The tenth day of Polish performances at the Paralympic Games is behind us.

First of all, I want to apologize for any mistakes in the plans for the next day – I should have trusted the intern from Polsat less. Because now when I enter swimming races, there are tons of errors (wrong distances and categories).

More medals, more gold, I’m writing this again, if I’m not mistaken again. As you can see, having a disability (whether congenital or "acquired") is not a problem in practicing sports at the highest level (in the appropriate category). And age is not a big problem either, because medals are won by teenagers (and even younger ones – if I remember correctly, a 13-year-old won a medal in swimming) and adults (and I am not talking about "calm" sports such as boccia, equestrianism or shooting – Barbara Bieganowska-Zając won gold in the 1500-meter race at the age of 43, and she also plans to start in Los Angeles, and Karolina Pęk’s rival in today’s para-table tennis final is 48, and she supposedly started her serious para-sport career at the age of 37). So if you know someone with a disability or have one yourself and are wondering what you can do in life, playing sports is a potential option.

Tomorrow, only two Poles will compete. While I don’t rule out a repeat of the Olympic Games, where we won a medal on the last day, looking at the data available for the competition, I wouldn’t count on increasing our medal haul. In connection with this, we can probably slowly sum up the performances of our representatives.

And of course, we will have the closing ceremony of the Paralympic Games and the farewell. Phrygian – mascots that were coolly received when they were announced, but who became everyone’s favorites.

Day	🥇	🥈	🥉	Addition
29.08.	1	0	0	1
30.08.	0	0	1	1
31.08.	1	0	2	3
01.09.	1	0	0	1
02.09.	0	0	0	0
03.09.	0	3	1	4
04.09.	1	2	1	4
05.09.	1	0	2	3
06.09.	2	0	2	3
07.09.	1	1	0	2
Addition	8	6	9	23

We are one medal away from equaling Tokyo’s total. In terms of gold medals, we beat Tokyo (7🥇) and Beijing (5🥇).

Medal	Player (category)	Discipline	Competition	Day	Did we have a chance to see the medal being won live?
Gold	Kamil Otowski (S1)	Swimming	100m backstroke S1	29.08.	✅
Gold	Kamil Otowski (S1)	Swimming	50m backstroke S1	31.08.	✅
Gold	Patrick Chojnowski (TT10), Piotr Grudzień (TT8)	Table tennis	MD18 Doubles Tournament	01.09.	❌
Gold	Patrick Chojnowski (TT10)	Table tennis	MS10 Singles Tournament	04.09.	✅
Gold	Rafal Czuper (TT2)	Table tennis	MS2 Singles Tournament	05.09.	✅
Gold	Barbara Bieganowska‍-‍Hare (T20)	Sports	1500m T20	06.09.	✅
Gold	Karolina Kucharczyk (T20)	Sports	Long Jump T20	06.09.	✅*
Gold	Karolina Pęk (TT9)	Table tennis	WS9 Singles Tournament	07.09.	✅
Silver	Lucyna Kornobys (F34)	Sports	Shot Put F34	03.09.	✅*
Silver	Michal Dabrowski (B)	Fencing	Sabre individually B	03.09.	✅
Silver	Kinga Dróżdż (A)	Fencing	Sabre individually A	03.09.	✅
Silver	Natalia Partyka (TT10)	Table tennis	WS10 Singles Tournament	04.09.	✅
Silver	Lukasz Ciszek (ST)	Archery	Classic Open Bow	04.09.	✅
Silver	Renata Sliwinska (F40)	Sports	Shot Put T40	07.09.	✅*
Brown	Lech Stoltman (F55)	Sports	Shot Put F55	30.08.	❔
Brown	Karolina Pęk (TT9), Piotr Grudzień (TT8)	Table tennis	XD17 Doubles Tournament	31.08.	❌
Brown	Natalia Partyka (TT10), Karolina Pęk (TT9)	Table tennis	WD20 Doubles Tournament	31.08.	❔
Brown	Marek Dobrowolski (SH1)	Shooting	Rifle 3 positions 50 meters SH1	03.09.	✅
Brown	Zbigniew Maciejewski (C1)	Cycling	C1 Time Trial	04.09.	❌
Brown	Dorota Buclaw (TT1)	Table tennis	WS1-2 Singles Tournament	05.09.	❌
Brown	Rafal Wilk (H4)	Cycling	Mass start race H4	05.09.	✅
Brown	Maciej Lepiato (T44)	Sports	High Jump T64	06.09.	❔*
Brown	Michal Dabrowski (B)	Fencing	Individual Epee B	06.09.	❌

Explanation of symbols:

• ✅ – you could see winning a medal;
• ❔ – the discipline was shown, but the international signal was focused on another competition/match;
• ❌ – there was no coverage of a given discipline;
• * – you can argue.

