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The 2024 Summer Paralympics (French: Jeux paralympiques d'été de 2024), also known as the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games (French: Jeux paralympiques d'été de Paris 2024), and branded as Paris 2024, were the 17th Summer Paralympic Games, an international multi-sport parasports event governed by the International Paralympic Committee.
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.
The opening ceremony of the 2024 Summer Paralympics took place on the evening of 28 August 2024 at the Place de la Concorde in Paris. It was the first time that a Summer Paralympic Games opening ceremony was held outside of a stadium. Like the 2024 Summer Olympics opening ceremony, this event was directed by Alexander Ekman and Thomas Jolly.
The defending gold medal-winning U.S. men's wheelchair basketball opened the 2024 Paris Paralympics with a win ... in the game against Spain during the Paris 2024 Paralympic Summer Games at Bercy ...
The 2024 Summer Paralympics kicked off with a bang Thursday with the opening ceremony in Paris. Athletes from around the world paraded down the iconic Champs-Elysées avenue to Place de la ...
Paris 2024 Paralympics schedule and day-by-day events. ... Like the Olympics earlier in the summer, the curtain-raising event will take place in the heart of the city, with Place de la Concorde ...
The closing ceremony of the 2024 Summer Paralympics took place at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, France, on 8 September 2024.. The ceremony featured cultural presentations from both the current (France) and following (United States) host countries, as well as closing remarks by International Paralympic Committee president Andrew Parsons and the COJOP2024 President Tony Estanguet; the ...
This is a chronological summary of the major events of the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris and other venues around the host city. The opening ceremony was held on 28 August with competition beginning the following day. The last day of competition and the closing ceremony was held on 8 September. [1]