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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 Phryge plush given to medal winners. The programme for the 2024 Summer Paralympics was announced in January 2019, with no changes to the 22 sports from the 2020 Summer Paralympics. [29] [30] [31] The first draft of the event schedule was released on 8 July 2022, with 549 events in 22 sports.
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.
This is a list of nations, as represented by National Paralympic Committees (NPCs), that have participated in the Summer Paralympic Games between 1960 and 2024. As of the 2024 Games ,188 NPCS Paralympic Games .At least 188 National Paralympic Committees have sent delegations to an edition of the Paralympic Games.
Avani Lekhara won a gold medal in the women's R2 10 m air rifle standing SH1 event to become the first Indian woman paralympic athlete to win multiple gold medals. India entered nine para shooters after achieving quota places through various qualifying events after they attained the minimum qualifying score (MQS) for the respective events by 15 ...
Team USA’s first gold medal of this year’s games came in the men’s 4x100-m freestyle relay with a time of 3:09.28. The women’s 4x100-m freestyle relay team also garnered silver, and Katie ...
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. [19]