2024 Summer Paralympics torch relay


The 2024 Summer Paralympics torch relay was held from 24 to 28 August 2024. The torch relay began with the lighting of the Paralympic Heritage flame in Stoke Mandeville, United Kingdom, on 24 August. The next day, the torch arrived in France via the Channel Tunnel, thus beginning the torch relay. The torch was split into 12 parts and visited 12 different cities across France. The French leg ended during the opening ceremony when it was used to light the Paralympic cauldron. The cauldron was erected at the Tuileries Garden's central fountain. In total, the relay visited 50 cities and had 1000 torch bearers.

Route

  • 24 August: Great Britain
  • *The flame was lit in Stoke Mandeville, United Kingdom
  • 25 August: Across France
  • *Channel Tunnel
  • *Calais, Pas-de-Calais
  • *Valenciennes, Nord department
  • *Amnéville, Moselle
  • *Strasbourg, European Collectivity of Alsace
  • *Thonon-les-Bains, Haute-Savoie
  • *Antibes Juan-les-Pins, Alpes-Maritimes region of France
  • *Montpellier
  • *Lourdes, in the Hautes-Pyrénées region of France
  • *La Roche-sur-Yon, Vendée
  • *Lorient, Morbihan
  • *Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine
  • *Rouen, Seine-Maritime
  • 26 August: Across France
  • *Arras
  • *Amiens
  • *Chambly
  • *Laon
  • *Châlons-en-Champagne
  • *Troyes
  • *Châtillon-sur-Seine
  • *Lyon
  • *Vichy
  • *Limoges
  • *Blois
  • *Chartres
  • *Deauville
  • *Louviers
  • 27 August: Across Île-de-France
  • *Montfermeil
  • *Clichy-sous-Bois
  • *Livry-Gargan
  • *Sevran
  • *Épinay-sur-Seine
  • *Villetaneuse
  • *Louvres
  • *Trilport
  • *Sucy-en-Brie
  • *Valenton
  • *CNSD de Fontainebleau
  • *Garches Vaucresson
  • *Cergy
  • *Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines and Grigny
  • *Domaine national de Saint-Cloud
  • *La Roche-Guyon
  • *Houdan
  • 28 August: Across Paris
  • *Insep
  • *La Cipale
  • *Passerelle Simone de Beauvoir
  • *Murs des Fédérés
  • *Place de la Réunion
  • *Club France
  • *Place des Fêtes
  • *Place Pigalle
  • *Grange aux Belles
  • *Parc Montsouris
  • *Manufacture Nationale des Gobelins
  • *Arènes de Lutèce
  • *Place Saint-Sulpice
  • *Cité des Périchaux
  • *Mairie du 15e arrondissement
  • *UNESCO rue Masseran
  • *Lac Inférieur du Bois de Boulogne
  • *Avenue de la Grande Armée
  • *Parc Moneceau
  • *Parc de Clichy Batignolles Martin Luther King
  • *Square Léon
  • *Nation
  • *République
  • *Bastille
  • *Hôtel de Ville
  • *Carreau du Temple
  • *Place du Châtelet
  • *Place de la Concorde
  • *Tuileries Garden's central garden

Relay torch design

The French Olympic Committee commissioned Mathieu Lehanneur, to design the cauldron, torch, and ceremonial cauldrons along the torch relay route: Lehanneur developed a concept of having these three items symbolise France's national motto, "Liberté, égalité, fraternité", and gold, silver, and bronze medals respectively. Lehanneur described them as "three chapters in the same story", with the cauldron representing liberty, medals, and serving as "the epilogue and the ultimate symbol of that story. Light, magical and unifying." The torch relay cauldrons – 2000 of them – don a wave and ripple design that represents water texture of the River Seine that runs through Paris. They were made of XCarb by ArcelorMittal, a Paris 2024 Olympics Official Partner.