Powerlifting: Ukrainian gold for Mariana Shevchuk, who lifts 125 kg in the women’s -55kg division. Xiao Cuijan takes silver for China, Besra Duman bronze for Turkey.
Judo: A few medals going around, and Azerbaijan have won a third. All within about an hour tonight in Tokyo. Vugar Shirinli does the business in the men’s -60kg division.
Symmetry as Russia and Ukraine win bronze in the women’s -48kg (Viktoriia Potapova and Yuliiya Ivanytska respectively) and -52kg (Alesia Stepaniuk and Nataliya Nikolaychyk). The two bronze for the men’s -60kg go to Recep Ciftci (Turkey) and Alex Bologa (Romania).
Silver and bronze for Great Britain in the 200 free
Swimming: The medal rush keeps coming, with another battle at the front. Valeriia Shabalina won gold in the 100 fly on Wednesday, and takes another in the 200 freestyle S14. Takes the lead late from Bethany Firth. Jessica-Jane Applegate takes bronze to complete her set with silver and gold in the two previous Games. Ruby Storm finishes out of the medals for Australia.
Table tennis: Great Britain’s Thomas Matthews has won his Class 1 quarter final 3-1 against Italy’s Andreas Borgato.
Gold for Reece Dunn
Swimming: Gold medal No9 for Great Britain! He breaks his own world record by half a second in the 200m freestyle S14. Gabriel Bandeira of Brazil makes it a real race. He also swims inside Dunn’s previous world record, and threatens to take the race through the last 20 metres, huge strokes. Dunn has just enough left to beat him by a fraction, after Bandeira had beaten him in the 100m fly a couple of nights ago.
- Great Britain’s Reece Dunn reacts after winning the gold medal and setting a world record in the men’s 200m freestyle S14 final. Photograph: Adam Pretty/Getty Images*
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Gold for New Zealand!
Swimming: First gold of the Games for Aoetearoa. And first gold of a career for 20-year-old Tupou Neiufi, in the 100m backstroke S8. She has a very brief career at major meets and has never won a race, until now. She is crying in the pool, overwhelmed. Jessica Long, winning bronze for USA, swims over to hug Neiufi and looks genuinely happy for her. Silver goes to Ukraine’s Kateryna Denysenko.
- Gold medal winner Tupou Neiufi from New Zealand in action during the women’s 100m backstroke S8 final. Photograph: John Walton/PA*
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Swimming: Another world record in the pool, Robert Griswold of the USA beating the mark in the men’s 100m backstroke S8. Inigo Sanz Llopis (Spain) gets silver, Liu Fengqi (China) holds off Australia’s Jesse Aungles for bronze.
- USA’s Robert Griswold celebrates after winning the men’s 100 metres backstroke S8 final in a world record time. Photograph: John Walton/PA*
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Wheelchair basketball: Great Britain’s men get whacked by Germany, 71-59. Third in the group now with one win and one loss, behind Germany with the same record. Australia the only team in that group to have two from two.
Gold for Hannah Russell
Swimming: In the same event for the S12 women, Hannah Russell defends her Rio gold! Not as convincing, two and a half seconds outside her world record swim from those Games, and Daria Pikalova threatens to take the medal for Russia in the closing metres after Russell led substantially through the first lap. She manages to hold her lead with a well-timed touch, ahead of Pikalova and Brazil’s Maria Carolina Gomes Santiago.
- Great Britain’s Hannah Russellon her way to winning gold. Photograph: Adam Pretty/Getty Images*
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Bronze for Stephen Clegg in the 100m backstroke
Swimming: Great Britain wins another medal with Clegg coming in third, less than a second behind Raman Salei and Ukraine’s Sergii Klippert in the S12 category.
Salei wins Azerbaijan’s second gold of the games. Not their first! Because only moments earlier, Shahana Hajiyeva won in the women’s -48kg judo. Two in a minute for Azerbaijan.
