London 2012 estimate that 800,000 tickets have been sold to the public now that the random ballots for the oversubscribed events have been finished.

It means that about nine out of 10 of the 116,000 people who applied for 1,146,000 tickets are in line to get all or some of their ticket bids, London 2012 said.

There were ballots for 16 sports including athletics, track cycling and swimming which were oversubscribed.

Successful buyers will start to see the payments being taken from their accounts from October 18 before they find out what tickets they have got.

"We are on track to complete payments by the end of the month, ready to inform people what tickets they have by 18 November," said Paul Deighton, the chief executive of London 2012.

"We were thrilled by the response to Paralympic Games tickets and since the application process closed our teams have been working hard to run the required ballots, ready to begin the process of taking payments and allocating tickets."

To illustrate the success of the ballot, London 2012 have compared the sales of Paralympic tickets to the 494,000 sold for this year's Wimbledon Championships and 398,000 for the England versus India Test series.

Ballots were run for oversubscribed seats across 80 sport sessions and at 117 price categories.

Total sales figures for the 2012 Paralympics jumps to more than a million tickets when sales to international visitors, sponsors and other groups are included.

London 2012 want to raise between £20 million ($32 million/€23 million) to £50 million ($79 million/€57 million) from Paralympic tickets as part of its overall £500 million ($790 million/€572 million) revenue target from all Olympic and Paralympic ticket sales.

The ticket sale which ran from September 9 to 26 had triggered "unprecedented interest" in the Paralympics a year out from the Games, they said.

Almost two thirds of the 1.9 million people who applied in the six-week first round of Olympic sales ended up empty-handed.

A total of 1.2 million people ended up with nothing, with only 700,000 - 36 per cent - being successful.

Remaining Paralympic Games tickets, including some sport medal sessions and Ceremonies will go back on sale on a first come, first served basis later this year.  

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