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The Paralympic Games or Paralympics is a periodic series of international multisport events involving athletes with a range of disabilities. There are Winter and Summer Paralympic Games , which since the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea , have been held shortly after the corresponding Olympic Games .
The table is pre-sorted by the name of each Paralympic Committee, but can be displayed as sorted by any other column, such as the total number of gold medals or total number of overall medals. To sort by gold, silver, and then bronze (as used unofficially by the IPC and by most broadcasters outside the US) sort first by the bronze column, then ...
Games 1st place med 2nd place med 3rd place med 1976 Örnsköldsvik West Germany 10 Switzerland 10 Finland 8 12: 1: 7 6: 1: 7 1980 Geilo Norway 23 Finland 15 Austria 6 21: 7: 10 10: 12
The 2024 Paralympic Games run from August 28 to September 8. One thing that can seem confusing though to new viewers of the Paralympics is its unique classification system.
winners: table: Tel Aviv, Israel: 189 189 186 201 576 Roberto Marson (4–2–0) Wheelchair Fencing 1972: winners: table: Heidelberg, West Germany: 188 188 187 200 575 Eve M. Rimmer (2–2–0) Athletics 1976: winners: table: Toronto, Ontario, Canada 447 447 378 347 1172 Josefina Cornejo (4–1–0) Athletics
The team then improved to a fourth-place finish in 2016, and third in 2020, and unexpectedly finished first at the 2018 Winter Paralympics. The United States was the co-host of the 1984 Summer Paralympics in Stoke Mandeville and New York. It also hosted the 1996 Summer Paralympics in Atlanta and 2002 Winter Paralympics in Salt Lake City.
Jessica Long, 29 medals at the Summer Paralympics. This is a list of multiple Paralympic gold medalists, listing people who have won ten or more gold medals at the Paralympic Games. The Paralympics listed for each athlete only include games when they won medals.
The 2024 Paralympics was the seventeenth Games to be held, a quadrennial competition open to athletes with physical and intellectual disabilities. The games were held in Paris, France from 28 August to 8 September 2024. There were 549 medal events. Mauritius, Nepal and the Refugee Paralympic Team won their first Paralympic medals.