As greater than 4,400 athletes collect in Paris for the 2024 Paralympic Video games, the primary medals are beginning to be awarded. The Video games kicked off on Aug. 28, and can run by way of Sept. 8.
The primary medal of the Video games went to Netherlands para bicycle owner Caroline Groot, who set each a world document and a Paralympic document within the 500m time trial C4-5. Italy’s Francesco Bocciardo additionally set a Paralympic document, because the 30-year-old para swimmer introduced residence a medal within the males’s 200m freestyle S5 in his fourth Video games. And host nation France received its first gold of the Video games courtesy of para swimmer Ugo Didier within the males’s 400m freestyle S9.
The primary U.S. medal of the Paralympics was a silver earned by para swimmer Elizabeth Marks within the girls’s 50m freestyle S6; she additionally collected silver medals within the girls’s 50m butterfly S6 and 200m particular person medley SM6.
On the Video games, there will likely be medals awarded in 549 occasions throughout 22 sports activities in 20 venues — together with the aquatics heart at La Protection, which simply noticed medal-winning performances from Olympians corresponding to U.S. star Katie Ledecky and France’s Leon Marchand, and the athletics services on the Stade de France, the place U.S. lengthy jumper Tara Woodhall-Davis introduced residence a gold.
She was cheered on by her husband, Hunter Woodhall, a sprinter who will chase his personal gold on the Paralympics beginning Sept. 1. She leaped into his arms after her closing leap in one of many Video games’ most viral moments.
