Tokyo Paralympics 2020 day four: athletics, triathlon and more – live!

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Goalball: The Australians up 3-0, all to Horsburgh. This one squirms through the defence and is knocked away late, but the sideline ref rules that it has entirely crossed the line first.Table tennis: Shilton and McKibbin have both gone down, 3-0 and 3-1 respectively, but Wilson is locked 1-1 and point for point with Maksim Nicolenko of Ukraine.Goalball: Horsburgh scores again! Australia back in front 2-1. Then just keeping out a tricky one themselves. Goalball: Those wily Canadians score before halftime, finding a gap in an Australian defence that until now, to be fair, has been more gap than defence. It’s 1-1.Table tennis: With an Australia / Great Britain / USA skew, to the countries where this paper is based, there’s a stack of table tennis quarters and semifinals to watch out for today. Right now, three GB players are up simultaneously in quarters: Ross Wilson, Billy Shilton, and Aaron McKibbin. Those to come, in Tokyo time: 9:40am - Yang Qian and Melissa Tapper, two Australians playing one another 10:20 - Jenson van Emburgh (USA) in a Class 3 semifinal 11am - Paul Karabardak (GB) playing Ian Seidenfeld (USA) in a Class 6 semi 11:40 - William Bayley (GB) in a Class 7 semi 12:30 - Ma Lin (Aus) in a Class 9 semi 1pm - Samuel von Einem (Aus) in a Class 11 semi, Thomas Matthews (GB) in a Class 1Goalball: A third and penultimate chance for the Australian women, who got absolutely blown off the court by Israel in their first match, 10 goals down to bring about a mercy, which is when the game is called off. Then saw out the match against China but lost 6-0. They scored once from a penalty against Israel but haven’t scored in open play. Until now! Meica Horsburgh drives in her team’s first goal using bounce that takes it over the central defender. And the bench goes wild. Australia leading Canada 1-0.Triathlon gold for France and USA The men’s PTS4 and women’s PTS2 have already been completed, with the first gold medal of day going to France’s Alexis Hanquinquant, with Hideki Uda claiming silver for the host nation and Alejandro Sanchez Palomero bronze for Spain. In the women’s event, it was a US one-two with Allysa Seely winning gold ahead of teammate Hailey Danz. Veronica Yoko Plebani of Italy won bronze. The men’s and women’s PTVI races for those with visual impairments start are under way. Before we dive into today’s sport, take a moment to enjoy day three’s action with our photo gallery of the best shots of the day.Preamble Hello world, welcome to our ongoing coverage of these 2020 Paralympic Games. Some athletes are already up and running (and swimming and cycling), with four triathlon races starting early. More on those in a tick. For now, and courtesy of my colleague Martin Belam, here are the other main points of focus on another busy day in Tokyo. All events are listed here in local Tokyo time. Add an hour for Sydney, subtract eight hours for Sheffield, 13 hours for New York and 16 hours for San Francisco. 9am-7.36pm Archery – there are qualifying rounds all day tomorrow, but we get to our first medals at 7.16pm with the mixed team W1 bronze and gold contests 🥇 9am-11.18am and 5pm-7.47pm Swimming – there are another 14 finals in the second session, which concludes with the mixed 4x100m freestyle relay S14 final 🥇 9am-3pm and 4.30pm-9.30pm Table Tennis – we get the first medals, with 42 semi-finals in the morning session guaranteeing a bronze for whoever loses. Yes, I said 42. This is not some kind of Douglas Adams in-joke. The afternoon session then has five gold medal finals 🥇 9.30am-12.50pm and 7pm-9.49pm Athletics – there are 16 gold medals available on Saturday in a packed stadium programme 🥇 9.30am-2.20pm and 4pm-8.50pm Boccia – this gets under way on Saturday with a whole range of individual pool matches. 10am-12.50pm Track cycling – after some qualifying races the medals today come in the men’s B 1000m time trial, the women’s B 3000m individual pursuit and the mixed C1-5 750m team sprint 🥇 11am-6.30pm Powerlifting – four competitions throughout the day, with the medals in the men’s -72kg and -80kg topping and tailing the women’s -61kg and -67kg 🥇 2.15pm and 5.30pm Wheelchair rugby – the mixed competition reaches the semi-final stage 4pm-6.40pm Judo – the medal bouts on Saturday come in the women’s -57kg and -63kg and men’s -73kg and -81kg 🥇 5.30pm-8pm Wheelchair fencing – after a day of competition, by 5.30pm it is time for the medal bouts of the men’s and women’s foil individual in both category A and category B. ??am-??pm Wheelchair tennis – after today’s heat debacle, I’ve genuinely got no idea what time the tennis will start or end, and currently on the Paralympics schedule there are still some TBDs in the match listings which suggest an 11am start. So, there will be some wheelchair tennis at some point is all I can say with any confidence.

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