Between 28 August and 8 September 2024, Paris will host the first Paralympic Summer Games to be held in France. Over 11 days of competition, 549 medal events (271 men’s, 235 women’s and 43 mixed) will be contested in the 22 sports on the Paralympic programme: athletics, badminton, wheelchair basketball, boccia, cycling, wheelchair fencing, 5-a-side football, goalball, judo, weightlifting, equestrian, swimming, canoeing, rowing, wheelchair rugby, taekwondo, table tennis, wheelchair tennis, archery, Olympic shooting, triathlon and sitting volleyball.

The 17th Paralympic Games will bring together 4,400 athletes with physical, intellectual and visual disabilities and paralysis or brain injury from 182 countries. Although the number of athletes is the same as at the Tokyo Games, there will be important changes in the distribution by sport, with the aim of increasing female participation, protecting athletes with greater disabilities and equalising quotas in team events.

The Paris Games will have 17 competition venues spread mainly between the city centre (nine venues) and the Saint-Dennis area in the north (three). The other five are on the outskirts or in nearby towns. Some of the French capital’s iconic monuments, such as the Eiffel Tower, the Champ de Mars, Les Invalides and the Palace of Versailles, will host Paralympic events.

The opening ceremony on 28 August will take place in the central Place de la Concorde, with the national delegations parading down the Champs-Elysées. The closing ceremony, scheduled for 8 September, will take place at the Stade de France athletics stadium in Saint-Denis. The other non-sporting venues will be the Paralympic Village, the Main Press Centre and the International Broadcast Centre, all located in Saint-Denis, and the Paralympic Family Hotel in the city centre.

2024 will be the first time that the Olympic and Paralympic Games will share an emblem. It is a combination of three elements: a gold medal, a flame and a representation of Marianne, the allegorical figure of a woman wearing a Phrygian cap that identifies the French Republic. The mascot will also be the same, Phryge, the little Phrygian cap who, in his Paralympic version, wears a prosthetic leg.