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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 designs of 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.
Swimmer Ellie Marks just brought home Team USA's first medal at the 2024 Paralympic Games!. On Thursday, Aug. 29, Marks sprinted her way to silver in the women’s 50-meter freestyle S6 race ...
The programme of the 2024 Summer Olympics featured 329 events in 32 sports, including the 28 "core" Olympic sports contested in 2016 and 2020, [1] and four optional sports that were proposed by the Paris Organising Committee: breaking made its Olympic debut as an optional sport, while skateboarding, sport climbing, and surfing returned from 2020.
PARIS, FRANCE - SEPTEMBER 04: Silver Medalist Tatyana McFadden of Team United States waves during a medal ceremony the Women's 100m-T54 Final on day seven of the Paris 2024 Summer Paralympic Games ...
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]
Women's 200 metre individual medley SM14: Valeriia Shabalina Neutral Paralympic Athletes: Poppy Maskill Great Britain: Aira Kinoshita Japan [334] Men's 400 metre freestyle S8: Alberto Amodeo Italy: Reid Maxwell Canada: Andrei Nikolaev Neutral Paralympic Athletes [335] Women's 400 metre freestyle S8: Jessica Long United States: Alice Tai Great ...