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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.
The International Paralympic Committee approved the final schedule, and dates for the Summer Paralympic Games were released on 2 February 2023. [ 3 ] All times and dates use Central European Summer Time ( UTC+2 )
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 .
As more than 4,400 athletes gather in Paris for the 2024 Paralympic Games, the first medals are starting to be awarded.The Games kicked off on Aug. 28, and will run through Sept. 8.. The first ...
This Paralympic Games results index is a list of links to articles containing results of each Paralympic sport at the Summer Paralympics and Winter Paralympics. Years not appearing are those when the event was not held. Years in italics mean it was a demonstration sport.
A wheelchair basketball game at the 2008 Summer Paralympics. Every participant at the Paralympics has their disability grouped into one of ten disability categories; impaired muscle power, impaired passive range of movement, limb deficiency, leg length difference, short stature, hypertonia, ataxia, athetosis, vision impairment and intellectual impairment. [3]
The men's wheelchair basketball team had its first match of the 2024 Paralympics and it was against Spain. How did they do? When do they play next?
The finalized schedule was released on 13 August 2019. [3] [4] The original schedule was from 25 August to 10 September 2020. To postpone the Paralympics until 2021, all events were delayed by 364 days (one day less than a full year to preserve the same days of the week), giving a new schedule of 24 August to 9 September 2021. [5]