- Great Britain’s Stephen Clegg (in red cap) enters the pool at the start of the men’s 100m backstroke S12 final. Photograph: Adam Pretty/Getty Images*
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Here’s a good one on GB’s Lee Pearson, who swept to gold as one of the final riders last night.
Paul Mac has our eyes on the ground in Tokyo. He was at the lifting today.
What is on tonight, Tokyo time?
Geoff Lemon
Thanks Luke. Greetings once again. Can’t get enough Games. What’s on? Group matches continue for the goalball, sitting volleyball, and wheelchair basketball. The judo medal bouts for various classes have just begun. And recapping that only three matches in wheelchair tennis were possible today before the heat policy forced a delay.
Plenty of finals coming up, and some marquee team matches. All times are in Tokyo: plus one hour for Australia’s east coast, minus eight hours for the UK, minus years in prison for Majorca.
4:30 – powerlifting. The women’s -55kg final.
4:40 – table tennis quarter finals begin, and go long into the night.
5pm – swimming. Medal races across 100m backstroke, 200m freestyle, 50m freestyle, 50m butterfly, 200m individual medley, 400m free.
5:30 – wheelchair rugby. Group match with Great Britain v USA.
6:30 – powerlifting. The men’s -65kg final.
6:30 – wheelchair fencing. Gold bouts in the team épée.
7pm – athletics. Medals ahoy. The men’s shot put (T55 and F57) and long jump (T11). The women’s (T37). The men’s 100m (T37 and T47). And the men’s 400m (T52).
7pm – equestrian. The Grade III individual dressage.
8pm – wheelchair rugby. New Zealand v Canada.
Luke Henriques-Gomes
That’s all from me for now. Hope you’ve enjoyed the action as much I have. Geoff Lemon will take over from here.
Here’s our write-up of Kadeena Cox’s stunning triumph at the velodrome.
Cycling: Dorian Foulon of France takes gold in the Men’s C5 4000m Individual Pursuit Final over Australia’s Alistair Donoho****e. Foulon went out fast and just kept going. In the qualifiers, Donohoe was way back on the top times but came roaring home to make the gold medal race. And the man with mullet tried the same tact again here, but Foulon was unstoppable. The Frenchmen is in tears as he rolls around the track, an incredible achievement at just 23 years old. Another nice moment as Foulon and Donohoe embrace post-race. Ukraine’s Yehor Dementyev takes bronze.
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Cycling: We said earlier Jozef Metelka would be tough to beat in the Men’s C4 4000m individual pursuit, and he was just too good. The Slovakian takes gold in the final, beating Romania’s Carol-Eduard Novak. A great triumph for Metelka, who lost his leg in a motorbike crash in 2009. He backs up his gold from Rio. Novak, 45, also has an interesting backstory. He’s currently minister for youth and sport in the Romanian government and has won gold and silver at past Games. Novak grew up a speed skater, but lost his feet in a car accident in 1996. Bronze goes to Colombia’s Diego German Duenas.
- Not only did Jozef Metelka take gold but he also set a new men’s C4 individual pursuit world record during qualifying. Photograph: David Fitzgerald/Sportsfile/Getty Images*
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Men’s wheelchair basketball: Half-time at Musashino Forest Sport Plaza, and Germany leads Great Britain 31-28. The Germans lost their first match, so they’ll be hoping to get on the board today. Britain breezed through Algeria in their first match.
Goalball: Over in the women’s goalball, China have beaten Australia 6-0.
Wheelchair rugby: Game over. Japan win, 57-53. The hosts looked assured throughout that match. Australia tried hard but once Japan got out to a lead, they didn’t look like giving it up.
Welcome to our British readers who might be waking up to the news that Kadeena Cox has won gold, defending her title from Rio, and breaking a world record in the process. It was a sensational effort – and it’s great to see some of you celebrating in the comments section. And of course, it’s not over for Cox. She’ll be up for the Women’s 400m T38 next week. Definitely one to watch out for.
