Paris 2024 Paralympic Games: Swiss dominate wheelchair marathon
Al Jazeera
The final 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 secured back-to-back women’s wheelchair basketball titles, denying the United States on the final day of competition.
China finished top of the medals table in Paris, as they have for every Paralympics since Athens in 2004. They had 94 golds, followed by Britain with 49 and USA with 36.
As the six weeks of Olympics and Paralympics fever in the City of Light drew to a close, venues were being dismantled before the closing ceremony at the Stade de France.
Early in the morning, Catherine Debrunner propelled her racing wheelchair through the autumnal chill in the streets of Paris to win the women’s marathon.
The 29-year-old Swiss athlete added to the four gold medals she has already won on the track at these games, ranging from the 400 metres to the 5,000 metres, with a silver medal in the T53 100 metres thrown in for good measure.
