Great Britain’s Paralympic team have got off to a good start in Paris with a significant medal haul after the first week.
They appear to be on track to match if not exceed their Tokyo medal tally after winning golds, silvers and bronzes across various different disciplines.
ParalympicsGB has 215 athletes participating at Paris 2024 and there are high hopes they will bring home more medals than they did at the previous Games.
In Tokyo 2020, they won medals across 18 sports, the most of any nation ever, to finish second on the table behind China with 124 medals overall.
Penny Briscoe OBE, ParalympicsGB Chef de Mission at Paris 2024, said: “The record-breaking achievements at Tokyo 2020 are going to be hard to eclipse but I am confident we will be highly competitive in every sport and there will be thrilling medal winning performances on every day of competition to excite and inspire the nation.”
How many medals have ParalympicsGB won at Paris 2024?
Great Britain’s Paralympians have already begun gathering gold, silver and bronze at the Games, with female athletes leading the charge.
The tally so far is 76 medals overall – 33 golds, 25 silvers and 18 bronzes.
Gold:
- Para swimming: women’s S5 200m freestyle – Tully Kearney
- Para swimming: women’s S14 100m butterfly – Poppy Maskill
- Para cycling track: men’s C3 3,000m individual pursuit – Jaco van Gass
- Para cycling track: women’s B 1,000m time trial – Lizzi Jordan and Danni Khan
- Para swimming: women’s SM6 200m individual medley – Maisie Summers-Newton
- Para swimming: men’s S12 100m backstroke – Stephen Clegg
- Para swimming: men’s S14 200m freestyle – William Ellard
- Para swimming: women’s S14 200m backstroke – Alice Tai
- Para taekwondo: women’s K44 +65kg – Amy Truesdale
- Para taekwondo: men’s K44 +80kg – Matt Bush
- Para rowing: PR1 men’s singles sculls – Ben Pritchard
- Para rowing: PR2 mixed doubles sculls – Lauren Rowles and Gregg Stevenson
- Para rowing: PR3 mixed coxed four – Francesca Allen, Giedre Rakauskaite, Josh O’Brien, Ed Fuller and Erin Kennedy
- Para cycling track: men’s B 1000m time trial – James Ball and Steffan Lloyd
- Para cycling track: women’s B 3,000m individual pursuit – Sophie Unwin and Jenny Holl
- Para cycling track: open C1-5 750m team sprint – Kadeena Cox, Jaco van Gass and Jody Cundy
- Para swimming: women’s SB6 100m breaststroke – Maisie Summers-Newton
- Para swimming: women’s SM8 200m individual medley – Brock Whiston
- Para athletics: women’s T34 100m – Hannah co*ckroft
- Para swimming: women’s SB5 100m breaststroke final – Grace Harvey
- Para athletics: women’s F20 shot put – Sabrina Fortune
- Para swimming: mixed S14 4x100m freestyle relay – William Ellard, Rhys Darbey, Poppy Maskill and Olivia Newman-Baronius
- Para triathlon: men’s PTVI – Dave Ellis and Luke Pollard
- Para triathlon: women’s PTS4 – Megan Richter
- Para boccia: men’s BC4 individual – Stephen McGuire
- Para swimming: women’s S3 50m backstroke – Ellie Challis
- Para swimming: women’s SB14 100m breaststroke – Louise Fiddes
- Para archery: mixed team compound open – Nathan Macqueen and Jodie Grinham
- Para swimming: women’s S10 100m butterfly – Faye Rogers
- Para cycling road: women’s C5 time trial – Sarah Storey
- Wheelchair fencing: men’s foil category B – Dimitri Coutyay
- Para athletics: women’s T53 100m – Samantha Kinghorn
Silver:
- Para cycling track: men’s B 4000m individual pursuit – Steve Bate and Chris Latham
- Para cycling track: women’s C1-3 3,000m individual pursuit – Daphne Schrager
- Para swimming: men’s S14 100m butterfly – William Ellard
- Para cycling track: men’s C4-5 1000m time trial – Blaine Hunt
