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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.
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 ]
28 August 2024 — detailed results Opening ceremony The opening ceremony began at 20:00 CEST ( UTC+2 ) and was held outside a traditional stadium setting for the first time, with the parade of nations conducted along the Champs-Élysées from the Arc de Triomphe to the Place de la Concorde , where the official protocol took place.
The Women's long jump athletics events for the 2024 Summer Paralympics took place at the Stade de France, Paris from August 30 to September 6, 2024. A total of 8 events were contested in this discipline. All eight events went directly to final.
The women's 200 metres T12 event at the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris, took place between 6 and 7 September 2024.. The T12 category is for athletes with visual impairment. . Athletes in this category will generally have some residual sight, the ability to recognise the shape of a hand at a distance of 2 metres and the ability to perceive clearly will be no more than 2
Athletics at the 2024 Summer Paralympics was held at the Stade de France and Les Invalides in Paris. There were 164 events: 90 for men, 73 for women and one mixed event, three fewer men's events than the previous Games while the women's and mixed events remain the same.