Peninsula all-media reporter Liu Xiaoxiao
The 11th National Paralympic Games and the 8th Special Olympics came to an end on October 29 in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, the competition Qingdao undertook the training task of 15 events in Shandong, Qingdao athletes won 42.5 gold, 22.5 silver, 29 bronze and 94 medals, Qingdao training projects won 48.5 gold, 29.5 silver 33 bronze 111 medals, accounting for 62% of the total number of gold medals in Shandong Province, in addition to 3 Special Olympics team members sent from Qingdao also won 1 gold, silver and 1 bronze. The total number of medals is the largest in history, with 7 of them setting a new national record.
A total of 130 athletes were sent from Qingdao To participate in 16 events such as athletics, swimming, table tennis, archery, cycling, weightlifting, deaf football, taekwondo, Paralympic ice hockey, marathon, shooting, boccia, badminton, blind judo, Special Olympics badminton, Andeo pétanque, etc., and the number of participants, projects and medals was the highest in the past Paralympic Games.
Qingdao athletes performed well in this Paralympic Games, with the "Chinese version of the blade warrior" Li Maoda, in this Paralympic Games, won two gold medals in the men's T63 class 100 meters and 200 meters, and created two new national records; deaf Olympic champion Xin Shun won the javelin and decathlon championships; the first time to participate in the young player Yi Shanjun was also a blockbuster, one person won the T38 level 800 meters and 1500 meters two championships and set a new national record Ren Min, a triple jumper who lost the gold medal at the last Paralympic Games, won a long-lost gold medal in the triple jump competition with a large advantage of 28 centimeters. Swimmer Zhang Meng won the women's SM10 200m medley and SB9 100m breaststroke.
At present, Qingdao is responsible for the training of the national Paralympic taekwondo team and the Paralympic ice hockey team. In the Taekwondo Competition of the Paralympic Games, Qingdao won 13 gold medals in 29 events, far ahead of the second place of 5 gold medals, once again defending the supremacy of Qingdao's disabled taekwondo project in the country. In the just-concluded Group B competition of the 2021 Paralympic Ice Hockey World Championships, the Chinese team won the championship with a record of five total victories, successfully qualified for Group A of the Paralympic Ice Hockey World Championships with its strength, and qualified for the host country of the 2022 Beijing Winter Paralympic Games.
In recent years, under the correct leadership of the Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government, Qingdao's sports for the disabled have made rapid progress. At the Tokyo Paralympic Games, a total of 7 athletes and 2 coaches from Qingdao City were selected, and finally won 2 silver and 1 bronze. In this Paralympic Games, with the exquisite skills and stable play of athletes, it lived up to expectations and achieved the best results in history, which further consolidated the leading position of Qingdao's sports for the disabled in the province, and also handed over a perfect answer sheet for the development of the city's sports cause for the disabled in recent years.