Men’s goalball: Japan absolutely bossed that match in the end, beating the United States 10-1. FacebookTwitter 7m ago 05:56 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). FacebookTwitter 20m ago 05:43 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. FacebookTwitter Advertisement 51m ago 05:12 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. FacebookTwitter 1h ago 05:04 Paul MacInnes 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. FacebookTwitter 1h ago 05:02 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. France could still go through, depending on the outcome of the Australia-Japan match later on. FacebookTwitter 1h ago 04:57 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. FacebookTwitter 1h ago 04:52 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. Updated at 4.53am BST FacebookTwitter Advertisement 1h ago 04:46 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. You can read more here. Amanda Reid breaks own world record to add another Paralympic gold for Australia Read more FacebookTwitter 1h ago 04:37 Wheelchair rugby: We’ve seen some very competitive matches so far, and this clash between Denmark and France is no different. The French are up 37-35 at the start of the fourth period. It’s a crucial match for both teams. The French have lost their first two matches, while Denmark have won one of two. Updated at 4.37am BST FacebookTwitter 2h ago 04:29 Athletics: Well, you would be happy after a time like that wouldn’t you. A bit earlier today, Norway’s Salum Ageze Kashafali broke the paralympic record in the heats of the 100m T12, with a blistering time of 10.46 seconds. T12 competitors have a visual impairment. Kashafali already holds the world record (10.45) and will no doubt be looking to go even faster in the final. Updated at 4.31am BST FacebookTwitter 2h ago 04:20 Colombia wins gold and bronze in the Javelin Athletics: A great moment for Colombia here. It’s gold for Colombia’s Jose Gregorio Lemos Rivas in the F38 javelin, with a world record throw of 60.31m. His compatriot Luis Fernando Ucumi Villegas takes bronze, while Ukraine’s Vladyslav Bilyi wins silver. A tough day for Australia’s Corey Anderson, who was in the bronze medal position until the last round. Anderson went into competition with the world record to his name, but just couldn’t quite hit his stride today. Jayden Sawyer, also of Australia, finished in seventh. Updated at 4.22am BST FacebookTwitter 2h ago 04:12 Cycling: Over at the Izu velodrome, qualifying has wrapped up for the C4 and C5 4000m individual pursuit. In the C4, it’ll be Slovakia’s Josef Metelka going for gold against Romania’s Carol-Eduard Novak. Metelka looks like he will be tough to beat, having broken the world record in the heats and finishing about nine seconds faster than Novak. And it was a nail-biting end to the heats in the C5 event, where Alistair Donohoe seemed to come from nowhere to qualify for the gold medal race. Donohoe, who sports a quite incredible mullet haircut, was well behind Ukraine’s Yehor Ementyev in their head-to-head heat, but took the lead in the last lap. He’ll go up against Dorian Foulon of France, who finished about two seconds faster than Donohoe, breaking the world record in the process. FacebookTwitter Advertisement 2h ago 04:04 Luke Henriques-Gomes Luke Henriques-Gomes Thanks Geoff. Hope you’ve all been enjoying the action so far, it’s been thrilling hasn’t it? And Geoff said, there’s plenty going on at the moment, including medals being that are being decided as we speak, so let’s get into it. FacebookTwitter 2h ago 03:57 Geoff Lemon Geoff Lemon Right then. Plenty of medal events in train at the moment: the women’s F55 discus, the men’s -59kg powerlifting, and the men’s F38 javelin, where Australia’s Corey Anderson (who is not the New Zealand cricketer) holds the world record but is currently in fourth place. While they are all midstream, this may be my best chance to hand over to Luke Henriques-Gomes. FacebookTwitter 2h ago 03:50 Medal tally China leads the table with 8 gold medals. Australia is clear in second with 7, and Great Britain third with 6. Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games: full medal table Read more FacebookTwitter 2h ago 03:45 Athletics: In the standing shotput earlier, Tunisia’s first medal of the Games arrived thanks to Raoua Tlili’s world record throw of 10.55 metres. Mayerli Buitrago Ariza got silver for Colombia, and Antonella Ruiz Diaz bronze for Argentina. FacebookTwitter 2h ago 03:36 While turmoil continues in Afghanistan, here’s one of the many millions of lives affected by that war. Afghanistan war veteran Jaco van Gass wins cycling gold for ParalympicsGB Read more Updated at 3.36am BST FacebookTwitter Advertisement 3h ago 03:23 Swimming: A few updates from the heats for Australia and Great Britain. In the men’s 100m backstroke S8, Jesse Aungles (Aus) is through. Men’s 200m freestyle S14, Jordan Catchpole and Reece Dunn (GB) are through with, Liam Schluter and Ricky Betar (Aus), while Thomas Hamer (GB) didn’t start. Women’s 200m freestyle S14 final will have GB’s Bethany Firth, Louise Fiddes and Jessica-Jane Applegate, and Australia’s Ruby Storm. Men’s 50m butterly S5: Andrew Mullen (GB). In the women’s 200m individual medley, Australia has Tiffany Thomas Kane and Isabella Vincent. And in the 400m freestyle S10, Australia has bronze medallist Katja Dedekind in the women’s and Braedan Jason in the men’s. FacebookTwitter 3h ago 03:11 Long jump: Ishitile produces her best jump of the day to go from eighth to sixth, before Karlsson betters that and gets back up to sixth herself. Takada stays fifth. Spoladore Salvatini has a misfire that sees her nearly miss the sand on landing, but it’s a legal jump and she still managed 4.70, not far behind her day’s best. That means the medallists are decided. Now for the order. Pavlenko stays bronze. Limps from the arena, she’s been in trouble all day with that leg and she’s still held on for a medal. Mirzayorova has her final shot, after being top of the comp through much of the day. Belts down the runway following the calls of her assistant. It’s a good leap. Not five metres, but another personal best of 4.91! She stays silver, but she’s outdone herself today, literally. Which means that Costa de Oliveira stays gold, Ponyboy. She gets one more celebration jump, just for laughs. She jumps and waves and smiles at the top of her mark. Lands way short of her best but that disappointment lasts all of 0.4 seconds. She’s won the T11 long jump. FacebookTwitter 3h ago 02:59 Athletics: Australia’s Sam McIntosh misses out on the final for the men’s 400m T52, which is one of the wheelchair races. FacebookTwitter Advertisement 3h ago 02:49 Long jump: Silvania de Costa de Oliveira goes top! Her fifth jump hits 5.00 metres and she’s into the gold medal spot. Mirzayorova already hit a PB to make that 4.89, so it’s a big ask for her to suddenly find another 12 centimetres on her next. FacebookTwitter 3h ago 02:43 If you want a visual break, have a look at Day 2 (yesterday) in pictures. Tokyo Paralympics 2020: day two – in pictures FacebookTwitter 3h ago 02:42 World record gold for Australia"s Amanda Reid Cycling: A phenomenal ride from Reid, starting second last in the order. She watched China’s Qian Wangwei set a world record, with a real time of 41.403 and an adjusted time of 38.070. Reid knows that she needs to better that record to win. And she does. Around the track in 38.487 real time, which adjusts to 35.581. A huge ride, and she takes gold. Alyda Norbruis comes after that with a chance to steal it from Reid, but can’t quite. She tops Qian for the silver. The fast velodrome does its thing again. FacebookTwitter 3h ago 02:36 Long jump: Salvatini Spoladore jumps her season best of 4.74, matching the jump of Chiaki Takada from earlier. Takada can’t improve on her own mark. So again those two hold their original positions in fifth and fourth. Japan’s Chiaki Takada. Japan’s Chiaki Takada. Photograph: Emilio Morenatti/AP Updated at 2.51am BST FacebookTwitter 4h ago 02:31 Wheelchair basketball: Australia’s men beat Algeria 37-83 to go top of Group B with two wins. FacebookTwitter Advertisement 4h ago 02:28 Long jump: Eight jumpers in the final, approaching their fourth jump. Mirzayorova in the lead. Ishitile (Namibia) and Panyatib (Thailand) jump first but don’t improve on their eighth and seventh positions. Karlsson bails out of her jump after a distraction and is allowed to restart. Doesn’t top her earlier 4.44 though and stays sixth. Updated at 