Tokyo Paralympics: Day-by-day guide to key events, big stars and British medal hopes

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Sarah Storey, Kadeena Cox, Jonnie Peacock and Hannah CockroftImage source, Getty Images
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Sarah Storey, Kadeena Cox, Jonnie Peacock and Hannah Cockroft have all won gold medals for Great Britain at previous Paralympic Games

The Tokyo Paralympics are nearly over - plan how you will follow the final day of competition with our day-by-day guide - all times BST.

Sunday, 5 September - day 12

Medal events: 15

Athletics (men's marathon T12, T46, T54; women's marathon T12, T54); badminton (men's singles WH2, SL4, SH6; women's singles SL4; men's doubles WH1-WH2; women's doubles WH1-WH2; mixed doubles SL3-SU5), shooting (R6 - mixed 50m rifle prone SH1), sitting volleyball (women's), wheelchair basketball (men's)

Brit watch

It might be the last day of competition but GB's competitors will be hoping to finish on a high.

Wheelchair racers David Weir and Johnboy Smith carry hopes in the T54 marathon (from 22:30 Saturday). Weir won the event in London but crashed out of the Rio race in 2016, while it is a Games debut for Smith, his former training partner, who will be the first Romany Paralympian.

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Coombs is making his Paralympic debut

Derek Rae will bid for redemption and a medal in the T46 event for athletes with arm impairments (from 22:50). The Scot failed to finish the race in Rio, which hurt him a lot, and he has gone on to win World Championship silver since then.

On the final day of the badminton event, Krysten Coombs goes in the bronze-medal match in the SH6 event against Brazil's Vitor Tavares (session starts at 01:00).

Matt Skelhon's campaign on the shooting range ends with the R6 - mixed 50m rifle prone SH1 event (from 01:30), while the men's wheelchair basketball medals will be decided with GB up against Spain for bronze (02:00) before Japan face the US for gold.

World watch

Australian Michael Roeger wants nothing more than a first Paralympic gold in the T46 marathon. The current world record holder has improved his personal bests all season and is competing in his fourth Games but only has a bronze medal in Rio to his name.

In the women's T54 wheelchair marathon, American Tatyana McFadden is hoping to make up for the disappointment of five years ago where she was beaten in a photo-finish in the women's race by China's Zou Lihong.

Gold is up for grabs in the women's sitting volleyball (02:00) with reigning champions the United States facing China, the beaten finalists in Rio.

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