With around 4,400 athletes from across the globe competing in 22 sports with 549 gold medals up for grabs, the Paralympic Games Paris 2024 are set to be a sporting spectacle that will dominate headlines (and our TV viewing) across 11 days of fierce competition.

Kicking off properly on Thursday 29 August, 23 gold medals will be decided on the opening day of the Paralympic Games alone, while the final day on Sunday 8 September will see medals in Wheelchair Basketball, Para Powerlifting, Para Canoe and the Para Marathon.

From the opening ceremony on Wednesday 28 August to the final seconds of the closing ceremony (also on that final Sunday), Channel 4 will bring us all the action, medals and must-see moments from every Paralympic venue across Paris.

You can watch the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games every day across Channel 4 HD (CH 104), More4 HD (CH 147) and Channel 4 streaming (Channel 4 app available on our V6 box (powered by TiVo^®), Virgin TV 360 and Stream from Virgin Media). Plus, every televised moment of the Paralympic Games will be streamed on Channel 4 Sport’s YouTube channel (available in Apps on all our Virgin TV boxes), with up to 18 concurrent streams.

But that’s not all. All content will be broadcast with subtitles, live peak-time sports on Channel 4 will have closed audio descriptions, while live sports on More4 and Channel 4 streaming on weekday afternoons will include BSL live signing.

It’s set to be a massive Paralympic Games for ParalympicsGB, and they will compete in 19 sports in Paris – blind football, goalball and sitting volleyball were the only ones they failed to qualify for. After finishing second in the medal table in Tokyo 2020 with 124 medals, including 41 golds, can they better that impressive haul?

We highlight some of the key athletes aiming to bring home the medals this year:

Sarah Storey, Para Cycling

The legend of (note: we didn’t say “the story of”) Sarah Storey – Great Britain’s most successful Paralympian – continues in her ninth Paralympic Games. Storey made her debut as a swimmer in Barcelona in 1992 aged 14 before switching to cycling in Beijing in 2008,and with 17 Paralympic golds already, she makes another switch here. It’s not quite as dramatic as swapping the pool for the velodrome, but Storey is ditching the track this time to focus on the time trial and road race events instead. She will be 50 at the next Paralympic Games, so will this be the final chapter in Sarah’s story (sorry!).

When can I watch Sarah Storey? Women’s C5 Individual Time-Trial, 4 September; Women’s C4-5 Road Race, 6 September

Will Bayley, Para Table Tennis

The most successful British Paralympic table tennis player of all time. After coming back from a knee injury that he sustained during the 2019 edition of Strictly Come Dancing, Will Bayley took silver in the men’s class 7 singles in Tokyo 2020 – his third consecutive Paralympic final – and has since regained both the World and European titles and the world number one ranking. He’s not lost a match in men’s class 7 since the Tokyo final, so with that kind of form, few would bet against him regaining his Paralympic title.

When can I watch Will Bayley? Men’s MD14 Doubles, 29 August-1 September; Men’s MS7 Singles, 2-6 September

Jodie Grinham, Para Archery

If the Paralympic Games send a powerful message about what our bodies can do, Jodie Grinham wants to show the world that having a family and being an elite athlete should not be mutually exclusive. Grinham will be 28 weeks pregnant when she takes to the start line in the compound archery contest, chasing double gold in the individual and mixed team events. No one that far into pregnancy is believed to have previously been selected for the ParalympicsGB team, showing how these games continue to lead the way in sporting inclusivity.

When can I watch Jodie Grinham? Women’s Individual Compound Open, 29-31 August; Mixed Team Compound Open, 2 September

Alice Tai, Para Swimming

All athletes have stories of hardship and sacrifice faced to reach the highest level of elite sport. Having made her Paralympic debut at Rio 2016 where she competed in five events, winning relay gold in the Women’s 4x100m medley relay, Alice Tai had to withdraw from Tokyo 2020. In 2022, she had her right leg amputated below the knee to relieve her constant pain. She returned to action later that year to win gold for England at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. She also won gold at last year’s World Para Swimming Championships in the S8 100 backstroke. The stage is set for a historic comeback.

When can I watch Alice Tai? Women’s S8 Backstroke, 31 August; Women’s S8 50m Freestyle, 5 September; Women’s S8 100m Butterfly, 7 September

Jonnie Peacock, Para Athletics

The poster boy of the London 2012 Paralympic Games, the two-time Paralympic champion had to settle for T64 100m bronze at the delayed Tokyo 2020 games. It was a frustrating time for Jonnie Peacock, and he has been open about his journey back to elite sprinting, not just physically but mentally as well. It will be a tough ask in a field of runners that includes Italian “thunderbolt” Maxcel Amo Manu, the hot favourite who won gold at last year’s Para Athletics World Championship, plus current Paralympic champion Felix Streng. Can Peacock reclaim his title as the king of the blade runners?

