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Sarah Storey kicked off day one of the Tokyo Paralympics with gold for ParalympicsGB - a 15th of her glittering career.
Storey smashed her own world record in qualifying for the C5 3000m individual pursuit before beating compatriot Crystal Lane-Wright to win gold. Germany’s Denise Schindler clinched the first gold medal of Paralympics games with a bronze medal in women’s C1 3000m individual pursuit.
The Paralympics will see athletes handed their opportunity to shine just like the Tokyo Olympics after the delay due to the pandemic. The hope and expectation is that not only will there be elite-level competition, but the organisers want the Paralympics to enhance and prove Japanese society to be more inclusive.
It is the first city to host two Paralympic Games, 57 years on from their first Games in 1964, with 4,400 athletes in Tokyo representing 162 national Paralympic committees.
There will be 539 medal events on offer across 22 sports. Follow all the latest: