par along with six other play-
ers. In the playoff for the bronze medal,
Matsuyama failed to make par on the
first hole and was knocked out.

The final round of the Men's Golf Individual Stroke Play took place, and Xander Schauffele
(USA) managed to hold onto his lead, to win the gold medal. Schaulffele feels a special
bond with Japan as his grandparents live in Tokyo. He held the gold medal proudly in his
hands and said emotionally, "I always heard that the Olympic Games were special, and I
knew what that meant when I stood on the podium. I'm just really happy."
Schauffele built a four-stroke lead in the first half of the round, but pressure got the best of
him and he blew his tee shot at the par-5 14th hole well right of the fairway into the trees
and settled with a bogey. Rory Sabbatini (SVK) charged passed the others and at one point
evened the score with the leader, but Schauffele sunk a 2.5-metre birdie putt on 17 and
managed to hold off Sabbatini.

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In the Artistic Gymnastics Men's Pommel Horse final, KAYA Kazuma, who finished seventh in the qualifying round, marked 14.900 and won the bronze medal.
This was the first time for Japan to win a medal in this event since KASHIMA Takehiro won the bronze medal at Athens 2004. Meanwhile, KAMEYAMA Kohei,
who was in second place going into the final, made mistakes in his performance and finished in fifth place with 14.600. Max Whitlock (GBR) marked 15.583 and
won his second consecutive Olympic gold.

In the Women's Badminton Singles final, first-seeded

CHEN Yu Fei (CHN) defeated second-seeded TAI Tzu-Ying
(TPE) 2-1 and captured the gold medal in her first Olympic
Games. In the Diving Women's 3m Springboard final, SHI Tingmao (CHN) marked 383.50 and won
In the bronze medal match, Rio 2106 silver medallist Sind- her second gold medal in Tokyo following her victory in Synchronised 3m Springboard.
hu V. Pusarla (IND) shut out HE Bing Jiao (CHN) 2-0 and Shi also won these two events in Rio 2016. Shi's partner in Synchronised 3m Springboard,
won the bronze medal. HAN Wang (CHN) came in second, and Krysta Palmer (USA) finished third.

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In Athletics, Jasmine Camacho-Quinn (PUR) seized the Women's 100m Hurdles and caputred a historic second gold
medal for Puerto Rico.

In Athletics, 19-year-old MIURA Ryuji finished seventh in the Men's 3000m Steeplechase final with 8:16.90. The winner was Soufiane Elbakkali (MAR) who
marked 8:08.90 and denied Kenia's tenth consecutive gold in this event.

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 In Wrestling, Mijain Lopez Nunez (CUB) won the Greco-Roman 130kg title and became the
first male wrestler to win the gold medal in four consecutive Olympic Games.

In Wresting Women's Freestyle 68kg, Rio 2016 cham-

pion in the 69kg class, DOSHO Sara, lost to 2019 World
Championships titleholder, Tamyra Mariama Mensah
FUMITA Kenichiro won the silver medal in Wrestling Men's Greco-Roman 60kg. Stock (USA) by a technical foul in the first round and
Luis Alberto Orta Sanchez (CUB) earned the gold medal. failed to defend her Olympic title.

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 Team Great Britain won the gold medal in Equestrian Eventing Team.
(Photo from cross-country event on 1 August)

In Equestrian Eventing Individual, the final jumping round was completed and TOMOTO Kazuma finished at the top of Team Japan and came in fourth place
overall, which was the best result ever for Japan.
Rio 2016 silver medallist, Julia Krajewski (GER) was awarded her first gold medal in the individual event.

MURAKAMI Mai won the bronze

medal in Artistic Gymnastics Wom-
en's Floor Exercise. The last time Ja-
pan captured a medal in a women's
artistic gymnastics event was the
bronze in the Women's Team at the
Tokyo 1964 Games, and this was the
first individual medal for Japan. Mu-
rakami is a specialist in the floor ex-
ercise, and she won the 2017 World
Championships title for the event.
IOC President Thomas Bach paid a visit to the "Tokyo
Jade Carey (USA) won gold, Vanessa
2020 Recovery Monument" in front of the Meiji Memori-
Ferrari (ITA) earned silver and Ange-
al Picture Gallery nearby the Olympic Stadium.
lina Melnikova (ROC) shared bronze
According to Tokyo 2020, President Bach left a message
with Murakami.
and his signature, and commented, "The Tokyo 2020
Games was designated as a symbol of recovery from the
Great East Japan Earthquake. We demonstrate our unity
Laurel Hubbard (NZL) competed in Weightlifting
and solidarity through the Tokyo 2020 Games."
Women's +87kg as the first transgender athlete
The monument was created using aluminum from the
in Olympic history, but failed her attempt in
temporary housing units in the three prefectures of
snatch and did not finish. Though Hubbard did
Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima that were seriously affect-
not advance to clean and jerk, the 43-year-old
ed by the disaster.
athlete looked back at her first Olympic Games
and commented, "I'm grateful to be given this
oppotunity," as she made a heart with her hands
then lifted her left hand.

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An amazing new world record has been set in Athletics Men’s 400m Hurdles. Karsten Warholm (NOR) nailed the race by breaking his own record by 0.76 sec-
onds, finishing under 46 seconds to capture the gold medal. Warholm took the lead from the start with his powerful strides, jumping the hurdles effortlessly.
At the final stretch, his rival Rai Benjamin (USA) almost caught up, but Warholm used whatever he had left in him and broke away after jumping the tenth and
last hurdle. Ecstatic after crossing the finish line, Warholm tore off his shirt and shouted with joy. The 25-year-old had said before the Games, “I’m so happy the
Olympic Games are taking place, although there will be no spectators in the stands. I’m looking forward to being in Tokyo,” and now he shined brightly under
the summer skies of Tokyo.

In the Women's 200m final, Elaine Thompson (JAM) World record holder Armand Duplantis (SWE) In the Women’s Hammer Throw final, Anita
overwhelmed the others and won her second gold med- won his first Olympic gold in Men's Pole Vault. Wlodarczyk (POL) captured her third consecu-
al. Thomson accomplished the incredible feat of win- In the Women's Hammer Throw final, Anita tive gold medal.
ning the 100m and 200m at two consecutive Olympic Wlodarczyk (POL) captured her third consecu-
Games. tive gold medal.

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 In Gymnastics, HASHIMOTO
Daiki scored 15.066 in the
Men's Horizontal Bar and
earned his second gold medal
after winning the Men's All-
Around. With a silver in the
Men's Team event, Hashimo-
to has won a total of three
medals in Tokyo.

Simone Biles (USA), who withdrew from the Artistic

Gymnastics Women's All-Around final after citing
psychological stress, returned to competition and
won her second consecutive bronze medal in the
Balance Beam final. Biles met twice with a counsel-
lor specialising in sports psychology and came back
to compete in the Games. "My mental health is more
important than any medal. I'm proud of myself that I China's ZOU Jingyuan scored 16.233 in the Men's
could return to the competition," smiled Biles. Parallel Bars and won his first gold medal.
Biles says the roughly one-minute performance was
for herself. When she finished, she hugged her rivals
and threw kisses to the audience.
As concerns grow about the impact of slanderous
comments on social media and the worldwide COV-
ID-19 pandemic on the athletes' mental health, a
warm applause was given to the star gymnast who
returned to the spotlight.

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 In the Cycling Track Women's Team Pursuit final, Germany won gold setting a new world record of 4:04.242.
In the Men's Team Sprint, the Netherlands marked a new Olympic record of 41.369 and seized the battle with
Team Great Britain to capture the gold medal.

Finals were held for four Canoe Sprint

events, and Lisa Carrington (NZL) won
two gold medals. Carrington won her
third consecutive gold in the Women's
Kayak Single (K-1) 200m and also seized
the Women's Kayak Double (K-2) 500m
with Caitlin Ryan.
Balint Kopasz (HUN) won the Men's Kay-
ak Single (K-1) 1000m, while Cuba's Ser-
guey Torres and Fernando Dayan Jorge
seized the Men's Canoe Double (C-2)
1000m.

In Men’s Basketball, Slovania, featuring MBA

star Luka Doncic, made its Olympic debut and
advanced to the semi-finals.

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 In the Boxing Women's Feather (54 - 57kg) final, IRIE Sena defeated 2019 World Championships titleholder, Nesthy Petecio (PHI) by a 5-0 score, giving Japan its
first gold medal in Women's Boxing. Irie became the third Japanese boxer who won the gold medal in boxing, the others being SAKURAI Takao (batamweight)
at the Tokyo 1964 Games and MURATA Ryota (middle) at the London 2012 Games.

1 In Diving Men’s 3m Springboard, the gold medal was awarded to XIE Siyi,
who scored 558.75. This was Xie’s second gold after winning the Men’s Syn-
chronised 3m Springboard.

In Wresting, YABIKU Shohei won the bronze medal in the Men's Greco-Roman 77kg. Yabiku lost the previous day in the second round, but he defeated his
opponent from Iran in the bronze medal match to gain a place on the podium in his first Olympic Games. Yabiku is Okinawa's first Olympian in Wrestiling. He
was one of the two Japanese wrestlers who competed in Greco-Roman at the Tokyo 2020 Games, and both of them won a medal. Yabiku earned a bronze,
and the other Greco-Roman wrestler, FUMITA Kenichiro, won silver in the 60kg event. This was the first time Japanese wrestlers won more than one medal in
Greco-Roman since Los Angeles 1984, when Japan won one gold, one silver and one bronze. Tamas Lorincz (HUN) won the 77kg event and Luis Alberto Orta
Sanchez (CUB) became champion in 60kg.

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2 1 In Skateboarding Women’s Park, YOSOZUMI Sakura, the 2018 World Cham-

pionships titleholder, won the gold medal with a score of 60.09. 2 HIRAKI
Kokona, 12, scored 59.04, clinching the silver medal. OKAMOTO Misugu, who
earned the title at the 2019 World Championships, fell off the board in all three
runs and finished fourth, scoring 53.58.
Sky Brown, whose mother is Japanese and was born in Miyazaki Prefecture,
competed for Team Great Britain and finished third with a score of 56.47. Com-
bined with Men’s and Women’s Street, Team Japan secured gold medals in all
three events that have taken place so far.

OKAMOTO Misugu com-

mended by her competi-
tors after taking on a set
of challenging tricks in
her last run of the Skate-
boarding Women's Park
final.

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 Team USA’s Sydney MCLAUGHLIN won gold in
women’s 400m hurdles in athletics by break-
ing world record.

In Wrestling Women’s Freestyle 62kg, KAWAI Yukako de-

feated Aisuluu Tynybekova (KGZ) and captured the gold
medal.
Her older sister KAWAI Risako was the gold medallist in
Freestyle 63kg at Rio 2016, which makes them Japan’s
first sisters to have both won gold at the Olympic Games.
Originally from Ishikawa Prefecture, Yukako finished sec-
ond and third at the 2018 and 2019 World Championships
respectively. At the Tokyo 2020 Games, after easily win-
ning the first and second rounds, she defeated Bulgaria’s
Taybe Mustafa Yusein 3-2 in the semi-final. In the final,
she conquered Aisuluu Tynybekova of Kyrgyzstan, the
2019 World Championships winner, taking the top of the
podium at her first Olympic Games.

Helen Louise Maroulis, a Women’s Freestyle 57kg wrestler, missed her second consecutive Olympic gold medal.
In Rio 2016, she hindered YOSHIDA Saori from achieving her fourth consecutive victory in the 53kg event. This
time, Maroulis lost to KAWAI Risako in the semi-final. “I had been waiting patiently for the opponent to make a
move, looking for the right moment to fight back, but I couldn’t find a good timing,” she said with great disap-
pointment.
The 29-year-old experienced wrestler from the USA has been struggling with after-effects from a concussion
since 2018 and had even considered retiring, but as the Olympic Games were postponed for a year due to COV-
ID-19, she was able to make it to the big stage. “I’d like to change my mindset and concentrate on the bronze
medal match on 5 August,” she said, firing herself up.

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Svetlana Romashina (ROC) conquered the Artistic Swimming Duet event, gaining her sixth Olympic gold medal. Beginning with her gold clinched in the team
event at Beijing 2008, Romashna won both the duet and the team events at London 2012 and Rio 2016. Still impeccable at the age of 31, the queen of Artistic
Swimming said with deep emotion, “I don’t count medals. I just want to feel this moment.”
The spider-themed performance was outstanding in terms of power, technique and expression. Despite the mishap in the free routine preliminary round when
the music did not play at the beginning, Romashina marked a complete victory. When the audio staff apologised, she seemed unfazed over the matter, saying,
“Things happen at the Olympic Games.”

NAMIKI Tsukimi lost to Stoyka Zhelyazkova Krasteva from Bulgaria by decision

in the Women’s Boxing Fly (48 – 51kg) semi-final. With no bronze medal match,
Namiki was awarded the bronze medal, becoming the second Japanese female
boxer to take the podium following IRIE Sena, who seized the Women's Feather
(54 – 57kg) title on 3 August.

Georgian weightlifter Lasha Talakhadze won his second consec-

utive Olympic gold in the Men’s +109kg event, breaking his own
records with 223kg in snatch and a 265kg in clean and jerk, mark-
ing a total of 488kg.

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 In Sailing 470, Australia’s Mathew Belcher and Will Ryan won the Men’s race, and Great Britain’s Eilidh Mcintyre
and Hannah Mills captured gold in the Women’s event. Despite the poor weather conditions that forced the
competition to be temporarily suspended in the middle of the race, the athletes remained focused till the end.

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5 August

In Men’s skateboard Park, 18-year-old Keegan Palm-

er (AUS) seized the final and was crowned the first
Olympic champion of this event.
Pedro Barros (BRA) won the silver medal and Cory
Juneau (USA) took bronze.

In the Karate Women's Kata final, SHIMIZU Kiyou settled for the silver medal, losing
to Sandra Sanchez Jaime (ESP). This was Japan's first medal in Karate, which made its
Olympic debut here in Tokyo. Shimizu overpowered her opponents in the elimination
round and in the semi-final, but succumbed to the world champion by only 0.18 points
in the final.

In the Sport Climbing Men's Combined final, climbers competed in the order of Speed, Boul-
dering and Lead, with the placement in each discipline multiplied. The athlete with the low-
est score wins. Narasaki came in second, third and sixth, totalling 36 points. Alberto Gines
Lopez (ESP) secured the gold medal with 28 points.
Nathaniel Coleman (USA) clinched the silver medal and Jakob Schubert (AUT) finished third.

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 KAWAI Risako, Wrestling Women’s Freestyle 63kg gold medallist at Rio 2016, overpowered Iryna Kurachkina of Belarus 5-0 in the Freestyle 57kg final. Her
younger sister KAWAI Yukako seized the 62kg title on 4 August, and the sisters both became gold medallists at the Tokyo 2020 Games.
Risako is the third female wrestler to achieve consecutive victories at the Olympic Games, following ICHO Kaori, a four-time consecutive gold medallist from
Athens 2004, and YOSHIDA Saori, who also achieved three back-to-back victories from Athens 2004.

