Tokyo Paralympic Games 2020 day six: shooting begins, athletics and more – live! | Sport

Taking pictures: Indian Video games followers – Avani Lekhara has simply equalled the world report within the 10m air rifle, capturing 249.6. Some rivals haven’t completed but, however let’s simply bookmark that…

Discus: Issues are hotting up within the F56. Claudiney Batista dos Santos has stepped up for Brazil and overthrown (in a literal sense) Yogesh Kathuniya. The brand new gold throw is 45.25, and dos Santos additionally owns a world report greater than a metre past that. Yogesh drops to silver, and might’t make up floor – in discus three athletes at a time have all their throws directly, then we transfer onto the subsequent group.

Talking of powerlifting, the second-biggest huge boys are out on the bench. These are the -107kg lifters, to not be confused with the +107kg lifters, who could be any dimension from 107 as much as The Fleshlumpeater. And in some circumstances, would have the ability to bench the Fleshlumpeater.

At the moment’s entrants are extra within the BFG vary, maybe. Mongolia is a mile within the lead, with Sodnompiljee Enkhbayar having pumped 241 kegs price of iron. His nearest rivals have carried out 220 and 218. The underside of the desk is ending up on second lifts.

For followers of firearm work, even with out involving hearth, the ladies’s 10m air rifle standing SH1 closing is meant to have began. I haven’t seen any information from the vary. That is one other occasion that isn’t being televised, no less than not wherever I can entry it. Unsure if that’s a Channel 7 factor or an IOC factor. Powerlifting and archery are others the place there’s been no stream supplied. Cheers.

I let you know what, I’m going to listen to that choral Tokyo music in my goals. I’ll get up as an previous man years from now considering that I’m again right here. There may be at all times a medal ceremony occurring within the background someplace. Aaaaah-ah-ah-aaaaah-ah-ah-aaaaah…

Shot put: That’s Uzbekistani gold medal No5 (a lesser recognized Lou Vega tune). Bobirjon Omonov wins it within the F41, which is the brief stature class. He thumps out a shot put 14.06 metres for a brand new Video games report, whereas Hagan Landry will get a regional report and a silver medal for the USA. Germany’s Niko Kappel wins bronze.

Amir Khosravani has the medal in his grasp earlier than taking his final leap, however nonetheless offers it a go to land 6.91. He set the early customary with 7.21 on his second leap, and nobody caught him.

Lengthy leap: Leinier Savon Pineda is in third place… and he leaps into silver! He jumps 7.16 on his closing try for the day, a regional report for the Cuban, and 5 centimetres from the gold.

Mentioned Najafzade has one likelihood to take the silver again for Azerbaijan, however can’t do it. His day’s finest was 7.03, and he wins bronze.

Lengthy leap: Siarhei Burdukou stays in sixth, the Belarussian by no means bettering his first leap of 6.74.

Kamil Aliyev did finest on his fifth leap, and almost tops his 6.89 however not fairly on the sixth. Azerbaijan stays fifth.

Doniyor Saliev (Uzbekistan) stays in fourth, can’t prime his earlier 6.92.

Lengthy leap: A few the T12 jumpers have completed their day early. The Cuban Angel Jimenez Cabeza injured his leg throughout an earlier leap and hobbled off. Didn’t see what occurred with Germany’s Marcel Boettger, however he was coming final after three jumps and hasn’t gone since. The remaining athletes begin their sixth and closing jumps. First, the 2 Swedes, who don’t enhance their place on the present backside of the standings.

Rheed McCracken wins his third silver medal on this occasion throughout the final three Paralympic Video games. Extraordinary report within the T34 wheelchair dash. The gold is taken in a brand new Video games report by Tunisia, with Walid Ktila rushing by means of in 15.01. McCracken was on his hammer all through however couldn’t catch up. Mohammed Alhammadi wins bronze for the UAE.

