Paralympics

Wheelchair tennis player Yui Kamiji on Friday became the first Japanese athlete to qualify for either the 2020 Tokyo Olympics or Paralympics by winning gold at the Asian Para Games. Kamiji defeated China's Zhu Zhenzhen 6-3, 6-4 in the women's singles gold-medal match at the ...

With the start of the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics just two years away, para athletes have begun to ramp up preparations and intensify their training. But many face major disadvantages due to a lack of training facilities with features such as air conditioning or barrier-free ...

Until recently, Japan's elite para-sport athletes have struggled to earn support from their workplace as they aim to represent their country in international competition. Shinpei Oikawa, the head coach of Japan men's wheelchair basketball national team, vividly recalls a conversation between one of his players ...

The 2020 Summer Games in Tokyo will not only be a significant event for Olympic-caliber athletes in Japan, but it will also provide an opportunity to motivate Paralympic sport athletes. But often financial situations prevent disabled people from participating in sports and trying to become ...

Gurimu Narita did not bask too long in the glory of winning a pair of medals at the 2018 Winter Paralympics. What he achieved in Pyeongchang, South Korea, in March — gold in the men's snowboarding banked slalom and bronze in the snowboard cross, both ...

Momoka Muraoka, who won five medals at the recent Pyeongchang Winter Paralympics, was all smiles during her post-Paralympic news conference at the Japan National Press Club on Wednesday. The 21-year-old Alpine sit-skier, who was Japan's flag bearer for the opening ceremony, won gold in the ...

Sit skier Momoka Muraoka now realizes that she has become the athlete to beat after earning five medals at the Pyeongchang Paralympics, which wrapped up on Sunday. Appearing in a talk show with four other Pyeongchang medalists in Tokyo on Tuesday, 21-year-old Muraoka insisted she ...

Competition wrapped at the Pyeongchang Winter Paralympics on Sunday, closing out 10 days marked by strong performances by the younger members of Team Japan. With 10 medals overall (three gold, four silver, three bronze), the national team delivered on its promise of surpassing the six ...

Yoshihiro Nitta won gold in the standing cross-country 10-km classical skiing on Saturday at the Winter Paralympics. Nitta crossed the finish line at Alpensia Biathlon Centre in a disability-factored time of 24 minutes, 6.8 seconds. Grygorii Vovchynskyi of Ukraine finished 8.7 seconds behind Nitta for ...