The 2016 Summer Paralympics are running from Wednesday 7 September to Sunday 18 September, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This is a chronological summary of the major events that took place during the course of the Games.

Calendar

Medal table

Day 0 — Thursday 5 May

Opening ceremony The opening ceremony of the 2016 Summer Paralympics took place on the evening of 7 September 2016 at the Maracanã Stadium, Rio de Janeiro, starting at 18:30 BRT (21:30 UTC).

Day 1 — Thursday 8 September

Medals for day 1

Sport Event Gold medalist(s) Silver medalist(s) Bronze medalist(s) Competitor(s)Competitor(s)Competitor(s)Athletics Men's 5000 metres T11 Samwel Mushai Kimani Odair Santos Wilson Bii Men's shot put F32 Athanasios Konstantinidis Lahouari Bahlaz Dimitrios Zisidis Men's discus throw F52 Aigars Apinis Robert Jachimowicz Velimir Sandor Men's long jump F11 Ricardo Costa de Oliveira Lex Gillette Ruslan Katyshev Men's shot put F11–12 Kim Lopez Gonzalez Saman Pakbaz Roman Danyliuk Women's shot put F57 Angeles Ortiz Hernandez Nassima Saifi Nadia Medjmedj Men's shot put F41 Niko Kappel Bartosz Tyszkowski Zhiwei Xia Men's discus throw F37 Khusniddin Norbekov Mindaugas Bilius Dong Xia Women's long jump T45–47 Anna Grimaldi Yunidis Castillo Carlee Beattie Women's 100 metres T53 Lisha Huang Hongzhuan Zhou Angela Ballard Cycling (track) Women's individual pursuit C1–3 Megan Giglia Jamie Whitmore Alyda Norbruis Women's individual pursuit C4 Shawn Morelli Susan Powell Megan Fisher Women's individual pursuit C5 Sarah Storey Crystal Lane Samantha Bosco Men's individual pursuit B Steve Bate(Pilot: Adam Duggleby) Vincent ter Schure(Pilot: Timo Fransen) Stephen de Vries(Pilot: Patrick Bos) JudoWomen's 48 kgLiqing LiCarmen Brussig Ecem Tasin Yuliya Halinska Men's 60 kgSherzod NamozovMakoto Hirose Alex Bologa Uugankhuu Bolormaa Women's 52 kgSandrine MartinetRamona Brussig Cherine Abdellaoui Sevinch Salaeva Men's 66 kgUtkirjon NigmatovBayram Mustafayev Davyd Khorava Satoshi Fujimoto Powerlifting Men's 49 kg Cong Le Van Omar Qarada Nandor Tunkel Women's 41 kg Nazmiye Muratli Zhe Cui Ni Nengah Widiasih Shooting Women's 10 metre air rifle standing SH1 Veronika Vadovicova Cuiping Zhang Yaping Yan Men's 10 metre air rifle standing SH1 Dong Chao Abdulla Sultan Alaryani Suwan Kim Swimming Men's 100 metre backstroke S6 Tao Zheng Hongguang Jia Iaroslav Semenenko Women's 100 metre backstroke S6 Lingling Song Dong Lu Oksana Khrul Men's 400 metre freestyle S8 Oliver Hynd Haijiao Xu Yinan Wang Women's 400 metre freestyle S8 Lakeisha Patterson Jessica Long Stephanie Millward Men's 100 metre breaststroke SB9 Kevin Paul Denys Dubrov Duncan van Haaren Women's 100 metre breaststroke SB9 Lisa Kruger Harriet Lee Chantalle Zijderveld Men's 100 metre freestyle S4 Gi Seong Jo Zhipeng Jin Michael Schoenmaker Women's 100 metre freestyle S3 Zulfiya Gabidullina Quiping Peng Olga Sviderska Men's 100 metre backstroke S14 In Kook Lee Marc Evers Takuya Tsugawa Women's 100 metre backstroke S14 Bethany Firth Marlou van der Kulk Jessica-Jane Applegate Men's 100 metre butterfly S13 Ihar Boki Kirill Pankov Muzaffar Tursunkhujaev Women's 100 metre butterfly S13 Rebecca Meyers Muslima Odilova Fotimakhon Amilova Men's 200 metre freestyle S5 Daniel Dias Roy Perkins Andrew Mullen Women's 200 metre freestyle S5 Li Zhang Teresa Perales Sarah Louise Rung Men's 100 metre backstroke S7 Ievgenii Bogodaiko Jonathan Fox Italo Pereira Women's 100 metre backstroke S7 Liting Ke Ying Zhang Rebecca Dubber

