24 swimmers will carry their flags within the opening ceremony on the 2024 Paralympic Video games.
Just like the Olympics, the Paralympics now enable every nation to call one male and one feminine flag bearer to the ceremonial place, although not each nation did.
The listing of nations which have chosen swimmers as their flagbearers embody Paralympic superpowers like Japan and Australia. Australia selected 31-year-old Brenden Corridor, who’s competing at his fifth Paralympics and enters the meet with six Paralympic medals competing within the S9 and SB8 classes.
Canada will ship out 31-year-old Katarina Roxon, who symmetrically is also in her fifth Paralympics and in addition races within the S9/SB8 classes.
Different medal hopefuls who will carry flags embody the defending girls’s SB4 100 breaststroke champion Fanni Illes, Tokyo bronze medalist Fabiola Martinez of Mexico, Tokyo bronze medalist Dino Sinovcic of Croatia, five-time Asian Video games champion Wei Soong Toh of Singapore, and Sevilay Ozturk of Turkey who gained silvers within the S5 50 again and 50 fly at Worlds in 2022.
The opening ceremony of the Paralympic Video games will likely be held on Wednesday on the Place de Concorde and will likely be themed across the human physique and “historical past and its paradoxes.” The Parade of Nations will happen on the Champs-Élysées beginning at he Arc de Triomphe and ending on the Place de la Concorde.
Swimmers, listed so as of marching (primarily based on the French title of the nation)
- South Africa – Kate Swanepoel
- Barbados – Antwahn Boyce-Vaughan
- Brazil – Gabriel Geraldo Dos Santos Araujo
- Canada – Katarina Roxon
- Cyprus – Karolina Pelendritou
- Colombia – Carlos Daniel Serrano Zarate
- Croatia – Dino Sinovcic
- Estonia – Robin Liksor
- Honduras – Olvin Cruz
- Hungary – Fanni Illes
- Iceland – Mar Gunnarsson
- Iceland – Sonja Sigurdardottir
- Japan – An Nishida
- Lithuania – Gabriele Cepaviciute
- Malta – Maja Theuma
- Mexico – Fabiola Ramirez Martinez
- New Zealand – Cameron Leslie
- Philippines – Ernie Gawilan
- Portugal – Diogo Cancela
- St Vincent and the Grenadines – Kentreal Timothy Kydd
- Singapore – Wei Soong Toh
- Turkey – Sevilay Ozturk
- Uruguay – Hanna Arias
- Australia – Brenden Corridor