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Schedule, competitions and dates today, 8/31/21

The 2021 Paralympics will run until September 5th. The current schedule for the competitions, dates and times can be found here.

The XVI. The 2021 Summer Paralympic Games will take place in Tokyo until September 5, 2021. In total, the athletes compete in 22 sports at 21 venues. Tokyo is wearing the. For the second time since 1964 Paralympics the end. All further information on the current competition schedule and the events can be found here.

Competition schedule and dates: Participants Paralympics 2021

The existing competition schedule for the Paralympics 2021 was published in November 2020. Find it 540 competitions instead, all times and dates in the table match Japan Standard time. It is assumed that around 4,300 athletes will start, as was the number of participants in 2016 in Rio de Janeiro. The German Disabled Sports Association sends around 150 athletes.

competition
Qualification dateDate of final decisiondecisions
Opening event
5-a-side football

29.08., 02.09.

04.09.

2
Badminton

01.-05.09.

04 and 05.09.

28
Bowl

28.08., 31.08., 02.09.

01 and 04.09.

14
Archery

27.08

28th-31st August and 02-04.09.

18
Goalball

25.08.-02.09.

03.09.4
Judo

27.-29.08.

26
athletics

27.08.-04.09.

168
Parakanu

02.09.

03. and 04.09.

9
Pararudern

August 27 and 28

29.08.

4
Paratriathlon

27.-29.08.

8
Powerliftung

26.-30.08.

20
Cycling / street

31.08.-03.09.

34
Cycling / track

25.-28.08.

28
ride

28.08.

26./27.08. and 29./30.08

11
Wheelchair basketball

25.08.-03.09.

04 and 05.09.

4
Wheelchair fencing

25.-29.08.

32
Wheelchair rugby

25.-28.08.

29.08.

2
Wheelchair tennis

27.-31.08.

01.-04.09.

12
shoot

30.08.-05.09.

13
swim

25.08.-03.09.

146
Sitzvolleyball

27.08.-03.09.

04 and 05.09.

4
Taekwondo

02.-04.09.

12
Table tennis

25./27.08. and 31.08./01.09.

28-30.08. and 02.-03.09.

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Badminton and Taekwondo are new sports in 2021, but sailing and 7-a-side football have been canceled. Accordingly, only one blind soccer tournament 5 against 5 will be played.

Paralympics 2021 live im Free-TV und Live-Stream

The Paralympics are hosted by the public television channels ARD and ZDF who hold the rights for the Tokyo Paralympics. Fans can watch the competitions live and free of charge on free TV ARD/ZDF follow. The International Paralympic Committee plans for 2021 Competitions in 26 disciplines from 14 sports transferred to. In Rio de Janeiro only 12 disciplines provided live images. The competitions from Tokyo can also be followed in the live stream. For the first time in 2021, fans can watch rowing, horse riding or archery competitions, as well as excerpts from archery or shooting. In 2016, 4.1 billion viewers are said to have watched the Paralympics.

Competition venues, stadiums and anthem: Paralympics 2021

At the Paralympics 2021, the athletes will compete in the following stages, which are laid out in a narrow 8 km radius. In the Heritage Zone is that Olympiastadion, which will also be the venue for the opening and closing ceremonies, as well as the Nippon Budokon Stadium for judo, Tokyo Taiikukan for table tennis, the Yoyogi National Sports Hall for badminton and wheelchair rugby, and the Tokyo International Forum for the 5,000-meter run and powerlifting .

In the Tokyo Bay-Zone there is wheelchair tennis in the Ariake Tennis Park, archery in the Dream Island Archery Park, horse riding in the Dream Island Stadium, the cycling street and the paratriathlon in the Odaiba Marine Park, swimming in the Olympic Aquatics Center, para rowing and parakanu in the Sea Forest Waterway, 5-a-side football in the Seaside Park Stadium and wheelchair basketball at Ariake Arena.

Read about it too

This year the German Paralympics team runs under the song “Ich will” by Rammstein. As the official Paralympics anthem 2021, the song will not only be used in the official trailer of the games, but should also be heard in other videos on the various competition disciplines under the hashtag #MeinWeg.

We want to know what you think: The Augsburger Allgemeine therefore works with the opinion research institute Civey. Read here what the representative surveys are all about and why you should register.

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