When can I watch Jonnie Peacock? Men’s T64 100m, 1-2 September; 4x100m Universal Relay, 6 September

Iona Winnifrith, Para Swimming

When we were 13, our main achievement was tidying our room (and we lied about doing that if we were being honest). For Paralympic Games debutant Iona Winnifrith, the youngest swimmer in this year’s ParalympicsGB squad, age means nothing. If the 13-year-old impressed at April’s Aquatics GB Swimming Championships, then she excelled later this year when she won two European titles in Madeira in the SB7 100m Breaststroke and SM7 200m Individual Medley. She’s currently ranked number one in the world, and seemingly has no ceiling in the sport.

When can I watch Iona Winnifrith? Women’s SB7 100m Breaststroke, 5 September

Kadeena Cox, Para Cycling Track

ParalympicsGB had its most successful Paralympics Games ever at Tokyo 2020, when the team took home 24 medals and every rider won a medal. Kadeena Cox was a star in the velodrome during those Games, winning two gold medals in the Mixed 750m Team sprint C1-C5 along with Jaco van Gass and Jody Cundy and the 500m time trial C4-C5 – as well as taking to the track to compete in the T38 400 metres, where she finished in fourth place. She has battled through injuries this year and won’t be running this time around. That single focus on the bike should scare everyone on the start line.

When can I watch Kadeena Cox? Women’s C4-5 500m Time Trial, 29 August; Open C1-5 750m Team Sprint, 1 September

Thomas Young, Para Athletics

The defending Tokyo 2020 gold medallist in the T38 100m, Thomas Young is one of the hottest tickets at the Paralympic Games and maybe ParalympicsGB’s new superstar in the making. Inspired to take up the sport by Usain Bolt, the Croydon-born sprinter is arriving in Paris in peak form having eclipsed his PB earlier this year with a 10.93 second time, improving on his Tokyo winning time by 0.01 seconds. Like so many great sprinters (and like his hero Bolt, in fact), Young’s victory seems almost inevitable on the Paris track. The bigger question might be: just how fast can he go?

When can I watch Thomas Young? Men’s T38 100m, 31 August

Livvy Breen, Para Athletics

Having been the youngest member of ParalympicsGB at the London 2012 Paralympic Games, Livvy Breen is now a two-time World Para Athletics Champion, two-time Paralympic bronze medallist and a two-time gold medallist at the Commonwealth Games. But gold has eluded her on the biggest stage of them all. She has been a star of Para Athletics for some time – she even has her own BBC podcast – so in her third games, can the current T38 long jump world champion finally strike gold? And as a double threat in the long jump and 100m, she has two attempts to finally bring it home.

When can I watch Livvy Breen? Women’s T38 100m, 31 August; Women’s T38 Long Jump, 5 September

David Smith, Boccia

Boccia (pronounced “Bot-cha”) is where athletes throw, kick or use a ramp to propel a ball onto the court to get closest to a “jack” ball – and it’s a sport with no counterpart in the Olympic Games (click here to see how it works). Superstar David Smith is the reigning BC1 Paralympic champion after claiming successive gold medals at Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020. The Tokyo final was one of the moments of those Games, as he battled back from 2-0 down to grab gold with a 4-2 triumph over Malaysia’s Chew Wei Lun.

When can I watch David Smith? Men’s BC1 Individual, 29 August-2 September

Hannah Cockroft, Para Athletics

Part of the epic London 2012 “Thriller Thursday” night where Hannah Cockroft, alongside David Weir and Jonnie Peacock, won Paralympic gold. Since then, she’s claimed every major title going. Cockroft remains unbeaten at a Paralympic Games, improving her tally to seven titles with a triple win at Rio 2016 and another golden double at Tokyo 2020. With the golds has also come world records, which she’s consistently toppled and lowered. We’re not saying that more gold is guaranteed at Paris 2024, but we hear she’s been clearing a space on her shelf…

When can I watch Hannah Cockroft? Women’s T34 100m, 1 September; Women’s T34 800m, 7 September; Universal 4x100m Relay, 6 September

How to watch the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games on Virgin TV

The Paris 2024 Paralympic Games is set to be the biggest ever broadcast on Channel 4 with more than 1,300 hours of live sport airing for free across Channel 4, More4, Channel 4 streaming and Channel 4 Sport’s YouTube.

From the opening ceremony on Wednesday 28 August to the final seconds of the closing ceremony on Sunday 8 September, Channel 4 will bring us all the action, medals and must-see moments from every Paralympic venue across Paris.

You can watch the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games every day across Channel 4 HD (CH 104), More4 HD (CH 147) and Channel 4 streaming (Channel 4 app available on our V6 box (powered by TiVo^®), Virgin TV 360 and Stream from Virgin Media). Plus, every televised moment of the Paralympic Games will be streamed on Channel 4 Sport’s YouTube channel (available in Apps on all our Virgin TV boxes), with up to 18 concurrent streams.