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This is a list of nations, as represented by National Paralympic Committees (NPCs), that have participated in the Summer Paralympic Games between 1960 and 2024. As of the 2024 Games,187 from current NPCs have participated in at least one edition of the Paralympic Games, and athletes from Argentina, Australia, Austria, France, Great Britain, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland and United States have ...
The 2024 Summer Paralympics (French: Jeux paralympiques d'été de 2024), also known as the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games (French: Jeux paralympiques d'été de Paris 2024), and branded as Paris 2024, were the 17th Summer Paralympic Games, an international multi-sport parasports event governed by the International Paralympic Committee.
Paralympics opening ceremony. 20:55, Mike Jones. The final three competing nations are Australia, who host the Games in 2023, the United States of America, the 2028 hosts, and of course France ...
The opening ceremony of the 2004 Summer Paralympics in the Olympic Stadium in Athens, Greece. Since the Paralympic Games began in 1960, there have been 16 Summer Paralympic Games held in 17 separate cities and 14 Winter Paralympic Games held in 14 separate cities.
Television broadcasts of Paralympic Games began in 1976, but this early coverage was confined to tape-delayed broadcasts to one nation or region. At the 1992 Summer Paralympics, there were 45 hours of live coverage but it was available only in Europe. Other countries broadcast highlight packages during the Games.
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 first official Paralympic Games was held in Rome, Italy, in 1960. [1] 400 athletes from 23 countries competed at the 1960 Games though only athletes in wheelchairs competed. At the 1976 Summer Games athletes with different disabilities were included for the first time at a summer Paralympics. With the inclusion of more disability ...
After a spectacular opening ceremony, the first medals of the Paralympics were awarded on Thursday as the action got underway at Paris 2024.. There were 22 medal events on the first day of ...