Japan was defeated 0-3 by the People's Republic of China 0-3 in the Table Tennis Women's Team final, settling for the silver medal. Japan secured medals at
three consecutive Olympic Games while China earned gold medals in four back-to-back Games.
In the first game, ISHIKAWA Kasumi and HIRANO Miu lost to CHENG Meng and WANG Manyu 1-3. In singles, ITO Mima was overpowered by SUN Yingsha 1-3
and Hirano by Wang, 0-3.
In the bronze medal match, Hong Kong, China defeated Germany 3-1, clinching the bronze. Germany won the silver medal at Rio 2016.

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 Damian WARNER of Canada claimed victory in the Athletics Men’s Decathlon.

In Athletics Men’s 20km Race Walk, IKEDA Koki finished the race in 1:21.14 and earned a silver medal, while
2019 World Championships title holder YAMANISHI Toshikazu clinched a bronze with 1:21.28. They were
Japan’s first ever medallists in this event.
Massimo Stano (ITA) broke away from the Japanese racewalkers in the final phase, claiming his first
victory with a time of 1:21.05.

The US Men’s 4x100m Relay team failed to qualify for the final. The US relay
team has achieved victory 15 times in the past.

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 In the Men’s Hockey final, Belgium, which finished
second place at Rio 2016, topped Australia, win-
ning the shootout 3-2 after a 1-1 draw and claiming
its first gold medal.

After earning the bronze medal in Swimming

Men’s 1500m Freestyle, Florian Wellbrock of
Germany captured gold in Marathon Swim-
ming Men’s 10km.

In the Men’s Boxing Fly (48-52kg) semi-final, TANAKA Ryomei lost 0-5 by decision to Filipino boxer
Carlo PAALAM, the 2019 World Championships winner, settling for a bronze medal as there was no
third place match. This was Japan’s first medal in 61 years in the fly division since TANABE Kiyoshi
took the bronze at Rome 1960.
Team Japan secured three medals, the highest number of medals acquired at a single Olympic Games,
including IRIE Sena's gold medal in the feather division (54-57kg) and NAMIKI Tsukimi's bronze in the
fly division (48-51kg).

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In Sport Climbing Women’s Combined, where climbers compete in three disciplines com-
bined, NONAKA Miho and NOGUCHI Akiyo competed in the final round. Nonaka won the
silver medal and Noguchi settled for bronze.
Climbers compete in the order of Speed, Bouldering and Lead, with the placement in each
discipline multiplied. The athlete with the lowest score wins. Nonaka was placed third, third
and fifth, totalling 45 points, while Noguchi came in fourth, fourth and fourth and finished
with 64 points. Janja Garnbert (SLO) won the gold medal with five points by finishing fifth,
first and first.
In Speed, Aleksandra Miroslaw (POL) set a world record of 6.84 seconds.

KIYUNA Ryo overpowered Damian Quintero (ESP) in the Men’s Karate Kata
final, sealing a victory. This was Japan’s first gold medal in Karate, a sport that
made its Olympic debut at the Tokyo 2020 Games. Kiyuna advanced through
the preliminary round and the sem-final with an overwhelming performance,
vanquishing Quintero in the final by 1.066 points.

KIYUNA Ryo, the gold medallist in Men’s

Kata, smiles as he holds his medal and a
picture of his late mother.

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 In the Athletics Men's 4X100m Relay final, Italy took
the gold for the first time with a time of 37.50, and
Great Britain finished second by only 0.01 seconds.

Dawid Tomala (POL) claimed the title for the first time with a time of 3:50:08 in Athlet-
ics Men’s 50km Race Walk.
Men’s 50km Race Walk has been dropped from the Olympic programme in Paris 2024.
On 6 August, 59 athletes started in the Athletics Men’s 50km Race Walk, but ten
dropped out and two were disqualified. There had been concerns over the summer
heat. The temperature was 25 degrees Celcius at 5:30 a.m. when the race started, and
reached 30 degrees Celsius after 9:00 a.m. at the finish line.
Of 80 entrants at Rio 2016, 19 dropped out and 12 were disqualified.

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 MUKAIDA Mayu, gold medallist in Women’s 53kg,
beams a smile with SHIDOCHI Shota, her fiancée
and coach.

In Wrestling Women’s Freestyle 53kg, MUKAIDA Mayu (JPN) defeated her Chinese opponent, earning a gold medal at her first Olympic Games. At Rio 2016,
YOSHIDA Saori missed her fourth consecutive victory in the same division. Mukaida, who is also from Mie Prefecture where Yoshida is from, regained Japan’s
supremacy, fulfilling expectations to fill in Yoshida’s place.
At the Tokyo 2020 Games, the Japanese women’s team acquired its third gold medal after the Kawai sisters' victory, Risako in 57kg and Yukako in 62kg.
Mukaida was trained at the JOC Elite Academy, which fosters promising junior wrestlers. She became the first gold medallist among those trained in the pro-
gramme.

In the Table Tennis Men's Team event, Japan defeated the Republic of Canada defeated Sweden in the Women’s Football final, clinching its first-ev-
Korea 3-1, capturing the bronze medal and taking the podium again er gold medal in football. The match was scheduled to kick off at 11 a.m. on
after earning the silver at Rio 2016. 6 August at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo, but the National Football Associ-
In the first doubles game, MIZUTANI Jun and NIWA Koki (JPN) sealed ations of the finalist teams reportedly requested that the match be resched-
the first win over LEE Sangsu and JEOUNG Youngsik (KOR) 3-1. Subse- uled due to concerns over the heat and humidity.
quently, in the singles HARIMOTO Tomokazu defeated JANG Woojin
3-1, while Niwa lost to Jeoung 0-3, but Mizutani demolished Jang with The bronze medal match in Men’s Football
a 3-0 straight win. resulted in Japan's undeniable 1-3 loss to Mex-
In the final, the People's Republic of China overwhelmed Germany with ico, with Japan missing what would have been
a 3-0 victory, achieving its fourth back-to-back victory. the first bronze medal since Mexico 1968.
Japan allowed Mexico to score two goals early
in the match, which was followed by another
in the second half. Japan’s substitute MITOMA
Kaoru scored the only goal for Japan.

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 Kate French (GBR) earned the gold medal in Wom- In the Women’s Hockey final, Rio 2016 silver medallist, the Netherlands, defeated Argentina
en’s Modern Pentathlon. 3-1, winning their fourth Olympic gold medal. Their most recent Olympic victory was at Lon-
don 2012. Team Netherlands came from behind and scored three points in the second quarter,
maintaining their lead to win. Argentina missed winning their first title.
In the bronze medal match, defending champion Great Britain defeated India 4-3 in a close-
fought match, clinching their third consecutive Olympic medal.

In the Women’s Beach Volleyball final, April Ross and Alix Klineman (USA) defeated Aus-
tralia’s Mariafe Artacho Del Solar and Taliqua Clancy 2-0, winning the gold medal. Ross has
earned three consecutive Olympic medals with different partners.
In the bronze medal match, Anouk Verge-Depre and Joana Heidrich (SUI) claimed an over-
whelming 2-0 win over the Latvian pair.

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7 August

In the Men’s Basketball final, USA defeated

France and gained its fourth consecutive
victory.

Having defeated ROC in the final, Team

France was overjoyed by their first gold in
Men’s Volleyball.

Norwegian beach volleyball pair, Anders Berntsen Mol

(right) and Christian Sandlie Sorum, overjoyed to have
defeated ROC in the Beach Volleyball Men’s final.

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 Brazil defeated Spain 2-1 in the Men’s Football
final in extra time, becoming the fifth country to
achieve back-to-back victories. The most recent
consecutive Olympic golds were won by Argen-
tina in Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008. Spain al-
most gained the Olympic champion title for the
first time since Barcelona 1992 but had to settle
for the silver medal.

Japan defeated USA 2-0 in the baseball final, earning its first-ever official Olympic
gold medal after winning through all five matches from the opening round.
Japan gained a lead in the third inning with a solo home run by MURAKAMI Mun-
etaka. Another point was added in the eighth inning with one out and a runner on
second base, when YOSHIDA Masataka hit a single in front of the centre fielder,
resulting in the runner to score due to bad throw on the part of the USA team. Start-
ing pitcher MORISHITA Masato cruised through five scoreless innings, allowing only
three hits. Relievers fared through sixth to eighth innings, and KURIBAYASHI Ryoji
finished up the ninth inning.
The USA took the silver medal, which followed the bronze medal won at Beijing
2008 when baseball was last played at the Games.
In the third-place match, the Dominican Republic clinched its first Olympic baseball
medal with a 10-6 win over the Republic of Korea.

France earned its third gold medal in Men’s Handball after missing the
gold at the previous Olympic Games in Rio.

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In Athletics Women’s Marathon, ICHIYAMA Mao finished
eighth with a time of 2:30.13, becoming the first Japanese
female runner to be ranked among the top eight in 17
years. Kenyan runner Peres Jepchirchir crossed the finish
line first at 2:27.20, followed by Brigid Kosgei, also from
Kenya, 16 seconds later. Molly Seidel (USA) finished third.
It was announced on 6 August, the day before the race,
that the start time would be moved up an hour to 6 a.m.

INAMI Mone won the silver medal in Women’s Golf by defeat-

ing Lydia Ko (NZL) in a playoff. The two players were tied for
second on 16-under 268s. Inami became the first Japanese
golfer to make the Olympic podium.
Nelly Korda (USA), who came into the Games as No. 1 in the
world ranking, defended her top position with a 17-under
267s finish, earning the gold medal.

In Wrestling Women’s Freestyle 50kg, SUSAKI Yui (JPN) defeated SUN Yanan (CHN) on a technical fall, securing the gold medal at her first Olympic Games. She
won all four bouts from the first round on 6 August by technical fall, conceding no points at all. This was the fourth gold in Women’s Wrestling for Team Japan,
following MUKAIDA Mayu in 53kg, KAWAI Risako in 57kg, and her sister KAWAI Yukako in 62kg. Japan has won the same number of gold medals as at Rio 2016,
the most earned by Japan's female wrestlers at the Olympic Games.
In Men’s Freestyle 65kg, OTOGURO Takuto (JPN) secured the gold medal in his first Olympic Games by brushing off Haji Aliyev (AZE) 5-4 in the final.

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 In the Artistic Swimming Women's Team event, Ukraine, Japan’s ri-
val, gained 190.3018 points, securing third place, while ROC and the
People’s Republic of China earned gold and silver with 196.097 and
193.5310 points respectively. Teams that topped the podium were
the same as in the Duet event.

In Diving Men’s 10m Platform, CAO Yuan (CHN) captured

the gold medal. YANG Jian (CHN) won the silver medal and
Thomas Daley (GBR) took bronze.

Linoy Ashram (ISR) won the gold medal in Rhythmic Gymnastics Individual All-Around. Uzbekistan in the qualifying round of Rhythmic Gymnastics
Group All-Around performing with balls wore Sailor Moon
costumes from the popular Japanese anime.

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Germany sealed a victory in the Canoe Sprint Men's Kayak Four 500m After a tie with USA in the Equestrian Jumping Team competition, Sweden
final, with its team member Ronald Rauhe becoming the first athlete in won the jump-off and claimed the gold medal.
the sport to secure medals at five Olympic Games.

In the Modern Pentathlon Men’s

Individual event, Joseph Choong
(GBR) secured the gold med-
al. Following the victory in the
Women's Individual event, Team
Great Britain has prevailed in
Modern Pentathlon.

Neeraj Chopra won the Athletics Men’s Javelin

Throw, bringing India its first-ever gold medal
in Athletics.

ARAGA Ryutaro (JPN) won the bronze medal in the Karate Men’s Kumite +75kg event. Following a
gold in Men’s Kata and a silver in Women’s Kata, this was Japan’s third medal in Karate, which origi-
nated in Okinawa before spreading across the world. Although Araga was defeated in the semi-final,
he secured Japan’s first Karate Kumite medal at the Tokyo 2020 Games since there is no bronze
medal match.

In the Boxing Men’s Middle Weight final,

Hebert Sousa (BRA) delivers a perfect left
hook to Ukraine’s Oleksandr Khyzhniak
(right). Sousa sealed a victory with a dra-
matic upset knockout.

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 8 August

Eliud Kipchoge, Kenya’s world record

holder in the Men’s Marathon, secured
his second consecutive gold medal
with a time of 2:08.38, pulling far away
from other runners in the last phase of
the race. He became the third mara-
thon runner to win back-to-back Olym-
pic gold medals.
Abdi Nageeye (NED) came in second
just 1 minute 20 seconds behind, and
Bashir Abdi (BEL) finished third, both
refugees from Somali.

About to cross the finish line in second

place, Abdi Nageeye of the Nether-
lands (right) cheers and encourages
third place runner Bashir Abdi of Bel-
gium (left).

OSAKO Suguru, 30, finished sixth, clocking in at

2:10.41, becoming the first Japanese runner to
be placed eighth or above since London 2012. He
had announced that he would retire after the To-
kyo 2020 Games.

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1 In the Women’s Basketball final, Team Japan was defeated by Team USA 75-90, set-
tling for the silver medal. Japan outperformed its record high fifth place at Montreal
1976. Japan has never earned a medal in Basketball before. USA's winning streak
since Atlanta 1996 continues as they captured their seventh consecutive gold medal.
Japan’s guards displayed their grit. In an effort to change the flow of the game, MO-
TOHASHI Nako aggressively took a shot, gaining 16 points with four three-pointers.
“I tried hard to fulfil my role through to the end. I’m glad I was able to play on this
team, more so than having won the medal,” she said with a smile.
MACHIDA Rui clinched eight points and six assists and made a huge contribution in
offence. Although Japan missed the gold, Machida served as the driving force of the
team’s outstanding performance, as exemplified by her setting a record 18 assists in
the semi-final against France. “Nobody pays attention to Women’s Basketball unless
we produce tangible results. We’ve made it to the final, which helped promote bas-
ketball. The Tokyo 2020 Games turned out to be a great opportunity.”

2 3

Team USA defeated Brazil in the Women’s Volleyball final, clinching their first
Olympic Volleyball title after settling for second place three times in the past.
Brazil conceded defeat to USA, the opponent it had beat in London 2012 final
for the gold medal.

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In Cycling Track Women’s Omnium, KAJIHARA Yumi secured the

silver medal, becoming the first Japanese female athlete to gain a
medal in Cycling. Jennifer Valente (USA) conquered the title.
In the Omnium event, four races are held in a single day. Kajihara
finished second in Scratch, fifth in Tempo and second in Elimination.
After the Points race, she held on to second place in overall points
and captured the silver medal.
In Cycling Track Men’s Keirin, Jason Kenny (GBR) achieved two back-
to-back victories, while Harrie Lavreysen (NED), who had hoped for
3
his third gold in Tokyo, settled for a bronze.

In the Rhythmic Gymnastics Group All-Around final,

Bulgaria clinched its first gold medal with 92.100 and
denied ROC their sixth consecutive victory in the Olym-
pic Games. ROC settled for silver. The final was com-
peted among eight teams without carrying forward the
scores earned in the qualification round.

