ParalympicsGB rose to the occasion at Paris 2024, said the team’s chef de mission Penny Briscoe as the Games closed on Sunday.
GB’s 215-strong squad finished second in the medal table behind China with 124 medals (49 golds, 44 silvers and 31 bronzes) – comfortably achieving the UK Sport target of 100-140.
“Paris has been an incredible Games 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 be going home any happier.”
Great Britain matched their overall medal total from Tokyo three years ago, but won eight more golds in Paris.
In fact, 49 gold medals is ParalympicsGB’s highest tally since Rio 2016 – where they won 64 golds – and second-highest since Seoul 1988 where they collected 65.
Great Britain have finished second in the medal table in every summer Paralympics this century second except for London 2012, where they finished third.
More than half of the team’s 215 athletes made the podium at some point during the Paris Games.
Great Britain were represented in 19 sports in the French capital and won medals in 18 of them, just as they did in Tokyo.
Only wheelchair rugby failed to win a medal after the mixed team lost in their bronze-medal match.
Turkey win a record 28 medals
The Turkish national team, finishing with an impressive haul of 6 gold, 10 silver, and 12 bronze medals, marked a significant achievement in their Paralympic history.
Türkiye emerged as the 15th highest medal-winning country out of 182 participating nations, significantly improving from its 25th place finish in Tokyo 2020.
With its 6 gold medals, the country doubled the 3 golds achieved in Rio 2016 and surpassed the total medal count from Tokyo.
