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The 2024 Summer Paralympics was an international parasports event held in Paris, France from 28 August to 8 September 2024. The event featured around 4400 atheletes across 22 different sports. [1] In total, 80 World records and 120 Paralympic records have been broken in the event. [2]
| Event | Class | Date | Round | Athlete(s) | Nation | Score | Record | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mixed team | W1 | 2 September | Final | Chen Minyi and Zhang Tianxin |  China | 147 | PR | [3] |
More than 40 World Records in athletics had been set in the 2024 Summer Paralympics. [4]
| Event | Class | Date | Round | Athlete(s) | Nation | Time or distance | Record | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men's 100 metres | T64 | 1 September | Heat | Maxcel Amo Manu |  Italy | 10.69† | PR | [5] |
| Men's 100 metres | T64 | 2 September | Final | Sherman Guity |  Costa Rica | 10.65 | PR | [6] |
| Men's 100 metres | T38 | 31 August | Final | Jaydin Blackwell |  United States | 10.64 | WR | [7] |
| Men's 1500 metres | T12 | 3 September | Final | Aleksandr Kostin |  Neutral Paralympic Athletes | 3:44.43 | PR | [8] |
| Men's 1500 metres | T11 | 3 September | Final | Yeltsin Jacques |  Brazil | 3:55.82 | WR | [8] |
| Men's 1500 metres | T20 | 6 September | Final | Ben Sandilands |  Great Britain | 3:45.40 | WR | [9] |
| Men's 5000 metres | T11 | 30 August | Final | Júlio Cesar Agripino | Brazil | 14:48.85 | WR | [10] |
| Women's 100 metres | T38 | 31 August | Final | Karen Palomeque |  Colombia | 12.26 | WR | [11] |
| Women's 400 metres | T11 | 31 August | Final | Lahja Ishitile |  Namibia | 56.20 | PR | [12] |
| Women's 5000 metres | T54 | 31 August | Final | Catherine Debrunner |  Switzerland | 10:43.62 | PR | [13] |
| Event | Class | Date | Round | Athlete(s) | Nation | Time or distance | Record | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Women's shot put | F20 | 1 September | Final | Sabrina Fortune | Great Britain | 15.12m | WR | [14] |
| Women's discus throw | F53 | 2 September | Final | Elizabeth Rodrigues | Brazil | 17.37m | PR | [6] |
| Women's discus throw | F38 | 6 September | Final | Simoné Kruger |  South Africa | 38.70m | PR | [15] |
| Men's javelin | F13 | 6 September | Final | Dan Pembroke | Great Britain | 74.49m | WR | [16] |
| Men's javelin | F41 | 7 September | Final | Navdeep Singh |  India | 47.32m [lower-alpha 1] | PR | [18] |
| Men's high jump | T63 | 5 September | Final | Ezra Frech | United States | 1.94m | PR | [19] |
| Men's long jump | T11 | 30 August | Final | Di Dongdong | China | 6.85m | WR | [20] |
| Men's long jump | T63 | 31 August | Final | Joel de Jong |  Netherlands | 7.68m | WR | [12] |
| Women's long jump | T61 | 5 September | Final | Vanessa Low |  Australia | 5.45m | WR | [21] |
| Women's long jump | T64 | 31 August | Final | Fleur Jong | Netherlands | 6.53m | WR | [22] |
| Event | Class | Date | Round | Athlete(s) | Nation | Time or distance | Record | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Women's marathon | T12 | 8 September | Final | Fatima Ezzahra El Idrissi |  Morocco | 2:48:36 | WR | [23] |
| Event | Class | Date | Round | Athlete(s) | Nation | Time | Record | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Women's single 200m | VL3 | 7 September | Final | Charlotte Henshaw | Great Britain | 49.07 | PR | [24] |
| Event | Class | Date | Round | Athlete(s) | Nation | Time | Record | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Women's 500m individual pursuit | C5 | 29 August | Trial | Caroline Groot | Netherlands | 35.390 | WR | [25] |
| Men's 3000m individual pursuit | C1 | 29 August | Trial | Li Zhangyu | China | 3:31.338 | WR | |
| Women's 3000m individual pursuit | C3 | 29 August | Trial | Wang Xiaomei | China | 3:44.660 | WR | |
| Women's 3000m individual pursuit | C2 | 29 August | Trial | Daphne Schrager | Great Britain | 3:45.133 | WR | |
| Women's 3000m individual pursuit | C1 | 29 August | Trial | Qian Wangwei | China | 4:17.814 | PR | |
| Men's 4000m individual pursuit | B | 29 August | Trial | Tristan Bangma (Pilot: Patrick Bos) | Netherlands | 3:55.396 | WR |
| Event | Date | Round | Athlete(s) | Nation | Weight | Record | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Women's 45kg | 4 September | Final | Guo Lingling | China | 123kg | WR | [26] |
| Women's 50kg | 5 September | Final | Clara Fuentes Monasterio |  Venezuela | 124kg | PR | [27] |
| Women's 61kg | 6 September | Final | Onyinyechi Mark |  Nigeria | 142kg | WR | [28] |
| Women's 67kg | 6 September | Final | Tan Yujiao | China | 142kg | WR | [29] |
| Women's 79kg | 7 September | Final | Han Miaoyu | China | 154kg | WR | [30] |
| Women's 86kg+ | 8 September | Final | Folashade Oluwafemiayo | Nigeria | 167kg | WR | [31] |
| Men's 72kg | 6 September | Final | Bonnie Bunyau Gustin |  Malaysia | 232kg | WR | [32] |
| Men's 80kg | 6 September | Final | Roohallah Rostami |  Iran | 242kg | WR | [33] |
| Men's 97kg | 7 September | Final | Abdelkareem Mohmmad Ahmad Khattab |  Jordan | 270kg | WR | [34] |
| Men's 107kg | 8 September | Final | Aliakbar Gharibshahi | Iran | 252kg | PR | [35] |
More than 30 records in swimming had been set in the event. [1]
