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Great Britain competed at the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris, France, from 28 August to 8 September 2024. This was Great Britain's seventeenth consecutive time competing at the Summer Paralympic Games since the first Games in 1960. UK Sport set the team a target of winning between 100 and 140 medals at the event. [3] [4]
Britain has won three gold medals at the Winter Paralympics and 626 at the Summer Games. Combining these results, the British team is positioned in second place on the all-time Paralympic Games medal table. Great Britain was the host of the first Stoke Mandeville Games to coincide with London's hosting of the 1948 Summer Olympics. These Games ...
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.
Four-time Paralympic champion Kadeena Cox insists “competing is the easy bit” as she bids to win Great Britain’s maiden medal of Paris 2024 following a series of injury setbacks.
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.
Team Rec Competitor(s) Team Competitor(s) Team; Athletics: Men's 100 metres T37: Ricardo Gomes de Mendonça Brazil: Saptoyogo Purnomo Indonesia: Andrey Vdovin Neutral Paralympic Athletes [28] Men's 100 metres T47: Petrúcio Ferreira Brazil: Korban Best United States: Aymane El Haddaoui Morocco [29] Women's 100 metres T35: Zhou Xia China: WR ...
He secured a qualifying spot for the 2024 Paralympics by winning gold in the BC3 Pairs category at the qualifying tournament in Portugal alongside Sally Kidson in March 2024. [1] The pair lost their opening two games, 7–0 to Greece and 4–3 to Peru, but then beat the hosts 4-1 and Singapore 4–1 to reach the semi-finals where they defeated ...
The defending gold medal-winning U.S. men's wheelchair basketball opened the 2024 Paris Paralympics with a win against Spain on ... Team USA took a 46-40 lead into the fourth quarter before Spain ...