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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.
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 ...
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.
The defending gold medal-winning U.S. men's wheelchair basketball opened the 2024 Paris Paralympics with a win against Spain on Thursday.
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 men's team qualified to compete by virtue of the gold medal results at the 2023 Parapan American Games in Santiago, Chile. Team roster The following is the United States roster in the men's wheelchair basketball tournament of the 2024 Summer Paralympics. [12] [13]