How much will Paralympic athletes earn in Paris?

The 2024 Paris Olympics may have come and gone but fans who are asking themselves what they will do now the games are over need not look any further. Since the 2024 Paris Paralympic Games are set to get underway in the French capital next week. 

Great Britain had an impressive showing at the last games, winning a staggering 124 medals in Tokyo. And they will be hoping for much of the same this time around but it will be no easy task as every Paralympian heading to the Games has their sights set on earning a medal and potentially more.

At the previous Games, medal winning athletes were not awarded with any prize money but this time is different. Due to a huge rule change for Paris 2024, national governments and sports federations will reward Paralympians with prize money. But not every country will be awarding their medal winning athletes with a cash prize.

Paris 2024 Paralympics prize money? Being a medal winning athlete can be very lucrative as we witnessed during the 2024 Paris Olympics, with World Athletics revealing that a pot of £1.9m ($2.4m) was handed out amongst the winning medallists. 

Unfortunately for Paralympians, they will not see any of that prize pot distributed to them since they are governed by the World Para Athletics, who revealed they would not be awarding any type of payout to gold medallists. It isn't all bad news however as some individual national committees have announced that they will be paying their winning athletes.

Which countries will pay their athletes at the 2024 Paralympics? Team USA revealed that their Paralympians will be awarded the same amount of prize money as their Olympic medallists which was $37,500 (£28,785) for a gold medal, $22,500 (£17,271) for silver and $15,000 (£11,514) for bronze.

Hong Kong awarded their medal winning Olympians $82,673 (£63,473) for a gold, $43,336 (£31,737) for a silver and $20,668 (£15,868) for a bronze, but they will only reward their Paralympians an amount which is six times less than that.

Meaning gold winning athletes will receive a cash prize of around £10,000 ($13,038). Medal winning Paralympians from Malaysia will not only receive a cash prize but they will also receive a monthly salary for life. For gold winning medallists Malaysia will hand out 241,000 Malaysia Ringgit ($55,054) 72,200 Malaysia Ringgit ($16,447) for silver and 24,100 Malaysia Ringgit ($5,505) for bronze. Which exchanges to around £42,253 ($55,048) for gold, £12,658 ($16,491) for silver and £4,225 ($5,504) for bronze.

Will Great Britain Paralympics athletes receive prize money for medaling? British Paralympians will not be handed any type of prize money for winning a medal in Paris, the same as the 2024 Team GB Olympic Athletes. Instead they receive an annual training grant. Before the Olympic Games, the UK government revealed that they allocated £232m ($302M) aside to help both Olympic and Paralympic athletes prepare for their upcoming tournaments.

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