The 2020 Paralympics were the sixteenth Games to be held, a quadrennial competition open to athletes with physical and intellectual disabilities.

Athletes from Costa Rica,[1] Ecuador,[2] El Salvador,[3][4] Montenegro,[5] and Oman[6] won their first Paralympic medals.

Costa Rica, Ecuador,[7] Ethiopia,[8] Pakistan,[9] and Sri Lanka[10] won their first Paralympic gold medals.

Judo, table tennis and taekwondo award two bronze medals per discipline - the table tennis to losing semi-finalists, a first since the 1996 Summer Paralympics and the two combat sports by a repechage system whereby defeated athletes up to the semi-final stage rejoin competition for a bronze medal.

*   Host nation (Japan)Marcin Polak was provisionally suspended from the men's individual pursuit B pending an adjudication following a positive test for a banned substance.