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China and the Russian Paralympic Committee finished atop the medal table at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics. The overall medal race easily belonged to the Chinese juggernaut, with 19 goals, 19 silvers and 18 bronze medals, the most in each category. It took home 56 total medals. That fits with the overal...

Chinese swimmers delivered two new world records at the IPC Swimming World Championships in Glasgow, Great Britain, on Saturday (18 July), as three more world records were broken on the penultimate day of competition. World and Paralympic champion Tao Zheng (1:12.94) stunned the crowds by lowering h...

The men’s races at the Paralympic Games in Tokyo got off to an extremely fast start with a world record in the first race. It was the first of six world records during the session. In the men’s 100 backstroke S7 class, Ukraine’s Andreii Trusov broke the world record to win the gold medal in 1:08.14....

Paralympics: Taliso Engel Rips World Record in Men’s SB13 100 Breaststroke Germany’s Taliso Engel set the world record in the men’s SB13 100 breaststroke at the Tokyo Paralympics Wednesday morning. Engel clocked in at 1:03.52 in the first semifinal heat, which trims .06 off the world record set in 2...

INCHEON, South Korea, October 22. Xu Qing and Zheng Tao, S6 swimmers and rivals, won one gold and one silver medal each to lead Chinese dominance on day three. China’s swimmers put on an impressive performance on day three (Tuesday 21 October) of the Incheon 2014 Asian Para Games, winning 11 of 18 p...