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Tokyo Paralympics: Hong Kong adds a silver lining to its campaign with 2 medals on the final day of competition
- Hong Kong doubles medal haul with silver and bronze in badminton
- China comfortably tops the table for a fifth straight Paralympics with 207 medals
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Hong Kong concluded its Tokyo 2020 Paralympics campaign on a high note yesterday on the final day of competition as the curtain fell on a largely successful summer of sport in a Covid-19-beleaguered Japan. China, which finished second on the medal table behind the United States at last month’s Olympics, went one better at the Paralympics and dominated the count.
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It was a timely boost for China whose focus now quickly shifts to its National Games later this month before the final preparations for the fast-approaching Beijing Winter Games next February.
The Hong Kong mission to Tokyo almost doubled its medal haul on the last day of competition in the Japanese capital when Chu Man-kai delivered the city its second silver medal of the Games in the newly introduced badminton event. That came shortly after teammate Daniel Chan Ho-yuen sealed Hong Kong’s third bronze of the Games, also in badminton.
The five-medal haul also included the efforts of Leung Yuk-wing and Vivian Lau Wai-yan, who secured mixed pairs boccia silver on Saturday, and the bronze medal heroics of Wong Ting-ting in table tennis, as well as Leung’s individual boccia bronze.
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“During the Games, all athletes performed their best to achieve the results, which were quite satisfactory. Two silver and three bronze is still a satisfactory result,” said Hong Kong chef de mission Wu Siu-ling.
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