Single-Day Record 133,000 Tickets Sold for Paralympic Games On Tuesday

The 2016 Paralympic Games have experienced a surge in ticket sales following the end of the Rio Olympics, and a new record-high of 133,000 tickets were sold on Tuesday alone.

UPDATE: Globo.com now reports that Wednesday saw the record broken again with 145,763 tickets sold.

The IPC announced the ticket sale spike in a press release Wednesday, noting that the total number of Paralympic tickets sold had doubled over just 48 hours.

That comes just a few days after the IPC announced major slashes to the event budget in response to very low ticket sales – by that point, venues were only filled to 12% capacity and only 290,000 total tickets had been sold.

Here’s a look at the daily ticket sales since the closing ceremonies at the Olympics on Sunday, per the IPC release:

  • Saturday, August 20: 16,000
  • Sunday, August 21: 50,000
  • Monday, August 22: 100,000
  • Tuesday, August 23: 133,000
  • Wednesday, August 24: 145,000

Ticket sales are now up to more than 800,000 (through Wednesday), with swimming named as one of the most popular sports, along with wheelchair basketball, athletics, 5-a-side football and sitting volleyball.

The price for Paralympics tickets is relatively low, especially compared to tickets to the Olympics the past few weeks. Paralympic tickets range from 10 Brazilian reais (about US$3) to 130 reais (about US$40).

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JudgeNot
8 years ago

Good deal. These athletes deserve to have big crowds. They should give away empty seats for free on the day of the events.

swimmy
8 years ago

someone is stepping in to save the paraolympics

Steve Nolan
8 years ago

Hmm. The swimming venue had plenty of available seats for prelims and a good number for finals for the regular ole Olympics, but the tickets were fairly expensive.

Call me incredulous.

DDias
Reply to  Steve Nolan
8 years ago

Steve, you answered your own question:PRICE.
If I wasn’t mistaken, the most expensive ticket was $900.Now is $90.Big difference.

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