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Kadeena Cox on her way to gold and a world record. Photograph: SWpix.com/Shutterstock*
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Cox proudly shows off her medal. Photograph: SWpix.com/Shutterstock*
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Extreme heat stops play in wheelchair tennis
Paul MacInnes
An unwelcome first at the Games today as outdoor play at the wheelchair tennis has been suspended due to extreme heat. Matches outside of centre court will not resume play until 5pm JST (at the earliest) after wet globe bulb temperatures of 31.2 degrees celsius were recorded. That exceeds a limit of 30.1 degrees WGBT set earlier this year by the International Tennis Federation in order to secure the safety of players at Tokyo 2020.
Wet globe bulb temperatures take a greater account of humidity than conventional measures and are used as a guide to how safe it is for human beings to be outdoors.
Oppressive heat during tennis competition at the Olympics caused one player to faint on court and was the subject of multiple complaints from players. From July 29, Tokyo 2020 officials opted to move the start of play to the late afternoon. Today’s play, however, started at 11am JST despite a forecast of temperatures at least as high as 34 degrees by conventional measures. People with disabilities are at greater risk to their health from exposure to extreme heat.
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Gold to Team GB’s Kadeena Cox
Cycling: Jubilant scenes at the Izu Velodrome. Britain’s Kadeena Cox defends her title in the women’s C4 500m time trial. Cox’s support staff are ecstatic, embracing each other as she crosses the line. They knew she was on track for the win – and her time is a world record. What an effort from Cox. Canada’s Kate O’Brien wins silver, and Caroline Groot of the Netherlands takes bronze. Cox, who was a very promising able-bodied sprinter, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2014. She also holds medals in athletics, including a gold from Rio in the 400m. An incredible athlete.
- Kadeena Cox wins gold. Photograph: SWpix.com/REX/Shutterstock*
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Wheelchair rugby: Still close between Japan and Australia, but the hosts look very assured. They hold a three try lead (43-40) at three-quarter-time, and it’ll take something special for the Australians to turn this around. Australia’s Andrew Edmondson, who was in the Steelers’ gold medal winning team at Rio, went down hard in a collision at the end of that quarter, so let’s hope he’s okay.
Cycling: More medals on offer at the Izu Velodrome. It’s a field of 11 for the women’s C4 500m time trial. With four riders to go, China’s Jianping Ruan has the lead. New Zealand’s Nicole Murray is in second, while Alina Punina of the Russian Paralympic Committee is third. Reigning gold medallist, and multi-sport champ, Kadeena Cox, of Great Britain, is up soon.
We mentioned the men’s -59kg powerlifting before. Gold went to China’s Qi Yongkai, but an amazing moment, too, for Herbert Aceituno.
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China win gold, this time at the velodrome
Cycling: It’s all over in the Men’s C1-3 1000m time trial. China’s Li Zhangyu takes the gold, silver to France’s Alexandre Leaute, and bronze to Britain’s Jaco Van Gass. It was an absolutely quality competition: all three medal winners break the world record in their respective classifications. Another gold to China, and well done to Li Zhangyu –it’s the third time he’s won this event at the Games.
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Cycling: Back to the men’s C1-3 1000m time trial. Jaco Van Gass, of Great Britain, is the second last cab off the rank here and it’s a quick time. He’s into the bronze medal position. Van Gass already has a gold from the C3 pursuit. An incredible effort once again. One rider to go: Team USA’s Joseph Berenyi.
Wheelchair rugby: Japan has eked out a one-point lead against Australia**,** 26-25, late in the second period. It’s end to end stuff at the moment and, as it often does in this sport, you suspect this match will come down to a few crucial moments.
- Australia’s Ryley Batt (left) and Daisuke Ikezaki of Japan fight for the ball. Photograph: Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images*
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Cycling: They’re flying at the velodrome now. Li Zhangyu of China blitzes past Alexandre Leute’s time, in the C1-3 1000m time trial, breaking the C1 world record as he does it. Could it be another gold for China?
