At the moment is the ultimate day of the Paris 2024 Paralympics! The ultimate medals might be awarded in 4 sports activities – Para athletics, Para powerlifting, Para canoe and wheelchair basketball – earlier than a wonderful Closing Ceremony brings the curtain down on the Video games.
Whereas it’s the final day, it’s not over but. Right here is the whole lot you have to learn about Day 11.
Marathon concludes Para athletics
Para athletics, the largest sport on the Paris 2024 programme when it comes to athlete numbers and occasions, will come to an in depth on day 11 with 4 marathons.
Swiss wheelchair racing stars Catherine Debrunner and Marcel Hug need to dominate within the ladies’s and males’s marathon T54, respectively, whereas Japan’s Misato Michishita is aiming to defend her gold medal from Tokyo 2020 within the ladies’s marathon T12.
After beginning in Seine-Saint-Denis, the athletes will cross via the Place de la Concorde, which staged the Opening Ceremony, earlier than competing within the Champs-Elysees and going across the Arc de Triomphe. The end line is situated in entrance of the Esplanades de Invalides.
Full Para athletics programme
Can the Netherlands defend their ladies’s basketball gold?
At Bercy Enviornment, the Netherlands and the USA will play for gold in wheelchair basketball. The Netherlands are the defending Paralympic champions, whereas america are aiming for his or her first gold since Rio 2016.
The Dutch crew haven’t misplaced a single recreation in Paris, and so they need to keep their excellent file within the gold medal match. Within the preliminary stage, the Netherlands defeated the USA 69-56. Can the Dutch do it once more within the closing?
China and Canada will play within the bronze medal match earlier within the day, with Canada focusing on their first Paralympic podium since Athens 2004.
Full wheelchair basketball programme
Para canoe and Para powerlifting wrap up thrilling motion
Para canoe and Para powerlifting will award the sports activities’ closing medals on day 11. There might be 5 finals in Para canoe on the Vaires-sur-Marne Stadium and 4 in Para powerlifting at La Chapelle Enviornment.
Athletes to look at in Para powerlifting embody Nigeria’s Folashade Oluwafemiayo, who at present holds the world file of 165kg within the ladies’s over 86kg division.
Full Para canoe programme
Full Para powerlifting programme
“Large social gathering” Closing Ceremony brings curtain down on the Video games
The Stade de France, which staged monitor and area occasions in the course of the Video games, will present the stage for the Closing Ceremony, which is ready to be a “big social gathering” with artists from the French digital music scene.
The ceremony will have a good time the accomplishments of the roughly 4,400 athletes from around the globe who competed throughout 22 sports activities. The Paralympic flag might be handed over to Los Angeles, the hosts of the 2028 Video games.
The Closing Ceremony is a must-watch for everybody, particularly for these of you who loved the gorgeous Opening Ceremony on 28 August.
The way to watch the Paris 2024 Paralympic Video games Closing Ceremony
Full schedule and outcomes
