Japan's Sugimura golden in boccia individual final in Tokyo

Hidetaka Sugimura outshone his Thai rival Watcharaphon Vongsa to grab a gold medal at his home Paralympic Games, the first individual medal for Japan in the sport, on Wednesday night at the Ariake Gymnastics Centre in Tokyo.Sugimura, 39, beat Watcharaphon, the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Paralympic champion, 5-0 in the individual BC2 boccia tournament in the Japanese capital.He scored two points in the first end, then added one each in the following three to complete the win."I hope this gold medal will be an opportunity for many people to find out about boccia," Sugimura said after the medal cerem…READ FULL ARTICLE