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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 .
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 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 ]
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.
Paralympics 2024: Kadeena Cox crashes out as first medals of the Games awarded Thursday 29 August 2024 15:09 , Harry Latham-Coyle Supreme stuff from Caroline Groot , not quite as rapid as her ...
It was a similar story at other recent Summer Games, including the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics (Team USA earned a chart-topping 46 gold medals and 121 total medals) and the 2012 London Olympics ...
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.
Swimmer Ellie Marks just brought home Team USA's first medal at the 2024 Paralympic Games!. On Thursday, Aug. 29, Marks sprinted her way to silver in the women’s 50-meter freestyle S6 race ...