Paris 2024 Paralympic Games: Which medal-winning athletes received the biggest bonuses ?

Avec quatre médailles, dont deux en or, le para-cycliste Alexandre Léauté est l'un des athlètes les plus primés. MAXPPP – Andrew Matthews

Les para-athlètes français médaillés touchaient le même montant que pour les athlètes olympiques. Certains pays sont moins bien lotis et d’autres très généreux, comme Singapour avec 346 000 euros pour une médaille d’or.

How much did the Paralympic champions and medallists receive for their performances at the Paris Games?? Some states, such as Great Britain, Norway, Sweden or New Zealand, do not reward their athletes. Others, such as France, had decided to offer the same bonuses to their Olympic and Paralympic medallists: 80,000 euros for gold, 40,000 euros for silver and 20,000 euros for silver. for the bronze concerning the Blues.

240,000 euros for Mathieu Bosredon

The most « rewarded » of the French para-athletes is therefore Mathieu Bosredon, with 240,000 euros obtained thanks to his three gold medals in para-cycling. A sport that has been rolling in gold since Alexandre Léauté (2 gold and 2 bronze) collected 200,000 euros and Florian Jouanny (2 gold and 1 bronze) 180,000 euros.

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Toulouse swimmer Ugo Didier follows closely with 160,000 euros thanks to his title in the 400m and his two silver medals in the 100m backstroke and 200m medley. He is still far from another Toulousain, Léon Marchand, who had accumulated 340,000 euros among the able-bodied with four gold medals and one bronze.

Nearly 800,000 euros for an Israeli swimmer

According to our colleagues at L'Équipe, the para-athlete who received the biggest bonus was the Israeli swimmer Ami Omer Dadaon with 790,000 euros pocketed for his two gold medals, the silver and the bronze. He is ahead of the swimmer from Singapore, a country very generous with its athletes (346,000 euros for a gold medal), Pin Xiu Yip, who won the 50m and 100m backstroke, with 692,000 euros in total.

Modest bonuses for Americans

Hong Kong's Yuen Kei Ho, who won two gold medals in boccia, will accumulate  346,000  euros. For comparison, American Christie Raleigh-Crossley, despite her five medals in swimming (2 gold, 2 silver, 1 bronze), must « be content &raquo of 121,000 euros. Uncle Sam's gratitude replaces dollars from across the Atlantic…

However, not all countries present at the Paralympic Games have communicated the amount of their bonuses. This is particularly the case for China, which finished at the top of the medal table (220) and some of whose para-athletes have gone crazy, such as swimmer Yuyan Jiang with seven titles, or her colleague Jincheng Guo, with four gold medals and two silver.