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The Paralympics listed for each athlete only include games when they won medals. See the particular article on the athlete for more details on when and for what nation an athlete competed. More medals are available in some events than others, and the number of events in which medals are available overall have changed over time.
List of most gold medals won at a single Paralympic Games [ edit ] This is a list of gold medallists with four or more gold medals won in a single Paralympic Games, or the gold medallist with the highest number of gold medals won at a Paralympic Games, including Team Events .
At her first 1980 Summer Paralympics in Arnhem, Newstead won three gold medals in the swimming pool. [2] At the 1984 Summer Paralympics in Stoke Mandeville she won three golds and a silver medal in the pool. [2] Most notably, Newstead also won a gold in the air pistol shooting event as well as silver medals in the shot put and discus events. [2]
At the 2022 U.S. Paralympic National Championships, she won gold medals in the 400-meter freestyle and 200-meter individual medley and a bronze medal in the 100-meter butterfly. [2] She was subsequently named the Swimmer of the Meet by virtue of having the best overall point total among competing athletes. [3]
The light-hearted pre-race singing and dancing worked out for Pergolini, who earned the first American gold medal of the 2024 Paralympics with a time of 1:04.93 — just short of her world record ...
She made history by winning two back-to-back golds. She also won the bronze in the 50m rifle 3 positions SH1 event at the 2020 Games, thus being the first Indian woman to win multiple medals at a single Paralympic Games. [4] Lekhara is a two-time gold and one-time silver medalist at the Para World Cup. [5]
[4] [5] [6] She broke many world records in the S7 classification, and won multiple gold medals at the IPC Swimming World Championships in 2009 and 2010. [7] At the 2012 Paralympics, she was controversially reclassified to S8, a class for swimmers with less impairment. [6] [8] She won the S8 50 metre freestyle event in a new Paralympic record ...
Medal Host Number of medal events Medals awarded Athlete(s) with the most medals (Gold-Silver-Bronze) Gold Silver Bronze Total 1976: winners: table: Örnsköldsvik, Sweden: 53 53 46 42 141 Heinz Moser (3–0–0) Alpine skiing Petra Merkott (3–0–0) Alpine skiing Teuvo Sahi (3–0–0) Cross-country skiing 1980: winners: table: Geilo, Norway