The Paris 2024 Paralympic Games are in full swing! To get you excited about everything gold, silver, and bronze, we've prepared this Paralympics medal tally to keep you updated on all the sporting action.
Following the conclusion of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games — where Australia secured fourth place in the medal tally with 17 gold, 19 silver, and 16 bronze medals — the Paralympics are now underway!
This year's Paralympic Games will showcase 23 disciplines with a total of 549 events. 160 athletes will represent Australia in 17 events in Paris 2024, including para-cyclist Alistair Donohoe, para-athletics star Madison de Rozario, and para-swimmer Alexa Leary.
With a formidable lineup like that (and more) Team Australia is poised to bring home some new, shiny medals!
However, with the Paralympics taking place in Paris, the time difference means some Aussies might miss out on all the excitement.
So, to keep you informed, or if you need some quick Paris 2024 Paralympics stats, we've compiled this medal tally to ensure you're up to date.
Here's everything you need to know about Australia's position in the Paralympics medal tally and the number of medals Australia has won in the Paralympic Games.
Table of Contents:
- How many medals has Australia won so far?
- Gold
- Silver
- Bronze
- Who is leading the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games medal tally?
How many medals has Australia won in the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games so far?
After ten days of competition, our athletes clad in green and gold have claimed 63 medals at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games. That surely deserves a rousing AUSSIE, AUSSIE, AUSSIE, OI, OI, OI!!!!!
- Gold: 18
- Silver: 17
- Bronze: 28
- Total: 63
Gold 🥇
Curtis McGrath
Event: Para-Canoe: Men’s kayak single 200m KL2
Curtis McGrath has clinched his fourth para canoe gold medal at Paris 2024 — showcasing Australia's dominance in paddle sports. This is McGrath's third consecutive men's single 200m KL2 gold medal.
James Turner
Event: Para-Athletics: Men’s 100m T36
James Turner has added another gold to his collection at Paris 2024, this time in the men’s 100m T36 final — a significant victory considering his tough battle with glandular fever earlier this year.
“There were days where I could barely walk, I was stumbling, I could barely talk,” he shared with ABC Sport after his win.
“For a moment, I even doubted I might make it to the Games.”
Callum Simpson
Event: Para-Swimming, Men’s 100m freestyle S8
Callum Simpson has made a remarkable Paralympics debut, winning his first individual gold after previously securing gold as part of the Mixed Medley Relay team.
“Seeing my name at the top of the board is a feeling I'll never forget,” he mentioned per Paralympics.org.
The 17-year-old, Sunny Coaster is a para-swimming sensation to watch for the Brisbane games in 2032. Makes you reflect on what you were doing at 17 LOL.
Benjamin Hance
Event: Para-Swimming, Men’s 100m backstroke S14
Benjamin Hance is a two-time world champion and defending champion from Tokyo who set a world record in his heat this year with a qualifying time of 56.62 seconds.
Although he couldn't maintain his record time in the finals, he still finished in an impressive 57.04 seconds.
Upon winning, Ben kissed his left hand, looked skyward, and mouthed, “I love you dad.” Ben lost his father this year, making it his “worst year of [his] life so far,” per Nine News.
“I was just thanking my father for everything he’s done,” he said.
“He always loved my backstroke and I’m glad I gave him a gold medal”. I'm not crying, you are.
Timothy Hodge
Event: Para-Swimming, Men’s 200m individual
Timothy Hodge has added another sparkling gold medal to his collection from the 2024 Paris Paralympics. He came in first for the men’s 200m individual medley SM9, maintaining his lead from start to finish.
“The challenge with being world champion, world record holder, is that you’ve got no one to chase. So everything you’ve got to do to improve is stuff that people have never done before,” he said, per Nine News.
Absolute boss energy, if you ask me.
This is Hodges' second gold at the 2024 Games after claiming his first with the mixed 4x100m Medley Relay on Day Five.
Vanessa Low
Event: Para-athletics, Women’s long jump T63
Long jumper Vanessa Low has claimed her first medal of the 2024 Paralympics with a world-record-breaking jump. After sprinting down the track, she landed a jump of 5.45m. While other competitors tried to beat her record, the closest they got was 5.06m.
The huge achievement was made even sweeter with her coach and husband gold-medallist sprinter Scott Reardon and their son Matteo cheering her on from the crowd.
“It is definitely a pinch-me moment,” she said, per Nine Wide World Of Sports.
“It feels like a lifetime ago that the Tokyo Paralympics happened because we had bub in the middle of it, and I changed to be coached by my husband.”
Qian Yang
Event: Table Tennis, Women’s Singles WS10
In a dominant win at the women’s singles WS10 table tennis, Qian Yang claimed the gold medal in the event.
Defeating Poland’s Natalia Partyka in all three rounds, the final score was 11-6, 11-9, 12-10.
Alexa Leary
Event: Swimming: Women’s 100m Freestyle S9
Alexa Leary continued to make Australia proud on Day Seven when she won gold in the women’s 100m freestyle with a world record time of 59.53 seconds.
Even better, she broke the world record TWICE in one day, first in her heat with a time of 59.60 seconds.
James Turner
Event: Athletics: Men’s 400m T36
Paralympic sprinter James Turner may have clinched the gold in a stunning victory on Day Six of the Games, but it certainly wasn’t an easy path to the finish line. Speaking to Nine’s Wide World Of Sports, Turner revealed that he had been battling glandular fever in the lead-up to the race.
“I’d have waves of exhaustion where I could barely walk, I was stumbling around, a bit of delirium. I obviously wasn’t able to train … As soon as I’d start training I’d get worse, so we had to be really careful and come back really slowly,” Turner said.
“We just had to get through it and do what we could on the day. I didn’t think I’d be able to break a world record here today. I just thought maybe if I do everything right I can scrape across the line first.”
He did more than just scrape across, beating his personal best and the world record.
Jesse Aungles, Emily Beecroft, Alexa Leary, Tim Hodge, Keira Stephens & Callum Simpson
Event: Swimming: Mixed 4x100m Medley Relay
It was a surprise win for the Aussie mixed medley relay team on Day Five. The team was seven seconds behind the Netherlands until somehow the team must have grown rocket ships or something and zoomed into the lead. But not only did they win the gold, but they also broke the Paralympic record time.
How good!
Lauren Parker
Event: Triathalon, Women’s PTWC & Para cycling road: Women’s H1-4 road race
Lauren Parker‘s triathlon win was four years in the making. Back at the Tokyo Games in 2020, she was leading for the majority of the race until Team USA’s Kendall Gretsch managed to bag the gold at the very last second. This time, Lauren reigned supreme against her biggest rival.
“It’s been a big build-up. I’ve said ever since Tokyo that I want to get gold in Paris,” Parker said, per The Sydney Morning Herald.
“I can’t believe I was able to do it today. It’s been a long journey to get here, and I couldn’t be more proud and more happy.”
To make the 2024 Games even sweeter for Lauren, she just landed herself another shiny gold medal in the road cycling Women’s 1-4 road race.
“Hard work pays off,” Parker said, per the ABC.
“I’ve put in a lot of hard work in training and my preparation, so I’m just so stoked that it has paid off. I’ve come away with three medals in these games and two [are] gold.”
