The last day of the 2024 Paris Paralympic Games saw Switzerland claim gold in both wheelchair marathons.
Published On 8 Sep 2024
Switzerland won both Paralympic wheelchair marathons on Sunday while the Netherlands protected back-to-back females’s wheelchair basketball titles, rejecting the United States on the last day of competitors.
China completed top of the medals table in Paris, as they have for every Paralympics because Athens in2004 They had 94 golds, followed by Britain with 49 and USA with 36.
As the 6 weeks of Olympics and Paralympics fever in the City of Light drew to a close, places were being takenapart before the closing event at the Stade de France.
Early in the earlymorning, Catherine Debrunner moved her racing wheelchair through the autumnal chill in the streets of Paris to win the ladies’s marathon.
![Paris 2024 Paralympics - Athletics - Women's Marathon - T54 - Victory Ceremony - Paris, France - September 8, 2024 Silver medallist Madison de Rozario of Australia, Gold medallist Catherine Debrunner of Switzerland and Bronze medallist Susannah Scaroni of United States pose on the podium REUTERS/Jennifer Lorenzini](http://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/2024-09-08T110848Z_1766722557_UP1EK980UYMSJ_RTRMADP_3_PARALYMPICS-2024-ATHLETICS-1725823443.jpg?w=770&resize=770%2C466)
The 29-year-old Swiss professionalathlete included to the 4 gold medals she has currently won on the track at these videogames, varying from the 400 metres to the 5,000 metres, with a silver medal in the T53 100 metres tossed in for great step.
“I’m exceptionally tired however really pleased,” stated Debrunner. “Winning this marathon indicates whatever to me since to end this Paralympics with this is actually something unique.”
Australia’s Madison de Rozario took a bold silver medal behind her, completing regardlessof the death of her daddy on the day of the Paris opening event.
Switzerland’s Marcel Hug, 38, made up for a frustrating videogames on the track by controling the guys’s wheelchair marathon, endingup 3 minutes and 40 seconds ahead of Hua Jin of China.
![Paris 2024 Paralympics - Athletics - Men's Marathon - T54 - Paris, France - September 8, 2024 David Weir of Britain reacts after finishing the race REUTERS/Jennifer Lorenzini](http://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/2024-09-08T074855Z_1533089633_UP1EK980LPHGM_RTRMADP_3_PARALYMPICS-2024-ATHLETICS-1725823837.jpg?w=770&resize=770%2C496)
Weir quotes goodbye after 5th Paralympic Games
One of Britain’s biggest Paralympic professionalathletes of all time, David Weir, revealed that Paris was his last videogames after he endedup 5th.
“It’s my last occasion for Great Britain,” 45-year-old Weir stated. “No more worldwide racing for me. I’ll do the city marathons.
“I feel proud and I am really psychological.”
A minute’s silence was held after one of the females’s marathons in memory of Rebecca Cheptegei, the Ugandan Olympic marathon runner who passedaway this week after a dreadful attack by her previous partner.
Cheptegei had completed 44th in the ladies’s marathon on August 11.
Dutch make it back-to-back ladies’s wheelchair basketball titles
The Netherlands scored a convincing 63-49 win versus the UnitedStates