2024 Paris Paralympic Games
The 17th Paralympic Summer Games were held in Paris, France, from August 28 until September 8, 2024.
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There were no changes to the sports program since the Tokyo 2021 Paralympics.
The 22 sports were: athletics, archery, badminton, boccia, canoe, cycling, equestrian, football 5-a-side, goalball, judo, powerlifting, rowing, shooting, sitting volleyball, swimming, table tennis, taekwondo, triathlon, wheelchair basketball, wheelchair fencing, wheelchair rugby and wheelchair tennis. See all about Paralympic Sports.
Countries
170 countries participated in the Paris 2024 Paralympics, with the following countries making their Paralympic debuts: American Samoa, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Eswatini, Guam, Kiribati, Kosovo, Palau, South Sudan and Tuvalu. The list also included the Neutral Paralympic Athletes (NPA) and the refugee (RPT) teams.
Athletes
More than 4,000 athletes from around the world will competed in 549 medal events.
Medal Winners
China won the medal count again. See the final medal tally for the Paris 2024 Paralympics.
Trivia
- Alhtough Paris has hosted the Olympic Games three times, it is the first time Paris will host the Paralympics. It is also the second time that France has hosted the Paralympic Games (Tignes and Albertville jointly hosted the 1992 Winter Paralympics).
Related Pages
- Host Cities of the Paralympics
- About the Paralympics
- Paris 2024 Summer Olympics
- Major sporting events in 2024
- Sport in France
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