We tracked the medal count for the 2020 Tokyo Summer Paralympics every day and included Team LGBTQ as if the athletes collectively made up a nation competing in the Games.
There were, by our count, 36 out athletes on Team LGBTQ. That number grew over the course of the Paralympics. That number of athletes makes Team LGBTQ the 29th-largest team at these Tokyo Games. Finishing in 15th place with so many countries having more representatives demonstrated a powerful message for LGBTQ athletes.
Team LGBTQ finished just ahead of Spain, Hungary and Poland. The team’s 25 medals was by far the most at a Paralympics for Team LGBTQ. Athletes from Great Britain accounted for 40% of the medals won by athletes who were part of Team LGBTQ.
Rankings are determined by: 1) gold medals; 2) silver medals; 3) bronze medals; 4) total medals.
The Team LGBTQ medal totals as of now:
Gold: 10
Silver: 11
Bronze: 4
The current Team LGBTQ medal winners at the Tokyo Summer Olympics:
Gold Medalists
Monique Matthews, USA, sitting volleyball
Matthews won her second Paralympics gold in sitting volleyball.
Bo Kramer, Netherlands, wheelchair basketball
Bo Kramer scored 15 points and led Netherlands over China, 50-31, for gold.
Emma Wiggs, Great Britain, rowing
Wiggs takes gold in the Women’s Va’a Single 200m.
Katie Dunlevy, Ireland, cycling
Dunlevy and McCrystal get golden sweep with win in road race.
Katie Dunlevy, Ireland, cycling
Dunlevy and pilot Eve McCrystal defend their women’s B time trial gold from Rio.
Lee Pearson, Great Britain, equestrian – para dressage
Pearson won his third gold of these Paralympics in
Alana Maldonado, Brazil, judo
Maldonado took gold in the women’s 70kg category.
Lee Pearson, Great Britain, equestrian – para dressage
Pearson won his second gold of these Paralympics in the Team Test to Music
Lauren Rowles, Great Britain, rowing
Rowles took gold in mixed double sculls
Lee Pearson, Great Britain, equestrian – para dressage
It was his 12th Paralympic gold medal and 15th medal overall
Silver Medalists
Lucy Shuker, Great Britain, wheelchair tennis
Shuker and Jordanne Wiley took silver in the women’s doubles event
Debora Menezes, Brazil, taekwondo
Menezes gets silver in the Women K44 +58kg category.
Emma Wiggs, Great Britain, rowing
Wiggs takes silver in the Women’s Kayak Single 200m – KL2
Asya Miller, USA, goalball
Miller won her fourth goalball Paralympics medal.
Crystal Lane-Wright, Great Britain, cycling
Lane-Wright completed a silver hat trick at these Paralympics in the C4-5 road race.
Crystal Lane-Wright, Great Britain, cycling
Lane-Wright won her second Tokyo silver in the women’s C5 road time trial.
Moran Samuel, Israel, rowing
After carrying Israel’s flag in the opening ceremony, Samuel won silver in single sculls
Katie Dunlevy, Ireland, cycling
Dunlevy got sixth her first event, then silver in Women’s B 3000m Individual Pursuit.
Hailey Danz, USA, triathlon
Danz won her second consecutive Paralympics silver medal in triathlon.
Kate O’Brien, Canada, cycling
The former Olympian is now a Paralympic silver medalist in the Women’s C4-5 500m Time Trial.
Crystal Lane-Wright, Great Britain, cycling
It was the first medal for Team LGBTQ, coming on the first day of competition.
Bronze Medalists
Courtney Ryan and Kaitlyn Eaton, USA, wheelchair basketball
The United States beat Germany for the bronze.
Maz Strong, Australia, track and field – seated shot put
Strong won the second medal by a non-binary athlete at these Paralympics.
Mari Gesteira, Brazil, siwmming
Gesteira took bronze in the 100-meter freestyle.
Robyn Lambird, Australia, track & field – women’s 100m – T34
Lambird is the first publicly out non-binary athlete to win a Paralympics medal.