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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 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 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.
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 .
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]
United States women's team qualified to compete by virtue of the gold medal results at the 2023 Parapan American Games in Santiago, Chile. Team roster The following is the United States roster in the women's wheelchair basketball tournament of the 2024 Summer Paralympics. [14] [15]
The 2024 Paralympic Games will also take place in Paris and are set to kick off Aug. 28 with the opening ceremony. The Paralympics will feature 22 sports and Team USA's 225 members, including five ...
After the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris, 66 of the current 189 National Paralympic Committees have yet to win a Paralympic medal. Two historic National Paralympic Committees are also included in this list.