Paris 2024 Game Break Record Ticket Sales

Paris 2024 Olympics - Beach Volleyball - Men's Gold Medal Match - Sweden vs Germany (Ahman/Hellvig vs Ehlers/Wickler) - Eiffel Tower Stadium, Paris, France - August 10, 2024. REUTERS/Esa Alexander/File Photo Purchase Licensing Rights
Paris 2024 Olympics - Beach Volleyball - Men's Gold Medal Match - Sweden vs Germany (Ahman/Hellvig vs Ehlers/Wickler) - Eiffel Tower Stadium, Paris, France - August 10, 2024. REUTERS/Esa Alexander/File Photo Purchase Licensing Rights
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Paris 2024 Game Break Record Ticket Sales

Paris 2024 Olympics - Beach Volleyball - Men's Gold Medal Match - Sweden vs Germany (Ahman/Hellvig vs Ehlers/Wickler) - Eiffel Tower Stadium, Paris, France - August 10, 2024. REUTERS/Esa Alexander/File Photo Purchase Licensing Rights
Paris 2024 Olympics - Beach Volleyball - Men's Gold Medal Match - Sweden vs Germany (Ahman/Hellvig vs Ehlers/Wickler) - Eiffel Tower Stadium, Paris, France - August 10, 2024. REUTERS/Esa Alexander/File Photo Purchase Licensing Rights

Paris 2024 sold a record 12 million tickets for the Olympics and Paralympics, beating the Games record previously set by London 2012, organizers said on Sunday, Reuters reported.

Some 9.5 million tickets were sold for the Olympics and 2.5 million for the Paralympics, which end on Sunday.

In 2012, London organizers set the record for the Paralympics with 2.7 million tickets sold but only 8.2 million were sold for the Olympics.



Saudi Arabia’s Dawshi Comes in 4th Place in T20 Long Jump at Paris 2024 Paralympic Games

Saudi Arabia’s Hassan Dawshi broke his personal record twice in the T20 long jump final to take fourth place at the Paris 2024 Summer Paralympic Games.
Saudi Arabia’s Hassan Dawshi broke his personal record twice in the T20 long jump final to take fourth place at the Paris 2024 Summer Paralympic Games.
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Saudi Arabia’s Dawshi Comes in 4th Place in T20 Long Jump at Paris 2024 Paralympic Games

Saudi Arabia’s Hassan Dawshi broke his personal record twice in the T20 long jump final to take fourth place at the Paris 2024 Summer Paralympic Games.
Saudi Arabia’s Hassan Dawshi broke his personal record twice in the T20 long jump final to take fourth place at the Paris 2024 Summer Paralympic Games.

Saudi Arabia’s Hassan Dawshi broke his personal record twice in the T20 long jump final to take fourth place at the Paris 2024 Summer Paralympic Games.

Dawshi jumped 7.27m in his first attempt and 7.31m in the third.

Russian Matvei Iakushev won the gold medal, with a 7.51-m jump, Malaysian Abdul Latif Romly — the winner of gold medals at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games and Tokyo 2020 Summer Paralympic Games — won the silver medal, jumping 7.45 m, and Colombian Jhon Sebastian Obando Asprilla won the bronze with a 7.38-m jump.

Saudi Arabia’s Ali Al-Nakhli came in seventh place in the 200m-T37 final, with a time of 23.44 seconds.

Russian Andrei Vdovin won the gold medal with 22.69 seconds, Brazilian Ricardo Gomes de Mendonça won the silver medal with 22.71 seconds, while his compatriot Christian Gabriel Luiz da Costa won the bronze medal with 22.74 seconds.