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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.
He Junquan is a Chinese swimmer and multiple Paralympic gold medallist. He represented China at the 2000 Summer Paralympics, winning a bronze medal, a gold and a silver. Competing again at the 2004 Paralympics, he won four gold medals. He is representing China again at the 2008 Summer Paralympics. In his favorite event, the 50 m backstroke, he ...
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
She started her Olympic career at the Paralympics in 1980 where she won no medals. In her second Paralympics in 1984, she was a gold medalist in the shot put (category 2) and pentathlon (category 2), and won a silver in the discus throw (category 2). 5 further medals followed in 1988, this time she won a gold medal in the pentathlon (category 4 ...
Roderick Townsend cleared a height of 2.12 meters to win his third consecutive Paralympic gold medal in the men's high jump T47. He did so in style, repping a colorful haircut that featured a ...
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]
When she was 17, Jana was in a motorcycle crash which resulted in her breaking her back and leaving both of her legs paralysed. [1] Jana first participated in the Paralympic Games in 2004 where she won a gold medal in the Épée B event and a bronze medal in the Foil B event. This made her Thailand's first female Paralympic gold medalist.