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The Paralympic sports comprise all the sports contested in the Summer and Winter Paralympic Games. As of 2020, the Summer Paralympics included 22 sports and 539 medal events, [1] and the Winter Paralympics include 5 sports and disciplines and about 80 events. [2] The number and kinds of events may change from one Paralympic Games to another.
Australia entered 12 athletes for the Paralympic games. Six of them qualified for Paris 2024 by virtue of their gold medal results, in their respective class, through the 2023 Oceanian Championships in Honiara, Solomon Islands; [22] meanwhile the other athletes qualified through the allocations of ITTF final world ranking. Men
T/F 42–47: Athletes who are amputees. In field events, some athletes would compete in seated events. T/F 51–58: Athletes who have a spinal cord injury or disability. In field events, most athletes would compete in seated events. T/F 61–64: Athletes who have a prosthesis affected by limb deficiency and leg length difference.
The Paralympic Games are set to open Wednesday as some 4,400 athletes with disabilities, permanent injuries or impairments prepare to compete for 549 medals across 22 sports over 11 days in Paris.
The Paralympic Games or Paralympics is a periodic series of international multisport events involving athletes with a range of disabilities.There are Winter and Summer Paralympic Games, which since the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, have been held shortly after the corresponding Olympic Games.
Around 4,400 athletes will compete in 23 disciplines across 20 venues during the Paralympics. At the Olympics, around 10,500 athletes competed in 48 sports disciplines. The closing ceremony for ...
Wheelchair basketball has been contested at the Summer Paralympic Games since the 1960 Summer Paralympics in Rome.. Winning the Paralympics is considered to be the highest honor in international wheelchair basketball, followed by the World Championships of the International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF) for men and women and the respective intercontinental championships.
Of the 189 existing National Paralympic Committees (NPC), 168 classified at least one athlete for the Summer Paralympic Games, which was a historic participation record.Three NPCs, Eritrea, Kiribati and Kosovo, made their Paralympic debuts at these Games. [3]