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Great Britain's first Winter Paralympic gold was earned at the Sochi 2014 Games by Kelly Gallagher and guide Charlotte Evans in the Women's super-G visually impaired. Multiple athletes have won 4 medals at the Winter Paralympics for Great Britain, each in alpine skiing for blind or visually impaired athletes.
Pages in category "Paralympic athletes for Great Britain" The following 160 pages are in this category, out of 160 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
UK Sport set the team a target of winning between 100 and 140 medals at the event. [3] [4] The team was made up of athletes from the whole United Kingdom including Northern Ireland (whose people may elect to hold Irish citizenship and are able to be selected to represent either Great Britain or Ireland at the Paralympics). [5]
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 .
British Paralympic Association: Website: www.paralympics.org.uk: in Beijing, China 4 March 2022 () – 13 March 2022 () Competitors: 24 (18 men and 6 women) in 5 [3] sports: Flag bearers (opening) Meggan Dawson-Farrell Gregor Ewan [2] Flag bearers (closing) Andrew Simpson Neil Simpson [1] Medals Ranked 14th: Gold 1 Silver 1 Bronze 4 Total 6
The athletes entering the stadium during the opening ceremony, led by flagbearer Peter Norfolk.. Despite the team being made up of athletes from the whole United Kingdom they compete under the name of Great Britain, a name first assigned by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for the 1908 Summer Olympics along with the IOC country code GBR, and later used by the International Paralympic ...
This is a list of multiple Paralympic gold medalists, listing people who have won ten or more gold medals at the Paralympic Games. 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.
Pages in category "Paralympic gold medalists for Great Britain" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 260 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .