Tokyo Paralympics 2020 day 9: road cycling and table tennis medals, taekwondo starts, and more – live! | Sport

Goalball: A bit of a blow out in the end. China defeat the USA 8-1. As the scoreline suggests, China were excellent in defence, lethal in attack. Basically a comprehensive performance. A tough day for the Americans, but they’ll be back in the bronze medal match. China will play the winner of Brazil or Lithuania for gold medal glory.

Road cycling: Sad news from the Fuji speedway. That collision earlier has ended the race for Australia’s Carol Cooke. A tough break for Cooke, 60, who won gold at Rio in the same event.

Road cycling: It’s all over in the men’s T1-2 road race. Gold goes to China’s Jianxin Chen, ahead of Tim Belcelen of Belgium and Juan Jose Quiroga of Colombia. USA’s Matthew Rodriguez finished fifth, while Australia’s Stuart Jones crossed the line in eighth place. A commanding performance from Chen in the wet. He finished a full minute ahead of his nearest rival, and was still full of energy as he crossed the line.

Olly writes below the line:

Dame Sarah Storey. Wow! Incredible achievement to win so many golds over such a long duration. To remain at the top of your sport for so long is just incredible. To have achieved this over two sports in multiple disciplines within those sports is all the more impressive.

Couldn’t have said it better myself.

Athletics: Keula Nidreia Pereira Semedo finished fourth of four in her heat, but things got better once she crossed the finish line. A lovely moment from earlier today.

Goalball: Half-time in this men’s semi-final between China and the USA. China lead 3-1. Yang Mingyuan has been the star for China, with all three goals.

Road cycling: There’s been an awful collision in the women’s T1-2 Road Race among the leaders. Conditions are incredibly slippery at the speedway track. Coming around a bend, Canada’s Shelley Gautier turned sharply and went down. Australia’s Carol Cooke, the reigning champion, was unable to avoid Gautier, and clattered into the Canadian. Jana Majunke, of Germany, also collided with Gautier but managed to stay upright. It was an ugly crash, and Gautier in particular appeared to be in quite bad shape. Cooke seemed like she was going to get back on the road. We’ll keep you posted.

For our Australian readers, it’s been another strong morning in the pool for the Green and Gold.

Will Martin broke his world record in the heats of the 100m butterfly S9, with a time 58.14 seconds. Ben Hance set a Paralympic record in the 100m backstroke S14, swimming a time of 57.75 seconds. And Col Pearce, Jasmine Greenwood, Rachael Watson are among those Australians who will also compete in tonight’s finals.

Let’s recap one of the big stories of the day so far.

In diabolical conditions at the Fuji speedway, Team GB cyclist Sarah Storey completed a journey she began 29 years ago as she won her 17th gold medal to become, outright, the most successful British Paralympian of all time.

My colleague in Tokyo, Paul MacInnes, has this wonderful piece on Storey’s triumph.

Greetings, world! Welcome to our live coverage of day nine of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics. Here’s what we’ve got to look forward to today, courtesy of my colleague Martin Belam.

All events are listed here in local Tokyo time. Add an hour for Sydney, subtract eight hours for Cardiff, 13 hours for New York and 16 hours for San Francisco.

• In progress: Taekwondo – Taekwondo has been part of the Olympic medal programme since the 2000 Games in Sydney, but makes its first ever appearance in the Paralympics starting on Thursday, and athletes will compete in six Kyorugi contests for athletes with upper limb impairments. There are three weight classes: -61 kg, -75kg and +75kg for men, -49kg, -58kg and +58kg for women.
• In progress: Badminton – there are group stage match-ups all day long through until 8pm.
• In progress: Table tennis – China are in all of five of today’s finals – of which two are already completed.If I was a betting man I don’t think I’d back anything other than a Chinese clean sweep ?
• 1:00pm: Road cycling – Two of today’s five races that start and finish at the F1 track are completed, with three still to go. At 1pm it is the turn of the T1-2 men’s and women’s races. Then there should be what promises to be a spectacular mixed H1-5 team relay at 3.30pm – it is a new event ?
• 1.15pm: Goalball – both the men’s and women’s competition have their semi-finals on Thursday – the order goes men’s China v US, women’s Turkey v Japan, men’s Lithuania v Brazil, women’s Brazil v US.
• 3.30pm: Shooting – after this morning’s preamble and qualifications, the medals today are in the afternoon with the mixed 25m pistol SH1 final ?
• 4.30pm: Football 5-a-side – one of the events at the Paralympics that only has a men’s edition reaches the semi-final stage. Teams consist of a squad of eight visually impaired players, plus two sighted goalkeepers. Brazil are the defending champions and seem unbeatable in Tokyo – they’ve scored 11 and are yet to concede a goal in their opening three matches. They face Morocco at 7.30am. But before that, at 4.30am, China play similarly unbeaten Argentina for the right to fight for the gold on Saturday.
• 5pm: Swimming – as usual there are heats in a morning session that starts at 9am, but the medals are all in the Tokyo evening, with another 15 finals ?
• 5.30pm: Archery – it is the women’s individual recurve, with the bronze medal contest at 7.06pm and the final at 7.21pm. Hazel Chaisty goes for Great Britain, Australia have Imalia Oktrininda and the US have Emma Rose Ravish in contention ?
• Not before 6pm: Wheelchair tennis – action at Ariake Tennis Park has been ongoing all day, but the only medals on offer are in the men’s quad singles competition, with Australia’s Dylan Alcott up against Sam Schroder of the Netherlands in the gold medal match last on centre court ?
• 6.30pm: Sitting volleyball – this competition has reached the men’s semi-final stage. Not Russia play Brazil first. Then it is Iran v Bosnia-Herzegovina.
• 7pm: Athletics – you’ve got the hang of this by now, the morning session has just ended with an evening session and a gazillion* medals to be won later on. [*18 finals] ?