From the most decorated to the athlete who claimed the first Paralympic medal for the Refugee Team, the Games unveiled some big personalities

The winner of five gold medals in Paris – plus a just-pipped silver in the 100m T53 – the irrepressible Debrunner was the most successful para athletics athlete of the Games. Her marathon medal on Sunday morning, up and down the cobbles of the Champs-Élysée, over the beautiful Pont Alexandre II and into Les Invalides, was the gold sprinkling on top of a haul that already included gold in the 400m T53, 800m T53, 1500m T54 and 5,000m T54 track. And it made it a Swiss wheelchair marathon double, with the unstoppable Marcel Hug winning the men’s race. “Winning this Paralympic marathon means all to me,” she said. “It’s [the marathon] something magical and ending the Games in this way is really something special.” Tanya Aldred