The last day of the 2024 Paris Paralympic Games saw Switzerland claim gold in both wheelchair marathons.
Switzerland won both Paralympic wheelchair marathons on Sunday while the Netherlands protected back-to-back ladies’s wheelchair basketball titles, rejecting the United States on the last day of competitors.
China completed top of the medals table in Paris, as they have for every Paralympics given that Athens in 2004. They had 94 golds, followed by Britain with 49 and USA with 36.
As the 6 weeks of Olympics and Paralympics fever in the City of Light waned, locations were being taken apart before the closing event at the Stade de France.
Early in the early morning, Catherine Debrunner moved her racing wheelchair through the autumnal chill in the streets of Paris to win the ladies’s marathon.
The 29-year-old Swiss professional athlete contributed to the 4 gold medals she has actually currently won on the track at these video games, varying from the 400 metres to the 5,000 metres, with a silver medal in the T53 100 metres included for great procedure.
“I’m incredibly tired however extremely pleased,” stated Debrunner. “Winning this marathon implies whatever to me due to the fact that to end this Paralympics with this is truly something unique.”
Australia’s Madison de Rozario took a brave silver medal behind her, contending regardless of the death of her dad on the day of the Paris opening event.
Switzerland’s Marcel Hug, 38, offseted a frustrating video games on the track by controling the males’s wheelchair marathon, ending up 3 minutes and 40 seconds ahead of Hua Jin of China.
Dam quotes goodbye after 5th Paralympic Games
Among Britain’s biggest Paralympic professional athletes of perpetuity, David Weir, revealed that Paris was his last video games after he completed fifth.
“It’s my last occasion for Great Britain,” 45-year-old Weir stated. “No more global racing for me. I’ll do the city marathons.
“I feel happy and I am really psychological.”
A minute’s silence was held after among the ladies’s marathons in memory of Rebecca Cheptegei, the Ugandan Olympic marathon runner who died today after a dreadful attack by her previous sweetheart.
Cheptegei had actually ended up 44th in the ladies’s marathon on August 11.
Dutch make it back-to-back ladies’s wheelchair basketball titles
The Netherlands scored a persuading 63-49 win versus the USA to maintain the ladies’s wheelchair basketball title they won at Tokyo 2020.
Bo Kramer topscored for the Dutch with 23 points and had 12 rebounds, while Mariska Beijer included 22 points.
Rose Hollermann struck 17 points for the USA however they were controlled for the majority of the video game at Bercy Arena.
The Americans need to wait till the 2028 Los Angeles Paralympics before attempting to win a title their males protected for a 3rd video games in a row on Saturday. The USA ladies’s last title came at the 2016 Rio Games.
China beat Canada 65-43 to win the bronze medal.
Organisers have actually guaranteed to produce the feel of a big outdoor club at the Stade de France for the closing event in the future Sunday.
The hour-long set, which will see 24 DJs mix in one track each on phase, will be opened and nearby French electronic music leader Jean-Michel Jarre, 76.
The event will likewise see the Olympic cauldron snuffed out and a symbolic handover from Paris to Los Angeles, which will host the next video games in 2028.
Completing the medals table, the Netherlands were 4th with 27 golds, Brazil ended up with 25 and Italy won 24 golds in 6th location.
Ukraine’s professional athletes got rid of substantial barriers presented by the war versus getting into Russian forces to end up in seventh location with 22 golds, while the host country, France, were 8th with 19 golds.
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