2.39am BST FacebookTwitter 4h ago 02:20 Games record for Isis Holt in heats Women’s 100m: The T35 category is for athletes with coordination impairments, and Australia’s Isis Holt holds the world record with 13.43. She adds a Games record of 13.49 in winning her heat. Qualifying behind her are Isabelle Ferder (Germany) and Oxana Corso (Italy). From the other heat are Zhou Xia (China), Maria Lyle (Great Britain), Fatimah Suwaed (Iraq), Jagoda Kibil (Poland), and Nienke Timmer (Netherlands). FacebookTwitter 4h ago 02:13 Long jump: Salvatini Spoladore (Brazil) and Karlsson (Sweden) both foul on their third jumps. Pavlenko lands her jump, injury notwithstanding, and gets within 3cm of Mirzayorova before limping away again. The Uzbek doesn’t better her own first place jump of 4.89 on her next attempt, instead logging 4.64 metres. Updated at 2.34am BST FacebookTwitter 4h ago 02:03 Long jump: Uzbekistan and Ukraine in the top two spots so far, but Yulia Pavlenko in second comes up from her jump limping. Looks in trouble as she hobbles off. If so, Asila Mirzayorova tightens her hold on gold. FacebookTwitter 4h ago 01:54 5000 metres: Karasawa Kenya of Japan puts on the afterburners with a lap to go, scorching past most of the field after having spent the race settled back in the back. He comes up to Jacques, but Jacques has bided him time and is able to kick coming into the last bend, where Kenya has already used his kick and instead drops away. Gold for Brazil! Silver and bronze for Japan, with Wada Shinya coming up into third position. FacebookTwitter 4h ago 01:51 5000 metres: Jacques is back to the lead now, Kiprop dropping to third. FacebookTwitter 4h ago 01:48 5000 metres: The Brazilian runner Yeltsin Jacques has been leading up to the halfway mark, but Rodgers Kiprop of Kenya has come up to take the lead. Jacques drops in right behind and keeps on the pace at this stage. FacebookTwitter 4h ago 01:43 Anyone looking for a bit of Straya! barracking in the Australian morning, the men’s wheelchair basketballers have steamed into half time with a 42-17 win over Algeria. Algeria, on the other hand, produced the writing of Albert Camus, which Australia really can’t rival. Honours even, then. FacebookTwitter 4h ago 01:38 Did I miss the fencing, earlier? Yep, the wheelchair fencing has the team épée gold at the end of the day’s qualifying fights. And there are some rowing heats as well. FacebookTwitter 4h ago 01:36 The men’s T11 5000 metres is about to start, while the long jumpers start off. These runners will race with a guide alongside them, tethered by the wrist. Updated at 1.38am BST FacebookTwitter 5h ago 01:33 Cheerful scenes at the track, where the competitors in the women’s T11 long jump are being introduced. This is the vision-impaired category, so they’re all wearing eyeshades and being accompanied out by an Olympic volunteer. As each name is read out to the crowd, the athletes are waving and smiling, some jumping up and down in anticipation of getting started. FacebookTwitter 5h ago 01:28 The archery ranking rounds with the compound and recurve bows are being held this morning Tokyo time as well, setting up how the competition will unfold on later days. FacebookTwitter 5h ago 01:15 Preamble Geoff Lemon Geoff Lemon Good day to you, whatever time it is and whatever place you’re in. The Tokyo 2020* Paralympics Day 3 of competition is underway. There will as ever be a very busy schedule across the venues of Tokyo. Track and field begins today. Thus far most of the major events have been in the pool or at the velodrome, but there will be category medals coming in the long jump, 5000 metres, javelin, shot put, and the women’s T35 100 metres. Track cycling has more medals going in individual pursuit categories and time trials. Equestrian brings in two more dressage categories, after we decided three yesterday. Judo has its first day of competition, with a slew of fights all through the day, ending up in the medal bouts. Powerlifting has four more medal categories to be decided. Swimming has a host of finals to be swum later today. Elsewhere, the wheelchair tennis early rounds will begin, table tennis gets up to the quarter finals, and pool matches will continue in goalball, wheelchair basketball, and wheelchair rugby. Shall we?