The president of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC), Philip Craven, was among those to pay tribute to Iranian cyclist Bahman Golbarnezhad during Sunday's Paralympic Games closing ceremony.
China claimed two marathon victories on Sunday's last day of the Rio Paralympics to take their final gold medal haul to 107.
China had won a total of 237 medals, including 105 gold, compared with the second-place UK's total of 147 medals, including 64 gold.
Huang Wenpan celebrated his fourth victory in Rio's pool on Thursday as China added another nine golds to its Paralympic Games medal tally here.
China claimed another 13 gold medals - including four in the pool - to surge further clear at the top of the Rio Paralympic standings on Sunday.
China won five gold medals in the pool as they extended their lead at the top of the medal standings at the Rio Paralympics on Friday.
China claimed seven gold medals to top the standings after the first day of competition at the Rio Paralympics on Thursday.
The Chinese delegation to the Rio 2016 Paralympics, which opened in Brazil on Wednesday, features nearly 500 people including athletes, coaches and officials and is well-prepared for the challenges ahead, officials said.
The Rio Paralympics will strive to promote "a fairer, more fraternal world" while changing perceptions of people with disabilities, the head of the Rio 2016 organizing committee said on Wednesday.
Russia has opened an alternative event for national Paralympians banned from the Paralympic Games in Brazil's Rio de Janeiro, the Russian news agency TASS reported Wednesday.
Ticket sales for the Paralympic Games in Rio have hit 1.6 million as interest in the quadrennial event swells, according to organizers.
Members of the Chinese delegation participate in the flag-raising ceremony at the Paralympic Village in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Sept 5, 2016.
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