2020 Summer Paralympics

XVI Paralympic Games
Host city	Tokyo, Japan
Motto	United by Emotion
Nations	162 including Refugee Paralympic Team and Russian Paralympic Committee
Athletes	4,403
Events	539 in 22 sports
Opening	24 August 2021
Closing	5 September 2021
Opened by	Emperor Naruhito
Cauldron	Yui Kamiji; Karin Morisaki; Shunsuke Uchida
Stadium	Tokyo Olympic Stadium
	Summer ← Rio 2016 Paris 2024 → Winter ← PyeongChang 2018 Beijing 2022 → 2020 Summer Olympics

The 2020 Summer Paralympics (Japanese: 東京2020パラリンピック競技大会, Hepburn: Tōkyō Nizeronizero Pararinpikku Kyōgi Taikai), branded as the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, were an international multi-sport parasports event held from 24 August to 5 September 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. They were the 16th Summer Paralympic Games as organized by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC).

Originally scheduled to take place from 25 August to 6 September 2020, both the 2020 Summer Olympics and Paralympics were postponed by a year in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with the rescheduled Games still referred to as Tokyo 2020 for marketing and branding purposes. As with the Olympics, the Games were largely held behind closed doors with no outside spectators due to a state of emergency in the Greater Tokyo Area and other prefectures. The Games were the second Summer Paralympics hosted by Tokyo since 1964, and the third Paralympics held in Japan overall since the 1998 Winter Paralympics in Nagano. Due to the postponement of the Paralympics because of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was also the first (and only) Paralympic Games to be held in an odd-numbered year and the first Summer Paralympics to be held in a non-leap year.

The Games featured 539 medal events in 22 sports, with badminton and taekwondo both making their Paralympic debut to replace football 7-a-side and sailing. China topped the medal table for the fifth consecutive Paralympics, with 96 golds and 207 total medals. Great Britain finished second for the ninth time, with 41 golds and 124 total medals. The United States finished third, with 37 golds, their best finish since the 2008 games, and 104 total medals. The Russian Paralympic Committee finished fourth, with a total of 36 golds and 118 total medals, putting them in third place when ranked by total medals.

^ "'United by Emotion' to be the Tokyo 2020 Games Motto". Tokyo2020.org. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
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[1] "'United by Emotion' to be the Tokyo 2020 Games Motto". Tokyo2020.org. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

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[4] "What is the ROC? Why Russia Can't Compete At the Tokyo Olympics". TIME. 26 July 2021. Retrieved 7 September 2021. under the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) rules, they're prohibited from displays of national representation in any form.

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