Athletes from our city achieved great results in the Eighth Provincial Paralympic Games
A total of 9 gold, 2 silver and 6 bronze
The 8th Anhui Paralympic Games will be held in Chuzhou City from November 16th to 21st. Through tenacious struggle, the participating athletes in our city won 9 golds, 2 silvers and 6 bronzes. The number of gold medals hit a new high in previous Paralympic Games in our city.
This year’s Paralympic Games will feature 12 competitions, including track and field, swimming, table tennis, weightlifting, shooting, badminton, darts, chess, go, goalball for the blind, basketball for the deaf, and judo for the blind, with teams from 16 prefectures and cities across the province 500 players from around the world participated in this Paralympic Games. Our city sent a delegation of 16 people, of which 12 athletes participated in the competition of track and field, darts, badminton and other events.
In recent years, athletes with disabilities in our city have continuously made great achievements in the previous Paralympic Games, fully demonstrating the good spirit of athletes with disabilities in our city who are indomitable and brave to fight. The Municipal Disabled Persons’ Federation will take this disabled sports event as an opportunity to thoroughly study and implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important instructions on the cause of the disabled, vigorously promote the spirit of sports for the disabled, actively promote the integrated development of the disabled, and provide more progressive services for the disabled. A stage where dreams come true. (Hu Xuhui)
