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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 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.
The Paralympic sports comprise all the sports contested in the Summer and Winter Paralympic Games. As of 2020, the Summer Paralympics included 22 sports and 539 medal events, [1] and the Winter Paralympics include 5 sports and disciplines and about 80 events. [2] The number and kinds of events may change from one Paralympic Games to another.
The defending gold medal-winning U.S. men's wheelchair basketball opened the 2024 Paris Paralympics with a win against Spain on Thursday.
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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.
Jaydin Blackwell celebrates after winning the men's 100-meter T13 final and setting a new world record during the 2024 Paris Paralympic Summer Games at the Stade de France in Paris on Aug. 31, 2024.
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 )