The medal table of the 2024 Summer Paralympics will rank the participating National Paralympic Committees (NPCs) by the number of gold medals that are won by their athletes during the competition. The 2024 Paralympics will be the seventeenth Games to be held, a quadrennial competition open to athletes with physical and intellectual disabilities. The games will be held in Paris, France from 28 August to 8 September 2024. There will be 549 medal events.
| 2024 Summer Paralympics medals | |
|---|---|
| Location | Paris,  France |
Nepal and the Refugee Paralympic Team got their first ever medals.[1]
Medals
editParis 2024 president Tony Estanguet unveiled the Olympic and Paralympic medals for the Games in February 2024, which on the obverse featured embedded hexagon-shaped tokens of scrap iron that had been taken from the original construction of the Eiffel Tower, with the Games logo engraved into it.[2] Approximately 5,084 medals would be produced by the French mint Monnaie de Paris, and were designed by Chaumet, a luxury jewellery firm based in Paris.[3]
The reverse of the medals contains a design of the Eiffel Tower viewed from below, inscriptions in braille (a writing system whose development has been credited to French educator and inventor Louis Braille), and line patterns that can be used to identify the medals by touch.[4][5] Each medal weighs 455–529 g (16–19 oz), has a diameter of 85 mm (3.3 in) and is 9.2 mm (0.36 in) thick.[6] The gold medals are made with 98.8 percent silver and 1.13 percent gold, while the bronze medals are made up with copper, zinc, and tin.[7]
Medal table
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* Host nation (France)
| Rank | NPC | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  China (CHN) | 11 | 9 | 4 | 24 |
| 2 |  Great Britain (GBR) | 6 | 6 | 3 | 15 |
| 3 |  Brazil (BRA) | 4 | 1 | 6 | 11 |
| 4 |  Netherlands (NED) | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| – |  Neutral Paralympic Athletes (NPA) | 3 | 3 | 5 | 11 |
| 5 |  Italy (ITA) | 3 | 2 | 8 | 13 |
| 6 |  Australia (AUS) | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
| 7 | France (FRA)* | 2 | 4 | 2 | 8 |
| 8 |  Uzbekistan (UZB) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
| 9 |  Colombia (COL) | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 10 |  Poland (POL) | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 11 |  Israel (ISR) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 12 |  United States (USA) | 1 | 6 | 0 | 7 |
| 13 |  Ukraine (UKR) | 1 | 5 | 2 | 8 |
| 14 |  Japan (JPN) | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
| 15 |  South Korea (KOR) | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 16 |  Tunisia (TUN) | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 17 |  India (IND) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
 Turkey (TUR) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | |
| 19 |  Belgium (BEL) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
 Mongolia (MGL) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
| 21 |  Spain (ESP) | 1 | 0 | 6 | 7 |
| 22 |  Denmark (DEN) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 23 |  Bulgaria (BUL) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
 Czech Republic (CZE) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
 Hungary (HUN) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
 Peru (PER) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
 Singapore (SGP) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
 Slovenia (SLO) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 29 |  Mexico (MEX) | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 30 |  Germany (GER) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
 Iran (IRI) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 32 |  Hong Kong (HKG) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 Indonesia (INA) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
 Ireland (IRL) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
 New Zealand (NZL) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
 Serbia (SRB) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 37 |  Canada (CAN) | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 38 |  Argentina (ARG) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
 Morocco (MAR) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
 Thailand (THA) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
| 41 |  Azerbaijan (AZE) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
 Chile (CHI) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Chinese Taipei (TPE) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Georgia (GEO) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Greece (GRE) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Nepal (NEP) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Norway (NOR) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Refugee Paralympic Team (RPT) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Slovakia (SVK) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Switzerland (SUI) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (50 entries) | 61 | 61 | 76 | 198 | |
Neutral Paralympic Athletes
editNeutral Paralympic Athletes is the name used to represent approved Russian and Belarusian athletes at the 2024 Summer Paralympics, after the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) banned the nations' previous designations due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
Neutral athletes are competing under a white flag featuring black lettering spelling out NPA. The flag’s use is limited to TV and sports presentation graphics and during medal ceremonies. Medal wins are not recorded on the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games medals table and if a neutral athlete wins a gold medal, the Paralympic anthem is played, but their medal is not added to the official medals table.[8]
See also
editNotes
edit- ^ Although the IOC does not include Neutral Paralympic Athletes in the official medal tables,[8] they are listed here for comparison purposes only.
References
edit- ^ "Paris 2024: Khudadadi wins first-ever medal for Refugee Paralympic Team". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 29 August 2024.
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- ^ "Paris 2024: Eiffel Tower metal in Olympics and Paralympics medals". BBC Sport. 8 February 2024. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
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- ^ "Paris 2024: First look at Olympic and Paralympic medals featuring chunks of Eiffel Tower". Sky News. 8 February 2024. Archived from the original on 8 February 2024. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
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- ^ a b "IPC publish Neutral Paralympic Athletes regulations for the Paris 2024 Paralympics". 6 March 2024. Retrieved 29 August 2024.