| Event | Class | Date | Round | Athlete(s) | Nation | Time | Record | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mixed 4 × 50m freestyle relay | 20 Points | 30 August | Final | Peng Qiuping, Yuan Weiyi, Jiang Yuyan, Guo Jincheng | China | 2:15.49 | WR | [36] |
| Women's 100m backstroke | S8 | 1 September | Final | Alice Tai | Great Britain | 1:09.06 | PR | [37] |
| Women's 100m butterfly | S14 | 29 August | Final | Poppy Maskill | Great Britain | 1:03.00 | WR | [38] |
| Women's 100m freestyle | S3 | 3 September | Final | Leanne Smith | United States | 1:28.81 | PR | [39] |
| Men's 200m freestyle | S14 | 31 August | Final | William Ellard | Great Britain | 1:51.30 | WR | [40] |
The 2024 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad and branded as Paris 2024, were an international multi-sport event held from 26 July to 11 August 2024 in France, with several events started from 24 July. Paris was the host city, with events held in 16 additional cities spread across metropolitan France, including the sailing centre in the second-largest city of France, Marseille, on the Mediterranean Sea, as well as one subsite for surfing in Tahiti, French Polynesia.
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Amanda Reid is an Australian Paralympic swimmer, cyclist and snowboarder. She represented Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in swimming. At the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Paralympics, she won a silver medal in the Women's 500 m Time Trial C1–3 and at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics a gold medal in the 500 m Time Trial C1–3. At the 2024 Paris Paralympics, she won a gold medal in the 500 m Time Trial C1–3.
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Nicholas "Nic" Hum is an Australian Paralympic athlete with an intellectual disability. He won the bronze medal in the men's long jump T20 event at the 2020 Summer Paralympics held in Tokyo, Japan. He competed at the 2024 Paris Paralympics, his third Games.
Jaryd Clifford is an Australian Paralympic, vision impaired, middle-distance athlete. He represented Australia at the 2016 Rio Paralympics in athletics. He won gold medals in the Men's 1500m and 5000m T13 events at the 2019 World Para Athletics Championships. Clifford represented Australia at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, where he won silver medals in the Men's 5000m T13 and Men's Marathon T12, and a bronze medal in the Men's 1500 m T13. He competed at the 2024 Paris Paralympics.
Datuk Abdul Latif bin Romly is a Malaysian Paralympic athlete who broke T20 long jump world record 3 times on the same day and won Malaysia's third gold medal on 11 September at the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. He also won the gold medal in the men's long jump T20 event at the 2020 Summer Paralympics held in Tokyo, Japan. He is Malaysia's most decorated Paralympian.
Ezra Frech is an American track and field athlete who competes in high jump, long jump and sprinting events. He is a two-time Paralympian, having competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics and won two gold medals at the 2024 Summer Paralympics. He also won two silver medals at the 2019 Parapan American Games. Frech is a motivational speaker and disability rights advocate.
Sandeep Chaudhary is an Indian track and field para-athlete from Rajasthan. He competes in javelin throw. He qualified to represent India at the 2024 Summer Paralympics at Paris.
Fleur Jong is a Dutch Paralympic athlete. She won the gold medal in the women's long jump T64 event at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan and the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris, France. As of September 2023, her world record in this event is 6.74 metres.
Avani Lekhara is an Indian rifle shooter. She is a double gold medalist at the Paralympics having won the 10m rifle event the 2020 Paralympics as well as the 2024 Paralympics. She made history by winning two back-to-back golds. She also won the bronze in the 50m rifle 3 positions SH1 event at the 2020 Games, thus being the first Indian woman to win multiple medals at a single Paralympic Games. Lekhara is a two-time gold and one-time silver medalist at the Para World Cup.
Stephen Clegg is a British Paralympic swimmer.
Bonnie Bunyau anak Gustin is a Malaysian powerlifter. He won Malaysia's first ever gold medal in the sport in the men's 72 kg event at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo and again at the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris whilst breaking his own world record for men's 72 kg.
India competed at the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris from 28 August to 8 September 2024. The nation made its official debut at the 1968 Summer Paralympics and has appeared in every edition of the Summer Paralympics since 1984. This is India's 13th appearance at the Summer Paralympics.
Navdeep Singh is an Indian para-athlete and javelin thrower. He won the gold medal at the 2024 Paris Paralympics. He has also been a bronze medalist at the World Championships.
China's Di Dongdong defended his men's long jump T11 title with a world record effort of 6.85m
