From September 7 to 18, more than 4,350 athletes from 176 countries will be present to compete in the 15th edition of the Summer Paralympic Games. Over eleven days, the world’s best paralympic athletes will compete for no fewer than 528 medals. 23 sports are included in the paralympic program.
Athletics, rowing, wheelchair basketball, boccia, 5-a-side football (blind football), canoeing, road cycling, track cycling, equestrian, wheelchair fencing, 7-a-side standing football, goalball, powerlifting, judo, swimming, wheelchair rugby, wheelchair tennis, table tennis, archery, shooting, triathlon, sailing, sitting volleyball.
The Paralympic Games are one of the largest sporting events in the world in terms of scale, second only to the Olympic Games.
Both the Olympic and Paralympic Games are organized by a single organizing committee, ROCOG, chaired by Carlos Arthur Nuzman, under the auspices of the IOC for the Olympic Games and the IPC for the Paralympic Games.
In Rio, the French Delegation will comprise more than 230 people, including 126 athletes (42 women and 84 men), including two guides in athletics and a coxswain in rowing.
France will have Emmanuelle Assmann, President of the French Paralympic and Sports Committee (CPSF), as Head of Delegation. A former high-level athlete in fencing, she won a bronze medal at the Athens 2004 Paralympic Games in team épée.
With four medals obtained at the Paralympic Games since Athens 2004, including double gold in Beijing 2008, the charismatic wheelchair tennis player Michaël Jérémiasz has been designated as the flag bearer.
