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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 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 )
Paris played host to the Summer Paralympic Games for the first time and the event saw China finish atop the medal table once again with 221 total medals, including 94 golds. Great Britain was next ...
The designs of the medals for the 2024 Summer Olympics and Paralympics were unveiled on 8 February 2024; [10] as with the Olympic medals, the front of the Paralympic medals features an embedded original piece of scrap iron from the Eiffel Tower in the shape of a hexagon, engraved with the Paris 2024 emblem.
USA trailed by 10 in the third quarter, then rallied late to secure its 61st consecutive win in Olympic play, a streak that dates back to the bronze medal game at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona.
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 ]
The following is the final medal table for all track cycling events at the 2024 Summer Paralympics. [4] The table was topped, once again, by Great Britain, thanks to a dominant final day in the velodrome which included 3 gold medals, a silver and a bronze. * Host nation