The Paralympic Video games have come to an finish with a spectacular mild present and dance occasion capping a last day of competitors 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 mentioned the six weeks of the Paralympics and the Olympics would stay “etched in folks’s recollections”.
“This summer season, France had a date with historical past, and the nation confirmed up,” he mentioned.
Greater than 4,400 athletes from 168 Paralympic delegations partied to the very best of French digital dance music through the closing ceremony regardless of the rain.
Earlier, Morocco’s Fatima Ezzahra El Idrissi smashed the world report 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 report by almost six minutes.
“I wasn’t operating for a time, just for a medal,” the 29-year-old Moroccan mentioned.
Additionally on the ultimate day of competitors, Nigeria’s Folashade Oluwafemiayo broke her personal world report in girls’s para powerlifting.
China topped the Paralympics medal desk with 94 golds, whereas Nice Britain was second with 49 and america third with 36.
Ukraine’s athletes overcame the formidable obstacles posed by their nation’s struggle in opposition to invading Russian forces to complete in seventh place with 22 golds whereas France was eighth with 19.
China has completed high 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 passed off in primarily full stadiums, benefitting from the feel-good issue of the extremely profitable Olympics, which ended on August 11.
Parsons mentioned the Paris Paralympics had proven that “change begins with sport”.