Cycling: Over at the velodrome, they’re three quarters of the way through the men’s C1-3 1000m time trial. The way this works is that cyclists of varying impairment levels compete together, with their times adjusted depending on their classification. For some time, no one got close to the Russian paralympic committee’s Mikhail Astashov, who broke the C1 world record. That was until France’s Alexandre Leaute, a C2 rider, who backed up his gold in the individual pursuit yesterday with the top time here so far. It’s a C2 world record, too. Australia’s Gordon Allan is currently in the bronze medal position, with five riders remaining.
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Medal tally
That’s four gold for China since our last medal tally update – and that update was only three hours ago. China has 12 gold medal in total now. Australia remains on seven, with Great Britain on six.
Again, it’s gold for China
Powerlifting: What a day for China. In the women’s 50kg, China’s Hu Dandan takes gold with a best lift of 120kg, ahead of Rehab Ahmed of Egypt. Olivia Broome of Great Britain wins bronze, just edging out her nearest competitor by 1kg. Broome lifted 107kg.
Wheelchair rugby: A big match between reigning world champions Japan and gold medallists at Rio, Australia, has just gotten underway. Both teams are vying for top spot.
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Men’s goalball: Japan absolutely bossed that match in the end, beating the United States 10-1.
Another gold to China after discus win
Discus: The women’s F55 discus has drawn to a close. China’s Dong Feixia takes the gold, with a throw 26.64, ahead of Latvia’s Diana Latdadzite. Mexico’s Rosa Maria Uerroro Cazares takes bronze. An incredible effort also from Nurkhon Kurbanova, of Uzbekistan. She’s finished eighth here, but her throw of 20.40 is a world record in her classification (F54).
- Feixia Dong of China on her way to gold. Photograph: Carmen Mandato/Getty Images*
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Men’s goalball: Japan are off to flyer against the United States, leading 6-1. Both teams have won their first game, meaning this clash may prove crucial in seeing who tops the group.
China wins gold in men’s powerlifting
Powerlifting: In the 59kg category, a best lift of 187kg from Qi Yongkai of China is enough for the gold, ahead of Egypt’s Sherif Osman and El Salvador’s Herbert Aceituno.
Paul MacInnes
Some (relatively) good news on the Covid-19 front today with the news that no athletes have tested positive for the virus. That’s the first 0 case day since August 19 when a number of teams were yet to arrive in the country. Official stats show the testing programme recorded 13 positive cases in total, with nine contractors testing positive and two representatives of the media.
It was also confirmed that the unidentified member of ‘Games-related personnel’ who was admitted to hospital yesterday is continuing to receive medical treatment today. Their condition is ‘not severe’ according to a Tokyo 2020 spokesperson.
Wheelchair rugby: Nail-biting conclusion here, with France keeping their chances of progressing alive. They win 54-52 against Denmark, in a closely fought match. Denmark were seeking a turnover with less than 30 seconds to go, but the ball just didn’t fall their way. Denmark, who shocked many with a first round win against reigning champs Australia, are now out of the tournament. They look absolutely shattered.
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Staying with the athletics for a second, Australia’s Isis Holt has spoken after her silver medal performance just now. A former world champion and Paralympic silver medallist, Holt, 20, had come back from a break from the sport with the hope of adding that elusive gold medal to her haul.
“I wasn’t expecting a time like that today,” Holt said post-race. “It would’ve been awesome to win that final but that PB for me is insane. For me, that’s a world record, and, yeah, I couldn’t be happier.”
Holt will be back in the 200m.
Gold to China, silver to Australia in 100m
Athletics: Wow! China’s Xia Zhou comes flying out of the blocks and holds off Australia’s Isis Holt to claim gold in the Women’s T35. Zhou’s time of 13.00 seconds is a world record, beating the record time set by Holt in the heats. Holt’s time was also a personal best. Bronze goes to Great Britain’s Maria Lyle. It’s a season’s best time for Lyle.
- Xia Zhou (second left) of China breaks the world record and wins the gold medal in the Women’s 100m – T35 final. Photograph: Buda Mendes/Getty Images*
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Australia’s Amanda Reid spoke about the importance of being an Indigenous athlete after she won gold and broke the world record in the C1-3 500m category.
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