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Poles’ results from today (06.09.)

Road paracycling

Mass start race, men, category C1-3:

• Zbigniew Maciejewski (C1):
  • result: 18. place.

If it was a time trial, the lower category competitors would be given a factor to the measured time so that the results would be "more fair" due to greater disability. Unfortunately, in the case of a mass start race, it is not used (because there is not much space), so competitors from lower classes are in a worse position from the start. In the "trivia" The Pole was the second C1 category competitor at the finish line.

Paraswimming

200 meters medley, men, category SM10:

• Alan Ogorzalek:
  • qualifications: 4th place;
  • final: 6. place.

200 meters medley, women, category SM10:

• Olivia Jablonska:
  • qualifications: 9. place.

Men’s 100m butterfly stroke category S8:

• Michal Golus:
  • qualifications: 4th place;
  • final: 5. place.

200 meters freestyle, men, Category S3:

• Krzysztof Lechniak:
  • qualifications: 5th place;
  • final: 7. place.

In the cases of Alan and Michal, both improved their qualifying times in the final races, but their rivals improved even more.

Para-table tennis

Women’s Singles Tournament category WS9:

• Karolina Pęk 🥇:
  • semi-final: 3:0 (11:7, 11:8, 11:7), rival: Alexa Szvitacs (Hungary);
  • final: 3:2 (11:7, 2:11, 4:11, 13:11, 11:8), rival: Xiong Guiyan (China).

We end the para table tennis tournament with another gold medal and more emotions typical of sports played to 3 sets.

Para weightlifting

Men’s up to 61 kilograms category there are no categories here:

• Laurence Latus:
  • result: 10. place.

Para-kayaking

Instead "Normal" canoes, here a va’a is used (a canoe with an additional mini-hull attached for stabilization, probably always on the rowing side).

200 meters kayaking, men, category KL3:

Semi-final (one heat only): 6 to final A. The rest out.

• Mateusz Surwiłło:
  • semi-final: 6th place in the heat;
  • final A: 7. place.

200 meters canoe, women, VL3 category:

Semi-finals: 3 advance to final A. The rest advance to final B.

• Monika Kukla:
  • semi-final: 3rd place in the race;
  • final A: 8. place.

Wheelchair fencing

Teams in team competitions consist of 3 players + a reserve (where, unlike in regular fencing, players can be changed more than once during the entire tournament), and one player MUST BE of category B, and during the duel one must play at least 3 duels being represented by a category B player (i.e. one cannot field someone from category B and replace him with someone from category A halfway through the duel).

Team epee, women, category AB:

• Poland (Marta Fidrych (A), Kinga Dróżdż (A), Jadwiga Pacek (B):
  • quarterfinal: 35:45, rivals: Ukraine.

Men’s Team Epee category AB:

• Poland (Michał Nalewajek (A), Dariusz Pender (A), Michał Dąbrowski (B)):
  • quarter-final: 45:34, rivals: Ukraine;
  • semi-final: 20:45, rivals: China;
  • match for 3rd place: 28:45, rivals: Great Britain.

Para athletics

I found an interesting PDF in English with a short description each category of classes in athletics.

Men’s shot put category F34:

• Tomasz Paulinski:
  • final: 8. place.

Men’s 200-meter dash category T37:

• Michal Kotkowski:
  • final: 6. place.

Shot put, women, category F40:

The F40 category is for "especially short people" (I am currently not entirely sure what exactly divides F40 from F41, which is also a category for people suffering from short stature. The difference "on the eye" is that the riders in the F41 category are bigger).

• Renata Sliwinska 🥈:
  • final: 2. place.

Source of this information – the games side.

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Schedule of performances for 08.09.

WEIGHTLIFTING

14:00 – Marzena Zięba – over 88kg – FINAL

CANOEING

10:42 – Katarzyna Kozikowska – 200m kayak race, class KL3 – eliminations

12:07 – Katarzyna Kozikowska – 200m kayak race, class KL3 – possibly FINAL

CLOSING CEREMONY

20:30 – Closing Ceremony (it will also be on Super Polsat, but I have no idea if it is a public or encrypted channel. Although at least it can be in a more basic package than encrypted channels, if someone has satellite TV, or another decoder, with a very basic package)

Source. Errata during the day. To you Broadcast plan Polsat.