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The 2024 Paralympics was the seventeenth Games to be held, a quadrennial competition open to athletes with physical and intellectual disabilities. The games were held in Paris, France from 28 August to 8 September 2024. There were 549 medal events. Mauritius, Nepal and the Refugee Paralympic Team won their first Paralympic medals.
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.
Tabulated below are the medals and overall rankings for host nations in each Summer Paralympics and Winter Paralympics, based on individual Games medals tables. Summer Paralympics [ edit ]
The first U.S. medal of the Paralympics was a silver earned by para swimmer Elizabeth Marks in the women's 50m freestyle S6; she also collected silver medals in the women's 50m butterfly S6 and ...
Two silver medals were awarded for a second-place tie in the men's high jump T47 athletics event. No bronze medal was awarded as a result. Two bronze medals were awarded for a third-place tie in the men's 100 metres T64 athletics event. Two bronze medals were awarded for a third-place tie in the women's 100 metre freestyle S7 swimming event.
Medal Host Number of medal events Medals awarded Athlete(s) with the most medals (Gold-Silver-Bronze) Gold Silver Bronze Total 1976: winners: table: Örnsköldsvik, Sweden: 53 53 46 42 141 Heinz Moser (3–0–0) Alpine skiing Petra Merkott (3–0–0) Alpine skiing Teuvo Sahi (3–0–0) Cross-country skiing 1980: winners: table: Geilo, Norway
The 2022 Winter Paralympics, officially the XIII Paralympic Winter Games, or the 13th Winter Paralympics, were held from 4 to 13 March 2022 in Beijing, China. There were 78 events in six winter sports.
Zakia Khudadadi made history on Thursday at the Paris Paralympics by becoming the first athlete from the Refugee Paralympic Team to win a medal. Khudadadi won bronze in the women's 47kg category ...