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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 first U.S. medal of the Paralympics was a silver earned by para swimmer Elizabeth Marks in the women's 50m freestyle S6; she also collected silver medals in the women's 50m butterfly S6 and ...
Tabulated below are the medals and overall rankings for host nations in each Summer Paralympics and Winter Paralympics, based on individual Games medals tables. Summer Paralympics [ edit ]
The table is pre-sorted by the name of each Paralympic Committee, but can be displayed as sorted by any other column, such as the total number of gold medals or total number of overall medals. To sort by gold, silver, and then bronze (as used unofficially by the IPC and by most broadcasters outside the US) sort first by the bronze column, then ...
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 Olympic medal table is a method of sorting the medal placements of countries in the modern-day Olympics and Paralympics. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) does not officially recognize a ranking of participating countries at the Olympic Games. [ 1 ]
Host China topped the medal table for the first time with 61 medals in total, including 18 gold medals. [4] LW11 alpine skier Jesper Pedersen from Norway won four gold medals at the 2022 Games, [ 5 ] while LW12 biathlete and cross-country skier Oksana Masters from the United States won the most individual medals overall, a total of seven medals ...
Zakia Khudadadi made history on Thursday at the Paris Paralympics by becoming the first athlete from the Refugee Paralympic Team to win a medal. Khudadadi won bronze in the women's 47kg category ...