Boxing finals were held for Men and Women in four weight classes, with Bak-
hodir Jalolov (UZB), the 2019 World Championships titleholder, defeating
Richard Torrez Jr. (USA) by a 5-0 decision.

In the Women’s Handball final, France beat ROC 30-25, reigning as the
champion for the first time ever. France became the third country to
gain gold medals in both Men's and Women’s Handball events, after
the former Soviet Union in 1976 and the former Yugoslavia in 1984.
France and Russia had also fought at the previous Olympic Games,
with Team Russia securing gold. ROC missed winning a consecutive
gold medal.

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At the Closing Ceremony of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, the Victory Ceremony for Marathon was held. While athletes from around the world looked on,
the three male and three female medallists, with radiant smiles, stepped onto the podium set in the middle of the Olympic Stadium to receive their medals.
The gold medal in both Men's and Women’s Marathon went to Kenyan athletes for the second consecutive time. Eliud Kipchoge, the world record holder in the
Men’s Marathon who far outperformed other runners, gave a thumbs up in exhilaration, and Peres Jepchirchir, who won the gold medal for the first time in the
Women’s Marathon, also appeared deeply moved.

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 Following the tribute shown at the Olympic
Games Rio 2016, the Closing Ceremony of the
Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 incorporated time
to offer a moment of silence in honour of all lives
lost.
Japanese drummer SATO Kensaku, who had also
performed at the Closing Ceremony of the FIFA
World Cup France 1998, gave a drum perfor-
mance, transforming the cheerful atmosphere
into a solemn tone.
Dancer YAMADA Aoi presented a dance of
mourning in a tree-like green costume.

At the Closing Ceremony of the

Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, KOIKE
Yuriko, Governor of Tokyo, handed
over the Olympic flag to Anne Hi-
dalgo, Mayor of Paris, the next host
city of the Olympic and Paralympic
Games in 2024.
Governor Koike wearing a kimono
stepped up on stage with Mayor Hi-
dalgo, and performed the flag hand-
over ceremony to the Paris Mayor via
IOC President Bach. France’s flag was
then raised.
The Olympic flag will be exhibited at
Paris City Hall for the next three years
instead of the usual four years.

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When the Olympic flame went out, the word “ARIGATO”
appeared on the large screen to express gratitude for
all the support extended to help organise the Olympic
Games successfully.
The font adopted was the same as the one used for the
“SAYONARA” (Farewell!) message shown on the screen
at the National Stadium at the closing of Tokyo 1964.
Although the words were different, it highlighted the
connection with the past.

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Daily Highlights: Paralympic Games
24 August － 5 September 2021
 24 August

The Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games kicked off with the Opening Ceremony held at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo on 24 August. The Tokyo 1964 Paralympic
Games opened the door for sport for people with impairments, and this was the first Games held in Tokyo in 57 years. Tokyo is the first city to host the Olympic
and Paralympic Summer Games twice. The Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games featured 539 events in 22 sports and ran till 5 September. Despite the postponement
of one year, the Games must still deal with the critical situation of the COVID-19 pandemic. As a general rule, events at all venues in Tokyo, Chiba, Saitama and
Shizuoka were held without spectators. The number of participating athletes, those from 161 delegations and the Refugee Paralympic Team combined, marked
a record high 4,403. The Games aimed to achieve an integrated society where people mutually recognise diversity with or without impairments, and the chal-
lenge was whether the Games can provide an opportunity to change society.

At the Opening Ceremony, a story set in an airport called “Para Airport” unfolded, with a concept “We Have Wings”. The message: by gathering courage and
spreading wings, like Para athletes fighting against headwind, anyone can reach unlikely places.
The ceremony started with performers playing the role of airport staff, dancing to celebrate the opening of the Games with large fireworks displayed in the
night sky. People with impairments publicly sought from around the nation performed together with those without an impairment. HARUNA Ai, a Japanese
TV personality who had applied like others to be part of the celebration, appeared at the beginning of the ceremony, and SATO Hirari, a singer with a vision
impairment, sang the Japanese anthem.

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The “We The 15” mark was displayed, highlighting the new global human rights movement for the 1.2 billion individuals
with impairments who make up 15 per cent of the world’s population.

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 There were five nations making their debut in the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, including Bhutan, a small country in the Himalayas. This was the second time
Yemen sent a delegation to the Paralympic Games since its first participation in 1992. Despite the impact of the pandemic, 162 delegations – the second highest
in Paralympic history – participated in the Games.
According to the IPC, the five countries making their Paralympic debut are Bhutan; Maldives, an archipelagic state in the Indian Ocean; Paraguay in Latin Amer-
ica; and two island countries in the Caribbean Sea, Grenada and St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Japan has supported developing nations aiming to participate
in the Games in establishing local organising committees and identifying athletes with potential.

At the Opening Ceremony of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic

Games, a volunteer entered with the national flag of Afghan-
istan. Due to rising political instability in the country, the Af-
ghan delegation had not been able to travel to the Games in
time and therefore the flag was a special measure taken by the
IPC to “show solidarity” with the people of Afghanistan. After
a special evacuation operation from the Afghan capital Kabul,
two Afghan athletes eventually arrived in Tokyo on 28 August
to compete in the Games.
Afghan swimmer, Abbas Karimi (second from right), served as
flag bearer of Refugee Paralympic Team.

KUNIEDA Shingo, who was aiming to win the gold medal in Wheelchair
Tennis Men’s Singles for the first time since the London 2012 Games,
was the designated leader of the Japanese delegation. With 254 athletes
competing across all 22 sports it was Japan’s biggest ever delegation at
a Paralympic Games. After failing to win a gold medal at the Rio 2016
Paralympic Games, Team Japan aims to win 20 gold medals, which would
be a new record for Japan.
At the Opening Ceremony, TANI Mami, who will compete in Women’s Tri-
athlon, and IWABUCHI Koyo in Men’s Table Tennis served as Japan’s flag
bearers. They were the last delegation to enter the stadium, following
the Refugee Paralympic Team. The Paralympic Games competitions will
start on 25 August.

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1 TAKEUCHI Masahiko, Men’s Table Tennis gold medallist at the Tokyo 1964 Paralympic Games. OHINATA Kuniko, 10-time medallist in Alpine Skiing who participated in five
consecutive Paralympic Winter Games from the 1994 Lillehammer Games. Prosthetist and orthotist USUI Fumio, nurse TAMURA Tamami and medical doctor NAKAMURA Taro.
2 The Paralympic flame viewed from above.

MORISAKI Karin (Powerlifting), KAMIJI Yui (Wheelchair Tennis), UCHIDA Shunsuke (Boccia) lit the Paralympic cauldron.

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 25 August

In Swimming, YAMADA Miyuki won the silver medal in Women’s 100m Backstroke - S2. YAMADA became the youngest athlete to win a medal for
Japan and also the first to win a medal in the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games. Yamada, who is in her third year in junior high school, participated in the
Paralympic Games for the first time and broke the youngest medallist record. Singapore’s YIP Pin Xiu earned gold.

IOC President Thomas Bach and JOC President YAMASHITA Yasuhiro

watched the finals of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games Swimming
events held at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre. President Bach presented
medals at the victory ceremony for Men’s 50m Breaststroke - SB3
and other events.

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26 August

In Swimming, SUZUKI Takayuki won the gold medal in in Men’s 100m Freestyle - S4, set-
ting a Paralymic record of 1:21.58. This was the first gold medal for Team Japan at the
Tokyo 2020 Games. Japan’s gold was the first since London 2012. SUZUKI also won the
bronze medal in the 50m Breaststroke held on the 25th. He also won a gold medal in 50m
Breaststroke in Beijing 2008, and this is his seventh medal in total.

In Men’s 400m Breaststroke - S11, TOMITA Uchu won a silver

medal.

In the final, Boykova lost to TAN Shumei

(CHN) and settled for a silver medal.
Tan won her second gold following her
victory in Wheelchair Fencing Women’s
Sabre Individual - Category B.

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 In Cycling (Track) Men’s 4-5 1000m Time Trial, Alfonso Cabello Llamas
(ESP) earned the title, setting a new world record.

In Cycling (Track) Men’s C3 3000m Individual Pursuit, Jaco van Gass, a

British soldier who got injured in Afghanistan, won the gold medal. Gass
set a new world record in the preliminary round.

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27 August

In the Athletics Men’s 400m - T52 final, SATO Tomoki won the gold
medal, the second gold for Team Japan and the first in Athletics since
Beijing 2008. Raymond Martin (USA) took silver and UEYONABARU
Hirokazu captured bronze.

In Athletics Men’s 400m - T52 final, UEYONABARU Hi-

rokazu finished with a time of 59.95 and captured the
bronze medal.

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 Silvânia Costa de Oliveira (BRA) captured her second consecutive gold
in Women’s Long Jump – T11.

In Athletics Men’s 5000m - T11, KARASAWA Kenya earned the sil-

ver medal in 15:18.12, and WADA Shinya won the bronze medal with
15:21.03. Yeltsin Jacques (BRA) captured the gold medal.
Alia Issa, the only female athlete from the Refugee Paralympic Team,
came in eighth in Women’s Club Throw - Sitting. Roza Kozakowska
(POL), won gold after setting a new world record.

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 The winner in Women’s Judo -48kg was
Shahana Hajiyeva (AZE), who beat Sandrine
Martinet (FRA), gold medallist in the -52kg
class at the Rio 2016 Games.

1 2 1 In Women’s Judo -48kg, HANGAI Shizuka, who has competed in

three consecutive Paralympic Games, lost to Yuliia Ivanytska (UKR)
by waza-ari in the bronze medal match. 2 FUJIWARA Yui, who was
defeated by ippon in the semi-final, lost by ippon again in the -52kg
bronze medal match, this time by Alesia Stepaniuk (RPC). Both
Hangai and Fujiwara failed to win their first Paralympic medal.

In Men’s -66kg Judo, SETO Yujiro beat Gior-

gi Gamjashvili (GEO) by ippon, winning the
bronze medal in his first Paralympic Games
appearance. Japan has earned a bronze medal
in this class for two consecutive Games. SETO
Yujiro lost in the second round but came up
the repechage and reached the bronze med-
al match. Uchkun Kuranbaev (UZB), SETO’s
opponent in the second round, won the gold
medal.

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 Great Britain’s Kadeena Cox had a good start to-
ward accomplishing her goal of earning her second
consecutive Paralympic gold medal in both Ath-
letics and Cycling. In Women’s Cycling (Track) C4-5
500m Time Trial, Cox broke the world record and
captured her first gold medal at Tokyo. “Near-per-
fect,” said Cox, smiling proudly.
Born to Jamaican parents, Cox drew attention as an
up-and-coming sprint runner in athletics. However,
in 2015, she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis
and entered the world of Para sports.
At the Rio 2016 Games, she served as flag bearer
for Great Britain and won the gold medal in Athlet-
ics Women’s 400m - T38 as well.

Herbert Acetuno (ESA) placed third in Men’s Powerlift-

ing -59kg. His father passed away in July 2020 due to
COVID-19. “I promised my father that I will win a medal.
I’m speechless, feeling very emotional.” After the vic-
tory ceremony held at the Tokyo International Forum,
where the event took place, Aceituno shed tears as he
held his bronze medal wearing a T-shirt printed with his
father’s image.
Before his attempts, Aceituno would look up toward the
ceiling toward the sky, as if he was talking to his father.
In his second attempt, he lifted 184 kg and came in third
with a difference of 1kg, he experienced a moment of
pure joy. It was the first medal in both the Olympic and
the Paralympic Games for his small home country in
Central America with a population of about 6.5 million.

On 27 August, the first day of Wheelchair Tennis, a special Extreme Weather Policy was applied when the
temperature rose above the threshold, and only matches played on centre court where there is a retracta-
ble roof above took place while outdoor matches were suspended.
At the Ariake Tennis Park in Koto-ku, Tokyo, the first round matches of Men’s Singles were scheduled to be
played on centre court and on nine outdoor courts. At the scheduled start of the first match at 11 a.m., the
temperature rose to 33 degrees Celsius. The heat index was above the threshold.
There are Paralympic athletes with a spinal cord injury who have difficulty controlling their body temper-
ature. Also, athletes using a wheelchair are vulnerable to heat radiation from the court. Therefore, the
temperature threshold is set lower than that for Olympic Tennis.

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In Athletics, Ntando Mahlangu (RSA) won in Men’s Long

Jump - T63, with a world record of 7.17m.

In Women’s Long Jump – T64, Fleur Jong (NED)

captured gold with a world record of 6.16m.

In Women’s Shot Put - F37, Lisa Ad-

ams earned the gold medal. Her el-
der sister, Valerie, won the bronze
medal in Shot Put at the Olympic
Games Tokyo 2020.

In the Women’s 400m -T47 final, Anrune Weyers (RSA)

earned the gold medal.

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 In Men’s Triathlon, UDA Hideki took part in Men’s PTS4, winning the
silver medal with 1:03:45. Meanwhile, in Men’s PTVI, YONEOKA Satoru
captured the bronze medal with 1:02:20. When Triathlon was added to
the Paralympic Games programme at the Rio 2016 Games, Japan did
not earn any medals; but this time, Japan won two.

Men’s PTS4 gold medallist, Alexis Hanquinquant (FRA).

Men’s PTVI gold medallist, Brad Snyder (USA).

Women’s PTVI gold medallist, Su-

sana Rodriguez (ESP), serves as a
doctor treating COVID-19 patients
in her home country of Spain.

Azerbaijan won gold in Judo Women’s -57kg and -63kg and in Men’s -81kg.

Women’s -57kg champion, Sevda Valiyeva (AZE)

Men’s -81kg champion, Husein Rahimli (AZE) Women’s -63kg champion, Khanim Huseynova (AZE)

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In the Mixed 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay
- S14, Japan came in fourth marking
a new Asian record of 3:57.18. Great
Britain set a world record and was
crowned the first champion of this
new Paralympic event.

In the Women’s Table Tennis Singles - C11 semi-fi-

nal, ITO Maki lost to Lea Ferney (FRA) 0-3 to win
bronze. This was Japan’s first medal in Table Ten-
nis since Sydney 2000.
The gold medal went to Elena Prokofeva (RPC),
who defeated Ito in Group A in the preliminary
round.

On 28 August, the Afghanistan Paralympic Committee announced that two Afghan Paralympic athletes,
who had once given up participating due to rising political tensions in their homeland, arrived in Japan
to compete in the Games. The two entered the Paralympic Village and were welcomed by IPC President
Andrew Parsons.
The two Paralympians are Zakia Khudadadi, who competed in Women’s Taekwondo, and Hossain Rasouli
in Men’s Athletics. Khudadadi competed on 2 September and Rasouli on 3 September. The two athletes
and Arian Sadiqi, Delegation Head of Team Afghanistan, did not take part in interviews during nor after
the Games.
After departing Afghanistan, the two athletes entered Paris via Dubai and waited for further instructions.
They arrived at Haneda Airport on 28 August.

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SATO Tomoki won another gold medal in Men’s Athletics 1500m - T52, marking 3:29.13. UEYONABARU Hirokazu earned the bronze in Men’s 1500m, his second
gold medal of the Games in the Men’s 400m event, with 3:44.17.

