Paralympic Games-2024: Algerian para-athletics on mission to secure maximum medals  

PARIS-Algerian para-athletics, represented by 20 athletes including 7 girls at the 17th Paralympic Games in Paris (August 28-September 8), is on a mission to add to its record of achievements and confirm its status as the standard-bearer of Algerian para-athletics.

In Paris, the discipline aims to stand on as many podium places as possible to “improve on the performance achieved in Tokyo-2020," where three athletes shone by winning gold.

The throwers Safia Djelal (shot put/F57) and Asmahane Boudjadar (shot put/F33) and the discovery of the Games, Athmani Skander Djamil (400m), who also took silver in the 100m.

Since the death of Mohamed Allek (winner of five Paralympic titles: 100m, 200m and 400m, in addition to a bronze), several Algerian athletes have picked up the baton in fine style, including throwers Bettina, Medjmedj Nadia and Nassima Saifi, sprinter Samir Nouioua and middle-distance runner Abdellatif Baka.

Para-athletics is the only discipline in Algeria to have been crowned champion in eight consecutive Olympic Games (Atlanta 96, Sydney 2000, Athens 2004, Beijing 2008, London 2012, Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020), para-athletics was the most successful discipline at the Games, with 75 medals (23 gold, 22 silver and 30 bronze), followed by judo, with 4 gold medals from Nine Messaoud, Sid Ali Lamri, Mouloud Nora and Cherine, and two bronze medals snatched by Zoubida Bouazoug and Cherine.