Absent since the 1976 Paralympic Games in Toronto, para table tennis doubles was reintroduced into the 2024 schedule and on Friday night, rather like in the sport's Olympic incarnation, China was among the golds.
Wenjuan Huang, 19, and Yucheng Jin, 16, fought off the German veterans Juliane Wolf and Stephanie Grebe to claim the prize in the WD14 category.
They won 11-4, 9-11, 11-8, 11-8 in 31 minutes at the South Paris Arena.
“It feels so good," Huang told the International Table Tennis Federation website.
"I never imagined I could get a gold medal. This was a very good start for the whole Chinese team."
Of her burgeoning rapport with Jin, she added: "We practise very hard and we are good friends, too. We will be even better friends after winning this gold medal together.”
Huang competed at the Paralympic Games in Tokyo where she won silver in the singles and gold in the team event.
Jin, who was playing at her first Paralympic Games, started competing internationally last year.
"Jin played very well," said Grebe magnanimously. "The match was very close but they were just a little bit better at the end," added the 36-year-old who took silver and bronze in the S6 singles at the Rio and Tokyo Paralympics respectively.
"We had our chances," Wolf said. "And that's why I'm a little disappointed."
The 36-year-old added: "If you have a chance to win a Paralympic final, of course you want to do this."
Triumph
Shortly after Huang and Jin's triumph, Jing Liu and Juan Xue upset the top seeds Su Yeon Seo and Jiyu Yoon from South Korea.
The Chinese duo won 11-7, 11-7, 8-11, 11-9 to claim the WD5 gold and burnish their respective legends.
Both players have won every event they have entered in their Paralympic careers.
Liu, 36 secured the first of her nine golds at the 2008 Paralympics in Beijing. Xue had collected four in Rio and Tokyo.
The victories helped to push the Chinese overall medal tally to 25, including 12 golds.
Britain lie second in the table with six golds among their harvest of 15. Hosts France slipped from third at the end of the first day to seventh.
French Paralympic chiefs have targeted eighth place at the end of competitions on 8 Setpember.
Elsewhere on the second day of action, the United States - which dominated the medals table at the Olympic Games - won its first gold at the Paralympics.
The success came at Paris La Défense Arena where Gia Pergolini defended her crown in the women's 100m backstroke S13.
Pergolini, 20, finished in one minute, 04.93 seconds. Roisin Ni Riain from Ireland claimed the silver and the Italian Carlotta Gilli collected the bronze.
