The Paralympic Video games have come to an finish with a spectacular mild present and dance get together capping a final day of competition that noticed two world data fall.
Addressing the closing ceremony at a packed Stade de France, chief Paris 2024 organiser and former gold medal-winning canoeist Tony Estanguet stated the six weeks of the Paralympics and the Olympics would stay “etched in folks’s reminiscences”.
“This summer time, France had a date with historical past, and the nation confirmed up,” he stated.
Greater than 4,400 athletes from 168 Paralympic delegations partied to one of the best of French digital dance music throughout the closing ceremony regardless of the rain.
Earlier, Morocco’s Fatima Ezzahra El Idrissi smashed the world document within the girls’s marathon for runners with visible impairments.
El Idrissi completed the 42km (26.2 miles) course in 2 hours, 48 minutes and 36 seconds, beating the earlier document by almost six minutes.
“I wasn’t operating for a time, just for a medal,” the 29-year-old Moroccan stated.
Additionally on the ultimate day of competitors, Nigeria’s Folashade Oluwafemiayo broke her personal world document in girls’s para powerlifting.
China topped the Paralympics medal desk with 94 golds, whereas Nice Britain was second with 49 and the USA third with 36.
Ukraine’s athletes overcame the formidable obstacles posed by their nation’s battle towards invading Russian forces to complete in seventh place with 22 golds whereas France was eighth with 19.
China has completed prime of the medal desk at each Paralympics since Athens in 2004.
The subsequent Paralympics will happen in Los Angeles in 2028.
Regardless of preliminary fears about ticket gross sales, the Paralympics came about in primarily full stadiums, benefitting from the feel-good issue of the extremely profitable Olympics, which ended on August 11.
Parsons stated the Paris Paralympics had proven that “change begins with sport”.
