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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]
The medal table of the 2024 Summer Paralympics ranks the participating National Paralympic Committees (NPCs) by the number of gold medals that were won by their athletes during the competition. The 2024 Paralympics was the seventeenth Games to be held, a quadrennial competition open to athletes with physical and intellectual disabilities .
The United States men's goalball team qualified for the paralympic games by virtue of the results at the 2023 Parapan American Games in Santiago, Chile. [7] Team roster. Coach: Keith Young. The following is the United States squad in the goalball tournament of the 2024 Summer Paralympics. [8]
The defending gold medal-winning U.S. men's wheelchair basketball opened the 2024 Paris Paralympics with a win against Spain on Thursday.
The designs of the medals for the 2024 Summer Olympics and Paralympics were unveiled on 8 February 2024; [10] as with the Olympic medals, the front of the Paralympic medals features an embedded original piece of scrap iron from the Eiffel Tower in the shape of a hexagon, engraved with the Paris 2024 emblem.
Paris 2024 Organizing Committee President Tony Estanguet unveiled the Olympic and Paralympic medals for the Games in February 2024, which on the obverse featured embedded hexagon-shaped tokens of scrap iron that had been taken from the original construction of the Eiffel Tower, with the Games' logo engraved into it. [18]
Athletics at the 2024 Summer Paralympics – Men's discus throw. 1 language. ... The following is a summary of the medals awarded across all discus throw events ...
2024 Funchal 200 m ind. medley SM14 William Ellard (born 4 April 2006) [ 2 ] is a British swimmer, who won three medals at the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris, including gold in the 200 m freestyle S14 where he set a new world record and Mixed 4×100 m freestyle relay S14 .