Tokyo Paralympics comes to an end with colorful and vibrant closing ceremony

Germany's Johannes Floors celebrates aft winning golden successful a 400-meter contention connected Friday, September 3.

Great Britain's Lee Manning, right, passes the shot arsenic helium collides with teammate Gregg Warburton during a wheelchair hoops crippled against Japan connected September 3.

Argentina's Florencia Belen Romero competes successful the changeable enactment connected September 3.

Swimmers hole for a backstroke contention connected Thursday, September 2.

Thailand's Khwansuda Phuangkitcha, left, competes against Azerbaijan's Royala Fataliyeva during a taekwondo lucifer connected September 2.

Wheelchair hoops players from the Netherlands observe aft defeating Germany successful a semifinal crippled connected September 2.

Cyclists contention astatine the Fuji International Speedway successful Oyama, Japan, connected September 2.

Japan's Shingo Kunieda reaches for a changeable during a wheelchair tennis semifinal connected September 2. He defeated Great Britain's Gordon Reid.

US cyclist Oksana Masters celebrates aft winning golden successful a roadworthy contention connected Wednesday, September 1.

Australia's Dylan Alcott helps volunteers adust the tribunal earlier his wheelchair tennis lucifer connected September 1.

Brazil's Michel Gustavo Abraham de Deus competes successful the agelong leap connected August 31.

Brazil's Thalita Simplício, left, and Venezuela's Alejandra Paola Pérez López vie alongside their guides during a 100-meter contention connected Tuesday, August 31.

The United States' Ezra Frech competes successful the precocious leap connected August 31.

Russia's Viktoriia Lvova serves a shot during a wheelchair tennis lucifer against Japan's Momoko Ohtani connected Monday, August 30.

Cuba's Guillermo Varona Gonzalez competes successful the javelin last connected August 30.

Switzerland's Marcel Hug prepares astatine the commencement of a 1,500-meter race, which helium won connected August 30. He's besides won golden successful the 800 meters and the 5,000 meters this year.

Mexico's Mónica Olivia Rodriguez and her guide, Kevin Teodoro Aguilar Perez, respond aft she won golden successful a 1,500-meter contention connected August 30.

British players observe aft defeating the United States successful the wheelchair rugby gold-medal lucifer connected Sunday, August 29.

Japan's Mami Tani competes successful the motorcycle limb of the triathlon connected August 29.

Americans Eliana Mason, left, and Amanda Dennis vie successful a goalball lucifer against Brazil connected Sunday, August 29.

Athletes are helped retired of the h2o during a triathlon connected August 29.

South Africa's Ntando Mahlangu competes successful the agelong jump, which helium won connected Saturday, August 28.

Rwanda's Carine Kwizera, center, reacts aft spiking a shot during a sitting volleyball lucifer against the United States connected August 28.

Russia's Alexey Bychenok competes successful a 5,000-meter contention connected Friday, August 27.

Japan's Kanami Furukawa gets affectional pursuing her array tennis triumph implicit Hong Kong's Wong Ting Ting connected August 27.

Spain's Xavier Porras competes successful the agelong leap connected August 27.

American archer Matt Stutzman holds the bow with his ft portion competing connected August 27.

Wheelchair hoops players from the United States and Germany vie successful a preliminary circular crippled connected August 26.

Nigerian powerlifter Latifat Tijani competes connected August 26. She won golden successful her value class.

Chinese swimmer Zheng Tao, center, competes successful the 100-meter freestyle connected August 26.

Hungarian fencer Amarilla Veres reacts aft winning golden successful the epee connected August 26.

Great Britain's Sophie Wells competes successful dressage connected August 26.

Danish athletes observe aft beating Australia successful a wheelchair rugby lucifer connected August 25.

American swimmer Natalie Sims competes successful the 400-meter freestyle connected August 25.

Canada's Maryam Salehizadeh and Meghan Mahon vie successful goalball, a squad athletics designed for athletes with a imaginativeness impairment, connected August 25.

Hungarian fencer Eva Andrea Hajmasi, left, and China's Bian Jing vie successful a sabre semifinal connected August 25. Bian went connected to triumph the golden successful her category.

Egypt's Ibrahim Elhusseiny Hamadtou plays a table-tennis lucifer connected August 25.

Students ticker a wheelchair rugby lucifer betwixt New Zealand and the United States connected August 25.

Turkish swimmer Sevilay Ozturk competes successful the 200-meter freestyle connected August 25.

German cyclist Denise Schindler celebrates aft winning bronze successful a pursuit contention connected August 25.

The Paralympic cauldron is lit by 3 Japanese athletes during the opening ceremonial successful Tokyo connected August 24. The athletes who lit the cauldron were powerlifter Karin Morisaki, wheelchair tennis subordinate Yui Kamiji and boccia subordinate Shunsuke Uchida.

Morisaki, Kamiji and Uchida airy the cauldron during the opening ceremony.

Fireworks detonate implicit the National Stadium during the opening ceremony.

Entertainers execute during the opening ceremony, which was held astatine Tokyo's National Stadium.

Russian athletes instrumentality portion successful the accepted parade during the opening ceremony. Russian athletes astatine these Paralympics are officially recognized arsenic members of the Russian Paralympic Committee. That's due to the fact that successful 2019, the World Anti-Doping Agency banned Russia from each planetary sporting competitions, including the Olympics, for doping non-compliance. Russian athletes can't vie nether their country's name, emblem and nationalist anthem until December 2022.

Artists execute during the opening ceremony.

The Paralympic and Japanese flags are flown during the opening ceremony. Most of the stadium's seats were empty.

The emblem of Afghanistan is presented by volunteers astatine the ceremony. Afghanistan was the absorption of the world's attraction aft the Taliban seized the capital, and Afghan athletes pulled retired of the Paralympics owed to flights being canceled from the country. "We would similar to person them here. Unfortunately it is not possible, but they volition beryllium present successful spirit," said Andrew Parsons, president of the International Paralympic Committee, connected the eve of the ceremony.

People execute during the opening ceremony.

Members of Spain's Paralympic squad halt for a selfie during the opening ceremony.

International Paralympic Committee President Andrew Parsons waves aft arriving for the opening ceremony. On the near is Japan's Emperor Naruhito.

Health-care workers contiguous the Japanese emblem during the opening ceremony. The Paralympics are taking spot amid Japan's worst outbreak of Covid-19.

People instrumentality pictures arsenic they ticker the fireworks illuminate the sky.