Paralympic Sports Qualification to Tokyo 2020 Summer Paralympic Games

heywoodu · September 22, 2019

I always like how Rwanda is pretty much only good at one sport and it's paravolley of all things

Of course it's rather sad that a genocide is part of the reason for it, but still.

Griff88 · October 25, 2019

Dang it. We had 2 men's compound semifinalists at Asian Qualifiers in Archery today and both of them lost by 1 point :wacko:

Archery Asia CQT quotas:

Men's W1: :IRI

Men's Compound: :HKG :MAS

Men's Recurve: :MGL :SRI

Women's Compound: :CHN :CHN

Women's Recurve: :KOR :THA

(Women's W1 seems to be reallocated to world qualifiers)

MHSN · January 28, 2020

because of new policies, Iran is going withdraw almost half of the Paralympics quotas ! :yikes: including quotas in team sports like wheelchair basketball and 5-a-side football !! :yikes: which is unbelievable because Iran finished 4th in last edition of World Championship in W-basketball and also this football team won the silver medal in Rio Paralympics !!

never been a huge fan of Paralympic sports but this is unbelievable

dcro · February 4, 2020

Ranking period is over for para-dressage. Team qualifiers are as follows: :USA :AUT :BEL :DEN :ITA :SWE :RUS

Additionally, we have several continental qualifiers: :CAN (Americas), :SGP (Asia), :AUS (Oceania). African quota was not filled, meaning four more quota places will be redistribued between individuals.

dcro · February 7, 2020

And these are the individual spots...

Europe: :LAT :FIN :NOR

Americas: :BRA :BRA :MEX

Asia: :HKG :KSA :HKG

Africa: :RSA :RSA + reallocation

Oceania: :NZL :NZL + reallocation

Reallocations: :FRA :IRL :SUI :POR :CZE :POL

+ 3 more Bipartite places (here's hoping :CRO will be one of them - we have an eligible athlete :pope: ).

MHSN · February 15, 2020

On 29/01/2020 at 02:50, MHSN said:

because of new policies, Iran is going withdraw almost half of the Paralympics quotas ! including quotas in team sports like wheelchair basketball and 5-a-side football !! which is unbelievable because Iran finished 4th in last edition of World Championship in W-basketball and also this football team won the silver medal in Rio Paralympics !!

there were lots of petitions and campaigns (or whatever you can call it) in social media to change that stupid policy and finally it was successful. Iran NPC officially changed its policy (at least regarding team sports) but it was already too late for the football team they didn't confirm their participation before the deadline and therefore their quota goes to :THA Thailand ! :facepalm: but at least it wasn't too late for wheelchair basketball and they will participate in Tokyo paralympics.

but the whole story is unbelievable, and those poor blind footballers will pay the price :cry: :cry: I wonder if there is any other country in the world with this level of mismanagement :wacko: :crazy: