Medals rain down for Mexico! The 67 Mexican para-athletes who came to France to give their all in the sporting event are finishing their participation in the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games and bringing back gold, silver and bronze medals.
From the opening of the Paralympics on August 28 to their closing on September 8, Paris hosted 12 days of competition with 4,400 athletes from 185 committees competing in 22 sports.
Updated medal table: How many medals did Mexico win at the 2024 Paralympic Games?
While Mexico won five medals and placed 65th in the medal table at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, the country won 17 medals at the Paralympics, placing it 30th.
The discipline in which the country stood out was para swimming, with a total of 7 medals, followed by athletics with 6, and powerlifting and taekwondo with 2 medals each.
The delegation was looking to surpass the 22 medals won in Tokyo 2020 that gave it 20th place in the medal table. Although this was not achieved, Mexico’s head of mission at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, Israel Benítez Morteo, highlighted that the balance is positive:
“The medals from Tokyo were not improved, but the level has risen impressively. The reclassifications have also helped in some cases, in other cases the level has been stronger, but the Mexicans have responded well and para swimming is the one that has given us the most pride, but without leaving behind all those who won a diploma, there were many Paralympic finalists and that is a great motivation because we know that in the future Mexico will be a power in Paralympic sport.”
Gold medals
Silver medals
Bronze medals
For Mexican athletes who are multi-medallists of Paris 2024
The Mexican athletes who stood out as the most multi-medal winners at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games were:
- Angel Jesus Camacho Ramirez: 1 silver, 2 bronzes
- Haidee Viviana Aceves Pérez (Para swimming): 2 silver medals
- Plata en 50m Backstroke – S2
- Plata en 100m Backstroke – S2
- Gilda Guadalupe Cota Vera (for athletics): 1 silver, 1 bronze
- Plata en Shot Put – F33
- Bronze in shot put
Paris 2024 standings: Which country has the most Paralympic medals?
The United States beat China to first place in the Olympic medal table, but they got their revenge at the Paralympics: China leads the rankings for the sixth consecutive year since Athens 2004.
The Asian giant finished the Games with an impressive total of 220 medals: 94 gold, 76 silver and 50 bronze. The disciplines in which it excelled include para athletics and para swimming, two of the sports with the highest number of events and medal opportunities.
The United Kingdom and the United States completed the Paralympic podium in second and third place, with 124 (49-44-31) and 105 medals (36-42-27), respectively.
When are the next Paralympic Games?
The next Paralympic Games will be held in Los Angeles in 2028. This will be the third time the American city has hosted the event, having done so in 1984. They are expected to continue to grow in participation and visibility, with more and more countries and athletes seeking Paralympic glory.
The Paris 2024 Games, with more than 2.5 million tickets sold, have marked a milestone both in the organisation and in the participation of female athletes and in global media attention. The Paralympic flame is now extinguished in Paris, but the spirit of competition remains alight on the road to Los Angeles.
What have been Mexico’s best results at the Paralympics?
Mexico’s best record at the Paralympic Games was in Arnhem (Netherlands) in 1980: it won 42 medals (20 of them gold).
These are the next best:
- Toronto 1976: 39 medals.
- Mandeville 1984: 37.
- Sydney 2000: 34.
- Athens 2004: 34.
- Seoul 1988: 24:
- Tokyo 2020: 22 medals (7 gold, 2 silver, 13 bronze), an edition in which Amalia Pérez (powerlifting) and Arnulfo Castorena (swimming) also triumphed.
- Beijing 2008: 20.
- London 2012: 21.
- Río 2016: 15.
