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Japan at the 2024 Summer Paralympics

Japan competed at the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris, France, from 28 August to 8 September.

Medalists

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.

Archery

Japan secured a quota places in mixed recurve and men's compound event by virtue of their result at the 2023 World Para Archery Championships in Plzeň, Czech Republic and 2023 Asian Championships in Bangkok, Thailand.

Athletics

Japanese track and field athletes achieved quota places for the following events based on their results at the 2023 World Championships, 2024 World Championships, or through high performance allocation, as long as they meet the minimum entry standard (MES).

Track & road events
Men
Women
Mixed
Field events
Men
Women

Badminton

Japan has qualified eleven para badminton players for the following events, through the release of BWF para-badminton Race to Paris Paralympic Ranking.

Men
Women
Mixed

Boccia

Japan entered six athletes into the Paralympics games, after nominated top two individual athletes in men's individual BC4 events; top four in BC1/BC2 team events, through the final world ranking; and through winning the bronze medal in the mixed pairs event for BC3, at the 2024 Paralympic Qualification Tournament in Coimbra, Portugal.

Blind football

Summary
Team roster
Group stage


Seventh place match

Cycling

Japan entered two para-cyclists (one in each gender) after finished the top eligible nation's at the 2022 UCI Nation's ranking allocation ranking.

Road

Men
Women

Track

Men
Women

<small>Qualification Legend: QB=Final Bronze medal; QG=Final Gold medal; QF=Final</small>

Equestrian

Japan entered two para-equestrians into the Paralympic equestrian competition, by virtue of the nations individual final world para dressage rankings.

Individual

Goalball

The Japanese men's and women's goalball teams qualified for the paralympic games.

Summary

Men's tournament

The Japanese men's goalball team qualified for the paralympic games by virtue of the results at the 2023 World Games in Birmingham, Great Britain.

Team roster
Group stage


Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Gold medal match

Women's tournament

The Japanese women's goalball team qualified for the paralympic games by virtue of the results at the 2023 Asia-Pacific Championships in Hangzhou, China.

Team roster
Group stage


Quarter-finals
Fifth place match

Paracanoeing

Japan earned quota places for the following events through the 2024 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Szeged, Hungary.

Paratriathlon

Men
Women

Powerlifting

Rowing

Shooting

Japan entered three para-shooter's after achieved quota places for the following events by virtue of their best finishes at the 2022, 2023 and 2024 world cup, 2022 World Championships, 2023 World Championships and 2022 Asian Para Games, as long as they obtained a minimum qualifying score (MQS) by May 31, 2020.

Mixed

Swimming

Japan secured five quotas at the 2023 World Para Swimming Championships after finishing in the top two places in Paralympic class disciplines.

Men
Women

Table tennis

Japan entered seven athletes for the Paralympic games. Katsuyoshi Yagi and Natsuki Wada qualified for Paris 2024 by virtue of their gold medal results, in their respective class, at the 2022 Asian Para Games in Hangzhou; meanwhile the other athletes qualified for the games through the allocations of ITTF final world ranking.

Men
Women
Mixed

Taekwondo

Japan entered two athletes to compete at the Paralympics competition. Mitsuya Tanaka and Shunsuke Kudo, qualified for Paris 2024, by virtue of finishing within the top six in the Paralympic rankings in their respective class.

Wheelchair basketball

Japan women has qualified to compete by virtue of their top four results at the 2024 IWBF Women's Repechage in Osaka.

Women's tournament

Wheelchair fencing

Wheelchair rugby

Japan has qualified to compete at the Paralympic games, by virtue of their gold medal results, at the 2023 Asian-Oceanian Wheelchair Rugby Championships in Tokyo.

Standings

Wheelchair tennis

Japan entered two players into the Paralympics by virtue of the gold medal results in the respective gender single events at the 2022 Asian Para Games in Hangzhou, China.

See also

References

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