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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.
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 .
This medal table also includes the medals won at the 1992 Summer Paralympics for Intellectually Disabled, held in Madrid, who also organized by then International Coordenation Committee (ICC) and same Organizing Committee (COOB'92) who made the gestion of the 1992 Summer Paralympics held in Barcelona and also part of same event.
The United States led the final medal table for the fourth consecutive Summer Games, with 40 gold and 126 total medals, while China finished second with 40 gold and 91 medals in total. [15] The occasion marked the first time a gold medal tie among the two most successful nations has occurred in Summer Olympics history. [16]
Between 1976 and 1996, Team USA topped the medal table at every single Paralympics. The US is the all-time record holder for most overall and gold Paralympic medals , largely due to the nation’s ...
The nation used to be a dominant Paralympic power in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, but has steadily declined since the 1990s to a point where it finished sixth in the 2012 Summer Paralympics medal count. The team then improved to a fourth-place finish in 2016, and third in 2020, and unexpectedly finished first at the 2018 Winter Paralympics.
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 ...
These games marked the first time Paris hosted the Summer Paralympics and the second time France hosted the Paralympic Games, following the 1992 Winter Paralympics in Tignes and Albertville. France also hosted the 2024 Summer Olympics. China topped the medal table for the sixth consecutive Paralympics, winning 94 golds and 221 total medals.