Day 2 — Friday 9 September

Medals for day 2

Sport Event Gold medalist(s) Silver medalist(s) Bronze medalist(s) Competitor(s)Competitor(s)Competitor(s)Athletics Women's club throw F31–32 Maroua Brahmi Mounia Gasmi Gemma Prescott Men's javelin throw F53–54 Manolis Stefanoudakis Luis Alberto Zepeda Felix Aliaksandr Tryputs Women's 100 metres T36 Yanina Andrea Martinez Claudia Nicoleitzik Martha Liliana Hernandez Florian Women's long jump T43–44 Marie-Amelie Le Fur Stef Reid Marlene van Gansewinkel Women's shot put F41 Raoua Tlili Samar Ben Koelleb Claire Keefer Men's 100 metres T13 Jason Smyth Johannes Nambala Chad Perris Men's 400 metres T20 Daniel Martins Luis Arturo Paiva Gracelino Tavares Barbosa Men's 100 metres T35 Ihor Tsvietov Fabio da Silva Bordignon Hernan Barreto Women's javelin throw F34 Lijuan Zou Marjaana Heikkinen Frances Herrmann Women's 100 metres T37 Georgina Hermitage Mandy Francois-Elie Yescarly Medina Men's javelin throw F42–44 Akeem Stewart Alister McQueen Rory McSweeney Women's discus throw F11 Liangmin Zhang Hongxia Tang Izabela Campos Men's high jump T42 Mariyappan Thangavelu Sam Grewe Bhati Varun Singh Women's 100 metres T11 Libby Clegg(Guide: Chris Clarke) Guohua Zhou(Guide: Dengpu Jia) Cuiqing Liu(Guide: Donglin Xu) Women's 100 metres T12 Omara Durand(Guide: Yuniol Kindelan) Elena Chebanu(Guide: Hakim Ibrahimov) Katrin Mueller-Rottgardt(Guide: Sebastian Fricke) Women's 100 metres T54 Wenjun Liu Tatyana McFadden Yingjie Li Men's 100 metres T53 Brent Lakatos Pongsakorn Paeyo Huzhao Li Men's 400 metres T12 Qichao Sun Mahdi Afri Luis Goncalves Men's 100 metres T43–44 Jonnie Peacock Liam Malone Felix Streng Cycling (track) Women's 1 km time trial B Spohie Thornhill(Pilot: Helen Scott) Larissa Klassen(Pilot: Haliegh Dolman) Jessica Gallagher(Pilot: Madison Janssen) Men's 1 km time trial C4–5 Jody Cundy Jozef Metelka Alfonso Cabello Llamas Men's individual pursuit C1 Zhangyu Li Ross Wilson Arnoud Nijhuis Men's individual pursuit C2 Guihua Liang Tristen Chernove Louis Rolfe Men's individual pursuit C3 David Nicholas Joseph Berenyi Eoghan Clifford JudoMen's 73 kgRamil GasimovDmytro Solovey Feruz Sayidov Nikolai Kornhass Men's 81 kgEduardo Adrian Avila SanchezJungmin Lee Rovshan Safarov Oleksandr Kosinov Women's 57 kgInna CherniakLucia da Silva Teixeira Araujo Junko Hirose Hana Seo Women's 63 kgDalidaivis RodriguezIryna Husieva Songlee Jin Tursunpashsha Nurmetova Powerlifting Women's 45 kg Dandan Hu Latifat Tijani Zoe Newson Men's 54 kg Roland Ezuruike Jian Wang Dimitrios Bakochristos Men's 59 kg Sherif Othman Ali Jawad Quanxi Yang Shooting Women's 10 metre air pistol SH1 Sareh Javanmardidodmani Olga Kovalchuk Aysegul Pehlivanlar Men's 10 metre air pistol SH1 Chao Yang Ju Hee Lee Server Ibragimov Swimming Men's 100 metre backstroke S1 Hennadii Boiko Francesco Bettella Anton Kol Men's 100 metre backstroke S2 Liankang Zou Benying Liu Serhii Palamarchuk Women's 100 metre backstroke S2 Pin Xiu Yip Yazhu Feng Iryna Sotska Men's 50 metre freestyle S7 Shiyun Pan Ievgenii Bogodaiko Carlos Serrano Zárate Women's 50 metre freestyle S7 McKenzie Coan Denise Grahl Susannah Rodgers Men's 50 metre butterfly S6 Quin Xu Tao Zheng Wang Lichao Women's 50 metre butterfly S6 Ellie Robinson Oksana Khrul Tiffany Thomas Kane Men's 50 metre freestyle S10 Maksym Krypak Phelipe Rodrigues Denys Dubrov Women's 50 metre freestyle S10 Aurelie Rivard Sophie Pascoe Yi Chen Men's 100 metre backstroke S11 Dmytro Zalevskyi Wojciech Makowski Bradley Snyder Women's 100 metre backstroke S11 Mary Fisher Liwen Cai Maja Reichard Men's 400 metre freestyle S9 Brenden Hall Federico Morlacchi Lewis White Women's 400 metre freestyle S9 Nuria Marques Soto Ellie Cole Jialing Xu Men's 100 metre butterfly S8 Maodang Song Haijaio Xu Guanglong Yang Women's 100 metre butterfly S8 Kateryna Istomina Stephanie Slater Jessica Long Mixed 4 x 50 metre freestyle relay 20 pts Quiping PengShengnan JiangWenpan HuangQing Xu Clodoaldo SilvaJoana Maria SilvaSusana RibeiroDaniel Dias Andrii DerevinskyiViktoriia SavtsovaOlga SviderskaIevgenii Bogodaiko

Day 3 — Saturday 10 September

Medals for day 3 Source:Rio 2016 results for 10 September

Day 4 — Sunday 11 September

Medals for day 4 Source:Rio 2016 results for 11 September

Day 5 — Monday 12 September

Medals for day 5 Source:Rio 2016 results for 12 September

Day 6 — Tuesday 13 September

Medals for day 6 Source:Rio 2016 results for 13 September

Day 7 — Wednesday 14 September

Medals for day 7 Source:Rio 2016 results for 14 September

Day 8 - Thursday 15 September

Medals for day 8 Source:Rio 2016 results for 15 September

Day 9 - Friday 16 September

Medals for day 9 Source:Rio 2016 results for 16 September

Day 10 - Saturday 17 September

Medals for day 10 Source:Rio 2016 results for 17 September

Day 11 - Sunday 18 September

Medals for day 11 Source:Rio 2016 results for 18 September

See also Chronological summary of the 2016 Summer Olympics

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