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Games for Disabled Concludes in Shanghai
A total of 46 world records had been surpassed during China's Fifth National Games for the Disabled which closed in the country's largest city on Sunday.
The eight-day event also witnessed the creation of 196 Games records.
Deng Pufang, president of the China Disabled Persons' Federation, declared the conclusion of the Games at the closing ceremony held in Shanghai Sunday afternoon.
The largest ever national sports gathering for the disabled attracted a total of 6,000 participants including 1,805 athletes from 35 delegations from all over China, including Hong Kong and Macao, which became China's special administrative regions after their respective handover to the motherland.
The Games featured 11 special sports + athletics, swimming, table tennis, shooting, weightlifting, badminton, judo for the blind, gate ball for the blind, wheelchair basketball and sitting volleyball. Liaoning, Shanghai Team A and Yunnan grabbed the top three places in the overall standings.
The Sixth National Games for the Disabled will be held in east China's Jiangsu Province in 2004.
The impressive number of new records set at the National Games is believed to be a strong prediction to China's performance at the Special Olympic Games which follow the summer Olympic Games later this year in Sydney.
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