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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 .
Medal Host Number of medal events Medals awarded Athlete(s) with the most medals (Gold-Silver-Bronze) Gold Silver Bronze Total 1960: winners: table: Rome, Italy: 113 113 94 84 291 Maria Scutti (9–1–2) Athletics 1964: winners: table: Tokyo, Japan: 144 144 138 136 418 Dean Slaugh (4–0–0) Archery Serge Bec (3–1–0) Wheelchair Fencing
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 2016 Rio Paralympics, Millward won her first Paralympic gold medals, in the 100m backstroke S8 [14] and the women's 4 × 100 m medley relay 34pts. [15] At the same Games, she won silver in the 200m individual medley SM8 [16] and bronze in the 400m freestyle S8 [17] and 100m freestyle S8. [18]
She won a bronze medal at the 2008 Summer Paralympics, and two silver medals at the 2012 Summer Paralympics. [3] She won a gold medal in Lima at the 2019 Parapan American Games and in the same year she won another at the World Championships in Dubai. [3] She qualified for the 2020 Summer Paralympics, in Women's 100m T11, and Women's 200m T11. [4]
Silvânia Costa de Oliveira (born 23 May 1987) is a visually impaired Brazilian Paralympic athlete. [1] [2] She is a two-time gold medalist at the Summer Paralympics.She won the gold medal in the women's long jump T11 event both at the 2016 Summer Paralympics held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and at the 2020 Summer Paralympics held in Tokyo, Japan.
Tigist Gezahagn Mengistu (born 12 March 2000), [1] also known as Tigist Gezahagn, [2] is an Ethiopian Paralympic athlete. She made her first Paralympic appearance representing Ethiopia at the 2020 Summer Paralympics. During the 2020 Summer Paralympics, she created history by becoming the first ever gold medalist for Ethiopia in the history of ...