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china news service, paris, september 6 (reporter wang zumin) on the ninth day of the paris paralympic games, the chinese team won another 9 gold medals in swimming, athletics, wheelchair fencing, table tennis, weightlifting and blind judo, and broke world records again in swimming, athletics and weightlifting.

as of local time on the 6th, china has basically secured the top spot in both the gold medal and medal rankings at this paralympic games with 83 gold, 64 silver and 41 bronze medals, a total of 188 medals. britain (42 gold medals and 100 medals) and the united states (31 gold medals and 86 medals) continue to rank second and third on both lists. the netherlands (24 gold medals), italy (20 gold medals), france and brazil (17 gold medals each), ukraine and australia (16 gold medals each) ranked fourth to ninth on the gold medal list.

on that day, the chinese paralympic swimming team won three golds, two silvers and one bronze medal, and broke two world records.

another "model worker" is 19-year-old chinese athlete jiang yuyan, who won the gold medal in the women's 400m freestyle s6 final that night. this was her seventh event at this paralympic games, and she won gold medals in six other events, in addition to the women's 200m individual medley.

in the women's 50m butterfly s5 final, chinese athletes lu dong and he shenggao won the first and second place, with lu dong breaking the world record with 38.17 seconds and winning her fourth gold medal in this paralympic games. the 32-year-old lu dong is participating in the paralympic games for the fourth time and has won nine paralympic gold medals so far.

in the track and field events, the chinese team won 1 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze. in the 4×100m mixed relay final, the chinese team consisting of zhou guohua, wang hao, wen xiaoyan and hu yang won the championship with a time of 45.07 seconds and broke the world record.

so far, the 26-year-old wen xiaoyan has won the championship in all four events she participated in at this paralympic games, bringing her total number of individual paralympic gold medals to nine.

the grand palais in france once again became the coronation site for chinese paralympic fencers. in the four wheelchair fencing events that day, the chinese team won two gold medals, one silver medal, and one bronze medal. among them, sun gang won the men's individual a-level epee gold medal, which was his third gold medal in this paralympic games. chen yuandong won the women's individual a-level epee championship.

the chinese paralympic table tennis team contributed another gold medal. in the men's singles level 7 final, yan shuo defeated the british player 3:2 and achieved his third consecutive paralympic title in this event.

in the weightlifting competition, the chinese team won 1 gold and 3 silver medals. in the women's 67kg final, tan yujiao won the championship and broke the world record with 142kg, also achieving three consecutive championships.

in the women's -70kg j1 final of blind judo, liu li added another gold medal for the chinese team.

in the semi-finals of the women's wheelchair basketball, the chinese team, the runner-up of last year, lost to the united states team 47:50 and will compete with the canadian team for the bronze medal.

on the 7th, local time, it was the penultimate day of the paralympic games. 22 gold medals will be awarded in the track and field events. swimming, table tennis and wheelchair fencing are all in their final days, with 15, 7 and 2 gold medals to be awarded respectively. the first gold medal day for canoeing will determine 7 champions.

the final of the women's volleyball sitting event was another showdown between china and the united states. since sitting volleyball was introduced into the paralympics in 2004, the chinese women's volleyball team has entered the finals in six consecutive paralympics and won three consecutive championships. at the tokyo paralympics, the chinese women's volleyball team lost to the united states in the final and won the silver medal. (end) [editor: zhang ziyi]