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Great Britain entered three athletes to compete at the Paralympics competition. All of them qualified for Paris 2024, by virtue of finishing within the top six in the Paralympic rankings in their respective class. The squad was revealed on the 18 June and included Tokyo2020 medallists Beth Munro and Amy Truesdale. [29]
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 .
Poppy Willow Maskill (born 22 March 2005 [2]) is a British Paralympic swimmer. Maskill competes in the S14, SM14 and SB14 classifications for swimmers with intellectual impairments. [3] She won three gold and two silver medals at the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris, making her ParalympicsGB's most successful athlete at the Games. [4]
The 2024 Paralympic Games kick off with the opening ceremony on August 28 at 2:00 p.m. EST. The spectacle will begin with a popular parade on the iconic Champs-Elysées, followed by the official ...
Great Britain has performed particularly well at the Summer Paralympic Games, consistently finishing among the top five in the medal tables - a marginally better performance than that achieved by Great Britain at the Olympics until the 21st century - reflecting the country's sustained connection to, and continuing deep support for, the Games.
Team Great Britain archer Jodie Grinham brought an extra teammate with her to the 2024 Paris Paralympics. Grinham, 31, is competing while seven months pregnant, telling The Athletic that she may ...
Elizabeth Jordan (born 7 November 1997) [2] is a British para-cyclist, who won gold in the time trial B at the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris. [3] Left without her sight following a severe e-coli infection as a teenager which saw her spend two months in a coma, Jordan had to re-learn how to walk as part of her long recovery from the disease.
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.