2016 Summer Paralympics closing ceremony

2016 Summer Paralympics
closing ceremony

Date	18 September 2016 (2016-09-18)
Location	Maracanã Stadium, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Filmed by	Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS)
Footage	The ceremony on the IPC YouTube channel on YouTube

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The closing ceremony of the 2016 Summer Paralympics was held at the Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on 18 September 2016.

The ceremony's cultural portions were structured as a concert featuring a number of mainstream Brazilian singers and bands, headlined by pop divas Ivete Sangalo and Gaby Amarantos. As per Paralympic protocol, the ceremony featured the official closing of the Games, including closing remarks by International Paralympic Committee president Philip Craven and the leader of the Games' organizing committee, Carlos Arthur Nuzman, the handover of the Paralympic flag from Rio de Janeiro mayor Eduardo Paes to Yuriko Koike, governor of Tokyo—host of the 2020 Summer Paralympics, a cultural presentation by the next host city, and the extinguishing of the Paralympic flame and marked an end for this edition of the games.