Russian Sports Ministry proposes to award 2024 Paralympics gold medalists with $41,240

MOSCOW, October 15. /TASS/. The Russian Sports Ministry proposed on Tuesday to allocate a one-time payment of four million rubles (some $41,240) to country’s gold medal winners of the 2024 Summer Paralympic Games in Paris, according to a statement posed on the web portal of the draft regulatory and legal acts.
The draft document also stipulates a payment of 2.5 million rubles ($25,775) to the silver medal winners and 1.7 million rubles ($17,527) to athletes, who won the bronze.
Coaches of the Russian medal winning Paralympians in Paris may be paid 3.2 million rubles (almost $33,000) for the gold, two million rubles (over $20,600) for the silver and 1.36 million rubles ($14,000) for the bronze medals.
The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) cleared 88 Paralympians from Russia to take part in the 2024 Paris Summer Paralympic Games. They were initially barred from taking part in the Parade of Athletes during the opening and closing ceremonies and also excluded from the 2024 Paralympics overall medal standings.
The 2024 Summer Paralympic Games ran in the French capital of Paris between August 28 and September 8, 2024. Russian Paralympians, who were allowed to participate in the 2024 Games under a neutral status, coined 20 gold, 21 silver and 23 bronze medals.
On March 6, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) published strict eligibility criteria that Russian and Belarusian athletes and support personnel must meet and adhere to in order to participate as neutrals at the 2024 Summer Paralympic Games in Paris.
According to the IPC’s requirements “Neutral athletes will compete under a white flag featuring black lettering spelling out NPA [Neutral Paralympic Athletes].” The IPC also ruled that “NPA will compete as individuals in neutral uniforms under an NPA flag, and will not be able to take part in medals ceremonies or march in the Opening and Closing Ceremonies.”
On September 29, 2023, the IPC General Assembly ruled at its session in Bahrain to suspend some of the rights the RPC has within the global organization.
However, the IPC General Assembly cleared Russian athletes to participate under a neutral status in international competition, including at the 2024 Summer Paralympics.
In mid-March this year, RPC President Pavel Rozhkov told TASS that Russian Paralympians and accompanying staff would don turquoise and beige at the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris.