How many medals have GB won at Paris 2024 Paralympics? Full list of winners

by Admin
August 30, 2024

Great Britain’s Paralympic team has got off to a good start in Paris with a significant medal haul after just one day.

They appear to be on track to match if not exceed their Tokyo medal tally as they secured golds, silvers and a bronze at the start of the competition.

ParalympicsGB has 215 athletes participating at the Paris Games 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.

Felicity Pickard and Bly Twomey’s medal-winning performance in the Doubles WS14 – Women event on day one of the Paris 2024 Summer Paralympic Games (Photo: ParalympicsGB/PA)

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 six medals overall – two golds, three silvers and one bronze.

Gold:

Para swimming: women’s 200m freestyle S5 – Tully Kearney
Para swimming: women’s 100m butterfly S14 – Poppy Maskill

Silver:

Pars cycling track: men’s B 4000m individual pursuit – Steve Bate
Para cycling track: women’s C1-3 3000m individual pursuit – Daphne Schrager
Para swimming: men’s 100m butterfly S14 – William Ellard

Bronze:

Para table tennis: women’s doubles WD14 – Bly Twomey and Felicity Pickard

Handout photo provided by ParalympicsGB of Great Britain's William Ellard with his silver medal won in the 100m Butterfly S14 on day one of the Paris 2024 Summer Paralympic Games. Picture date: Thursday August 29, 2024. PA Photo. Photo credit should read: ParalympicsGB/PA Wire. RESTRICTIONS: Use subject to restrictions. Editorial use only, no commercial use without prior consent from rights holder. — William Ellard with his silver medal won in the 100m Butterfly S14 (Photo: ParalympicsGB/PA)

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.

Handout photo provided by ParalympicsGB of Great Britain's Poppy Maskill on the podium after winning the gold medal in the Women's 100m Butterfly - S14 Final on day one of the Paris 2024 Summer Paralympic Games. Picture date: Thursday August 29, 2024. PA Photo. Photo credit should read: ParalympicsGB/PA Wire. RESTRICTIONS: Use subject to restrictions. Editorial use only, no commercial use without prior consent from rights holder. — Poppy Maskill on the podium after winning the gold medal in the Women’s 100m Butterfly – S14 Final. (Photo: ParalympicsGB/PA)

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.