GB win medals in all sports but one – best stats from Paris 2024

ParalympicsGB has delivered on its promises at Paris 2024, said Penny Briscoe, the team’s chef de mission, as the Games drew to a close on Sunday.

The 215-strong British team finished second in the medal table behind China with 124 medals (49 gold, 44 silver and 31 bronze), comfortably exceeding UK Sport’s target of 100-140.

“Paris was a fantastic event for ParalympicsGB, both on and off the field of play,” Briscoe told BBC Sport.

“The athletes and staff have had an incredible Games experience here in Paris. I don’t think we could go home happier.”

BBC Sport has collected some of the best statistics from the Games.

GB ‘punch above weight’ to equal Tokyo total

Great Britain equalled the total number of medals it won in Tokyo three years ago, but won eight times more gold in Paris.

In fact, 49 gold medals is the highest total for the British Paralympic Games since Rio 2016, when they won 64 gold medals, and the second highest total since Seoul 1988, when they won 65 gold medals.

Great Britain has finished second in the medal table at every Summer Paralympic Games this century, except London 2012, where they finished third.

More than half of the team’s 215 athletes stood on the podium at some point during the Paris Olympics.

Briscoe said GB were “outperforming our potential”, adding: “We have a comfortable lead over the chasing pack but we are not complacent. We have to do our best to find new talent.”

Swimming most successful sport for GB

Great Britain was represented in 19 sports in the French capital, winning medals in 18 of them, just as in Tokyo.

Only wheelchair rugby lost a medal after the mixed team lost the bronze medal match.

ParalympicsGB had a brilliant Games in Para-swimming, with at least one medal on each day of competition. Britain won 32 medals in the pool, including 18 gold – 10 more than they managed in Tokyo.

It was in para-canoeing that Britain really dominated, with Britain’s eight medals double that of the next best nation, Brazil.

Who won the most Paralympic medals for Great Britain?

Three members of the ParalympicsGB team – para-swimmers Poppy Maskill and Alice Tai and wheelchair racer Sammi Kinghorn – left Paris with five medals.

Nineteen-year-old Maskill won three golds on her Paralympic debut, the most of any British athlete this summer, winning the 100m backstroke (Category 14), the 100m butterfly and the mixed 4x100m freestyle relay.

Tai won gold in the S8 50m freestyle and 100m backstroke, while Kinghorn took four silvers behind Catherine Debrunner in the T53 events, but beat the Swiss star in the 100m.

Storey extends record with 19th gold

Maskill, Tai and Kinghorn still have a long way to go to equal Sarah Storey’s medal tally.

Britain’s most decorated Paralympic athlete won two more titles this summer, taking her total medal tally to 30, 19 of which are gold.

The 46-year-old, who made her Paralympic debut in 1992, won 16 medals in para swimming before switching to para cycling for the 2008 Games in Beijing.

Remarkably, Storey had already won 17 medals before 13-year-old para-swimmer Iona Winnifrith, Britain’s youngest medallist in Paris, was even born.

Final medal table Paralympics 2024 Paris

China topped the medal table at the Summer Paralympics for the sixth consecutive time.

The US led the Olympic medal count at Paris 2024 but only equaled the third-place finish it achieved in Tokyo at the Paralympics.

The United States has not won so many gold medals at the Paralympic Games since Atlanta 1996.

Host nation France finished the Games in eighth place in the medal table, with 19 gold medals and 75 medals, an improvement on its 14th place three years ago, when it won 20 fewer medals.

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