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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 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.
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]
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. [18]
United States entered two athletes to compete at the Paralympics competition. Evan Medell qualified for Paris 2024, by virtue of finishing within the top six in the Paralympic rankings in men's above 80 kg class.
The ranking round was held on 29 August 2024. In the men's ranking round, Rakesh Kumar and Shyam Sundar Swami finished fifth and fifteenth respectively. Sheetal Devi scored 703 points in the women's ranking round to finish second and Sarita Adhana was ranked ninth. [34]
Hellenic Paralympic Committee: Website: www.paralympic.gr: in Paris, France August 28, 2024 () – September 8, 2024 () Competitors: 37 [1] in 10 sports: Flag bearers (opening) Theodora Paschalidou Manolis Stefanoudakis: Flag bearers (closing) Alexandra Stamatopoulou Antonios Tsapatakis: Medals Ranked 33rd: Gold 3 Silver 3 Bronze 7 Total 13
Belgium athletes earned 1 quota place in paratriathlon at the 2024 Summer Paralympics by having a top nine ranking in the World Paratriathlon rankings for their classification on 1 July 2024; also marking the nations debut in the para sport.