2024 Summer Paralympics medal table explained

2024 Summer Paralympics medals
Location:Paris,
Award1 Type:Most gold medals
Award2 Type:Most total medals
Previous:2020
Main:Paralympics medal tables
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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.

Medals

Paris 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.[1] 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.[2]

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.[3] [4] Each medal weighs, has a diameter of and is thick.[5] 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.[6]

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Notes and References

  1. News: Paris 2024: Eiffel Tower metal in Olympics and Paralympics medals. BBC Sport. 8 February 2024. 8 February 2024. 8 February 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240208115449/https://www.bbc.com/sport/olympics/68239167. live.
  2. News: Theissen . Marion . 8 February 2024 . Paris 2024: the Olympic and Paralympic medals have been revealed . 8 February 2024 . Olympics . 8 February 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240208104336/https://olympics.com/en/news/paris-2024-olympic-paralympic-medals-reveal-eiffel-tower . live .
  3. News: Paris 2024: Eiffel Tower metal in Olympics and Paralympics medals. BBC Sport. 8 February 2024. 8 February 2024.
  4. News: 8 February 2024 . Paris 2024 unveils Paralympic and Olympic Games medals . 8 February 2024 . Paralympic.
  5. News: Paris 2024: First look at Olympic and Paralympic medals featuring chunks of Eiffel Tower. Sky News. 8 February 2024. 8 February 2024. 8 February 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240208133234/https://news.sky.com/story/paris-2024-first-look-at-olympic-and-paralympic-medals-featuring-chunks-of-eiffel-tower-13066755. live.
  6. News: 8 February 2024 . Paris 2024 unveils Paralympic and Olympic Games medals . 8 February 2024 . Paralympics . 8 February 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240208110601/https://www.paralympic.org/news/paris-2024-unveils-paralympic-and-olympic-games-medals . live .