2024 Summer Paralympics

As part of a formal agreement between the International Paralympic Committee and the International Olympic Committee first established in 2001, the winner of the bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics must also host the 2024 Summer Paralympics.[3]

Due to concerns over a number of cities withdrawing in the bid process of the 2022 Winter Olympics and 2024 Summer Olympics, a process to award the 2024 and 2028 Games simultaneously to the final two cities in the running to the 2024 Summer Olympics—Los Angeles and Paris—was approved at an Extraordinary IOC Session on 11 July 2017 in Lausanne.[4] Paris was understood to be the preferred host for the 2024 Games. On 31 July 2017, the IOC announced Los Angeles as the sole candidate for the 2028 Games, opening Paris up to be confirmed as hosts for the 2024 Games. Both decisions were ratified at the 131st IOC Session on 13 September 2017.[5]

In February 2018, it was reported that the IOC and organizing committee had discussed moving the Olympics and Paralympics ahead by one week from their original scheduling, so that the Paralympics will fall within the school holiday period.[6]

The programme for the 2024 Summer Paralympics was announced in January 2019, with no changes to the 22 sports from the 2020 Summer Paralympics.[7][8][9] A draft of the event schedule was released on 8 July 2022, with 549 events in 22 sports. A record 235 medal events will be women's events, an increase of eight over 2020; factoring these events and mixed-gender events, the number of female participants in the Paralympics is projected to be at least double of that of Sydney 2000.[8][9]

The IPC considered bids for golf, karate, para dance sport, and powerchair football to be added to the Paralympic programme as new sports. Bids for were also made for CP football (football 7-a-side) and sailing—the two sports that had been dropped for 2020—to be reinstated. While CP football was selected for consideration by the IPC, it was rejected due to a lack of reach in women's participation.[7]

In January 2021, the International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF) was declared non-competent by the IPC for violations of its Athlete Classification Code, and the sport was dropped from the Paris 2024 programme. On 22 September 2021, the IPC conditionally reinstated wheelchair basketball following reforms made by the IWBF, subject to compliance measures.[10]

The International Paralympic Committee has approved the final schedule and dates for upcoming Summer Paralympics games were released on 2 February 2023.[11]

All times and dates use Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)

OC

Opening ceremony

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Event competitions

1

Gold medal events

CC

Closing ceremony

August-September 2024		August				September								Events
		28th Wed	29th Thu	30th Fri	31st Sat	1st Sun	2nd Mon	3rd Tue	4th Wed	5th Thu	6th Fri	7th Sat	8th Sun
Ceremonies		OC											CC
Blind football				●		●		●		●		1
Boccia			●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Goalball			●	●	●	●	●	●	●	2
Para archery			●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Para athletics				●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Para badminton			●	●	●	●	●
Para canoe											●	●	●
Para cycling	Road								●	●	●	●
	Track		●	●	●	●
Para equestrian								●	●		●	●
Para judo										●	●	●
Para powerlifting									●	●	●	●	●
Para rowing				●	●	5
Para swimming			●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Para table tennis			●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Para taekwondo			●	●	●
Para triathlon						●	●
Shooting para sport				●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Sitting volleyball			●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	1	1
Wheelchair basketball			●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	1	1
Wheelchair fencing								●	●	●	●	●
Wheelchair rugby			●	●	●	●	1
Wheelchair tennis				●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●

*The following is a list of National Paralympic Committees who have at least one athlete who has qualified for the 2024 Paralympics.

Number of athletes by National Paralympic Committee

As of 28 October 2023

Ranking	NPC	Athletes
1	France	126
2	China	122
2	Great Britain	109
4	Brazil	95
5	United States	71
6	Italy	60
7	Ukraine	57
8	Australia	43
8	Germany	43
10	Japan	41
11	Iran	40
11	Spain	38
13	Poland	37
14	Netherlands	35
15	Turkey	33
15	India	33
17	Colombia	29
18	Egypt	25
19	Uzbekistan	24
20	Denmark	22
20	Morocco	22
20	South Korea	22
23	Argentina	20
23	Thailand	20
25	Canada	18
26	Kazakhstan	15
27	Algeria	14
28	Belgium	13
28	Mexico	13
30	Bosnia and Herzegovina	12
30	Hungary	12
30	South Africa	12
33	Czech Republic	11
33	Nigeria	11
33	Tunisia	11
36	New Zealand	10
36	Switzerland	10
38	Portugal	9
38	Serbia	9
38	Slovakia	9
41	Croatia	8
41	Finland	8
41	Greece	8
41	Indonesia	8
41	Ireland	8
46	Israel	7
46	Sweden	7
46	United Arab Emirates	7
49	Azerbaijan	6
49	Iraq	6
49	Norway	6
52	Ecuador	5
52	Venezuela	5
54	Austria	4
54	Chile	4
54	Cuba	4
54	Kenya	4
54	Latvia	4
54	Malaysia	4
54	Mauritius	4
61	Bulgaria	2
61	Costa Rica	2
61	Hong Kong	2
61	Kosovo	2
61	Namibia	2
61	Saudi Arabia	2
61	Singapore	3
61	Slovenia	2
61	Sri Lanka	2
70	Chinese Taipei	1
70	Cyprus	1
70	Dominican Republic	1
70	Ghana	1
70	Jordan	1
70	Kuwait	1
70	Lithuania	1
70	Montenegro	1
70	North Macedonia	1
70	Panama	1
70	Peru	1
70	Puerto Rico	1
70	Romania	1

All the Paralympic events will be held in and around Paris, including the suburbs of Saint-Denis and Versailles, & Vaires-sur-Marne which is just outside the city environs.[12]

For the first time, Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS) will provide live coverage of all 22 sports at the Paralympics, an increase from 19 in Tokyo.[15]

In conjunction with the Olympic Games, the French national public television broadcaster France Télévisions acquired domestic and ultramarine rights to the 2024 Summer Paralympics, airing primarily on their main channels France 2 and France 3.[16] On 28 August 2020, Channel 4 renewed its rights to the Paralympics in the United Kingdom through 2024.[17]

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