These are the events you shouldn’t miss on August 31 at the 2024 Paralympic Games
Swiss Silver Bullet reaches for next gold
The Swiss wheelchair racer Marcel Hugsix-time Paralympic champion and multiple world record holder, wants to defend his title in the men’s 5000 m T54. Also competing is Canadian Brent Lakatos, who wants to improve on his silver medal from Tokyo 2020 in an exciting final.
The final at the Stade de France starts at 20:39.
Léon Schäfer aims for long jump medal
After silver in Tokyo, is it enough for Leon Schaefer Gold this time? In the T63 class, the 27-year-old is one of the favorites in the long jump.
At the Para Athletics World Championships in May, he jumped 7.22 m to win the World Championship title. His toughest competitor is the Dutchman Joel de Jongwho has already flown 7.67 m this season.
With gold, Schäfer would emulate his role model Markus Rehm, who once motivated him to try his hand at para-athlete.
The decision will be made at 8:34 p.m. in the long jump final of class T63.
Table tennis doubles play for gold
Valentin Baus and Thomas Schmidberger have already had two five-set thrillers in these games.
The German para table tennis duo won both the quarter-finals and the semi-finals after many exciting twists and turns.
In the final at 2 p.m., both want to make their dream of gold in doubles come true.
Baus has already secured victory at the Paralympics, winning individual gold at Tokyo 2020. Schmidberger won silver in the individual and team events back then. This time he wants to climb to the highest level of Olympus.
Final opponents in the MD8 class are the Chinese Ningning Cao and Pangfeng Feng.
Here you can follow the match for gold rally by rally.