ITO Tomoya finished in sixth place in Men’s

400m - T53 Heat 2 and failed to make it to
the next round.
ITO won two gold medals in Beijing 2008
and three silver medals in London 2012 in
T52 and retired from competition. He re-
turned to competition for the Tokyo 2020
Games.

Oksana Zubkovska (UKR), gold medallist at Beijing 2008 and London 2012, won her third title in Wom-
en’s Long Jump - T12.

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 In the Women’s PTWC Triathlon event, the time difference between first and second place was just one
second. Kendall Gretsch (USA) swept past Lauren Parker (AUS) just before the finish line and seized the
battle, winning the gold medal.

TANI Mami, Japan’s flag bearer at the Opening

Ceremony, finished 10th in Women’s Triathlon -
PTS5. PTWC-class athlete, TSUCHIDA Wakako,
who has competed in eight Paralympic Games,
Summer and Winter combined, placed ninth.

OGAWA Kazusa won the bronze medal in Women’s Judo -70kg. Ogawa was In Men’s +100kg, MASAKI Kento lost to Yordani Fernandez Sastre (CUB) by
defeated in the semi-final, but she beat Olga Zabrodskaia (RPC) by waza-ari ippon in the repechage, following his defeat by ippon in the second round.
in the bronze medal match. Ogawa became the second medallist in Japan’s Masaki won the gold medal in London 2012, his first Paralympic Games, and
Paralympic Women’s Judo history. Alana Maldonado (BRA) won the gold bronze in Rio 2016. This was the first Games he finished without a medal. The
medal. gold medal went to Mohammadresa Kheirollahzadeh (IRI).

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 In Wheelchair Rugby, Great Britain won
its first gold medal, with victory over
USA who settled for silver for the second
Games in a row.

In the bronze medal match of Wheelchair Rugby, Ja-

pan beat Australia 60-52, winning the bronze medal
in two consecutive Paralympic Games. Australia was
the Paralympic champion in Rio 2016. IKEZAKI Daisuke
scored 23 points, the highest scorer on the team.

Two Afghan athletes, who thought they may not be able to compete due to rising political tensions in their homeland, arrived
in Japan to take part in the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games. At a press conference on 29 August, Craig Spence, IPC Chief Brand
& Communications Officer, said: “Both athletes expressed their gratitude for their safe evacuation from Kabul and being given
an opportunity to fulfil a life-long dream of attending the Paralympic Games. I am impressed that the power of sport can be
demonstrated in peace. They are sending a strong message of hope to the world,” appealing the significance of their attendance.
The two athletes who arrived in Japan on 28 August were Zakia Khudadadi, who would go on to compete in Women’s Taekwondo,
and Hossain Rasouli, in Men’s Athletics. Spence revealed that there were lots of tears from everyone in the room when the two
met IPC President Andrew Parsons at the Paralympic Village.

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 YAMAGUCHI Naohide, who recorded the best time in the Men’s 100m
Breaststroke - SB14 preliminary round, won the gold medal with a new
world record of 1:03.77.

In Women’s 50m Freestyle - S11, a class for visually impaired athletes, swimmers collided
and a rerun was called. In this rare vision, ISHIURA Tomomi, who placed eighth in the race
two days ago, rose to seventh place. “It was a chance for me. I swtiched my mind in a pos-
itive way before the race,” Ishiura said. MA Jia (CHN) captured the gold medal with a new
world record. Despite the rerun, the order of first to sixth places did not change.

The PR3 Mixed Coxed Four finals were held, and Great Britain earned its third consecutive title in the Final A race. Mixed Coxed Four features two male and two
female rowers plus a cox.
Through the Rio 2016 Games, Para Rowing used a 1,000-metre course. The same distance as the Olympic rowing events was adopted for the first time at the
Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, doubling the distance to 2,000 metres.

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Felix Streng (GER) won the gold medal in Athletics Men’s 100m - T64. Johannes
Floors (GER) and Jonnie Peacock (GBR) tied at 10.79 and shared the bronze med-
al. Sherman Guity (CRC) earned the silver medal.

In Men’s Javelin Throw - F64, Sumit Sumit (IND) won In Men’s Powerlifting +107kg, Rio 2016 silver medallist Jamil Elshebli (JOR) won his first
the gold medal, marking a new world record of 68.55m. gold, lifting 241 kg.
SHIRAMASA Takuya placed sixth and YAMAZAKI Akihiro
seventh.

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1 SUZUKI Takayuki won silver in Men’s Swimming 200m Freestyle- S4, and 2 TOMITA Uchu won bronze in Men’s 200m Individual Medley - SM11. Suzuki earned
his fourth medal of the Games, following a gold in 100m Freestyle - S4 and bronze medals in 50m Breaststroke SB3 and 150m Individual Medley - SM4. TOM-
ITA won his second medal following a silver in 400m Freestyle - S11. The number of medals for Japan totalled 20. 3 Swimming Men’s 200m Freestyle S4 gold
medallist, Ami Omer Dadaon (ISR), set a new Paralympic record.

NARITA Mayumi advanced to the final for

the first time in the Tokyo 2020 Games in
Women’s 50m Backstroke - S5. This was
her last race in Tokyo, and she finished
sixth.

On August 30 Abbas Karimi from Afghan-

istan, who has congenital limb deficiency
and was participating as a member of the
Refugee Paralympic Team, competed in
the preliminary round of 50m Backstroke
- S5. He didn’t advance to the final. With
this race, he completed his challenge at the
Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games.

Lee Pearson (GBR) won the Equestrian Dressage gold medal

in his sixth Paralympic Games here in Tokyo.

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In Athletics Men’s 1500m - T11 final, WADA

Shinya, age 44, won silver in a time of
4:05.27. This was his second medal after
bronze in the 5000m race. Yeltsin Jacques
(BRA) captured the gold medal.
Yeltsin Jacques from Brazil, won his second gold af-
ter success in the 5000m. KARASAWA Kenya placed
fourth in a time of 4:08.84.

Marcel Hug set a new 1500m - T54 world record on his way
to gold, his second title after success in the 5000m.

After his late arrival at the Games due to political tensions in his home country,
Hossain RASOULI represented Afghanistan in the Men’s Long Jump - T47. When he
was introduced at the National Stadium, the venue of Athletics, he raised his right
hand with his back against the flag of his country. He was unable to take part in his
favoured 100m event as the event had taken place by the time he arrived in Tokyo.

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TOKAIRIN Dai came in fourth in Swimming Men’s 200m

Individual Medley - SM14 in a time of 2:11:29.
Reece DUNN (GBR), who won gold set a new world re-
cord of 2:02.02, beating the previous mark set by TO-
KAIRIN.

Mixed 4x100m Freestyle Relay 49 Points

Mixed relay became an official event at Tokyo 2020.
RPC won the gold medal.

HE Zihao (CHN) won the gold medal in Archery Men’s Individual Compound
- Open. He marked a score of 148 (out of 150), renewing the Paralympic re-
cord in the quarter-finals.
He got his second gold medal following Compound - Open (Mixed).

In Cycling (Road) Women’s C1-3 Time Trial, SUGIURA Yoshiko won the gold medal in a time of 25:55.76. This was the fourth medal in Para Cycling for Japan and
the first in Women’s categories.
Athletes competed for time, with each cyclist completing two 8km laps. Sugiura, who won the World Championships in 2017 and came in second in 2019,
demonstrated her ability.
Sugiura is from Shizuoka. She fell in a cycling race when she was 45, and suffered partial paralysis on her right side and memory impairment.

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In Athletics Men’s Long Jump - T64, Markus Rehm (GER) marked 8.18m,
to win his third consecutive Paralympic title in the event.

In Women’s 100m T54, MURAOKA In Men’s 100m T54, four-

Momoka, who won five medals in time champion Leo Pekka
Alpine Skiing in the PyeongChang Tahti (FIN) failed to stretch
2018 Paralympic Winter Games, his record started in Athens
placed sixth in the final with a time 2004 and settled for silver.
of 16.71. ZHOU Zhaoqian (CHN) 18-year-old Athiwat Paeng-
finished in 15.90 and captured the Nuea (THA) won the gold
gold medal. medal.

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In the Swimming Men’s 100m Breaststroke - SB11 final, KIMURA Keiichi won the silver medal with 1:11.78.
It was Kimura’s seventh career medal. The time difference between Kimura and the winner Rogier Dorsman (NED)
was just 0.56 seconds.

Daniel Dias (BRA), who has won 14 golds in his

career, ranked fourth in Swimming Men’s 50m
Freestyle - S5, his last race before retiring.

Oksana Masters (USA) with the Star-Spangled Banner after winning the Cycling Women’s H5 Road Race.
Masters won two golds, her first being the Women’s H4-5 Time Trial held the previous day. This became her tenth medal in Summer and Winter Games com-
bined.

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 In Boccia Mixed Individual - BC2, SUGIMURA Hidetaka beat Watcharaphon Vongsa (THA), to win the first gold for Japan in Boccia. This was his second Paralym-
pic medal following a silver won by Japan in Rio 2016.
Sugimura, the captain of Japan, won all three of his preliminary round matches and secured wins in the quarter-final and semi-final. He defeated the Rio 2016
champion in the final to capture the gold medal.
Sugimura has congenital cerebral paralysis. He started playing boccia, a sport developed for a person with a severe impairment, when he was in his third year
in high school at a special support school in Shizuoka City. He has excellent ball throwing techniques and a wide range of strategies.

MOROISHI Mitsuteru and SUGENO Koji beat

the pair from Team Paralympics GB 7-5, 3-6
and 7-5, to win the bronze medal in Wheel-
chair Tennis Quad Doubles. The match was
suspended due to rain and finally ended at
early dawn the following day. Niels Vink and
Sam Schroder representing the Netherlands
At this point, the total medal count for Japan defeated the Australian pair to capture the
reached 25, exceeding the 24 medals earned in gold medal.
the Rio 2016 Games.
The bronze medal match lasted 5 hours and 10
minutes.
This was the first medal in Quad for Japan since
the event was added to the official programme
in the Athens 2004 Games.

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1 3

2 4

In the Swimming finals, SUZUKI Takayuki won silver in Men’s 50m Free- In Women’s 50m Backstroke - S2, YAMADA Miyuki came in second, win-
style - S4. He won a medal in all five events he competed in, and his med- ning her second silver following the 100m race, in which she became the
als earned in the Paralympic Games totalled 10. youngest Japanese athlete to win a medal.

In Taekwondo Men’s -61kg - K44, Nathan Cesar

Sodario Torquato (BRA) won the gold medal.

1 2 1 Zakia Khudadadi from Afghanistan lost to

an athlete from Ukraine 34-48 in Women’s
Taekwondo -49kg - K44 in the first repechage
match.
Khudadadi had lost to an athlete from Uzbek-
istan in the first match held in the morning on
2 September.
2 In Women’s -49kg - K44, Leonor Espinoza
Carranza (PER) won the gold medal.

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In Athletics Women’s Long Jump - T63, 1 TOZAWA Tomomi placed fourth,

jumping 4.39m, and 2 MAEGAWA Kaede came in fifth with 4.23m.
3 Vanessa Low (AUS) won the gold medal with a new world record.

In the fifth place match in Men’s

Football 5-a-side, Japan, debut-
ing in this Paralympic event,
gained a victory over Spain 1-0.
Spain is the champion of the
2019 European Championships.
KURODA Tomonari scored in
the first half and the team de-
fended its one-goal lead.

In Cycling Women’s C4-5 Road

Race, Sarah Storey won her 17th
gold medal, setting a record in
Great Britain’s Paralympic history.

TANI Mami, the flag bearer for the Japanese delegation at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games Opening Ceremony,
attended a press conference on 2 September at the Main Press Centre. “I believe that people’s understanding and
acceptance of diversity and inclusion is advancing, but Tokyo 2020 is not the goal but only a checkpoint. It’s time
that we all actually practice it and take action,” said Tani. She insisted that promoting change in people’s attitudes
and actions at work, at school and throughout the community would be the legacy of the Paralympic Games.
Tani made three consecutive appearances in Athletics Long Jump since Athens 2004. This was her fourth
Paralympics Games. At the IOC General Meeting in 2013, when Tokyo was chosen as the host of the Olympic
and Paralympic Games in 2020, she made a speech in front of the IOC and contributed to Tokyo’s successful bid.

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In Athletics Men’s 100m - T52, OYA Yuki came in second, marking 17.18. Raymond Martin
(USA) won the gold medal with a time of 16.99.

In the 4 x 100m Universal Relay, a new event added to the Tokyo 2020 Games, Japan
(SAWADA Uran, OSHIMA Kengo, TAKAMATSU Yuka, and SUZUKI Tomoki) placed fourth
with a time of 47.98, but ended up as bronze medallist because second-place China was SUZUKI Toru finished fourth in Men’s High Jump - T64 for
disqualified. Team USA set a world record and became the first Paralympic champion the third consecutive time. Jonathan Broom-Edwards (GBR)
of this event. earned the gold medal.

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 In the Wheelchair Tennis Women’s Singles final, second-seeded KAMIJI Yui lost to top-seeded Diede de Groot 3-6, 6-7 and ended the competition as the run-
ner-up. Kamiji finished third in Rio 2016, and improved her rank here in Tokyo with a silver, which is the best rank in Women’s Wheelchair Tennis events for
Japan.

In the Men’s Doubles bronze medal match, the Japanese pair, In Quad Singles, SUGENO Koji lost to Niels Ink (NED) 1-6, 4-6, and also finished in
KUNIEDA Shingo and SANADA Takashi, was defeated by Tom fourth place.
Egberink and Maikel Scheffers (NED) with a final score of 3-6, Dylan Alcott (AUS) won gold in Men’s Quads Singles.
2-6.

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 In the Swimming Men’s 100m Butterfly - S11 final, KUMURA Keiichi won
the gold medal, his first in four Games he has appeared in. This was his
second medal after winning silver in 100m Breaststroke on 1 September,
and his eighth Paralympic medal.
Kimura is a star in Japan among swimmers with no vision. He was top
in the preliminary round, marking the best time among all participating
swimmers. He displayed his usual power in the final, finally winning the
gold medal he had yearned for.
TOMITA Uchu came in second in the same event with 1:03.59, winning
his third medal in the Games.
All Swimming events finished and Team Japan won 3 gold medals, 7 sil-
ver medals and 3 bronze medals in the pool.

In Shooting R8 - Women’s 50m Rifle 3 Positions

SH1, ZHANG Cuiping (CHN), who has competed
in four Paralympic Games from Beijing 2008, cap-
tured the gold medal. This was her ninth medal.

SUGIURA Keiko won the Cycling (Road) Women’s C1-3 Road Race,
earning her second gold medal, following her victory in Women’s C1-3
Time Trial on 31 August. She became the oldest gold medallist from Ja-
pan. This is the first time that a Japanese athlete won multiple Cycling
titles in the same Games.

In Women’s Goalball, Japan overwhelmed Brazil 6-1 and won the bronze medal. This is the third Goalball medal for Japan, the first since London 2012 where
Japan was crowned champion. Japan also won the bronze medal in Athens 2004.
Two goals by KAKEHATA Eiko early in the game gave Japan the momentum. Japan extended their lead while allowing Brazil only one goal. Turkey won their
second consecutive gold medal in Women’s Goalball, and Brazil won the Men’s title.

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In Wheelchair Tennis Men’s Singles, KUNIEDA Shingo won the gold medal, defeating Tom Egberink (NED) 6-1, 6-2. This was Kunieda’s third gold following his
victories in Beijing 2008 and London 2012. Kunieda’s gold medal in Singles and Doubles combined total four.
Kunieda, the captain of Japan, was determined to make a comeback since he lost at the Rio 2016 Games in the quarter-finals due to a surgery he had in his right
elbow. He displayed his abilities to the fullest as the top-ranking player in the world, winning the final without losing a single set in all his matches.
In 2009 Kunieda became the first wheelchair tennis player to turn professional. Since then, he has been a driving force of Para sports in Japan.

In Athletics Men’s Long Jump

– T20, KOKUBO Kanta placed
fourth, jumping 7.01m.
Abdul Latif Romly (MAS) won
the gold medal.

In the Women’s 100m -T63 final, Italian athletes dominated the medals.
Ambra Sabatini won the gold setting a new world record.

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In Football 5-a-side, Brazil won Argentina 1-0, stretching their winning streak to five since the Athens 2004 Games, when the sport was added to the Paralympic
programme.
In the bronze medal match, Morocco beat China 4-0, gaining their first medal.

In Canoe Sprint Men’s Va’a

Single 200m - VL3, Curtis
McGrath (AUS), who lost his
legs when he was serving in
Afghanistan, won the gold
medal.

In Men’s Sitting Volleyball, Iran, featuring 2.46-metre tall In Canoe Sprint Women’s Kayak 200m - KL1, Edina
Morteza Mehrzadselakjani, won their second consecutive Mueller (GER) won the gold medal.
Paralympic title. Mehrzadselakjani is the tallest athlete in
Paralympic history.

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 In Boccia Mixed Pairs - BC3, Japan lost to South Korea in a tie break and In Mixed Team - BC1/BC2, Japan lost 3-8 to Thailand in the semi-final,
settled on the silver medal. but manged to beat Portugal in the bronze medal match 4-3, earning
the bronze medal. Japan has won medals at two consecutive Paralympic
Games in Boccia. Thailand captured gold and China took silver.

In Archery Mixed Team Recurve - Open, SHIGESADA Chi-

ka and UEYAMA Tomohiro (JPN) won their first round
match against a Brazilian pair 5-1. Facing an Italian pair
in the quarter finals, they lost 2-6.
Margarita Sidorenko and Kirill Smirnov (RPC) won the
gold medal. Elisabetta Muno and Stefano Travasani, the
Italian pair that defeated Japan, won silver.

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 1 3

In the Badminton Women’s Singles WH1 final, 1 SATOMI Sarina came from behind to defeat Sujirat Pookkham (THA) 2-1 for the gold medal. Satomi’s victory
marked the first medal for Japan in Badminton, which became part of the official programme from the Tokyo 2020 Games. 2 SUZUKI Ayako was defeated by
3 YANG Qiuxia (CHN) and settled for silver in Women’s Singles SU5.

In the Badminton Men’s Singles SL3, Pramod

Bhagat (IND) won the gold medal.

The IPC announced on 4 September that SUZUKI Takayuki, who won five medals in Men’s Swimming, has been elected
as a member of the IPC Athletes’ Council. According to the Japanese Paralympic Committee (JPC), Suzuki is the first
Japanese member of the Council. His tenure will last to the Paris 2024 Games. Members of the Athletes’ Council are
responsible for reflecting athletes’ opinions in Games management and the promotion of sport.
“I am very honoured to be chosen as a member. This will be a big opportunity to convey the opinions of Asian athletes to
the IPC. I am committed to spreading the Paralympic movement further,” Suzuki commented through the IPC.
Another star player in Men’s Swimming, Daniel Dias (BRA), was also selected as a member. He had expressed his inten-
tion to retire after the Tokyo 2020 Games.

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 05 September

In Women’s Marathon – T12, MICHISHITA Misato won gold in a time of 3:00:50, following silver in Rio 2016, in
which Women’s Marathon became an official sport.
Michishita, who has a world record of 2:54:13, and her guide runner sped through the 42.195 km-course
around Tokyo, which was not used for the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, and finished the race in the top spot.
Michishita is from Yamaguchi Prefecture. She lost her sight of the right eye when she was in second grade of
junior high school, and she has very poor vision in her left eye as well. She started running at the age of 27,
when she was attending a school for the blind, to lose weight. Feeling frustrated that she couldn’t win gold at
Rio 2016, she set a new world record in 2017 and renewed it twice last year.

1 2

FUJII Yumiko, 56, placed fifth in Women’s Marathon – T12; NISHIJIMA Mihoko, 66, eighth.
In Women’s Marathon – T54, TSUCHIDA Wakako placed fourth in a time of 1:38:32. The time difference be-
tween the top and TSUCHIDA was 21 seconds. TSUCHIDA also competed in Triathlon, representing Japan in
two sports, which is extraordinary in Paralympic Games.
According to JPC, since Barcelona 1992, no Japanese athletes except TSUCHIDA competed in more than one
sport in single Summer Games. 3

TSUCHIDA, 46, has participated in Paralympic Games seven times, Summer and Winter Games combined. She
was a Paralympic torchbearer at the Opening Ceremony of Tokyo 2020.

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In Men’s Marathon – T54, Marcel Hug (SUI) won
his second consecutive marathon title. He won
four gold medals in Tokyo, one in the marathon
and three on the track.

1 2

In Men’s Marathon – T12, HORIKOSHI Tadashi won bronze in a time of 2:28:01,

and in T46, NAGATA Tsutomu also won bronze finishing the race in a time of
2:29:33. The gold medal went to El Amin Chentouf (MAR) in T12 and LI Chaoyan
(CHN) in T46.

In Athletics – Marathon of Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, runners in wheelchairs,

with upper limb disorders and visual impairments run through central Tokyo early
morning. It was held amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The Tokyo Organising Com-
mittee had called for refraining from watching the race alongside the course, but
many people gathered and the course was lined with spectators.
The turning point, Asakusa Kaminarimon, was crowded with people from before
the start of the race. Watching runners in a wheelchair passing through with a big
splash in the drizzling rain, some said, “It’s like an F-1 race,” or “You can’t feel the
speed unless you watch the race live.”
At the juncture in Jinbocho, a woman in her forties cheered the runners beating
wooden clogs. Alongside the main street of Ginza, spectators applauded as run-
ners passed by.

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 In the Men’s Wheelchair Basketball final, Japan lost to USA 60-64
and claimed silver, a first medal for Japan in the event Wheelchair
Basketball. Veteran player KOZAI Hiroaki led Japan with 18 points,
while young players CHOKAI Renshi and AKASAKI Ryuga contrib-
uted in defense, but Japan yielded to USA, which staged a variety
of offense plays. USA won its second consecutive Paralympic gold
medal in Men’s Wheelchair Basketball.
In the bronze medal match, Great Britain, who won the title at the
2018 World Championships, beat Spain 68-58. Spain won the silver
medal in Rio 2016.
In Women’s Wheelchair Basketball, the Netherlands claimed the
gold medal, China won the silver medal and USA took bronze.

IPC President Andrew Parsons commented at a press conference, summarising the To-
kyo 2020 Paralympic Games: “Considering the COVID-19 pandemic, I am convinced that
organising the Games like this would have been impossible anywhere else. The world
will never forget the role Japan has played.” He expressed gratitude for Japan’s contri-
bution and added: “People’s awareness has changed from the fact that the Games were
superbly organised and Japanese Paralympians displayed excellent performances here
in Tokyo. There is great momentum toward creating a diverse and inclusive society.”
Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee Chairman HASHIMOTO Seiko emphasised that the
initiatives to achieve an inclusive society in which diversity is respected will be promoted
further.

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 In Badminton Women’s Doubles WH, SATOMI Sarina
and YAMAZAKI Yuma won the gold medal. This was Sa-
tomi’s second gold after winning Women’s Singles WH1,
and the second medal for Yamazaki, who won bronze
in Women’s Singles WH2. Badminton made its debut
in the Tokyo 2020 Games, and the Japanese athletes
demonstrated their strength.
Satomi and Yamazaki, the number one ranking pair in
the world, finished the group round at the top of Group
A, and defeated the Thai pair in the semi-finals. Satomi,
who was on fire after winning the Singles title, showed
excellent combination with Yamazaki. The pair came
from behind and defeated LIU Yutong and YIN Menglu
(CHN) 2-1.

In Badminton Men’s Singles WH2, Japan’s KAJIWARA Daiki, a newcomer to the Paralympic
Games, won the gold medal, beating KIM Jung Jun (KOR), who ranks first in the world rank-
ings, with a final score of 2-0.
Badminton became an official Paralympic sport in the Tokyo 2020 Games, and this was
Japan’s second gold after SATOMI Sarina’s victory in Women’s Singles – WH1.
Born in Fukuoka City, Kajiwara was a second-year junior high school student when he had
his right leg amputated following a traffic accident on his way to baseball training on a bi-
cycle, which also left him with a disabled left leg. He took up para badminton when he was
in his first year of high school and made quick progress.

1 In Men’s Doubles WH, the Chinese pair,

MAI Jianpeng and QU Zim, was crowned
the first Paralympic champion.
2 KAJIWARA Daiki and MURAYAMA Hiro-
shi (JPN), won the bronze medal.
3 In Mixed Doubles SL3-SL5, Hary Susan-
to and Leani Ratri Oktila of Indonesia won
the gold medal.
4 The Japanese pair, FUJIHARA Daisuke
1 2 and SUGINO Akiko, earned bronze. Japan
claimed a total of nine medals, including
three golds.

3 4

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1 The Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games emblem dis-

played during the Closing Ceremony.
2 Tokyo 2020 Paralympic mascot Someity (right) and
Olympic mascot Miraitowa made an appearance at
the Closing Ceremony.
3 Athletes from Afghanistan, long jumper Hossain
Rasouli (left) and Taekowndo’s Zakia Khudadadi, took
part in the Closing Ceremony.
4 The word “ARIGATO” (thank you) on Tokyo Tower.
5 The Mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, received the
Paralympic flag from IPC President Andrew Parsons.
6 The Paralympic flame slowly fades out.
2 3

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Par tⅡ
 Tokyo 2020 Olympic Torch Relay

Total operational days:

114
(121 days if 7 transportation days are
included)

Number of torchbearers:

10,515
(not including torchbearers who will
attend to opening ceremony)

The path of Tokyo 2020 Olympic flame

Flame Lighting Ceremony in Olympia,

Greece (12 March 2020)
Flame Hand-over Ceremony in Athens,
Greece (19 March 2020)
Flame Arrival Ceremony at the JASDF
Matsushima Base in Miyagi Prefecture
(20 March 2020)
The display of the “Flame of Recovery”
on 20 – 25 March 2020 (two days each
in the prefectures of Miyagi, Iwate
and Fukushima. The photo shows the
display in Iwate.)

Presenting Partners
Coca-Cola (Japan) Company, Limited / Toyota Motor Corporation / Nippon Life Insurance Company / Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation(NTT)

Supporting Partners
Panasonic Corporation /ＥＮＥＯＳ Ｃｏｒｐｏｒａｔｉｏｎ / All Nippon Airways Co., Ltd. / Japan Post Co.,Ltd. / Japan Airlines Co., Ltd.

Associating Partners
Visa Inc. / NEC Corporation

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 Grand Start Ceremony
25 March 2021, National Training Center J-Village in Fukushima

01 Fukushima 02 Tochigi
25 - 27 March 28 - 29 March
Day 1 Day 1
Naraha Town・Hirono Town > Naraha Town > Hirono Town > Kawauchi Village > Ashikaga City > Sano City > Oyama City > Motegi Town > Tochigi City >
Iwaki City > Tomioka Town > Katsurao Village > Futaba Town > Okuma Town > Kaminokawa Town > Moka City > Kaminokawa Town > Nasukarasuyama City
Namie Town > Minamisoma City Day 2
Day 2 Nasu Town > Sakura City > Nasushiobara City > Mashiko Town > Mibu Town >
Soma City > Iitate Village > Shinchi Town > Kawamata Town > Fukushima Nikko City > Kanuma City > Utsunomiya City
City > Inawashiro Town > Mishima Town > Mishima Town > Kitakata City >
Aizuwakamatsu City
Day 3
Minamiaizu Town > Shimogo Town > Shirakawa City > Motomiya City > Sukagawa
City > Tamura City > Koriyama City

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 03 Gunma 04 Nagano
30 - 31 March 1 - 2 April
Day 1 Day 1
Tatebayashi City > Oizumi Town > Ota City > Ueno Village > Kiryu City > Isesaki Karuizawa Town > Saku City > Yamanouchi Town > Ueda City > Nozawaonsen
City > Maebashi City Village > Hakuba Village > Nagano City
Day 2 Day 2
Shibukawa City > Kusatsu Town > Numata City > Kawaba Village > Naganohara Iida City > Nagiso Town > Ina City > Suwa City > Omachi City > Azumino City >
Town > Fujioka City > Tomioka City > Takasaki City Matsumoto City

05 Gifu 06 Aichi
3 - 4 April 5 - 6 April
Day 1 Day 1
Nakatsugawa City > Tajimi City > Yaotsu Town > Gujo City > Takayama City Seto City > Nagoya City > Kasugai City > Nagoya City > Ichinomiya City > Inuyama
Day 2 City > Nagoya City > Inazawa City > Nagoya City > Kiyosu City > Nagoya City
Gero City > Kakamigahara City > Sekigahara Town > Ogaki City > Hashima City Day 2
> Gifu City Toyohashi City > Handa City > Toyokawa City > Anjo City > Kariya City > Okazaki
City > Obu City > Toyota City

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07 Mie 08 Wakayama
7 - 8 April 9 - 10 April
Day 1 Day 1
Yokkaichi City > Suzuka City > Kameyama City > Tsu City > Toba City > Ise City Shingu City > Nachikatsuura Town > Kushimoto Town > Shirahama Town > Tanabe
Day 2 City > Shirahama Town > Gobo City > Arida City > Kainan City・Wakayama City
Iga City > Nabari City > Matsusaka City > Taiki Town > Kihoku Town > Kumano City Day 2
Wakayama City > Iwade City > Kinokawa City > Katsuragi Town > Koya Town >
Hashimoto City

09 Nara 10 Osaka
11 - 12 April 13 - 14 April
Day 1 Day 1
Gojo City > Gose City > Katsuragi City > Totsukawa Village > Sakurai City > Sakai City > Higashiosaka City > Kadoma City > Hirakata City > Toyonaka City
Tawaramoto Town > Tenri City > Asuka Village > Kashihara City > Ikeda City > Minoh City > Ibaraki City > Suita City *In all sections, the torch
Day 2 relay was not conducted on public roads but instead it was held at the Expo ’70
Koryo Town・Kawai Town・Kashiba City > Yamatotakada City > Yoshino Town > Commemorative Park in Suita City.
Ikaruga Town > Yamatokoriyama City・Nara City > Uda City > Ikoma City > Nara Day 2
City Izumisano City > Kaizuka City > Izumi City > Kishiwada City > Osaka City > Taishi
Town > Kashiwara City > Osaka City > Habikino City・Fujiidera City > Osaka City *In
all sections, the torch relay was not conducted on public roads but instead it was
held at the Expo ’70 Commemorative Park in Suita City.

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 11 Tokushima 12 Kagawa
15 - 16 April 17 - 18 April
Day 1 Day 1
Miyoshi City・Higashimiyoshi Town > Tsurugi Town・Mima City > Awa Utazu Town > Marugame City > Manno Town > Naoshima Town > Kotohira Town
City・Yoshinogawa City > Kamiyama Town > Ishii Town・Kamiita Town > Itano > Zentsuji City > Tadotsu Town > Mitoyo City > Kanonji City
Town・Aizumi Town > Kitajima Town・Matsushige Town > Naruto City Day 2
Day 2 Sakaide City > Ayagawa Town > Tonosho Town > Shodoshima Town >
Kaiyo Town > Mugi Town > Kamikatsu Town > Minami Town > Naka Town > Higashikagawa City > Sanuki City > Miki Town > Takamatsu City
Katsuura Town > Anan City・Komatsushima City > Sanagochi Village > Tokushima
City

13 Kochi 14 Ehime
19 - 20 April 21 - 22 April
Day 1 Day 1
Kochi City > Ino Town > Tosa City > Susaki City > Yusuhara Town > Shimanto Town Shikokuchuo City > Kamijima Town > Niihama City > Saijo City > Imabari City >
> Shimanto City > Tosashimizu City > Sukumo City Toon City > Masaki Town > Kumakogen Town > Matsuyama City *In Matsuyama
Day 2 City, the Flame Lighting Ceremony was held at the Matsuyama Castle Shiroyama-
Nankoku City > Kitagawa Village > Kami City > Tano Town > Konan City > Yasuda koen Park instead of conducting the torch relay on public roads.
Town > Aki City > Nahari Town > Muroto City > Toyo Town > Kochi City Day 2
Tobe Town > Ainan Town > Iyo City > Uchiko Town > Ozu City > Matsuno Town >
Kihoku Town > Seiyo City > Uwajima City > Ikata Town > Yawatahama City

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15 Oita 16 Miyazaki
23 - 24 April 25 - 26 April
Day 1 Day 1
Beppu City > Hiji Town > Kitsuki City > Himeshima Village > Bungotakada City > Takachiho Town > Nobeoka City > Hyuga City > Takanabe Town > Saito City >
Usa City > Nakatsu City > Kunisaki City > Hita City Miyazaki City
Day 2 Day 2
Kusu Town > Kokonoe Town > Taketa City > Saiki City > Tsukumi City > Usuki City Miyazaki City > Nichinan City > Kushima City > Mimata Town > Miyakonojo City >
> Bungoono City > Yufu City > Oita City Kobayashi City > Ebino City

17 Kagoshima 18 Okinawa
27 - 28 April 1 - 2 May
Day 1 Day 1
Shibushi City > Kanoya City > Amami City > Minamiosumi Town > Kirishima City > Naha City > Ginowan City > Ishigaki City > Okinawa City > Uruma City > Nago City
Aira City > Kagoshima City > Motobu Town > Nago City *In Ishigaki City, the torch relay was carried out on
Day 2 public roads. The torch relay was not held on public roads in all other sections, but
Izumi City > Nishinoomote City > Satsumasendai City > Hioki City > Isa City > instead it took place around Nago City Hall.
Minamikyusyu City > Ibusuki City Day 2
Tomigusuku City > Urasoe City > Zamami Village > Chatan Town > Miyakojima City
> Nanjo City > Itoman City *In the town of Zamami, the torch relay took place out
at sea. The torch relay in Miyakojima City was cancelled. Instead of holding the
torch relay on public roads in all other sections, it took place at the Peace Memorial
Park in Itoman City.

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 19 Kumamoto 20 Nagasaki
5 - 6 May 7 - 8 May
Day 1 Day 1
Hitoyoshi City > Minamata City > Amakusa City > Uto City > Yatsushiro City Minamishimabara City > Shimabara City > Unzen City > Iki City > Shinkamigoto
Day 2 Town > Isahaya City > Omura City > Nagasaki City
Mashiki Town > Minamiaso Village > Aso City > Kikuchi City > Yamaga City > Day 2
Nagomi Town > Tamana City > Kumamoto City *In Kumamoto City, in place of the Nagayo Town > Togitsu Town > Saikai City > Goto City > Tsushima City > Matsuura
torch relay traversing public roads, a Flame Lighting Ceremony took place on the City > Hirado City > Saza Town > Sasebo City
first day at Kumamoto Castle (Ninomaru Parking Lot).

21 Saga 22 Fukuoka
9 - 10 May 11 - 12 May
Day 1 Day 1
Tara Town > Kashima City > Ureshino City > Shiroishi Town > Takeo City > Arita Omuta City > Chikugo City > Itoshima City > Kurume City > Kasuga City > Asakura
Town > Imari City > Genkai Town > Karatsu City City > Toho Village > Fukuoka City > Dazaifu City > Fukuoka City > Shime Town >
Day 2 Fukuoka City *Instead of conducting the torch relay on public roads in all sections,
Kiyama Town > Tosu City > Miyaki Town > Yoshinogari Town・ Kanzaki City > a Flame Lighting Ceremony was held at Heiwadai Athletic Field in Fukuoka city.
Kamimine Town > Ogi City > Taku City > Omachi Town・Kohoku Town > Saga City Day 2
Chikujo Town > Tagawa City > Soeda Town > Iizuka City > Keisen Town > Miyawaka
City > Munakata City > Nakama City > Fukutsu City > Kitakyushu City *Instead
of conducting the torch relay on public roads in all sections, a Flame Lighting
Ceremony was held at Mojiko Retro Tourism Exhibition Hall in Kitakyushu City.

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23 Yamaguchi 24 Shimane
13 - 14 May 15 - 16 May
Day 1 Day 1
Iwakuni City > Yanai City > Hikari City > Kudamatsu City > Shunan City > Hofu Tsuwano Town > Chibu Village > Masuda City > Hamada City > Gotsu City >
City > Yamaguchi City *Instead of conducting the torch relay on public roads in Kawamoto Town > Ohnan Town
all sections, a Flame Lighting Ceremony by one representative runner was held at Day 2
Yamaguchi City Central Park. Oda City > Izumo City > Unnan City > Okuizumo Town > Okinoshima Town >
Day 2 Yasugi City > Matsue City
Ube City > Sanyo-Onoda City > Shimonoseki City > Mine City > Nagato City > Hagi
City The torch relay in Shimonoseki City was cancelled.

25 Hiroshima 26 Okayama
17 - 18 May 19 - 20 May
Day 1 Day 1
Miyoshi City > Shobara City > Higashihiroshima City > Kure City > Saka Town > Ibara City > Takahashi City > Kibichuo Town > Soja City > Kurashiki City > Okayama
Hiroshima City *Instead of conducting the torch relay on public roads in all sections, City *Instead of conducting the torch relay on public roads in all sections, a Flame
a Flame Lighting Ceremony was held at Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima City. Lighting Ceremony was held at Okayama Castle (Lower Level) .
Day 2 Day 2
Hatsukaichi City > Kaita Town > Mihara City > Onomichi City > Fuchu City > Tamano City > Maniwa City > Akaiwa City > Mimasaka City > Nagi Town > Tsuyama
Fukuyama City *Instead of conducting the torch relay on public roads in all City *Instead of conducting the torch relay on public roads in all sections, a Flame
sections, a Flame Lighting Ceremony was held at Fukuyama City Gymnasium. Lighting Ceremony was held at Tsuyama Central Park Ground.

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 27 Tottori 28 Hyogo
21 - 22 May 23 - 24 May
Day 1 Day 1
Sakaiminato City > Yonago City > Hiezu Village > Nanbu Town > Nichinan Town > Toyooka City > Asago City > Shiso City > Kato City > Ono City > Kakogawa City >
Hino Town > Hoki Town > Kofu Town > Daisen Town > Kurayoshi City Himeji City *Instead of conducting the torch relay on public roads in all sections, a
Day 2 Flame Lighting Ceremony was held at Himeji Castle (Sannomaru Square).
Kotoura Town > Hokuei Town > Misasa Town > Yurihama Town > Tottori City > Day 2
Iwami Town > Yazu Town > Chizu Town > Wakasa Town > Tottori City Kobe City > Akashi City > Minamiawaji City > Nishinomiya City > Amagasaki City >
Sanda City > Tambasasayama City *Instead of conducting the torch relay on public
roads in all sections, a Flame Lighting Ceremony was held at Shinoyama Castle
(Sannomaru Square) in Tambasasayama City.

29 Kyoto 30 Shiga
25 - 26 May 27 - 28 May
Day 1 Day 1
Kyotango City > Miyazu City > Maizuru City > Ayabe City > Fukuchiyama City > Takashima City > Moriyama City > Yasu City > Omihachiman City > Ryuo Town >
Nagaokakyo City > Kameoka City *Instead of conducting the torch relay on public Konan City > Ritto City > Kusatsu City > Otsu City
roads in all sections, a Flame Lighting Ceremony was held at Kyoto Prefectural Day 2
Kyoto Stadium in Kameoka City. Koka City > Hino Town > Higashiomi City > Aisho Town > Toyosato Town > Kora
Day 2 Town > Taga Town > Hikone City > Maibara City > Nagahama City
Uji City > Ujitawara Town > Joyo City > Kizugawa City > Seika Town > Kyotanabe
City > Yawata City > Kumiyama Town > Kyoto City *Instead of conducting the
torch relay on public roads in all sections, a Flame Lighting Ceremony was held at
Kyoto Prefectural Kyoto Stadium in Kameoka City.

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31 Fukui 32 Ishikawa
29 - 30 May 31 May - 1 June
Day 1 Day 1
Takahama Town > Ohi Town > Obama City > Wakasa Town > Mihama Town > Kaga City > Komatsu City > Nomi City > Kawakita Town > Hakusan City > Nonoichi
Tsuruga City > Minamiechizen Town > Echizen Town > Sabae City City > Uchinada Town > Kanazawa City > Kahoku City > Tsubata Town > Kanazawa
Day 2 City *Instead of conducting the torch relay on public roads in all sections, a Flame
Echizen City > Ikeda Town > Ono City > Katsuyama City > Eiheiji Town > Awara Lighting Ceremony was held at Kanazawa Castle Park (Sannomaru Sqaure) .
City > Sakai City > Fukui City Day 2
Wajima City > Noto Town > Anamizu Town > Suzu City > Shika Town > Hakui
City・Hodatsushimizu Town > Nakanoto Town > Nanao City *Instead of conducting
the torch relay on public roads in all sections, a Flame Lighting Ceremony was held
at Wakura Onsen (Yuttari Park) in Nanao City.

33 Toyama 34 Niigata
2 - 3 June 4 - 5 June
Day 1 Day 1
Oyabe City > Nanto City > Tonami City > Imizu City > Takaoka City > Himi City > Itoigawa City > Joetsu City > Kashiwazaki City > Sado City > Tokamachi City >
Takaoka City *Instead of conducting the torch relay on public roads in all sections, Minamiuonuma City
a Flame Lighting Ceremony was held at Takaoka Sports Core. Day 2
Day 2 Nagaoka City > Sanjo City・Tsubame City > Yahiko Village > Niigata City > Shibata
Asahi Town > Nyuzen Town > Kurobe City > Uozu City > Namerikawa City > City > Aga Town > Murakami City
Kamiichi Town > Funahashi Village > Tateyama Town > Toyama City *Instead
of conducting the torch relay on public roads in all sections, a Flame Lighting
Ceremony was held at Fugan Canal Kansui Park in Toyama City.

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 35 Yamagata 36 Akita
6 - 7 June 8 - 9 June
Day 1 Day 1
Nishikawa Town > Sagae City > Kahoku Town > Nagai City > Shirataka Town > Yuzawa City > Yokote City > Yurihonjo City > Misato Town > Daisen City >
Takahata Town > Yonezawa City > Nanyo City > Kaminoyama City > Yamagata City Semboku City > Akita City
Day 2 Day 2
Tendo City > Higashine City > Murayama City > Obanazawa City > Shinjo City > Katagami City > Hachirogata Town > Ogata Village > Noshiro City > Odate City >
Tsuruoka City > Yuza Town > Sakata City Oga City > Kazuno City

37 Aomori 38 Hokkaido
10 - 11 June 13 - 14 June
Day 1 Day 1
Hirosaki City > Nishimeya Village > Hirakawa City > Kuroishi City > Tsugaru City Hakodate City > Nemuro City > Hokuto City > Nanae Town > Kushiro City > Toyako
> Goshogawara City > Imabetsu Town > Aomori City *Instead of conducting the Town > Obihiro City > Muroran City > Shiraoi Town *The torch relay that was to
torch relay on public roads in all sections, a Flame Lighting Ceremony was held at be held on public roads was cancelled in all sections, and instead a Flame Lighting
Aoiumi Park in Aomori City. Ceremony by a representative runner was held at the National Ainu Museum and
Day 2 Park “Upopoy” in Shiraoi Town.
Mutsu City > Towada City > Misawa City > Oirase Town > Hashikami Town > Day 2
Towada City > Hachinohe City *In Mutsu City and in Misawa City, in place of the Tomakomai City > Furano City > Mukawa Town > Asahikawa City > Atsuma Town
torch relay traversing public roads, a Flame Lighting Ceremony took place on the > Abira Town > Sapporo City > Tomakomai City > Chitose City > Sapporo City >
first day at Aoiumi Park in Aomori City. Wakkanai City > Sapporo City *Instead of conducting the torch relay on public
roads in all sections, and instead a Flame Lighting Ceremony by a representative
runner was held at Sapporo Kita3-Jo Plaza “Akapla”.

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16 - 18 June 19 - 21 June
Day 1 Day 1
Shizukuishi Town > Takizawa City > Hachimantai City > Iwate Town > Ichinohe Kesennuma City > Minamisanriku Town > Ishinomaki City > Onagawa Town
Town > Ninohe City > Hirono Town > Fudai Village・Noda Village > Kuji City Day 2
Day 2 Higashimatsushima City > Ohira Village > Matsushima Town > Shiogama City >
Iwaizumi Town > Tanohata Village > Miyako City > Yamada Town > Otsuchi Town Shichigahama Town > Tagajo City > Rifu Town
> Kamaishi City > Ofunato City > Rikuzentakata City Day 3
Day 3 Yamamoto Town > Watari Town > Iwanuma City > Sendai City > Natori City >
Ichinoseki City > Hiraizumi Town > Oshu City > Kanegasaki Town > Kitakami City Sendai City *In Sendai City, in place of holding the torch relay on public roads, it
> Hanamaki City > Tono City > Shiwa Town > Yahaba Town > Morioka City *In was carried out jointly at the Miyagi Nohara Park Athletic Field and the Sendai City
Morioka City, instead of the torch relay traversing public roads, a Flame Lighting Track and Field Stadium.
Ceremony took place at Morioka Hachimangu Shrine.

41 Shizuoka 42 Yamanashi
23 - 25 June 26 - 27 June
Day 1 Day 1
Kosai City > Hamamatsu City > Iwata City > Fukuroi City > Kakegawa City > Nanbu Town > Minobu Town > Hayakawa Town > Fujikawa Town > Ichikawamisato
Shimada City > Shizuoka City Town > Chuo City・Showa Town > Kai City・Minami-alps City > Hokuto City >
Day 2 Nirasaki City > Kofu City
Makinohara City > Makinohara City > Fujieda City > Shizuoka City > Yaizu City > Day 2
Nagaizumi Town > Fuji City > Mishima City > Numazu City Fuefuki City・Yamanashi City > Koshu City > [Link] > Uenohara City > Otsuki City
Day 3 > Tsuru City > Nishikatsura Town > Oshino Village > Fujikawaguchiko Town >
Ito City > Shimoda City > Izunokuni City > Izu City > Susono City > Gotemba City > Narusawa Village > Fujiyoshida City
Oyama Town > Fujinomiya City

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28 - 30 June 1 - 3 July
Day 1 Day 1
Hakone Town > Isehara City > Odawara City > Oiso Town > Hiratsuka City・Chigasaki Kisarazu City > Kimitsu City・Futtsu City > Minamiboso City > Isumi City・Ichinomiya
City > Fujisawa City *Instead of conducting the torch relay on public roads in all Town > Sosa City > Sammu City *Instead of conducting the torch relay on public
sections, a Flame Lighting Ceremony was held at Tsujido Kandai Park in Fujisawa roads in all sections, a Flame Lighting Ceremony was held at Hasunuma Seaside
City. Park (Parking Lot 2) in Sammu City.
Day 2 Day 2
Miura City > Yokosuka City > Kamakura City > Ebina City > Atsugi City > Sagamihara Choshi City > Asahi City > Katori City > Shibayama Town・Narita City > Narita City
City *Instead of conducting the torch relay on public roads in all sections, a Flame > Narashino City・Chiba City *Instead of conducting the torch relay on public roads
Lighting Ceremony was held at Hashimoto Park in Sagamihara City. in all sections, a Flame Lighting Ceremony was held at Makuhari Messe (Parking
Day 3 Lot) in Chiba City.
Kawasaki City > Yokohama City *Instead of conducting the torch relay on public Day 3
roads in all sections, a Flame Lighting Ceremony was held at Yokohama Red Brick Urayasu City > Funabashi City > Kamagaya City > Kashiwa City・Abiko City >
Warehouse (Park/ Event plaza). Kashiwa City > Matsudo City *Instead of conducting the torch relay on public
roads in all sections, a Flame Lighting Ceremony was held at Matsudo Central Park.

45 Ibaraki 46 Saitama
4 - 5 July 6 - 8 July
Day 1 Day 1
Kashima City > Hitachinaka City ・Oarai Town > Daigo Town > Hitachi City > Kawaguchi City > Warabi City・Toda City > Toda City > Wako City・Asaka City・
Hitachiota City > Kasama City > Mito City Niiza City > Hidaka City > Sayama City > Fujimi City・Miyoshi Town・Fujimino City
Day 2 > Tokorozawa City *In Kawaguchi City, instead of the torch relay traversing public
Koga City > Bando City・Joso City > Ushiku City > Ryugasaki City > Namegata City roads, a Flame Lighting Ceremony was held on the third day at Saitama Shintoshin
> Tsuchiura City > Tsukuba City Park.
Day 2
Soka City > Yashio City・ Misato City > Yoshikawa City・Koshigaya City > Chichibu
City・Minano Town・Nagatoro Town > Kasukabe City > Sugito Town・Miyashiro
Town > Kuki City・Kazo City > Gyoda City > Kumagaya City
Day 3
Kawagoe City > Tsurugashima City・ Sakado City > Honjo City・Fukaya City >
Ranzan Town・Higashimatsuyama City・Namegawa Town > Konosu City・Kitamoto
City > Okegawa City・Ageo City > Saitama City *In Saitama City, the Flame Lighting
Ceremony was held at Saitamashintoshin Park instead of conducting the torch
relay on public roads.

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9 - 23 July
Day 1 Day 8
Setagaya City > Komae City > Inagi City > Machida City *Instead of conducting the Mikurajima Village > Hachijo Town > Aogashima Village > Ogasawara Village
torch relay on public roads in all sections, a Flame Lighting Ceremony was held at (Chichijima) > Ogasawara Village (Hahajima) > Mitaka City > Musashino City *In
Machida Shibahiro. Mitaka City and Musashino City, the torch relay did not take place on public roads,
Day 2 but instead a Flame Lighting Ceremony was carried out at the Musashino Municipal
Tama City > Hino City > Akishima City > Hachioji City *Instead of conducting the Athletic Stadium.
torch relay on public roads in all sections, a Flame Lighting Ceremony was held at Day 9
Fujimori Park East Parking Lot in Hachioji City. Suginami City > Nakano City > Nerima City *Instead of conducting the torch relay
Day 3 on public roads in all sections, a Flame Lighting Ceremony was held at Nerima
Hinohara Village > Okutama Town > Okutama Town > Hinode Town > Ome City > General Sports Ground.
Mizuho Town *Instead of conducting the torch relay on public roads in all sections, Day 10
a Flame Lighting Ceremony was held at Mizuho View Park Stadium. Toshima City > Itabashi City > Kita City > Adachi City *Instead of conducting the
Day 4 torch relay on public roads in all sections, a Flame Lighting Ceremony was held at
Hamura City > Akiruno City > Fussa City > Musashimurayama City > Tachikawa Tokyo Central Wholesale Market Adachi Market.
City *Instead of conducting the torch relay on public roads in all sections, a Flame Day 11
Lighting Ceremony was held at TACHIKAWA STAGE GARDEN. Katsushika City > Edogawa City > Sumida City > Arakawa City *Instead of conducting
Day 5 the torch relay on public roads in all sections, a Flame Lighting Ceremony was held
Kunitachi City > Kokubunji City > Kodaira City > Higashiyamato City > at Minamisenju Baseball Ground in Arakawa City.
Higashimurayama City *Instead of conducting the torch relay on public roads Day 12
in all sections, a Flame Lighting Ceremony was held at National Sanatorium Taito City > Bunkyo City > Chiyoda City > Chuo City *Instead of conducting the
Tamazenshoen in Higashimurayama City. torch relay on public roads in all sections, a Flame Lighting Ceremony was held at
Day 6 Chuo City Hamacho Park.
Kiyose City > Higashikurume City > Nishitokyo City > Koganei City > Fuchu City Day 13
*Instead of conducting the torch relay on public roads in all sections, a Flame Koto City > Ota City > Shinagawa City *Instead of conducting the torch relay on
Lighting Ceremony was held at Tokyo Racecourse at Fuchu City. public roads in all sections, a Flame Lighting Ceremony was held at Shinagawa
Day 7 Central Park (West side area).
Chofu City > Miyake Village > Kouzushima Village > Niijima Village (Niijima) > Day 14
Niijima Village (Shikinejima) > Toshima Village > Oshima Town *In Chofu City, Meguro City > Shibuya City > Minato City > Shibuya City > Minato City *Instead
instead of the torch relay traversing public roads, a Flame Lighting Ceremony was of conducting the torch relay on public roads in all sections, a Flame Lighting
held on the eighth day at the Musashino Municipal Athletic Stadium. In Oshima Ceremony was held at Minato City Shiba Park.
Town, instead of the torch relay traversing public roads, a Flame Lighting Ceremony Day 15
took place at Nakanohara-enchi Park. Shinjuku City *Instead of conducting the torch relay on public roads in all sections,
a Flame Lighting Ceremony was held at Citizen’s Plaza, Tokyo Metropolitan
Government.

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Number of prefectures that conducted a regional flame lighting

All 47 prefectures

Total operational days

8
Number of torchbearers

1,070
(not including torchbearers who will attend to
opening ceremony)

Presenting Partner
LIXIL Corporation

Supporting Partners
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Associating Partner
Yahoo Japan Corporation

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 43 Prefectures Regional flame festival
12 - 20 August

(From top left to bottom) Hiroshima Prefecture /

Kumamoto Prefecture / Fukushima Prefecture / Kyoto
Prefecture / Yamanashi Prefecture/Aichi Prefecture /
Kanagawa Prefecture / Yamagata Prefecture

Flame Lighting Ceremony in Stoke Mandeville, Great Britain

19 August

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 Shizuoka Chiba
17 August 18 August
Atami City > Shizuoka City > Omaezaki City・Kikugawa City > Hamamatsu City Chiba City
*In Atami City and in Shizuoka City, the Flame Lighting Ceremony was held at *Instead of conducting the torch relay on public roads in all sections, a Flame
Yotsuike Park Athletic Ground in Hamamatsu City instead of conducting the torch Lighting Ceremony was held at Chiba Port Tower.
relay on public roads.

Saitama Tokyo
19 August 20 August
Satte City > Hasuda City > Shiraoka City > Kawajima Town > Iruma City > Asaka Day 1
City Shinjuku City > Nakano City > Toshima City > Kita City > Bunkyo City
*Instead of conducting the torch relay on public roads in all sections, a Flame *Instead of conducting the torch relay on public roads in all sections, a Flame
Lighting Ceremony was held at Asaka Central Park Athletics Stadium. Lighting Ceremony was held at Tokyo Metropolitan Sports Center for Persons with
Disabilities in Kita City.

※ These are the Four Prefectures that hosted Paralympic competitions.

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 Flame Lighting Ceremony
20 August The State Guest House, Akasaka Palace in Tokyo

Tokyo
21 - 24 August
Day 2 Day 4
Chiyoda City > Taito City > Sumida City > Koto City > Edogawa City Nishitokyo City > Mitaka City > Fuchu City > Chofu City > Setagaya City
*Instead of conducting the torch relay on public roads in all sections, a Flame *Instead of conducting the torch relay on public roads in all sections, a Flame
Lighting Ceremony was held at Kasai Rinkai Park Parking Lot No.3 in Edogawa City. Lighting Ceremony was held at Kinuta Park Nemunoki Square in Setagaya City.
Day 3 Day 5
Kunitachi City > Hino City> Tachikawa City > Higashiyamato City > Kokubunji City Chuo City > Minato City > Shibuya City
*Instead of conducting the torch relay on public roads in all sections, a Flame *Instead of conducting the torch relay on public roads in all sections, a Flame
Lighting Ceremony was held at Kokubunji New City Hall Construction Site（ east Lighting Ceremony was held at Tokyo Metropolitan Yoyogi Park central field and
side of Izumi Plaza). Athletic Track, Oda Field in Shibuya City.

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 TOKYO 2020 NIPPON FESTIVAL

The three initiatives presented by the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee from the core cultural programmes of the TOKYO 2020
NIPPON FESTIVAL.
・A programme themed on the reconstruction of the Tohoku region, connecting Tokyo, Tohoku and the worldthrough numerous
encounters with the people and the culture of the Tohoku region (May – July)
・A special festival where people from all over the world including children will meet and interact through experiencing Japanese
culture (July, prior to the opening of the Olympic Games)
・A cultural event themed on diversity and inclusion, bringing together people of different backgrounds and qualities
(August, during the transition period to the Paralympic Games)

“Mocco’s Journey of Happiness” Presented by ENEOS

− Mocco sets out for Tokyo, travelling through the reconstructed Tohoku Region −

A decade after the earthquake and tsunami of 2011, a cultural programme and caravan took place from May 2021 throughout various
Tohoku areas and in Tokyo with the collaboration of the prefectures in Tohoku that are in the midst of rebuilding their communities.
Mocco, the giant puppet born from the imagination of children in Tohoku during the workshop, made a journey from Tohoku to Tokyo,
collecting prayers for full recovery and hopes for the future. The messages that Mocco gathered in Tohoku were presented to the rest
of the world.

Dates and locations :

Saturday 15 May 2021 :
Takata Matsubara Tsunami Reconstruction Memorial Park,
Rikuzentakata City, Iwate Prefecture
Saturday 22 May 2021 :
Millennium Hope Hills, Ainokama Park, Iwanuma City,
Miyagi Prefecture (no audience)
Saturday 29 May 2021 :
Hibarigahara Festival Site, Minamisoma City,
Fukushima Prefecture (no audience)
Saturday 17 July 2021 :
Shinjuku Gyoen Landscaped Gardens,
Tokyo (no audience)

Project team :
Creative Director : YANAI Michihiko
Medical Director (COVID-19 countermeasures) :
Dr. KUTSUNA Satoshi
Puppeteer & puppet maker : SAWA Noriyuki
Naming of ‘Mocco’ by : KUDO Kankuro
Base design & concept by : ARAI Rouji
Author of “The Story of Mocco” : MATAYOSHI Naoki
Narrator of “The Story of Mocco” &
singer of “Tohoku no Sachi” : ISHIKAWA Sayuri
“Tohoku no Sachi” sung by : Tokyo Tanaka
(Man with a Mission)
“Tohoku no Sachi” rap version by : Mummy-D (Rhymester)
Arranger & producer of “Tohoku no Sachi” :
KAMEDA SeijiCooperation by :
Tokyo University of the Arts (performance and recording)

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Wassai

Date and time : Sunday 18 July 2021

Location : Online (via live streaming)

The story of the birth of “Wassai” expressed in a dance performance that took place in a ‘virtual’ Olympic Stadium, connecting with
people from around the world, singing and dancing together and enjoying the summer festival.
The concept of “Wassai” is ‘wa’ (a circle, unity, harmony).
The world can be united again in wa (harmony). Form a wa (a circle), and chant “Wassai! Wassai! Wassai!”
and dance together. Believe that the world can be united again.

Project team : Cast :

General Director : SUGANO Komei WANIMA Cloud : MONDO
Choreographers : YAMADA Aoi & TAKAMURA Tuki Luna : YAMADA Aoi Forest : TAKEMOTO Chikako
Music composer : WANIMA Moon : TAKAMURA Tuki Flower : ASHIHARA Myu
Stage Art Supervisor : HIBINO Katsuhiko Sun : YOSHIE Darkness : Tenmetsu
Costume Design : HIBINO Koｄue Fire : Riku Thunder : SHIMIZU Mash
Fire : MATSUOKA Ayumu Child : IIZUKA Sono
Water : CHISE NINJA Child : TAKAGISHI Itohi
Wind : KUMI

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Presented by Japan Airlines

Mazekoze Island Tour

Date : Sunday 22 August 2021 Location : Online streaming

Featuring art and musical performances by artists and entertainers with their own unique qualities and circumstances, including
diverse genders, ages, nationalities and abilities/impairments. Explore the islands where these various qualities come together, mix and
mesh, and experience other people’s uniqueness. It is a journey that lets us realise how comfortable an inclusive society can be. The
Mazekoze Island Tour shows the audience that no two people are exactly the same. It is a story of opportunities, meetings and
sympathy that will help build an inclusive society.

