As per Indian timings, on the night of 28th August, Paralympic Games 2024 kicked off with a grand opening ceremony at Paris, France. One of the major events of the summer gathered attention all across the globe. Read the news to know details.
When are the Paris Paralympics starting?
- The opening ceremony of the Paris Paralympics 2024 was scheduled on 28th August, 2024 at 11:30 PM IST. And the closing ceremony is scheduled for 8th September, 2024.
- Sumit Antil and Bhagyashree Jadhav lead India at the opening ceremony amongst the Parade of Nations.
Paris Paralympics 2024: Opening Ceremony
- The opening ceremony of Paris Paralympics 2024 took place at Champs Elysees and Place de la Concorde, the biggest tourist attractions in Paris.
- A Parade of Nations was carried out. With France, the host nation, concluding the Parade.
- It is the first occasion when the opening ceremony of the Paralympic Games is taking place outside the stadium in the host city.
- Jackie Chan was the torch bearer at the grand event.
- More than 4,000 athletes with impairments will compete with each other in 22 sports over the course of the next 11 days.
Paris Paralympics 2024: Tickets Sold
- This year just over 2 million tickets have been sold and around 5,00,000 are still left.
- Around 2.1 million tickets and 2.7 million tickets were sold for the 2016 Rio and 2012 London Games respectively.
- At the 2008 Beijing Games, 1.82 million tickets were sold and organisers distributed 1.62 million tickets to schools.
Paris Paralympics 2024: How many sports are played?
- 549 events will take place across 22 sports in the race to win medals for their nations by the athletes.
- With para cycling, para rowing and blind judo being recently added for this year’s Paralympics.
- Out of 22 sports, India will be taking part in 12 sports.
- www.paralympic.org/paris-2024/sports
How many countries are participating at the Paris Paralympics 2024?
Paris Paralympics 2024: 167 nations are participating at the Paralympics 2024. Along with these Neutral Paralymptic Athletes and Refugee Paralympic Team is also participating.
How many Indians are participating at the Paris Paralympics 2024?
- 84 Indian para athletes will be taking part at Paralympics 2024.
- This is the largest ever contingent delivered by India on any Paralympics event.
- India has also added para athletes to the three new added disciplines of Para cycling, Para rowing and Para Judo.
Who are the top gold medal contenders for India?
Paris Paralympics 2024: Sunil Antil (Javelin), Avani Lekhara (shooting), Manish Narwal (shooting), Krishna Nagar (badminton) and Sheetal Devi (Archery) are the top gold medal contenders at the Paralympics 2024 for India.
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Paralympics India Statistics
Paris Paralympics 2024: India walks in Paralympics 2024 with great confidence and a team having athletes with outstanding talents and medals in their records. Let us know about some of the statistics about India at the Paralympics so far:
- 84 Athletes are participating from India in Paralympics 2024. 95 officials will be travelling with the athletes including all the supporting staff which makes the count to 179.
- 4 defending gold medalist representing the nation in the Paris Paralympics 2024.
- Paralympics 2024 will feature India’s participation in 12 sports comprising para athletics, para archery, para badminton, para canoe, para cycling, Para judo, para powerlifting, para rowing, shooting para sport, para swimming, para table tennis and para taekwondo.
- India are competing in 3 new sports in the Paralympics 2024 which are para cycling, para rowing and para judo.
- 38 athletes will be participating in athletics, India’s highest representation in a sport at Paralympics. This is also India’s most successful sport at the Paralympics (18 out of 31 medals from athletics).
- Amit Kumar Saroha, 39 years of age, the oldest member of the Indian contingent. While Sheetal Devi, 17 years of age is the youngest member.
- From 4 medals at 2016 Rio Games, India grew to 19 medals at Tokyo Games, the Indian para athletes never failed to disappoint the public. People are hoping to cross the mark of 19 this time at the Paris Paralympics 2024.
PM Modi & Rohit Sharma Hailed Team India
- Honourable Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi took to social media platform X and hailed the Indian contingent for their Paris Paralympics 2024.
- T20 Cricket World Cup 2024 winning Indian captain Rohit Sharma also took to X and showed his emotions for the nation.
Where can I watch the Paralympics?
Paris Paralympics 2024: Sports 18 Network will telecast Paralympic Games 2024 and it is also streamed live on JioTv as well.
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