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The 2024 Paralympics was the seventeenth Games to be held, a quadrennial competition open to athletes with physical and intellectual disabilities. The games were held in Paris, France from 28 August to 8 September 2024. There were 549 medal events. Mauritius, Nepal and the Refugee Paralympic Team won their first Paralympic medals.
The 2024 Summer Paralympics, the 17th Summer Paralympic Games, and also more generally known as the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, was a major international multi-sport event for the disabled governed by the International Paralympic Committee, taking place in Paris, France from 28 August to 8 September. [1]
As more than 4,400 athletes gather in Paris for the 2024 Paralympic Games, the first medals are starting to be awarded. The Games kicked off on Aug. 28, and will run through Sept. 8 .
The Phryge plush given to medal winners. The programme for the 2024 Summer Paralympics was announced in January 2019, with no changes to the 22 sports from the 2020 Summer Paralympics. [29] [30] [31] The first draft of the event schedule was released on 8 July 2022, with 549 events in 22 sports.
United States entered one player into the Paralympics by virtue of the gold medal results at the 2023 Parapan American Games in Santiago, Chile. And also qualified three wheelchair tennis players via the ITF world rankings as at 15 July 2024.
Team Rec Competitor(s) Team Competitor(s) Team; Archery: Women's individual W1: Chen Minyi China: Šárka Musilová Czech Republic: Tereza Brandtlová Czech Republic [70] Women's individual compound open: Öznur Cüre Turkey: Fatemeh Hemmati Iran: Jodie Grinham Great Britain [71] Athletics: Men's 100 metres T12: Noah Malone United States ...
The defending gold medal-winning U.S. men's wheelchair basketball opened the 2024 Paris Paralympics with a win against Spain on ... Team USA took a 46-40 lead into the fourth quarter before Spain ...
List of 2024 Summer Paralympics medal winners; O. 2024 Summer Paralympics opening ceremony; P. 2024 Summer Paralympics Parade of Nations; Paris Organising Committee ...