Paris Paralympics 2024: Highlights from the Games

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The Games officially came to a spectacular end with a sparkle filled closing ceremony in Paris

8 September 2024

After 11 days of incredible competition the 2024 Paralympic Games finally came to an end, but not without a sparkling closing ceremony on Sunday.

More than 20 French artists kept the party going in Paris as the athletes were celebrated.

Matt Bush and Poppy Maskill flew the flag for ParalympicsGB, who racked up 124 medals including 49 golds and finished second place in the final table.

We wanted to take a look back at some of the highlights from Paris.

Why not let us know what your favourite moments were in the comments below.

Matt Bush and Poppy Maskill flew the flag for ParalympicsGB at the closing ceremony

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Matt Bush and Poppy Maskill won gold in their first Paralympics

zakia smiles and appears to jump for joy with her arms in the air dressed in her taekwondo gear

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Zakia Khudadadi celebrates winning the first-ever medal for the Refugee Paralympic Team in the Women's Taekwondo K44 -47kg

alfie hewett lurches forward in his wheelchair trying to reach a tennis ball on a sand court

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ParalympicsGB's Alfie Hewett battles it out on the court in the wheelchair tennis Men's Singles final against Team Japan's Tokito Odo

rogerio looks anxious as he bends down on one knee on the badminton court with his racket behind him and a ring in his hand looking out to his girlfriend who is not seen in this image

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Love is in the air: Rogerio Junior Xavier de Oliveira of Team Brazil proposes to his girlfriend Edwarda during the Men's Badminton Singles SL4 Group Play Stage

hunter woodhall and tara davis-woodhall beam at one another across a barrier as hunter holds up his gold medal to show tara and tara holds up her phone in the crowd

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And not to be outdone, Paralympian Hunter Woodhall of Team USA celebrates his T62 400m track gold medal win just a month after his wife, long-jumper Tara Davis-Woodhall, won her first gold medal in the Olympics

sarah storey lifts her arm in the air while riding her bike to the finish line as her competitor is just moments behind her on the track

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Dame Sarah Storey punches the air as she sails to her 19th career gold medal in the Women's C4-5 Road Race

bly appears to be laser focused on the table tennis ball as she makes contact with her paddle mid-rally

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Bly Twomey serves the ball during the women's table tennis double semi-final match between China and Great Britain

jincheng guo is photographed from below the surface of the swimming pool water while using only his legs to swim

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Jincheng Guo of Team People's Republic of China competes in the Mixed 4x50m Freestyle Relay 20 Points heat race

sheetal devi concentrates on her target using her foot to control a bow just moments before she sends an arrow

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Archer Sheetal Devi of Team India prepares to fire an arrow in the Women's Individual Compound

photographed from above the basketball net on the wheelchair basketball court with the players looking on as Lee attempts to make a basket

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Wheelchair basketballer Lee Manning of Team Great Britain shoots and Mamady Traore of Team France looks on in a match between France and Great Britain

Sabrina fortune kneels next to her world record achievement displayed on a screen while holding up the flag of Great Britain looking proud

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Great Britain's Sabrina Fortune celebrates winning gold and a new world record in the Women's Shot Put - F20 Final at the Stade de France