2009 Asian Youth Para Games
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The 2009 Asian Youth Para Games were the first Asian Youth Para Games
Asian Youth Para Games
The Asian Youth Para Games is a multi-sport event held every four years after every Asian Games for youth athletes with physical disabilities. The first Games was held in 2009 in Tokyo, Japan.-List of Asian Youth Para Games:-External links:*...

, and was held in 2009 in Tokyo
Tokyo
, ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...

, Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

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Sports

  • Athletics
  • Boccia
    Boccia
    Boccia is a traditional recreational sport, similar to bocce. The name Boccia is derived from the Latin word for boss – bottia. The sport is competed at national and international level, by athletes who require a wheelchair because of physical disability...

  • Goalball
    Goalball
    Goalball is a team sport designed for blind athletes. It was devised by Hanz Lorenzen , and Sepp Reindle , in 1946 in an effort to help in the rehabilitation of visually impaired World War II veterans...

  • Swimming
    Paralympic swimming
    Paralympic swimming is an adaptation of the sport of swimming for athletes with disabilities. Paralympic swimming is contested not only at the Summer Paralympic Games, but at disabled sports competitions throughout the world...

  • Table tennis
    Paralympic table tennis
    Paralympic table tennis is a Paralympic sport which follows the rules set by the International Table Tennis Federation with slight modifications for wheelchair athletes. Athletes from all disability groups can take part. Athletes receive classifications between 1-10...

  • Wheelchair tennis
    Wheelchair Tennis
    Wheelchair tennis is one of the forms of tennis adapted for those who have disabilities in their lower bodies. The size of courts, balls, and rackets are same, but there are two major differences from pedestrian tennis; they use specially designed wheelchairs and the ball may bounce up to two times...

     (Demonstration sports)

Venues

Venue Sports
Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium
Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium
is a world-class sporting complex in Sendagaya, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. Built in 1954 for the World Wrestling Championship, it was also used as the venue for gymnastics events at the 1964 Summer Olympics...

Opening ceremony and Wheelchair tennis
Olympic Stadium
Olympic Stadium (Tokyo)
or National Stadium is a stadium in Kasumigaoka, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan that served as the main stadium for the 1964 Summer Olympics. It currently serves as the stadium where the Japan national football teams home matches and major football club cup finals are held.-History:The stadium was...

Athletics
Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center
Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center
is a swimming venue in Kōtō, Tokyo, Japan. The swimming center has hosted several Japanese swimming championships.-External links:*...

Swimming
Yoyogi National Gymnasium
Yoyogi National Gymnasium
is an arena in Yoyogi Park, Tokyo, Japan which is famous for its suspension roof design.It was designed by Kenzo Tange and built between 1961 and 1964 to house swimming and diving events in the 1964 Summer Olympics. A separate annex was used for the basketball competition at those same games...

Table tennis and Goalball
National Olympics Memorial Youth Center Boccia

Nation Participants

28 participating nation participants named and arranged after their List of International Paralympic Committee (IPC) country codes.

Medal table

The table is ordered by the number of gold medals the athletes from a nation have won (in this context, a "nation" is an entity represented by a International Paralympic Committee). The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next, and then the number of bronze medals. If nations are still tied, equal ranking is given; they are listed alphabetically by IPC country code.

Host nation
  • To sort this table by nation, total medal count, or any other column, click on the
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1 65 26 22 123
2 26 23.5 17.5 67
3 23 5 0 28
4 17 9 4 30
5 17 4.5 7 28.5
6 13 6 3 32
7 13 9 7 29
8 7 12 4 23
9 7 3 0.5 10.5
10 7 1 3 11
11 5 10 0 15
12 5 7 10 22
13 4 3 1 8
14 4 1 5 10
15 4 1 0 5
16 2 3 0 5
17 0 2 0 2
18 0 1 0 1
Total 219 147 84 450
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