
PARIS: Japan’s Yui Kamiji clinched the gold medal in women’s wheelchair tennis singles at the Paris Paralympics on Friday, her country’s first gold in the category, after winning gold in the doubles event the previous day.
In men’s wheelchair tennis doubles, the Japanese pair of Tokito Oda and Takuya Miki grabbed the silver medal.
In judo events for the visually impaired, Junko Hirose claimed gold in the women’s J2 57-kilogram division, becoming the first Japanese woman to gain a Paralympic gold medal in judo.
Yujiro Seto of Japan won gold in the men’s J2 73 kg division for visually impaired judokas. In the women’s 70 kg J2 division, Japan’s Kazusa Ogawa finished with a bronze medal.
Visually impaired Japanese swimmer Keiichi Kimura netted his second straight Paralympic gold in the S11 class of the men’s 100-meter butterfly, his second top podium finish at the Paris Games.
Uchu Tomita of Japan finished with bronze in the same competition, while Japan’s Takayuki Suzuki, who has a limb function impairment, bagged his fourth Paris medal with a silver finish in the S4-class men’s 50-meter freestyle.
In track events, Tomoki Sato of Japan placed third in the men’s 100-meter race in the wheelchair T52 class.
JIJI Press