# Refugee Paralympic Team at the 2024 Summer Paralympics

The Refugee Paralympic Team competed at the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris, France, from 28 August to 8 September 2024. The team consisted of eight athletes and one guide runner, all refugees and asylees who represented more than 120 million forcibly displaced people worldwide. The formation of the team and its six athletes was announced on 9 July 2024 in a joint statement by the IPC and UNHCR. The team had made its debut at the 2016 Paralympics as the Independent Paralympic Athletes Team, which consisted of just two athletes, and returned to the 2020 Summer Paralympics under the current name with six refugee and asylee Paralympic athletes.

## Medalists

The following Refugee competitors won medals at the games. In the discipline sections below, the medalists' names are bolded.
| Medal | Name | Sport | Event | Date |
| Bronze | Zakia Khudadadi | Taekwondo | Women's –47 kg | 29 August |
| Bronze | Guillaume Junior Atangana | Athletics | Men's 400 m T11 | 2 September |
Medals by sport :
| Sport | | | | Total |
| Athletics | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Taekwondo | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Total | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Medals by day :
| Day | Date | | | | Total |
| 1 | 29 August | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | 30 August | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | 31 August | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | 1 September | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | 2 September | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Total | Total | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Medals by gender :
| Gender | | | | Total | Percentage |
| Male | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 50.0% |
| Female | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 50.0% |
| Total | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | |

## Competitors

Zimbabwe-born parathlete Nyasha Mharakurwa was chosen as the chef de mission of the Refugee Paralympic Team.
| Athlete | Country of Origin | Host NPC | Sport | Event |
| Guillaume Junior Atangana | Cameroon | Great Britain | Para athletics | Men's 100 m T11 |
| Guillaume Junior Atangana | Cameroon | Great Britain | Para athletics | Men's 400 m T11 |
| Salman Abbariki | Iran | Germany | Para athletics | Men's shot put F34 |
| Sayed Amir Hossein Pour | Iran | Germany | Para table tennis | Men's individual C8 |
| Hadi Hassanzada | Afghanistan | Austria | Parataekwondo | Men's –80 kg |
| Zakia Khudadadi | Afghanistan | France | Parataekwondo | Women's –47 kg |
| Hadi Darvish | Iran | Germany | Powerlifting | Men's 80 kg |
| Ibrahim Al Hussein | Syria | Greece | Paratriathlon | Men's PTS3 |
| Amelio Castro Grueso | Colombia | Italy | Wheelchair fencing | Men's épée B |
| Amelio Castro Grueso | Colombia | Italy | Wheelchair fencing | Men's sabre B |
Guillaume Junior Atangana, who is vision-impaired, will line up alongside his guide and fellow refugee Donard Ndim Nyamjua. Khudadadi, Atangana, Hussein and Abbariki all competed in prior Paralympics.

## Sponsorship

The Refugee Team was sponsored or supported by Airbnb, Asics, UNHCR, the French Ministry for Sport and Olympic and Paralympic Games, the Paris 2024 Organizing Committee and CREPS of Reims.

## Athletics
### Key

* Note–Ranks given for track events are within the athlete's heat only
* Q = Qualified for the next round
* q = Qualified for the next round as a fastest loser or, in field events, by position without achieving the qualifying target
* DQ = Disqualified
* PR = Paralympic Record
* AR = Area (or continental) Record
* NR = National Record
* SB = Season's Best
* N/A = Round not applicable for the event
* Bye = Athlete not required to compete in round

### Men

| Athlete | Event | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Result | Rank |
| Salman Abbariki | Men's shot put F34 | 8.92 | 9 |

### Men

| Athlete | Event | Heat | Heat | Semifinal | Semifinal | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Result | Rank | Result | Rank | Result | Rank |
| Guillaume Junior Atangana | Men's 100 m T11 | | | | | | |
| Guillaume Junior Atangana | Men's 400 m T11 | 51.95 | 1 Q | 51.03 | 1 Q | 50.89 PB | |

## Paratriathlon

| Athlete | Class | Swim | T1 | Bike | Bike | Bike | Bike | T2 | Run | Run | Run | Run | Time | Rank |
| Athlete | Class | Swim | T1 | L1 | L2 | L3 | L4 | T2 | L1 | L2 | L3 | L4 | Time | Rank |
| Ibrahim Al Hussein | Men's PTS3 | | | | | | | | | | | | | |

## Powerlifting

| Athlete | Event | Attempts (kg) | Attempts (kg) | Attempts (kg) | Attempts (kg) | Result (kg) | Rank |
| Athlete | Event | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Result (kg) | Rank |
| Hadi Darvish | Men's 80 kg | | | | | | |

## Table tennis

| Athlete | Event | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final / BM | Final / BM |
| Athlete | Event | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Rank |
| Seyed Hosseini Pour | Men's individual C8 | | | | | | |

## Taekwondo

| Athlete | Event | Preliminary round | First round | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Repechage | Final / BM | Final / BM |
| Athlete | Event | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Rank |
| Hadi Hassanzada | Men's –80 kg | Ganapin (PHI) L 13–22 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Zakia Khudadadi | Women's –47 kg | — | Rodríguez (CUB) W 21–11 | Isakova (UZB) L 3–4 | — | Ekinci (TUR) W 9–1 | Laarif (MAR) W WWD | |

## Wheelchair Fencing

| Athlete | Event | Qualification | Qualification | Round of 16 | Quarterfinal | Semifinal | Final / BM | Final / BM |
| Athlete | Event | Opposition | Rank | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Rank |
| Amelio Castro | Men's épée B | | | | | | | |
| Amelio Castro | Men's sabre B | | | | | | | |