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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.
Aleksandr Kostin, competing in the Neutral Paralympic Athletes (NPA) delegation, took gold, while Tunisia's Rouay Jebabli finished second and Anton Kuliatin, also competing under NPA, earned bronze.
Several athletes with disabilities have competed in both the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games. New Zealander Neroli Fairhall was the first paraplegic competitor in the Olympic Games. After competing in the 1980 Summer Paralympics , Fairhall won gold when archery was held during the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane .
Paralympic swimmers participate in four different lengths: 50 metre, 100 metre, 150 metre (SM3 individual medley events) 200 metre and 400 metre (individual medley events). In the beginning of the Paralympic Games , they competed in three lengths: 25 metre, 50 metre and 75 metre events, 25 metre and 75 metre events were abolished in the 1988 ...
Athlete(s) with the most medals (Gold-Silver-Bronze) Paralympiads medal events in 2016 Gold Silver Bronze Total Archery: Since 1960 15 9 152 143 133 428 Paola Fantato (5–1–2) Athletics: Since 1960 15 160 2848 2791 2708 8348 Zipora Rubin (13–5–5) Heinz Frei (11-6–5) Boccia: Since 1984 9 7 63 63 63 189
Deepa Malik (born 30 September 1970) is an Indian para athlete from Haryana. She is the first Indian woman to win a medal in Paralympic Games. She won a silver medal at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in shot put. [3] In 2020, she was elected as President of the Paralympic Committee of India. [4]
Mariyappan Thangavelu (born 28 June 1995) [1] is an Indian Paralympic high jumper. He is a triple Paralympics medalist having won the gold medal at 2016 Rio, the silver medal at 2020 Tokyo and the bronze medal at 2024 Paris. [2] He has also been a double medalist at the World Championships with one gold and one bronze.
Ian MacNicol/Getty Images Paralympic athletes will no longer have to hide tattoos of the Olympic rings after the International Paralympic Committee dropped a long-standing rule about covering up ...