Where are the Paralympic Games taking place?
The 2024 Paralympic Games is taking place in Paris, France.
The Paris 2024 Paralympic Games will inspire a generation of disabled people to take up a sport or physical activity. WheelPower provides support and opportunities for disabled people to get into sport and lead active lives.
When are the Paralympic Games taking place?
The Paralympics will take place from 28 August to 8 September 2024.
Paralympic Games Schedule
As many as 4,400 athletes will compete in the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games. There will be 549 events across 22 sports hosted at 19 different venues. Find the full schedule here
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FIND OUT MOREParalympic Games Athletes
Over 200 athletes are expected to compete as part of the ParalympicsGB team in Paris.
Britain’s first Paralympic gold was won at the 1960 Rome Games by Margaret Maughan who was competing in the Women’s Columbia round open archery event, scoring 484 points. Her feat was recognised when Maughan was chosen to light the Paralympic Cauldron during the Opening Ceremony of the 2012 Summer Paralympics. Margaret was inducted to the Stoke Mandeville Hall of Fame in 2014. Margaret’s medal in on display at the National Paralympic Heritage Centre at Stoke Mandeville Stadium.
Britain’s most successful Paralympian is Dame Sarah Joanne Storey DBE. Her total of 28 Paralympic medals in swimming and cycling including 17 gold medals makes her the most successful British Paralympian of all time.
Our ‘top picks’ from the British Team at Paris 2024
We are proud that over 60 of the athletes competing in this year’s Paralympics have attended WheelPower events or used our facilities at Stoke Mandeville Stadium during their journey to Paris!
Alfie Hewitt
Event: Men’s singles and Men’s Doubles
Paralympic Debut: Rio 2016
Alfie attended the 2009 National Junior Games where he had the opportunity to try lots of different sports. A few years later Alfie had found that wheelchair tennis was for him and in 2013 he received a brand new chair from the WheelPower Wheel Appeal. Alfie has won nine grand slam singles titles and an astonishing 21 grand slam doubles titles as well as three silver Paralympic Medals.
Newly crowned Wimbledon men’s singles champion and world No. 1 in both singles and doubles will compete in the singles and doubles in Paris.
Sammi Kinghorn
Event: T53 100m, 400m, 800 AND 1500m
Paralympic debut: Rio 2016
Sammi attended the Inter Spinal Unit Games in 2011 and was soon racing for her country. Sammi will be aiming to build on the success of Tokyo 2020, where she won silver in the 400m T53 and bronze in the 100m T53. This was followed by a gold and two silver medals at the 2023 World Championship.
Sammi won the gold medal in the 100m T53 and silver medals in the 800m and 1500m in Paris. She will also race in the 400m.
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FIND OUT MORE AND DOWN LOAD RESOURCESDavid Weir
Event: T54 1500m, 5000m & Marathon
Paralympic debut: Atlanta 1996
As a junior David took part in WheelPower’s junior sport programme, and regularly attended events at Stoke Mandeville Stadium. David made his Paralympic debut in Atlanta 1996 at the age of just 17. At London 2012 cheered on by the home crowd David won four gold medals, in the T54 800m, 1500m, 5000m and marathon. In 2014 David was inducted into the Stoke Mandeville Hall of Fame.
Kare Adenegan
Event: T34 100m and 800m
Paralympic Debut: Rio 2016
The Coventry athlete is a five-time Olympic medallist and hopes to complete the set this summer with gold in Paris having won two silver and three bronze medals across Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020.
Ben Pritchard
Event: PR1 Men’s single
Paralympic Debut: Tokyo 2020
Ben was paralysed from the waist down after a cycling accident and was a patient at Stoke Mandeville Hospital and a familiar face at weekly sports and sessions delivered by WheelPower’s Physical Activity Advisors. He attended the WheelPower Inter Spinal Unit Games in 2018.
Ben came fifth at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, won bronze medals at the 2022 and 2023 World Championship and a gold medal at the 2024 World Rowing Cup in Poland.
Ben won gold medal in the Paris 2024 PR1 Men’s Single skulls.
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FIND OUT MOREIssy Bailey
Event: Pistol
Paralympic Debut: Rio 2016
Following a car accident Issy spent seven months in hospital before being transferred to Stoke Mandeville Hospital. Issy was introduced to wheelchair sport through weekly sessions with WheelPower Physical Activity Advisors and also attended the 2014 Inter Spinal Unit Games. Paris 2024 will be Issy Bailey’s third consecutive Paralympic Games from making her debut in the sport at Rio 2016.
Issy is the sole member of the team competing in the pistol events.
Ben Fox
Event: Wheelchair Basketball
Paralympic Debut: Rio 2016
Ben attended multiple WheelPower National Junior Games and Junior Sports Camps at Stoke Mandeville Stadium in the 2010’s.
Ben made his debut appearance for GB’s senior team at the 2019 European Championships in Poland, winning European gold. Ben was part of the GB Men’s team that achieved silver at the 2022 World Championships.
Melanie Woods
Event: T54 400, 600m and 1500m
Paralympic Debut: Tokyo 2020
After her accident Melanie was supported by a WheelPower Activity Advisor at the Queen Elizabeth Spinal Unit, Glasgow. She attended the 2019 Inter Spinal Unit Games and in 2020 received funding from WheelPower to help her to purchase some new carbon fibre wheels for her racing chair. Paris will be Melanie’s second Paralympic Games.
Melanie, who is coached by Rodger Harkins, will compete in three events in Paris.
