549 events for the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games

It’s official, the 4,400 athletes expected to participate in the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games will compete in 549 events and 22 sports. After consulting the international federations, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) and Paris 2024 thus decided on Friday the sport program for the Parisian Paralympic Games from August 28 to September 8, 2024.

The actors insist on an edition that gives pride of place to parity. ” Quotas of female athletes to increase in Paris in more than 10 Paralympic disciplines compared to Tokyo 2020 Games “, They underline in a press release. They specify that a record will be broken with, at a minimum, 1,859 female athletes, 77 more than in the last Games, and 235 female events, against 227 in the Japanese capital. ” In less than 25 years, the number of women who have taken part in Paralympic events has doubled, illustrating the speed of progress made, but there is still some way to go to parity “, Said Andrew Parsons, president of the IPC, in the same press release.

The main changes from the Tokyo Paralympic Games concern a handful of disciplines. Para badminton will award 16 medals, two more than in Tokyo. Several Paralympic sports will see their number of events increase, such as para taekwondo (10 against 6 in Tokyo) or boccia (11 against 7), a Paralympic sport that looks a bit like pétanque. The events will also be more numerous in para canoe and para triathlon.

« The sports program of the 2024 Paris Games will benefit from a unique setting, since the athletes will compete in the heart of the iconic sites of Paris and its region: at the foot of the Eiffel Tower for the blind football, in the Grand Palais for the parataekwondo and the wheelchair fencing, in the Arena Champ de Mars for parajudo and wheelchair rugby, on the Esplanade des Invalides for para archery, in the park of the Château-de-Versailles for para-horse riding. . This is the first time that France has hosted the Summer Paralympic Games: we are determined to live up to this historic first “, Emphasizes Tony Estanguet, president of Paris 2024.