The Paralympic Torch Relay for Paris 2024 embodies much more than just a passing of the torch. It is a celebration of inclusion, self-improvement, and collective strength. Lit on August 24, 2024 in Stoke Mandeville, the historic birthplace of the Paralympic movement, this flame travels across France, illuminating the path to the Paralympic Games. It passes through more than 50 cities in 4 days, bringing the French people together around shared values, and touches everyone’s heart with its message: “The Games are back!”
August 24, 2024 marks a symbolic date for the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, with the lighting of the Paralympic Flame in Stoke Mandeville, an iconic venue for Paralympic sport. This gesture officially launches the Flame Relay, which will run for four days, from August 25 to 28, across mainland France.
The Flame Relay, a true traveling festival, is deployed in more than 50 cities, allowing each region. Around 1,000 scouts, among whom nearly 200 participate in collective relays, take turns to carry the Flame.
The Paralympic Flame is divided into 12 flames, symbolizing the 12 days of the Paralympic Games, and is deployed simultaneously throughout France. Each flame illuminates a territory committed to inclusion, sport, and disability awareness, thus embodying the very essence of the Paralympic Games.
These 12 flames will come together on August 28 for the opening ceremony.
The stages of the Paralympic Torch Relay in Paris:
INSEPNational Institute of Sport, Expertise and Performance > VINCENNES WOODS 10:00 – 10:45
NATION > REPUBLIC > BASTILLE > CITY HALL 16:00 – 17:45
SQUARE LÉON 10:00 – 10:40
BARN OF BEAUTIES – VILLEMIN GARDEN 14:00 – 14:30
THE CIPALE 10:00 – 10:20
PERE LACHAISE CEMETERY 14:00 – 14:30
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR BRIDGE 10:00 – 10:20
LUTECIA ARENA 14:00 – 14:20
MONTSOURIS PARK 10:00 – 10:30
NATIONAL GOBELINS MANUFACTURE 14:00 – 14:25
UNESCOUnited Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation – RUE MASSERAN 10:00 – 10:45
DISABLED 14:00 – 14:35
TEMPLE TILE 10:00 – 10:20
PIGALLE SQUARE 14:00 – 14:25
CITY OF PÉRICHAUX 10:00 – 10:20
15th CITY HALL 14:00 – 14:20
CLUB FRANCE 10:00 – 10:20
FESTIVAL SQUARE 14:00 – 14:20
BEFORE THE GREAT ARMY 10:00 – 10:20
MONCEAU PARK 14:00 – 14:30
CHÂTELET SQUARE 10:00 – 10:15
SAINT-SULPICE PLACE 14:00 – 14:20
Did you know?
The Torch of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games embodies a fusion of tradition and innovation, designed in partnership with ArcelorMittal, the world leader in steel. To meet the demands of modern design, Paris 2024 collaborated with French designer Mathieu Lehanneur, who imagined a torch that was both elegant and durable. Only 2,000 torches were manufactured, five times fewer than for previous editions, using low-carbon steel, produced at three ArcelorMittal sites in France.
The Flame will ignite a new Paralympic cauldron at the Opening Ceremony on 28 August 2024, marking the start of two weeks of intense celebration leading up to the closing of the Paralympic Games on 8 September.
The Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic cauldronfor its part, integrates innovative technology for an environmentally friendly “flame”. Rather than using fossil fuels, it works thanks to a system combining electricity and water. A series of 40 LEDs illuminate water vapor generated by 200 high-pressure misting nozzles, creating the illusion of a floating flame in the night sky. This design is inspired by the hot air balloons of the Montgolfier brothers, symbolizing innovation and French history.
The Paralympic cauldron will be lit and accessible to the public from August 29 to September 7 at the Tuilleries Garden. Like the Olympic cauldron, it will take off every evening into the Parisian sky.
Discover the full program of the Paralympic relay in Paris:
