What a Games…
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Tuesday 24th August – Sunday 5th September 2021
21 para athletes from Wales competed for ParalympicsGB at the Tokyo 2020 Summer Paralympic Games. This Welsh contingent contributed 14 medals (4 gold, 3 silver, 7 bronze) to Great Britain’s overall total of 124 (11%).
Visit the DSW Tokyo microsite to see all of our Athlete research, Bio’s and interviews:
tokyo2020.disabilitysportwales.com
The LBP team were responsible for:
⛩ Record pre-Tokyo interviews with all 23 Welsh Athletes.
⛩ Edit video interviews, adding Welsh subtitles and BSL footage.
⛩ Create teasers to generate interest around our Welsh athletes.
⛩ Create athlete bios for our micro-site.
⛩ Post across all social media channels.
⛩ Manage all content throughout the games including reactive posts, medal postings, daily schedules and summaries, replying to comments/messages and working with NGB’s to keep on top of all Welsh athlete performances.
In the build up, we interviewed all 23 Welsh athletes selected to represent Paralympics GB:
Hollie Arnold | Aled Davies | Sabrina Fortune | Ben Pritchard | Beth Munro | Matt Bush | Jim Roberts | Dave Phillips | Laura Sugar | James Ball | David Smith | Gemma Collis-McCann | Harrison Walsh | Harri Jenkins | Olivia Breen | Kyron Duke | Jack Hodgson | Paul Karabardak | Tom Matthews | Josh Stacey | Rob Davies | Georgia Wilson | John Stubbs
Watch them all below…