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Great Britain has performed particularly well at the Summer Paralympic Games, consistently finishing among the top five in the medal tables - a marginally better performance than that achieved by Great Britain at the Olympics until the 21st century - reflecting the country's sustained connection to, and continuing deep support for, the Games.
The British Paralympic Association (BPA) is the National Paralympic Committee for Great Britain (GBR), and is responsible for the United Kingdom's participation in the Paralympic Games. The BPA select, prepare, enter, fund and manage the Great Britain and Northern Ireland team at the Paralympic Games. This team is known as ParalympicsGB.
17–30 June (US) / 22 July - 1 August (UK) - Stoke Mandeville/New York Summer Paralympics - 1100 athletes from 41 countries (UK) and 1,800 from 45 countries (USA) ; 903 events in 18 sports. [4] New York Games were held at the Hofstra University and events were held for amputees, les austres, cerebral palsy and vision impaired athletes. Stoke ...
The table is pre-sorted by the name of each Paralympic Committee, but can be displayed as sorted by any other column, such as the total number of gold medals or total number of overall medals. To sort by gold, silver, and then bronze (as used unofficially by the IPC and by most broadcasters outside the US) sort first by the bronze column, then ...
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 64 64 65 63 192 Lauren Woolstencroft (3–0–0) Alpine skiing Nikolay Polukhin Guide: Andrey Tokarev (1–4–1) Cross-country skiing 2014: winners: table: Sochi, Russia 72 72 72 72 216 Anna Schaffelhuber (5–0–0) Alpine skiing Alexey Bugaev (2–2–1) Alpine skiing 2018: winners: table
Seven British riders competed, in both individual and team events, winning five gold and five silver medals. Lee Pearson won three titles for the third successive Games, [38] and Anne Dunham, at the age of 59, won her first individual Paralympic Games gold medal, having previously won three team golds and been a five–time world champion. [29]
Great Britain competed at the 1980 Summer Paralympics Arnhem, Netherlands. It finished 5th in the overall medal count, with a total of 100 medals. It finished 5th in the overall medal count, with a total of 100 medals.
The British women's basketball team have qualified for Tokyo 2020 Paralympics after the women's team won the silver medal in the 2019 European Wheelchair Basketball Championships. [25] [26] Men's squad. The following is the Great Britain roster in the men's wheelchair basketball tournament of the 2020 Summer Paralympics. [27]