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Sri Lanka At The 2020 Summer Paralympics
Sri Lanka competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan, from 24 August to 5 September 2021. Sri Lanka's team consisted of 9 athletes (8 men and 1 woman) competing in four sports. Dinesh Priyantha Herath clinched an historic gold medal in the Athletics at the 2020 Summer Paralympics – Men's javelin throw, men's javelin throw F46 category with a new world record of 67.79 m. He claimed Sri Lanka's first ever Paralympic gold medal and also secured Sri Lanka's first medal at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics. Herath also served as the country's flagbearer during the 2020 Summer Paralympics opening ceremony, opening ceremony. Competitors The following is the list of athletes per sport/discipline. Medalists Archery Sri Lanka has entered one archer at Men's Individual Recurve Open. Athletics Sri Lanka qualified six athletes (five men and one woman). ;Track events ;Field events Rowing Sri Lanka qualified one boat in the men's single sculls events for the games by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokyo
Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 million residents ; the city proper has a population of 13.99 million people. Located at the head of Tokyo Bay, the prefecture forms part of the Kantō region on the central coast of Honshu, Japan's largest island. Tokyo serves as Japan's economic center and is the seat of both the Japanese government and the Emperor of Japan. Originally a fishing village named Edo, the city became politically prominent in 1603, when it became the seat of the Tokugawa shogunate. By the mid-18th century, Edo was one of the most populous cities in the world with a population of over one million people. Following the Meiji Restoration of 1868, the imperial capital in Kyoto was moved to Edo, which was renamed "Tokyo" (). Tokyo was devastate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
