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Belgium at the 2020 Summer Paralympics

Belgium competed in the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan from 25 August to 6 September.[1]

Medalists

Competitors

Archery

Piotr Van Montagu has qualified to compete following winning a silver medal at the Paralympic Qualifying Tournament.[2]

Athletics

Men's track
Women's track
Women's field

Boccia

Belgium have qualified to compete at boccia for the first time via world rankings.[3]

Cycling

Diederick Schelfhout, Ewoud Vromant, Griet Hoet, Jean-François Deberg, Jonas Van De Steene, Laurence Vandevyver, Maxime Hordies and Tim Celen have all qualified to compete.

Road

Men
Women
Mixed

Track

Men
Women

Equestrian

Belgium have four riders qualified to compete including Barbara Minneci, Kevin Van Ham, Manon Claeys and Michèle George.

Individual
Team

Goalball

Belgium men's national goalball team qualified by winning the bronze medal at the 2018 Goalball World Championships.[4][5]

Men

The following is the Belgium roster in the men's goalball tournament of the 2020 Summer Paralympics.[6]

Group stage
Source: TOCOG

Swimming

Belgium have qualified two swimmers, one male and one female, to compete at the 2020 Summer Paralympics.

Men

Table tennis

Belgium entered three athletes into the table tennis competition at the games. Laurens Devos & Florian Van Acker qualified from 2019 ITTF European Para Championships which was held in Helsingborg, Sweden.[7]

Men

Wheelchair tennis

Belgium qualified two players entries for wheelchair tennis. All of them qualified by the world rankings.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Athletes - Paralympic Team Belgium (in Belgian)". Belgian Paralympic Committee. 29 July 2021. Archived from the original on 2016-04-26.
  2. ^ "Piotr Van Montagu selected for the Paralympics". Belgian Paralympic Committee. 20 July 2021. Archived from the original on 2021-07-22.
  3. ^ "Rombouts first Belgian athlete picked for Tokyo 2020 Paralympics". insidethegames.biz. 29 May 2020. Archived from the original on 2020-06-27.
  4. ^ "Tokyo 2020: Belgium confident after qualification". International Paralympic Committee. 11 September 2018.
  5. ^ "Bruno Vanhove looks to the future". International Paralympic Committee. 8 January 2019.
  6. ^ "Goalball – Team Belgium". Tokyo 2020 Paralympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 25 August 2021. Retrieved 25 August 2021.
  7. ^ "2019 Para Table Tennis Calendar". International Table Tennis Federation. 16 March 2019.