Production :
General Director & Executive Producer: AZUMA Chizuru

“Our Glorious Future : KANAGAWA 2021”

Date : Monday 16 August 2021 (online streaming)
Presented live from : Momijigaoka Culture Zone in Yokohama City (Kanagawa Prefectural Music Hall, Kanagawa Prefectural Youth Centre, Kanagawa Prefectural Library),
Kanagawa Kenmin Hall, etc.

Under the theme of realising an inclusive society, actors, dancers, artists, musicians and traditional art performers at the forefront of
their respective fields collaborated and co-created an online event from Kanagawa. They delivered to the world an image of a new
future where everyone can shine, regardless of abilities/impairments, age, gender or nationality.

Project team :
Dance directed by :
MORIYAMA Kaiji
Theatrical performance directed by :
TADA Junnosuke
Art Curator : FUJIKAWA Haruka
Music : MITSUHASHI Kifu
Artwork : MAEDA Masahiro

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Tokyo 2020 Official Art Posters

Exhibition
Venue: Entrance hall of the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
Period: Tuesday 7 January to Sunday 16 February 2020
Organized by:The Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and
Paralympic Games Tokyo Metropolitan Government Museum of
Contemporary Art Tokyo operated by Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation
for History and Culture

Twenty “Tokyo 2020 Official Art Posters” themed on

the Olympic or the Paralympic Games created by 19
internationally acclaimed artists, comic artists,
graphic designers, and calligraphers were presented
to the public at the Museum of Contemporary Art
Tokyo in January 2020. A talk show featuring some of
the artists was also held during the exhibition.

Tokyo 2020 Olympic and

Paralympic ART Exhibition
- The Olympics and Paralympics we envision
Venue: WELCOME SALON on the first floor of the Japan Olympic Museum
Period: 1) June 23 – July 18, 2021 2) August 11 –October 17
Organized by: Japanese Olympic Committee Cooperation from: Tokyo
Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games,
Olympic Foundation for Culture and Heritage

The “Iconic Posters” of the Tokyo 2020 Games, one

symbolising the Olympic Games and the other for the
Paralympic Games, were revealed on 22 June 2021.
They went on display together with the “Tokyo 2020
Official Art Posters”.

Tokyo 2020 Official Art Posters

Exhibition
Venue: Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum 1st floor "Sato Keitaro Memorial
Lounge"
Period: Tuesday 20 July to Sunday 5 September 2020
Organized by:The Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and
Paralympic Games Tokyo Metropolitan Government Tokyo
Metropolitan Art Museum operated by Tokyo Metropolitan
Foundation for History and Culture

The two “Iconic Posters” symbolising the Olympic and

Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020 and the “Tokyo 2020
Official Art Posters” were exhibited at the Tokyo
Metropolitan Art Museum at the occasion of the
Tokyo 2020 Games.

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 Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the Olympic and Paralympic
Games Tokyo 2020
Concept

Concept: “Moving Forward”

The Olympic and Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020 were expected to be unlike any other because they took place in the face of the
COVID-19 pandemic, an obstacle far beyond anything we had ever faced. Everything that happens in this world is connected, and we are
all affected no matter how far apart we are. That is what we realised over the past year, which was spent sharing knowledge and wisdom
across borders as we searched for a way to help each other navigate these trying times.
This is the kind of world in which Tokyo 2020 took place, which is why we wanted to create ceremonies that brought the world together
as one through the power of sport and delivered a sense of hope for the future. We wanted these ceremonies to be a series of moments
that gave each and every one of us the strength to look towards the future and also served as opportunities to create a better normal
together. And so, through these Games, we acknowledged the way the world came together to face a global threat, while recognising,
lauding and demonstrating our sincere gratitude for the immeasurable support and efforts of all those who made the Tokyo 2020
Games possible.

Concept of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Opening Ceremony Concept of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Closing Ceremony
“United by Emotion” “Worlds We Share”

Concept of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games Opening Ceremony Concept of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games Closing Ceremony
“We Have Wings” “Harmonious Cacophony”

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Cast
Total number of cast members for the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Opening Ceremony: approximately 1,400
TSUBATA Arisa / NAKAMURA Megumi / FURUKAWA Ryu / FURUKAWA Hazuki / MOGI Yuji / YO Kokoha / KAMIYA Koshi /
MOROMI Rion / SUZUKI Rui / TANAKA Ririna / MISIA / MORIYAMA Mirai / KUMAGAI Kazunori / MAYA Miki / TANEDA Nitsuko /
NADAGI Takeshi / TSUJIMOTO Koji / MIEDA Natsuki / EDOGAWA Junpei / UWANOSORA Hanabi / MARUMOTO Supajiro /
SHIMIZU Honoka / MURAI Remi / Suginami Junior Chorus / Toshimagaoka Joshigakuen Junior & Senior High School Koriyama High
School / Gamarjobat (Hiropon) / GABEZ / MINAMI Daisuke / MATSUMOTO Ryo / GEKIDAN Hitori / ARAKAWA Shizuka /
ICHIKAWA Ebizo / HIROMI

Total number of cast members for the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Closing Ceremony: approximately 1,037
Takarazuka Revue Company / Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra / Katakura Senior High School Brass Band / DJ Matsunaga / milet /
YAMADA Aoi / SATO Kensaku / MATSUDA Takayuki / MASUDA Rio / AGEHA Bijo / Nihon Minyo Ageha-ryu / OKAMOTO Tomotaka /
OTAKE Shinobu / Suginami Junior Chorus

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 Total number of cast members for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games Opening Ceremony: 714 (number of cast
members that had a disability : 166)
NAKAGAWA Ryoji / OKAZAKI Nobuhiko / HARUNA Ai / jane / HASHIGUCHI Shin / SUZUKI Kotaro / WATANABE Chisa /
NAKASHIMA Koyuki / SHIBATA Ryuto / SATO Hirari / TAKIGAWA Eiji / WADA Kaishu / HARMY / UEHARA Daisuke / KUBOTA Hazuki /
KAMIMOTO Eri / WAGO Yui / MATSUZAKI Yusuke / CHIBI Moeko / Moeka / KANOKOZAWA Ken / ITANI Yuta / TAKEUCHI Mitsuko /
ITO Manami / HOTEI Tomoyasu / TAGAWA Hiroaki / KAWASAKI Akihito / Ayakono / EYE VDJ MASA (MUTO Masatsune) / GIMICO /
SOUSHIN / TSURUMI Kazuaki / MACHITERA Yu / KAMATA Yudai / MINEO Saki / KAJIMOTO Mizuki / IRIZA Lotion / CARROT Yoshie/
AMANE / OSHIRO Sakurako / NAKAJIMA Motomi / Nyanko / OMAE Koichi / KANBARA Kenta / Ultra Twirlers / MORITA Kazuyo

Total number of cast members for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games Closing Ceremony: 706 (number of cast
members that had a disability : 106)
SASUKE / RIN / Lisa 13 / GOTO Hitomi / WATANABE Chihiro / SHIKIMACHI Mizuki / Moriko Japan (MORI Hitoshi) / ONO Aichi /
Kodomo no Shiro Chorus (National Children’s Castle Chorus) / Maxwell Powers / Miki Matheson / MANGI Shinya / SAITO Rena /
HATA Yuto / OZAWA Ayako / NAKAJIMA Ryoko / SAKAI Hibiki / INADA Manami / One Arm Guitarist / Teruhiko / Yusuke / SHISHIDO Kavka /
IZPON / ITO Daichi / IWAHARA Daisuke / URAYAMA Ichigo / OKABE Yoichi / Keitaimo / KENTA / Show / HATAKEYAMA Yu / MASUO /
SHIMURA Yuto / NIMIYA Miho / ARAI Shoko / MATSUDA Chiho / SATO Mio / KONISHI Mami / ENOMOTO Toru / FUKUI Seiko /
ASHIHARA Myu / NOHARA Yusuke / Kaito / GenGen / NISHIKAWA Gohei / OKUNO Atsushi / KOSHIO Yuina / RIMI

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Executive Team
Executive Producer: HIOKI Takayuki

Creative Team
Total number of staff for the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Opening Ceremony: approximately 1,820
HIRAHARA Shintaro / TANAKA Tomoyuki / TANEDA Yohei / TOMIZAWA Nami / HAMABE Akihiro / HIGUCHI Takuji /
Gamarjobat (Hiropon) / TSUJIKAWA Koichiro / KODAMA Yuichi / KOJIMA Junji / TANAKA Tsugihisa / IGUCHI Kota / WAKABAYASHI Keiji /
TOMIZAWA Noboru / TOKUZAWA Seigen / KAGEI Masayuki / AOYAGI Takuji / HARA Marihiko / NAKAMURA Hiroshi

Total number of staff approx 1,820

HIRAHARA Shintaro / TANAKA Tomoyuki / TANEDA Yohei / TOMIZAWA Nami / HAMABE Akihiro / HIGUCHI Takuji / Keiji WAKABAYASHI /
Noboru TOMIZAWA / Seigen TOKUZAWA / Kazuhiko HIRAMAKI / Melissa WEIGEL / Akiko NAKAYAMA / Un YAMADA / Hiroshi NAKAMURA

Total number of staff members for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games Opening Ceremony: 1,246
KINOSHITA Worry / MORIYAMA Kaiji / KRIS Yoshie / HAMABE Akihiro / TANEDA Yohei / ITO Sachiko / NASHIMOTO Takeatsu /
KANAI Keisuke / KERA Hirofumi / MAKINO Atsushi / HIROOKA Kaori / TANAKA Tomoyuki / KONISHI Ryo / MATSUMOTO Junichi /
TANAKA Naoki / INOKUCHI Hiroki / KONISHI Sho / FUJIMOTO Minoru / Yuka (TAMURA Yuka) / TOMIZAWA Nami / MIKI Masao /
NOMURA Kozue

Total number of staff members for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games Closing Ceremony: 1,334
KOHASHI Kenji / URUMA Hiroyoshi / NASHIMOTO Takeatsu / KURISU Yoshie / SUEZAWA Noriko / YOSHIDA Kazuki / SAITO Hirosumi /
ANDO Keiji / AIZAWA Miki / HIROOKA Kaori / TOMIZAWA Noboru / NISHIGORI Isao / YANAGIMACHI Tateo / Naoya MURAYAMA /
Yohei TANEDA / Nami TOMIZAWA / DJ Uppercut / SASUKE / Kz / RAM RIDER / TOMITA Keiichi / Fz / ONO Yuki / HAYAMA Noritsugu /
MASUDA Yoshiyuki / MURAI Yu / SHIMOTSUKASA Naomi

Adviser：NOMURA Mansai

Cauldron Designer：SATO Oki

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MIRAITOWA is the name of the Olympic Games Mascot. In SOMEITY is the name of the Paralympic Games Mascot. The
Japanese, 'Mirai' means future and 'Towa' means eternity. The Paralympic mascot’s name is made up of two parts. The first
Olympic mascot’s name conveys both a sense of the upcoming part is derived from the Somei Yoshino cherry blossom trees
Tokyo 2020 Games as well as the lasting legacy the Games will that originated in the Edo era village of Somei. The second part
have for generations. is influenced by the English word mighty.

Between December 2017 and February 2018, over 80% of primary schools in Japan and many Japanese school children and others
overseas took part in the selection process and voted for the design they liked best from a shortlist of mascots.

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 Venues

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 1 Olympic Stadium
■Opening and Closing Ceremonies /
Athletics / Football
▲Opening and Closing Ceremonies /
Athletics

Courtesy of JAPAN SPORT COUNCIL

Courtesy of JAPAN SPORT COUNCIL ©Nippon Budokan Foundation

2 Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium 3 Yoyogi National Stadium ４ Nippon Budokan

■ Table Tennis ■Handball ■Judo / Karate
▲ Table Tennis ▲Badminton / Wheelchair Rugby ▲Judo

5 Tokyo International Forum 6 Kokugikan Arena 7 Equestrian Park

■Weightlifting ■Boxing ■Equestrian (Dressage, Eventing, Jumping)
▲Powerlifting ▲Equestrian

8 Musashino Forest Sport Plaza 9 Tokyo Stadium 10 Musashinonomori Park

■Badminton /Modern Pentathlon ■Football / Modern Pentathlon / Rugby ■Cycling (Road)
▲Wheelchair Basketball

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11 Ariake Arena 12 Ariake Gymnastics Centre 13 Ariake Urban Sports Park

■Volleyball (Volleyball) ■Gymnastics ■Cycling
▲Wheelchair Basketball ▲Boccia (BMX Freestyle, BMX Racing) /
Skateboarding

14 Ariake Tennis Park 15 Odaiba Marine Park 16 Shiokaze Park

■Tennis ■Aquatics (Marathon Swimming) / Triathlon ■Volleyball (Beach Volleyball)
▲Wheelchair Tennis ▲Triathlon

17 Aomi Urban Sports Park 18 Oi Hockey Stadium 19 S

 ea Forest Cross-Country Course
■Basketball (3x3 Basketball) / ■Hockey ■Equestrian (Eventing)
Sport Climbing
▲Football 5-a-side

20 Sea Forest Waterway 21 Kasai Canoe Slalom Centre 22 Yumenoshima Park Archery Field
■Canoe (Sprint) / Rowing ■Canoe (Slalom) ■Archery
▲Canoe / Rowing ▲Archery

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■Aquatics (Swimming, Diving, Artistic ■Aquatics (Water Polo) ■Athletics (Marathon, Race Walk)
Swimming)
▲Swimming

26 27 28 Makuhari Messe 29 Tsurigasaki Surfing Beach 30 Saitama Super Arena

■Fencing / Taekwondo / Wrestling ■Surfing ■Basketball (Basketball)
▲G
 oalball /Sitting Volleyball / Taekwondo /
Wheelchair Fencing

Photo by Koji Aoki/AFLO

31 Asaka Shooting Range 32 Kasumigaseki Country Club 33 Enoshima Yacht Harbour

■Shooting ■Golf ■Sailing
▲Shooting

TrackDesign@Ralph Schurmann
34 Izu Velodrome 35 Izu MTB Course 36 Fuji International Speedway
■Cycling (Track) ■Cycling (Mountain Bike) ■Cycling (Road)
▲Cycling (Track) ▲Cycling (Road)

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©Sapporo Dome

37 Fukushima Azuma Baseball Stadium 38 Yokohama Baseball Stadium 39 Sapporo Dome

■Baseball/Softball ■Baseball/Softball ■Football

©Miyagi Sport Association

40 Miyagi Stadium 41 Ibaraki Kashima Stadium 42 Saitama Stadium

■Football ■Football ■Football

43 International Stadium Yokohama

■Football

November 2020：Aerial view of Olympic and Paralympic Village.

IBC/
MPC
 Tokyo International Exhibition OV/
PV Olympic Village / Paralympic Village
Centre (Tokyo Big Sight)

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TOKYO 2020 OFFICIAL REPORT Volume 2

Publisher The Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games

News/ News photography Kyodo News

Photography ©Getty Images

©JOC
©Tokyo Metropolitan Government

Translation Inter Group Corporation

SUGIO Ryoko

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