Schedule announced for Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games
The schedule of events for the Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020 has been approved by the International Paralympic Committee and has been published by the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee.
The opening ceremony will take place on Tuesday 25 August in the Tokyo National Stadium and the wheelchair tennis event gets underway on Friday 28 August at the Ariake Tennis Park, lasting for nine days until Saturday 5 September.
The Games will close on Sunday 6 September, which is also reserved as a contingency day for the Paralympic Tennis Event in case of bad weather.
Tennis is among 22 sports and 540 events featuring a record 4,400 athletes that will make up the schedule for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics. Six wheelchair tennis medal events will once again be contested in men's singles and doubles, women's singles and doubles and quad singles and doubles, with medal matches scheduled across the last five days of competition at the Ariake Tennis Park.
Ticket sales for the Tokyo 2020 Games will start in summer 2019 and there are plans for the updated schedule for all 540 Paralympic events to be published by then.
Yoshiro Mori, President of Tokyo 2020, said: "The schedule for 12 days of fierce competition between a record 4,400 Paralympians from around the world has been framed. Twenty-two sports are scheduled, spread in a well-balanced manner across the length of the Games, so spectators can enjoy the dramatic highs and lows from beginning to end. From now on, I would like people from around the world to look forward to the Games.
"We believe that watching a powerful display of sporting prowess on-site, with the high performances of Paralympians who are pushing their limits to create the drama of the Games, will be an experience that reaches many people's hearts.
"I would like to thank those who were involved over a long period of time in the coordination of the competition schedule, including the IPC and IFs. Tokyo 2020 will continue to work on further preparations for the Games."
The International Paralympic Committee has already announced that wheelchair tennis will be one of a record 14 sports that will be available for Rights Holding Broadcasters to show live from the Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020.
Xavier Gonzalez, the IPC's Chief Executive Officer, said: "The publication of the Paralympic Games sport competition schedule is a key landmark for any Organising Committee and we are delighted that Tokyo 2020 has made it available with 22 months still to go.
"The Paralympic Games are an event that the whole family can enjoy, and the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic sport competition schedule has been designed with a family audience very much in mind. The vast majority of sessions are finished by 22:00 each day which will enable different generations of families to attend and enjoy the terrific sporting action.
"With the sport competition schedule now published, the public can start to plan which sports they would like to attend ahead of tickets going on sale next summer."