Tokyo News Day 3 - August 27th, 2021
August 27th, 2021
Day 3 saw several world records broken and featured some more high-level action across a number of sports. Check out the results from the third day of competition below and find out what to watch next!
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Today's Top Results
Track and Field
Nick Mayhugh won the gold in the T37 100m race in spectacular fashion. He became the first in his class to break the 11-second mark, earning him the World Record.
Lex Gillette won his fifth silver medal in the T11 long jump.
Raymond Martin won silver in a nail-biting finish of the men's 400m, T52 Final.
Goalball
USA Men’s suffered a hard loss to an energetic Japan by the score 11-1. Daryl Walker had the lone goal for the US. They have a day off before trying to bounce back against Algeria.
USA Women shared an impressive team victory over Egypt 10-0. This was a total team effort with 4 goals by Amanda Dennis, 2 by Eliana Mason, 2 by Lisa Czechowski, and 2 by Asya Miller.
Swimming
Mallory Weggemann won gold in her first race of the Tokyo Games! Her American teammate Ahalya Letterberger took the silver in the Women’s 200m IM SM7. Mallory set a Paralympic record for this event!
Jessica Long won her 24th Paralympic Medal as she took home the Bronze in the Women’s 100m Backstroke S8.
Wheelchair Basketball
The Team USA men (defending gold medalists) took on Iran and came away with a dominant win by 24 points.
Steve Serio led with 12 points and 10 assists. Matt Scott contributed another 4 points and 6 assists.
Wheelchair Rugby
Team USA beat Great Britain in a very close game with a final score of 50 to 48.
Chuck Aoki continues to lead the team with 20 tries, and Joshua Wheeler was the second-leading scorer with 17 tries.
Judo
American Robert Tanaka was defeated by ippon in his Paralympic debut by Rudenko Viktor of RPC in the men’s -66kg division. Next up for Team USA is Liana Mutia in the women’s -63 kg division against Kudo Hiroko of host nation Japan.
Wheelchair Tennis
The first rounds of matches kicked off for the Americans. Casey Ratzlaff won his first round against Frenchman Frederic Cattaneo, 6-2, 7-5.
The USA quad doubles team lost to a tough Dutch duo, and the USA women's doubles teams fell to China, knocking them out of the doubles draw.
Table Tennis
Tahl Leibovitz lost a close quarterfinal match to #2 ranked Ivan Mai of Ukraine final score 2-3. What a great battle to close out his 6th Paralympic Games.
Michael “Cowboy” Godfrey (seated class 1, world ranking #25) lost to Hungarian athlete Major (0-3) and to Bogato of Italy (1-3).
Jenson van Emburgh was victorious in a nail-biting (3-2) quarterfinal matchup against German athlete Thomas Bruchle. Jenson advances to the Class 3 semifinals where he will face Panfeng Feng of China.
Ian Seidenfeld (standing class 6, ranked #15) got a win over Christian Dettoni of Chile to advance to the Class 6 semifinals. Ian will face Paul Karabardak for a shot at the podium.
Rowing
Team USA’s Hallie Smith finished 6th in the Women’s Single Sculls heat and qualified for repechage.
Team USA’s Blake Haxton finished 5th in the Men’s Single Sculls heat and qualified for repechage.
Team USA’s Laura Goodkind and Russell Gernaat finished 5th in the Mixed Double Sculls heat and qualified for repechage.
Team USA’s crew finished 1st in the Mixed Coxed Four heat and qualified for Final A.
Archery
Today wass ranking rounds, which determine the draw for the elimination rounds.
In Women’s Individual W1, Lia Coryell ranked 5th.
Equestrian
Roxanne “Roxie” Trunnell and her horse Dolton earned a dressage gold medal for the Individual Test event for Grade I classification. This is the first USA gold medal in Para-Equestrian in over 25 years!
To follow along with the results in real-time, here are a few resources to help:
Daily Schedule of Events
NBC Sports App
TV and Streaming Guide
What To Watch
Catch some of the ACS Paralympians in action Friday night and Saturday morning.
Ezra Frech: Long Jump T63 Final
Matt Scott: Team USA Men's Wheelchair Basketball
Chuck Aoki: Team USA Wheelchair Rugby
Kyle Coon: Triathlon, Men's PTVI
Eliana Mason: Team USA Women's Goalball
Mallory Weggemann: Swimming; Women's 100m Breastroke SB6
Courtney Ryan: Team USA Women's Wheelchair Basketball
Trooper Johnson: Head Coach USA Women's Wheelchair Basketball
Laura Goodkind: Rowing; PR2 Mixed Double Sculls
Here is the TV Schedule for Friday Night/Saturday morning:
Triathlon, Track & Field 2:30-6:30 p.m. PT Olympic Channel (Live Stream)
Wheelchair Basketball, Wheelchair Rugby 9:00 p.m.-12:00 a.m. PT NBCSN (Live Stream)
Swimming, Track & Field, Goalball, Wheelchair Basketball 12:00-6:00 a.m. PT NBCSN (Live Stream)
Individual Sports TV/Streaming Schedule:
Wheelchair Basketball
USA vs China (W) 5:00 p.m. PT Live Stream
USA vs Great Britain (M) 1:00 a.m. PT Live Stream
Wheelchair Rugby
Semifinal: USA vs Australia 1:30 a.m. PT Live Stream
Track and Field
Session 1 5:30 p.m. PT Live Stream
Session 2 3:00 a.m. PT Live Stream
*Ezra Frech T63 Long Jump starts at 3:51 a.m. PST
Track Cycling
Time Trial (Women's C1-3) 6:00 p.m. PT Live Stream
Individual Pursuit Qualifying. 6:36 p.m. PT Live Stream
Time Trials (2 Classes) 19:20 p.m. PT Live Stream
Individual Pursuit Finals 11:15 p.m. PT Live Stream
Swimming
Swimming Heats 5:00 p.m. PT Live Stream
Swimming Finals 1:00 a.m. PT Live Stream
Goalball
USA vs Japan (W) 9:15 a.m. PT Live Stream
Triathlon
Men's PTS4 / Women's PTS2 2:30 p.m. PT Live Stream
Men's PTVI / Women's PTVI 4:30 p.m. PT Live Stream
Table Tennis
Quarterfinals, Semifinals: Standing Table 5:00 p.m. PT Live Stream
Quarterfinals, Semifinals: Sitting Table 5:00 p.m. PT Live Stream
Finals: WS11, MS6, MS9 Singles 12:30 a.m. PT Live Stream
Finals: MS3, WS1-2 Singles 2:00 a.m. PT Live Stream
Today's schedule can also be seen at NBCOlympics.com