#SportyPeachy #FrancePeachy #ParisPeachy @Paris2024 With one week to go to the opening ceremony, ticket sales for the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games have exceeded 1.75 million
There are still eight days before the first competition events get under way, but over 1.75 million tickets have already been sold for the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, including more than 700,000 since the start of the Olympic Games, with ticket stocks for many sessions already close to running out. Great opportunities remain to experience the thrill of watching world-class French and international Para athletes compete in the same iconic, city-centre venues as for the Olympic Games.
Key figures on ticket buyers for the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games:
144 countries represented among ticket buyers;
Top 5 countries outside France: United Kingdom (27%), Germany (14%), United States (10%), Belgium (7%), Netherlands (5%);
92% French buyers ;
Many opportunities to join in the celebration at affordable prices
There are still plenty of tickets available for as little as €15, giving people the chance to experience the excitement of the Games with emblematic Paralympic sports such as Para Athletics at the Stade de France, Wheelchair Tennis at Roland-Garros, Para Swimming at Paris La Défense Arena in Nanterre and Wheelchair Basketball at Bercy Arena.
From €15, you can also discover Paralympic sports that have no Olympic equivalent, such as Boccia and Goalball (Paris South Arena).
Tickets are still available for the ceremonies: come and experience the great moments of celebration of Paris 2024!
Tickets are still available for the opening ceremony, from €150. For the first time in the history of the Paralympic Games, the public will be able to take part in an unprecedented and exceptional opening ceremony, which will take place outside a stadium as part of grandiose celebration of Para athletes and their performances in a breathtaking setting. The Paralympic Games will open in the heart of Paris, in and around the largest and most beautiful square of the city: the Place de la Concorde.
Tickets are also still available from €45 for the Paralympic Games closing ceremony. The public will be able to experience the final festive moments of Paris 2024 during a great moment of communion with the Para athletes, at the Stade de France. It’s a ceremony that will be characterised by celebration and emotion as the Paris 2024 Games come to a close.
Tickets close to running out for many sports and sessions
Availability for some of the sports most popular with the public is now almost zero: Wheelchair Fencing (Grand Palais), Para Taekwondo (Grand Palais), Para Track Cycling (Vélodrome national de St Quentin en Yvelines), Para Equestrian (Château de Versailles), and Blind Football (Eiffel Tower Stadium). This is also the case for the Paris Centre Discovery Pass, certain finals such as the Wheelchair Rugby final at the Champ de Mars Arena, the Wheelchair Basketball finals at Bercy Arena and the Blind football semi-finals and final at the Eiffel Tower Stadium. As with the Olympic Games, Paris 2024 is inviting spectators to visit the official ticketing website, tickets.paris2024.org, regularly to make sure they don't miss any new ticket releases. Tickets can also be purchased via the official resale platform up to 12 hours before each session.
Para Athletics ticket sales at the Stade de France are also very strong, with almost 500,000 tickets already snapped up. Sales are set to exceed those of the 2003 World Athletics Championships, also held at the Stade de France, when 530,000 tickets were purchased.
A French team determined to extend their medal haul from the Olympic Games
From 29 August and for 11 days of competition, the French public will have many opportunities to come out and cheer medal hopefuls: Marie Patouillet in Para Track Cycling (time trial) on 29 August at the Vélodrome national de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines; Alex Portal and Ugo Didier in Para Swimming on 29, 31 August and 3 September at Paris La Défense Arena in Nanterre, Pauline Déroulède in Wheelchair Tennis from 30 August at Roland-Garros; Lucas Mazur in Para Badminton on September 2 at the Arena La Chapelle; Arnaud Assoumani in Para Athletics on September 4 at the Stade de France; the French Blind Football team from September 1, with a potential final on September 7 at the Eiffel Tower stadium... and many more.
For the first time in their history, the Paralympic Games are offering a high-end hospitality programme
To start their Paralympic Games in style on 28 August, hospitality guests will be able to enjoy an exclusive outdoor hospitality experience in the Jardin des Tuileries before watching the parade of athletes from the grandstand during the opening ceremony.
With the competition events, fans will be able to choose between two types of hospitality package (tickets included), according to their interests and budget: a "Lounge" package with guaranteed spaces at the heart of the sporting action and a "Fan Kit" package. Hospitality packages are available for 8 Para sports (Para Athletics, Wheelchair Basketball, Blind Football, Para Track Cycling, Para Judo, Para Swimming, Wheelchair Rugby, Wheelchair Tennis) as well as for the two ceremonies. These offers will allow you to immerse yourselves in the passion and emotion of Paralympic Games competition in our iconic Paris 2024 competition venues.
For more information, visit https://paralympichospitality.paris2024.org
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About Paris 2024
The mission of the Olympic and Paralympic Games Paris 2024 Organising Committee, in accordance with the host city contract signed between the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the Comité National Olympique et Sportif Français (CNOSF – French National Olympic and Sporting Committee) and the Ville de Paris municipal authorities, is to plan, organise, fund and deliver the Olympic and Paralympic Games Paris 2024.
The Olympic and Paralympic Games are the greatest sporting event in the world, with unparalleled media impact. They bring together 10,500 Olympic athletes and 4,400 Paralympic athletes, respectively from 206 and 182 delegations, across five continents. They are watched by over 13 million spectators and 4 billion television viewers across the world, across a total of over 100,000 hours of TV broadcasting. They are without equal in sporting, economic and cultural events throughout the world, and this power helps to further their impact.
Set up in January 2018, Paris 2024 is headed by Tony Estanguet, three-time Olympic champion. It is run by a Board of Directors, on which sit all the founding members of the project: the CNOSF, Ville de Paris, the French Government, the Île-de-France regional authority, the CPSF, the Métropole du Grand Paris, the Conseil départemental de Seine Saint-Denis, representatives of the local authorities involved in the Games, civil society and corporate partners.