Soccer: China rating with three minutes left! The French keeper Allesandro Bartolomucci has been excellent all recreation. He has made a number of top-class saves, and picked out his gamers cleverly for distribution, whereas the impasse 0-0 has continued. However proper close to the tip, there’s a restart with the French wall in place. Bartolomucci is unsighted briefly as one in all his defenders drifts throughout him, and Zhu Ruiming unleashes a robust shot proper on the goalkeeeper’s face. His tried save is reflex, saving himself as a lot because the aim, and he will get gloves to it however the ricochet takes it into the online.

Frederic Villeroux weaves by means of the Chinese language defence to shoot with 30 seconds left, however can’t get sufficient on the shot. China win 1-0. They sit third of their group behind Japan and Brazil, who play each other later right now.

Nice Britain’s wheelchair racer will get it carried out within the T33 closing. His wheel is bobbling in the previous couple of strokes as Ahmad Almutairi of Kuwait closes on him. However Small hangs on, and Harri Jenkins crosses the road in third.

Discus: Within the males’s F56 seated competitors, India’s Yogesh Kathuniya has had a whole lot of foul throws, however has additionally clocked the three largest of the competitors thus far. Three athletes carried out, 5 to go, and the main mark is 44.38 metres, a few metres in need of the world report.

Lengthy leap: Three jumps apiece within the T12, and Iran’s Khosravani nonetheless leads. Azerbaijan second, Uzbekistan third.

Soccer: Nonetheless 0-0 within the 5-a-side between China and France.

Archery: Stretton shoots a ten first up. Paterson Pine matches it. Arduous for Stretton to return again from right here. She shoots 9, then a ten. Paterson Pine shoots 9, then 9. So Stretton wins the set. However that makes it 2-2, and I believe meaning PPP takes the match on general standings by a single level. 140 to 141. Neither archer shot lower than a 9 all match.

Thoughts you, there was some phenomenal capturing thus far in Tokyo’s morning. France’s Julie Chupin set a Video games report with 145 earlier, just for Italy’s Elonora Sarti to shoot 146 within the very subsequent match. Good whereas it lasted, Julie.

Archery: Nines to begin the fourth set, as soon as, twice. Stretton hits double figures together with her final arrow! Paterson Pine should reply… and does! Set tied, 28-28. One to go. General rating 111-113 in favour of PPP.

Lengthy leap: Iran’s Amir Khosravani hits the entrance with a leap of seven.21 metres.

Archery: Swinging again the opposite manner once more. Stretton is the one to shoot nines, whereas Paterson Pine hits the center twice for 27-29.

Archery: The second set goes 28-27 to Stretton. Paterson Pine shoots all nines.

Archery: Fairly tough for the 2 British archers to be drawn towards one another within the 1/8 elimination closing. Given it’s a contest with the deal with nations moderately than people, that does appear to be one thing that may very well be prevented. However do I do know the complexities of archery seeding and attracts? No.

Any charge. Phoebe Paterson Pine wins the primary set with a few 10s, Jessica Stretton capturing 9-10-9 to cede it 28-29.

Lengthy leap: The early lead goes to Azerbaijan – Mentioned Najafzade jumps 7.00 together with his first try and set a mark. Six jumps per athlete right now.

The ladies’s 1500 T11 race is dominated by Monica Rodrigues Saavedra. She and her sighted information get out in entrance and keep there, and Kevin Aguilar Perez retains checking again to let her know if they should push on when somebody tries to problem. The South African Louzanne Coetzee does attempt to shut the hole on the ultimate lap, however it’s already out to a dozen metres or so, and Rodrigues Saavedra extends it to twenty together with her closing reserves. Nancy Chelangat Koech is available in third for Kenya.

Athletics: The boys’s lengthy leap (T12) and discus (F46) finals have began, however these competitions will take a very long time. Stand by.

Soccer: Half time within the morning’s first five-a-side match, during which China and France are each but to attain.

Some fairly particular traces from the Australian distance runner and silver medallist.

Earlier than we plough in to right now, you may need to take a minute to soak up the pictures of yesterday.