It was a memorable Games for Great Britain. Out of a total of 124 medals, ParalympicsGB took home 49 gold medals.
Both the participants and the spectators will remember many of the moments that occurred both inside and outside of the sporting action.
A few of those moments from the last week and a half in Paris are included below.
Hewett’s double in gold and silver
Alfie Hewett of Great Britain won two gold medals and one silver medal in wheelchair tennis during the closing days of the Paralympics.
Hewett, 26, defeated Gordon Reid in his men’s doubles championship match on Friday after losing three consecutive Paralympic finals.
Tokyo and Rio de Janeiro will host games. He greeted Reid with an embrace and raised his racquet in the air after winning, calling it the “stuff of dreams”.
On Saturday, he returned to singles play and, after suffering a groin injury in the opening game and dropping the opening set 6-2, battled back to defeat Japan’s Tokito Oda in three sets.
Hewett, who needed just a men’s singles gold to wrap up a lifetime of achievements, prevailed 6-4 in the second set and had a match point in the final, but Oda overcame a 5-3 deficit to win 7-5.
Hewett would have preferred to win two gold medals, but his consecutive medals and doubles gold are a testament to a player that has since it.
