Summer Paralympic Games Paris 2024

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Summer Paralympic Games 2024

 

Various Cities (FRA) - 28 August 2024 - 8 September 2024

 

 

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Edited August 27 by Sindo

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Great Britain Predictions

 

 

Archery

8 athletes - Here I'm basing our entrants off of ArcheryGB's World Class Programme

                    Men's Compound Open - Jamie Harris, Nathan Macqueen

                    Men's Recurve Open - Dave Phillips, Cameron Radigan 

                    Men's W1 - Martin Saych

                    Women's Compound Open - Jessica Stretton, Phoebe Patterson Pine, 

                    Women's W1 - Victoria Kingstone 

 

Athletics

40-50 athletes - We sent 51 to Tokyo, 40 to the Worlds in 2019 and there are 42 athletes listed on British Athletics,

 

Badminton

7 athletes - Its hard to know as the qualification hasn't fully been releases yet but here are some athletes who could qualify. (World Ranking)

                         Men's Singles WH1 - David Follet (15)

                         Men's Singles SL3 - Daniel Bethell (1)

                         Men's Singles SU5 - David Wilson (10)

                         Men's Singles SH6 - Jack Shepard (2) and Krysten Coombs (5)

                         Women's Singles SL4 - Mary Wilson (14)

                         Women's Singles SH6 - Rachel Choong (3)

 

Blind Football

0-8 athletes - I would hope to qualify a team considering we are hosting the world championships this year.

 

Boccia

11 athletes - Again, I will go of the athletes who have UK Sport funding.

                          Men's BC1 - David Smith

                          Men's BC2 - Will Hipwell

                          Men's BC3 - Will Arnott, Jamie McCowan

                          Men's BC4 - Stephen McGuire, Louis Saunders

                          Women's BC2 - Claire Taggart, Kayleigh Haggo

                          Women's BC3 - Sally Kidson, Robyn McBride

                          Women's BC4 - Fiona Muirhead

 

Canoe 

8 athletes - Lots of strength in our squad right now so I would expect 8/8 athletes

 

Para Cycling

30-35 athletes - There are currently 33 athletes in our Podium Programme

 

Equestrian 

4/4  athletes already qualified

 

Fencing

Male - Piers Gilliver , Dimitri Coutya, Oliver Lam Watson

Female - Gemma Collis, Emily Holder, Justine Moore, 

 

Goalball

0-6 athletes - The women's team are now 10 in the world and may qualify

 

Judo

5 athletes - Men's -71kg J1 - Connah Anders

                         Men's -90kg J1 - Dan Powell

                         Men's -90kg J2 - Evan Molloy

                         Men's +90kg J2 - Chris Skelley

                         Women's +70kg J2 - Kirsten Taylor

 

Para Powerlifting
7 athletes - Men's -65kg - Mark Swan

                        Men's -72kg - Matthew Harding

                        Men's -80kg - Mickey Yule

                        Men's +107kg - Liam McGarry

                        Women's -41kg - Zoe Newson

                        Women's -55kg - Olivia Broom

                        Women's -61kg - Rebecca Bedford

 

Rowing

8 athletes - The same as Tokyo, based on previous world championship performance

 

Shooting

3 athletes - R3 - Matt Skelhon

                         R4 - Ryan Cockbill

                         R5 - Tim Jefferey

 

Swimming

29 athletes on British Swimming's Website

 

Table Tennis

13 athletes - Men's Class 1 - Robert Davies, Thomas Matthews

                           Men's Class 5 - Jack Hunter Spivey

                           Men's Class 6 - Paul Karabardak, Robert Perry

                           Men's Class 7 - Will Bayley

                           Men's Class 8 - William Wilson, Aaron McKibbin, Billy Shilton

                           Men's Class 9 - Josh Stacey

                           Women's Class 4 - Sue Bailey, Megan Shackleton

                           Women's Class 6 - Lucy Pickard

 

Para Taekwondo

4 athletes - Amy Truesdale, Beth Munro, Joe Lane and Matt Bush

 

Triathlon

14 athletes - 12 + 2 guides

 

Wheelchair Basketball

24 athletes - Both Teams should qualify

 

Wheelchair Rugby

12 athletes 

 

Wheelchair Tennis

7 athletes - Men's - Alfie Hewitt, Gordon Reid, Ben Bartam, 

                        Women's - Lucy Shuker, Cornelia Oosthusien

                        Quad - Andy Lapthorne, Gregory Slade

 

 

 

Total -  240-269 athletes (We sent 227 to Tokyo)

 

 

 

 

Edited August 18 by Sindo

[Josh 10,493]

By the way here is the schedule for the 2024 Paralympics by event, for those of you who wanted to check it out!  https://medias.paris2024.org/uploads/2023/02/Paralympics-Competition-schedule-by-events_V1.pdf

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Canada Predictions

 

Archery (1-2)

 

We qualified 3 athletes at the Dubai 2022 Para Worlds, and 1 athlete at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, which is what I’m basing the numbers on. 

 

W Individual Compound Open- Karen Van Nest

M Individual Compound Open- Kevin Evans

Mixed Compound Open- Kevin Evans, Karen Van Nest

 

Para Athletics (18) 

 

Greg Stewart (M Shot Put F46) has retired since winning Paralympic gold at Tokyo 2020, which is a big hit to our medal hopes. But we still have lots of chances with Riech, Lakatos, Borgella etc. 

