Paralympic Games

Greece won 3 golds

The Greek won the 50m backstroke

Brnik – The Paralympic Games in Tokyo, which ended on Sunday night with a ceremony at the Olympic Stadium, were generally a success for the Slovenian Paralympic team. Shooter Franček Gorazd Tiršek won a silver and a bronze medal, while the younger members of the team gained valuable experience.

Tokyo – Shooter Franček Gorazd Tiršek won bronze in the men’s 10m air rifle prone event at the Tokyo Paralympics on Wednesday in what is the second medal for him and Slovenia at the ongoing games.

Serbian shooter triumphed in the discipline Mixed 10m Air Rifle Prone SH2.
He achieved a score of 255.5 in the final and reached the gold medal.
Ristic won the second medal for Serbia in Tokyo, as table tennis players Borislava Peric Rankovic and Nada Matic won the first in the team competition.

Turkey's Nihat Türkmenoğlu and Bahattin Hekimoğlu won a silver and bronze medal in archery at the 2020 Paralympic Games on Aug. 30.

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Türkmenoğlu secured silver after a narrow loss to the Czech Republic's David Drahoninsky in the gold medal clash of the men's individual W1 class.

Turkey's Recep Çiftçi bagged a bronze medal in men's Judo at 60kg, defeating Marcos Dennis Blanco of Colombia at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games on Aug. 27, scoring Turkey's first medal at the Games.

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The Turkish judoka dominated the contest in Tokyo, winning it 10-1.

Romanian Judoka Alex Bologa grabbed the bronze medal in the 60 kg category, at the Paralympic Games in Tokyo, after winning the match against Uzbek Sherzod Namozov. Bologa (class B1), who thus obtains a new bronze medal at the Paralympic Games, after the one won in 2016, in Rio, won by the opponent's disqualification (class B3), after two minutes and 17 seconds of the "golden score".

The Tokyo Paralympics opened on Tuesday (Aug 24) in a near empty stadium after a year-long delay, as Japan struggles with its worst Covid-19 outbreak so far, record daily cases and an overwhelmed medical system.

The 2020 Paralympic Games will kick off in Tokyo with the opening ceremony on Tuesday as Japan struggles with its worst COVID-19 outbreak so far, record daily cases and an overwhelmed medical system.