- Para cycling track: men’s C3 3,000m individual pursuit – Fin Graham
- Para swimming: women’s SB8 100m breaststroke – Brock Whiston
- Para swimming: women’s S14 200m freestyle – Poppy Maskill
- Para cycling track: men’s C4 4,000m individual pursuit – Archie Atkinson
- Para rowing: mixed PR3 double sculls – Annie Caddick and Sam Murray
- Para cycling track: men’s B 1000m time trial – Neil Fachie and Matt Rotherham
- Para athletics: women’s T53 800m – Samantha Kinghorn
- Para athletics: women’s T34 100m – Kare Adenegan
- Para badminton: men’s SL3 singles – Dan Bethell
- Para triathlon: women’s PTS5 – Claire Cashmore
- Para badminton: men’s SH6 singles – Krysten Coombs
- Para athletics: women’s T54 1500m – Samantha Kinghorn
- Para swimming: women’s S10 100m butterfly – Callie-Ann Warrington
- Wheelchair fencing: men’s sabre A – Piers Gilliver
- Para cycling road: women’s C1-3 time trial – Fran Brown
- Para cycling road: women’s B time trial – Sophie Unwin and Jenny Holl
- Wheelchair tennis: men’s quad doubles – Andy Lapthorne and Greg Slade
- Para powerlifting: women’s -45kg – Zoe Newson
- Para swimming: men’s SM14 200m individual medley – Rhys Darbey
- Para swimming: women’s SM14 200m individual medley – Poppy Maskill
- Para swimming: women’s S8 400m freestyle – Alice Tai
Bronze:
- Para table tennis: women’s WD14 doubles – Bly Twomey and Felicity Pickard
- Para cycling track: men’s C2 3,000m individual pursuit – Matthew Robertson
- Para cycling track: women’s B 1000m time trial – Sophie Unwin and Jenny Holl
- Para swimming: women’s S14 200m freestyle – Louise Fiddes
- Para table tennis: men’s MD14 doubles – Paul Karabardak and Billy Shilton
- Para archery: women’s individual compound – Jodie Grinham
- Para cycling track: women’s B 3,000m individual pursuit – Lora Fachie and Corrine Hall
- Para swimming: women’s SM8 200m individual medley – Alice Tai
- Para triathlon: women’s PTS5 – Lauren Steadman
- Para triathlon: women’s PTS4 – Hannah Moore
- Para equestrian: individual event grade III – Natasha Baker
- Para equestrian: individual event grade II – Georgia Wilson
- Para athletics: men’s T12 100m – Zac Shaw
- Para shooting: mixed 50m rifle prone SH2 – Tim Jeffery
- Para equestrian: grade V individual test – Sophie Wells
- Para cycling road: women’s B time trial – Lora Fachie and Corrine Hall
Where are ParalympicsGB in the overall medal table?
The haul means ParalympicsGB is currently in second place on the medal table, behind the People’s Republic of China with 10 including five golds.
Italy is in third place with nine medals overall but only two silvers and Brazil has the fourth spot with six medals in total but only one silver.
Fans can keep track of the GB tally on the official Paralympics Medal Table here.
What is ParalympicsGB’s medal target?
UK Sport, the country’s high-performance sport agency, has set a medal target for the Paralympics as it did for the Olympics earlier in the summer.
For the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, the hopes were for sports to cumulatively win between 50 and 70 medals.
Team GB came home with 65 medals in total, equalling the tally from London 2012, with 14 gold, 22 silver and 29 bronze and finishing seventh in the medal table.
For the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, the hopes are for ParalympicsGB athletes to return with the number of medals ranging from 100 to 140.
ParalympicsGB has never been outside of the top five position of the medal table since the inaugural Games in Rome in 1960, and has been a top three nation since The National Lottery funding was introduced ahead of the Sydney 2000 Paralympic Games.
