2024 Summer Paralympics

XVII Paralympic Games
LocationParis, France
MottoGames Wide Open (French: Ouvrons Grand les Jeux)[1][2]
Nations169 (including the NPA and RPT teams)[3]
Athletes4,463
Events549 in 22 sports
Opening28 August 2024[4]
Closing8 September 2024[4]
Opened by
Cauldron
StadiumPlace de la Concorde
(opening ceremony)
Stade de France
(closing ceremony)[5]
Summer
Winter
2024 Summer Olympics

The 2024 Summer Paralympics (French: Jeux paralympiques d'été de 2024), also known as the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, and branded as Paris 2024, is the 17th Summer Paralympic Games, an international multi-sport parasports event governed by the International Paralympic Committee, being held in Paris, France, from 28 August to 8 September 2024. These games mark the first time Paris is hosting the Summer Paralympics and the second time that France is hosting the Paralympic Games, as Tignes and Albertville jointly hosted the 1992 Winter Paralympics.

  1. ^ "New Paris 2024 slogan "Games wide open" welcomed by IOC President". International Paralympic Committee. 25 July 2022. Archived from the original on 26 July 2022. Retrieved 25 July 2022.
  2. ^ "Le nouveau slogan de Paris 2024 "Ouvrons grand les Jeux" accueilli favorablement par le président du CIO" [Paris 2024's new slogan "Let's open up the Games" welcomed by the IOC President] (in French). International Paralympic Committee. 25 July 2022. Archived from the original on 26 July 2022. Retrieved 25 July 2022.
  3. ^ "Paris 2024: Record number of delegations and females to compete". International Paralympic Committee. Archived from the original on 29 August 2024. Retrieved 23 August 2024.
  4. ^ a b "Paris 2024 Paralympic Games". International Paralympic Committee. Archived from the original on 26 April 2023. Retrieved 31 December 2021.
  5. ^ "Stade de France". Archived from the original on 18 February 2023. Retrieved 20 October 2022.

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