Refugee Paralympic Team at the 2024 Summer Paralympics | |
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IPC code | RPT |
NPC | Refugee Paralympic Team |
in Paris, France | |
Competitors | 8 in 6 sports |
Flag bearer | Guillaume Junior Atangana |
Medals Ranked 78th |
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Summer Paralympics appearances (overview) | |
Other related appearances | |
Individual Paralympic Athletes (2016) |
The Refugee Paralympic Team competed at the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris, France, from 28 August to 8 September 2024. The team consisted of eight athletes and one guide runner, all refugees and asylees who represented more than 120 million forcibly displaced people worldwide.[1] The formation of the team and its six athletes was announced on 9 July 2024 in a joint statement by the IPC and UNHCR.[1] The team had made its debut at the 2016 Paralympics as the Independent Paralympic Athletes Team, which consisted of just two athletes, and returned to the 2020 Summer Paralympics under the current name with six refugee and asylee Paralympic athletes.
Medalists
The following Refugee competitors won medals at the games. In the discipline sections below, the medalists' names are bolded.
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Competitors
Zimbabwe-born parathlete Nyasha Mharakurwa was chosen as the chef de mission of the Refugee Paralympic Team.
Guillaume Junior Atangana, who is vision-impaired, will line up alongside his guide and fellow refugee Donard Ndim Nyamjua. Khudadadi, Atangana, Hussein and Abbariki all competed in prior Paralympics.
Sponsorship
The Refugee Team was sponsored or supported by Airbnb, Asics, UNHCR, the French Ministry for Sport and Olympic and Paralympic Games, the Paris 2024 Organizing Committee and CREPS of Reims.[citation needed]
Athletics
- Key
- Note–Ranks given for track events are within the athlete's heat only
- Q = Qualified for the next round
- q = Qualified for the next round as a fastest loser or, in field events, by position without achieving the qualifying target
- DQ = Disqualified
- PR = Paralympic Record
- AR = Area (or continental) Record
- NR = National Record
- SB = Season's Best
- N/A = Round not applicable for the event
- Bye = Athlete not required to compete in round
- Field event
- Men
Athlete | Event | Final | |
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Result | Rank | ||
Salman Abbariki | Men's shot put F34 |
- Track and road events
- Men
Athlete | Event | Heat | Semifinal | Final | |||
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Result | Rank | Result | Rank | Result | Rank | ||
Guillaume Junior Atangana | Men's 100 m T11 | ||||||
Men's 400 m T11 | 51.95 | 1 Q | 51.03 | 1 Q | 50.89 PB |
Paratriathlon
Athlete | Class | Swim | T1 | Bike | T2 | Run | Time | Rank | ||||||
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L1 | L2 | L3 | L4 | L1 | L2 | L3 | L4 | |||||||
Ibrahim Al Hussein | Men's PTS3 |
Powerlifting
Athlete | Event | Attempts (kg) | Result (kg) | Rank | |||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | ||||
Hadi Darvish | Men's 80 kg |
Table tennis
Athlete | Event | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final / BM | |
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Seyed Hosseini Pour | Men's individual C8 |
Taekwondo
Athlete | Event | Preliminary round | First round | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Repechage | Final / BM | |
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Opposition Result |
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Rank | ||
Hadi Hassanzada | Men's –80 kg | Ganapin (PHI) L 13–22 |
Did not advance | |||||
Zakia Khudadadi | Women's –47 kg | — | Rodríguez (CUB) W 21–11 |
Isakova (UZB) L 3–4 |
— | Ekinci (TUR) W 9–1 |
Laarif (MAR) W WWD |
Wheelchair Fencing
Athlete | Event | Qualification | Round of 16 | Quarterfinal | Semifinal | Final / BM | ||
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Opposition | Rank | Opposition
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Amelio Castro | Men's épée B | |||||||
Men's sabre B |
References
- ^ a b "IPC unveils largest Refugee Paralympic Team ever for Paris 2024". UNHCR US. Retrieved 2024-08-09.