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The nation used to be a dominant Paralympic power in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, but has steadily declined since the 1990s to a point where it finished sixth in the 2012 Summer Paralympics medal count. 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 medal table of the 2024 Summer Paralympics ranks the participating National Paralympic Committees (NPCs) by the number of gold medals that were won by their athletes during the competition. The 2024 Paralympics was the seventeenth Games to be held, a quadrennial competition open to athletes with physical and intellectual disabilities.
Games 1st place med 2nd place med 3rd place med Nations with medals 1960 Rome Italy 29 Great Britain 20 West Germany 15: 28: 15: 6 23: 20: 9 1964 Tokyo United States 50 Great Britain
As more than 4,400 athletes gather in Paris for the 2024 Paralympic Games, the first medals are starting to be awarded. The Games kicked off on Aug. 28, and will run through Sept. 8 .
So far in the 21st century, the US has only failed to top the Olympic medal table once, but its average place in the Paralympic medals table from 2000 until Paris was fourth.
Tabulated below are the medals and overall rankings for host nations in each Summer Paralympics and Winter Paralympics, based on individual Games medals tables. Summer Paralympics [ edit ]
The first official Paralympic Games was held in Rome, Italy, in 1960. [1] 400 athletes from 23 countries competed at the 1960 Games though only athletes in wheelchairs competed. At the 1976 Summer Games athletes with different disabilities were included for the first time at a summer Paralympics. With the inclusion of more disability ...
Paris raised the game for the Paralympics, with more than 4,000 athletes as well as 2.4 million tickets sold, which was second only to the London Games of 2012. Now the challenge for U.S ...