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The 2022 Winter Paralympics, officially the XIII Paralympic Winter Games, or the 13th Winter Paralympics, were held from 4 to 13 March 2022 in Beijing, China. There were 78 events in six winter sports.
Host China topped the medal table for the first time with 61 medals in total, including 18 gold medals. [4] LW11 alpine skier Jesper Pedersen from Norway won four gold medals at the 2022 Games, [ 5 ] while LW12 biathlete and cross-country skier Oksana Masters from the United States won the most individual medals overall, a total of seven medals ...
This medal table also includes medals won at the 1992 Summer Paralympics for Intellectually Disabled, held in Madrid, which also organized by the International Coordination Committee (ICC) and same Organizing Committee (COOB'92) that directed the 1992 Summer Paralympics held in Barcelona, however the results are not included in the ...
The herritage flame for the 2022 Winter Paralympics was lit in Stoke Mandeville, United Kingdom on 1 March and was sended virtually to Beijing, when another eight flames were lighted and colected around the city and Zhangjiakou merged in a small ceremony in front of the Temple of Heaven during the March 3 evening in a small ceremony in front of ...
The medal table of the 2020 Summer Paralympics ranks the participating National Paralympic Committees (NPCs) by the number of gold medals that are won by their athletes during the competition. The 2020 Paralympics were the sixteenth Games to be held, a quadrennial competition open to athletes with physical and intellectual disabilities.
In the following calendar for the 2022 Winter Paralympics, each blue box represents an event competition. The yellow boxes represent days during which medal-awarding finals for a sport were held. The number in each yellow box represents the number of finals that were contested on that day. [ 7 ]
The selected Paralympic sports were athletics (2–3 May 2020), goalball (28–29 September 2019), paratriathlon (15–18 August 2019), powerlifting (26–27 September 2019), swimming (16 April 2020) and wheelchair rugby (12–15 March 2020). It was announced in February 2019 that test events would be under the banner "Ready, Steady, Tokyo". 22 ...
The United States was the top-ranking (medals) nation for eight Paralympic Summer Games: 1964, 1968, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992 and 1996. China was the top-ranking nation for the six most recent Games, 2004 , 2008 , 2012 , 2016 , 2020 and 2024 .