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9.16pm EDT
21:16
Women’s 100m butterfly S14: Valeriia Shabalina, the Russian world record holder, wins her Heat. No surprise, but Australia’s Paige Leonhardt got the best start off the blocks and led Shabalina past the turn. Just that Shabalina’s burst of closing speed was unstoppable. They both qualify faster than Chan Yui Lam of China in heat one. GBR’s Jessica-Jane Applegate qualifies second in that heat, along with her compatriot Louise Fiddes and Australia’s Ruby Storm as the third-placed swimmers in each. Moemi Kinoshita (Japan) and Cheung Ho Ying (China) round out the eight.
9.10pm EDT
21:10
Table tennis: Australia’s Ma Lin, the four-time winner of gold, has breezed past Great Britain’s Joshua Stacey in straight sets. Ashley Facey Thompson has levelled his match 1-1.
9.03pm EDT
21:03
Goalball: Brazil win the opening men’s match 11-2, against a strong Lithuanian side.
9.02pm EDT
21:02
Women’s 100m backstroke S2: Only nine competitors across the two heats in this event, and the top eight qualify. Katarina Draganov-Cordas of Serbia is the swimmer to drop out.
9.00pm EDT
21:00
Men’s 100m backstroke S2: Vladimir Danilenko qualifies fastest for Russia, a split second faster than the other heat led by Chile’s Alberto Abarza.
8.56pm EDT
20:56
Table tennis: Australia’s Lina Lei has won her opening match against Brazil’s Jennyfer Marques Parinos in straight sets. Great Britain’s Ashley Facey Thompson is trailing Japan’s Iwabuchi Koyo and has just lost the first set.
8.41pm EDT
20:41
Goalball: Brazil are bossing this opening men’s match, leading 7-1 at a timeout in the second period.
8.40pm EDT
20:40
Women’s 400m freestyle S9: Fastest qualifier here is the Hungarian swimmer Zsofia Konkoly, with Toni Shaw of Great Britain not far behind. The other heat goes slower, with an Australian one-two of Ellie Cole and Lakeisha Patterson. Cole goes out hard in the first two laps and holds a lead, with Patterson happy to hang behind. The eight fastest swimmers will go through.
8.37pm EDT
20:37
Men’s 400m freestyle S9: Australia’s Alexander Tuckfield qualifies fastest for the final, with compatriots William Martin and world-record holder, Brenden Hall qualifying from the other heat. Simone Barlaam of Italy wins that second heat, about three seconds slower than the first.
8.21pm EDT
20:21
What is on today?
Plenty. Times are as per Tokyo, which is GMT+9. Add one more hour for Australia, minus 8 hours for the UK, scan from there for your timezone of choice.
9am – Swimming. Heats for freestyle ranging from 50m to 400m, the 100m butterfly and 100m breaststroke. The medals start from 5pm.
9am – Goalball. Brazil and Lithuania in the men’s comp start the first of seven games today.
9am – Wheelchair fencing. Preliminary bouts have just begun and run through straight into the quarterfinals. The semis and finals start from 15:30.
9am – Table tennis. A whole stack of singles matches happening through the next six hours.
10am – Wheelchair basketball. Algeria play China in the women’s group B match. Netherlands USA at 11:15. Great Britain and Canada at 14:25. Australia and Japan at 17:00. The men’s match between Spain and Korea is at 20:30.
10am – Track cycling. Qualifying for the individual pursuit categories starts here. The medal races start from 13:45.
11:30 – Wheelchair rugby. USA and New Zealand first up in the mixed preliminaries. Australia Denmark at 14:00, Great Britain Canada at 17:30, Japan France at 20:00.
8.00pm EDT
20:00
Preamble
Good indistinct time greeting to you all. We are, as Whoopi Goldberg may once have said, back in the habit.*
* The line does not appear in the film Sister Act II: Back in the Habit, but is solely a wordplay-based tagline to add to the film’s title.
The habit of liveblogging many sports at once, that is. The Olympics have settled into the recent past, a euphoric afterglow, but now we can have a euphoric present-glow of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, to be held in 2021 by numerical agreement.
What is on today? Plenty. Track cycling, swimming, basketball, fencing, table tennis, goalball, rugby… details on the way.
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