Here’s how much athletes at the Paris Paralympics earn for winning medals

As the particulate of the 2024 Paris Olympics settles, venues crossed the City of Light invited a caller harvest of athletes for the Paralympic Games.

While the International Paralympic Committee does not dole retired prize wealth for winning medals, respective countries bash reward their athletes with medal bonuses.

Here's however overmuch immoderate athletes are acceptable to gain for their sporting achievements, based connected accusation compiled by CNBC from nationalist Paralympic committees, sports associations and section reports:

At the commencement of the year, the Canadian Paralympic Committee announced that medalists volition person the aforesaid currency bonus arsenic their Olympic counterparts for placing connected the podium, astatine 20,000 Canadian dollars ($14,786) for gold, CA$15,000 for metallic and CA$10,000 for bronze. Host state France is besides awarding Paralympic medal bonuses equal to those doled retired to Olympic medalists.

The aforesaid extends to Spain. A caller assistance now rewards Paralympic athletes with the aforesaid currency bonuses arsenic Olympic medalists — astatine 94,000 euros ($105,312) for golden medalists, 48,000 euros for metallic medalists and 30,000 euros for bronze medalists.

Malaysia's Paralympic medalists are acceptable to receive a currency reward of 1 cardinal Malaysian ringgit ($228,623) for gold, 300,000 ringgit for metallic and 100,000 ringgit for bronze. The Southeast Asian state has been doling retired adjacent prizes to Paralympic medalists arsenic their Olympic counterparts since 2016.

Malaysia's Paralympic Council president said 3 outer companies are sponsoring further currency bonuses of up to 60,000 ringgit for gold, 30,000 ringgit for metallic medalists and 15,000 ringgit for bronze medalists.

Japan's Paralympic golden medalists volition person 3 cardinal yen ($20,780) from the Japanese Para Sports Association, little than the 5 cardinal yen awarded by the Japan Olympic Committee to Olympic golden medalists. Paralympic metallic and bronze medalists volition person payouts adjacent to their Olympic counterparts, astatine 2 cardinal yen and 1 cardinal yen, respectively.

Australia, Israel and South Korea are besides offering Paralympic medalists currency rewards adjacent to that of their Olympic counterparts.

Hong Kong and Singapore — which grant the largest payouts to their Olympic medalists — bash not dole retired arsenic overmuch to their Paralympic victors.

Although Hong Kong's Jockey Club announced that Paralympic golden medalists volition person astir treble of what they received successful the Tokyo 2020. But the 1.5 cardinal Hong Kong dollar ($192,333) bonus is inactive importantly little than the HK$6 cardinal reward granted to golden medalists astatine the Olympics a fewer weeks ago. 

A metallic Paralympic medalist stands to person HK$750,000, portion bronze medalists get HK$375,000, importantly little than what their Olympic counterparts receive.

By a akin margin, Singapore's golden Paralympic medalists volition person 500,000 Singapore dollars ($380,000) — fractional of what their Olympic counterparts get. Silver and bronze medalists volition gain $300,000 and $150,000 respectively.

The disparity successful prize wealth was raised successful Singapore's parliament successful 2016. A curate responded that rewards for the Olympics and Paralympics are determined by non-governmental entities — namely the Singapore National Paralympics Council and the Singapore National Olympics Council — which are mostly funded by antithetic sponsorships. 

British Paralympians, similar their Olympic counterparts, bash not person prize wealth for winning medals, but they bash person an yearly grooming stipend.

The nonstop prize wealth for China's Paralympic golden medalists is not clear, arsenic rewards reportedly alteration by portion and event.

The largest delegations astatine the Paralympic Games are China with 282 athletes, followed by Brazil with 255. Host state France sent 237 athletes. 

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