 

Men (11)

1500m T38- Nate Riech

100m T33- Brent Lakatos

400m T33- Brent Lakatos

800m T33- Brent Lakatos

1500m T33- Brent Lakatos

5000m T33- Brent Lakatos

Marathon T33- Brent Lakatos

Shot Put T20- Noah Vucsics 

100m T38- Zachary Gingras

400m T38- Zachary Gingras

400m T12- David Johnson 

100m T34- Austin Smeenk

400m T34- Austin Smeenk
1500m T37- Liam Stanley

400m T47- Thomas Normandeau

400m T54- Alexandre Dupont

800m T54- Alexandre Dupont, Josh Cassidy

1500m T54- Josh Cassidy, Alexandre Dupont

5000m T54- Josh Cassidy

Marathon T54- Josh Cassidy

5000m T13- Guillaume Ouellet

 

Women (7)

100m T64- Marissa Papaconstantinou

200m T64- Marissa Papaconstantinou

Shot Put F55- Sarah Mickey

100m T13- Bianca Borgella

200m T13- Bianca Borgella

400m T13- Bianca Borgella

Shot Put T41- Charlotte Bolton

Discus Throw F38- Renee Foessel

Long Jump T47- Amy Watt

100m T53- Jessica Frotten

200m T53- Jessica Frotten

 

Badminton (0-1)

 

WS WH1- Yuka Chokyu

Boccia (3)

 

Mixed Individual BC1- Alison Levine, Iulian Ciobanu

 

Mixed Pair BC4- Alison Levine, Marco Dispaltro

 

Para Cycling: (9)

 

Women (4)

Road Cycling 

Keely Shaw, Shelley Gautier

Track Cycling 

Kate O’Brien, Keely Shaw, Mel Pemble

 

Men (5)

Road Cycling 

Charles Moreau, Nathan Clement, Joey Desjardins, Ross Wilson, Michael Sametz

 

Para Equestrian (4) 

 

Women (4)

Lauren Barwick

Roberta Sheffield

Jody Schloss

Winona Hartvikson

 

Goalball (6-12)

 

We’ll most likely qualify our women’s team, just barely missed out on a quota at the previous World Championships. I’m thinking our men’s team won’t qualify, with the Pan Am quota most likely going to either the US or Argentina, but theres a chance. 
 

Para Judo (2)

Women’s -57kg J1- Priscilla Gagne

Women’s -70kg J2- Michelle Jorgensen

 

Para Canoeing (4)

Women’s KL1- Brianna Hennessy

Women’s VL2- Brianna Hennessy

Women’s VL3- Erica Scharf

Men’s VL2- Mathieu St-Pierre

 

Para Triathlon (4+1)
Men’s PTS5- Stefan Daniel

Women’s PVTI- Jessica Tuomela (Guide: Marianne Hogan)

Women’s PTS5- Kamylle Frenette

Women’s PTWC- Leanne Taylor

 

Para Rowing (4)

Mixed Cox Four

 

Para Table Tennis (1)

Women’s Singles Class 7- Stephanie Chan

 

Wheelchair Fencing (4)

Women’s Category A Foil- Amber Briar

Women’s Category B Epee- Trinity Lowthian

Women’s Category A Sabre- Ruth Sylvie Morel

Men’s Category A Epee- Ryan Rousell

Men’s Category A Sabre- Ryan Rousell

 

Wheelchair Tennis (1)

Quad Singles- Robert Shaw

 

Sitting Volleyball (12)

Women’s Team

 

Wheelchair Rugby (12)

Mixed Team

 

Wheelchair Basketball (24)

For the Women’s Team, qualification is likely. Men’s Team has been up and down lately, suffering a shock defeat to Italy recently, but they have arguably one of the greatest wheelchair basketball players of all time in Pat Anderson, I’d be shocked to see them not qualify. 
 

Para Shooting (1)

Mixed 10m Air Rifle Standing SH2- Doug Blessin

Mixed 10m Air Rifle Prone SH2- Doug Blessin

 

Para Swimming (21)

Men (8)

Nicholas Bennett, Felix Cowan, James Leroux, Zach Zona, Matthew Cabraja, Nicolas-Guy Turbide, Alec Elliot, Phillipe Vaccon

 

Women (13)

Aurelie Rivard, Danielle Dorris, Shelby Newkirk, Katarina Roxon, Camille Berube, Sabrina Duschene, Nikita Ens, Tess Routliffe, Danielle Kisser, Angela Marina, Abi Tripp, Aly Van Wyck Smart, Jordan Tucker

 

Para Powerlifting, Para Taekwondo, Blind Football  

 

Total: 132-139 athletes (Canada sent 128 to Tokyo)

 

Think my predictions may be a tad optimistic  but I’m not knowledge in all para sports, it’s possible that some of these athletes/teams have no chance at making the Paralympics. 

Edited August 18 by Sindo

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Marathon route revealed.

 

 

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In case anyone missed this news earlier today.

 

 

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100 Days to Go 

 

 

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Not quite Meet the superhumans, but very, very good. Nice balance of competition and cameraderie

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50 days to go! 

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Annual Channel 4 trailer for the Paralympics.