2010 Winter Paralympics medal table explained

2010 Winter Paralympics medals
Location:Vancouver,
Award2 Type:Most total medals
Award1 Type:Most gold medals
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The 2010 Winter Paralympics, officially known as the X Paralympic Winter Games, were held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, from March 12 to March 21, 2010.[1] A total of 506 athletes from 44 nations participated in 64 events from five different sport disciplines.[2] [3]

Athletes from 21 countries won at least one medal, 15 of them winning at least one gold medal. For the second consecutive Winter Games, Russia won the most medals in total, with 38.[4] Germany collected the most gold medals, with 13. The most individual gold medals were won by Canadian Lauren Woolstencroft, who secured five in alpine skiing, and German Verena Bentele, with two in biathlon and three in cross-country skiing.[5] [6]

Viviane Forest of Canada became the first Paralympian to win a gold medal in both the Winter and Summer Games when she won the women's downhill event for visually impaired athletes. She had previously won gold medals in the 2000 and 2004 Summer Paralympics for women's goalball.[7] [8] __TOC__

Medal table

See also: Olympic medal table.

The ranking in this table is based on information provided by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) and is consistent with IPC convention in its published medal tables. By default, the table is ordered by the number of gold medals the athletes from a nation have won (in this context, a nation is an entity represented by a National Paralympic Committee). The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze medals. If nations are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically by IPC country code.

In the men's downhill standing two silver medals were awarded for a second-place tie. No bronze medal was awarded for that event.[9]

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  1. Web site: 2010 Winter Paralympics Vancouver Canada . 20 April 2010 . disabled-world.com. https://web.archive.org/web/20100430113358/http://www.disabled-world.com/sports/paralympics/2010/. 30 April 2010 . live.
  2. Web site: Flagbearers from Opening Ceremony . International Paralympic Committee . 12 March 2010 . 15 April 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100620033748/http://paralympic.org/export/sites/default/Media_Centre/News/General_News/FLAG_BEARER_NOMINATIONS_Opening_Ceremony.pdf . 20 June 2010 .
  3. Web site: Opening Ceremony Jump Starts Vancouver Winter Paralympics . . 12 March 2010 . 14 April 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20100323052301/http://www.paralympic.org/Media_Centre/News/General_News/2010_03_12_a.html. 23 March 2010 . live.
  4. Web site: Medal Standings - Torino 2006 Paralympic Winter Games . International Paralympic Committee . 26 April 2010 . 5 June 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110605162138/http://www.paralympic.org/Sport/Results/reports.html?type=medalstandings&games=2006PWG&sport=all . live .
  5. Web site: Woolstencroft wins fifth gold medal . Vancouver Sun . CanWest News Service . 21 March 2010 . 15 April 2010 . 4 October 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181004135056/http://www.vancouversun.com/sports/Woolstencroft+wins+fifth+gold+2010+Paralympics/2707422/story.html . dead .
  6. Web site: Woolstencroft exceeds even her own expectations . Whistler Question . Megan Grittani-Livingston . 24 March 2010 . 15 April 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110718041638/http://www.whistlerquestion.com/article/20100324/WHISTLER03/303249955/1030/WHISTLER/woolstencroft-exceeds-even-her-own-expectations . 18 July 2011 .
  7. Web site: Paralympic para-alpine skiing: Canada's Viviane Forest does the trifecta, wins visually impaired downhill gold . Vancouver Sun . Mike Beamish . 18 March 2010 . 15 April 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100323011825/http://www.vancouversun.com/sports/2010wintergames/Canada%2BViviane%2BForest%2Bdoes%2Btrifecta%2Bwins%2Bvisually%2Bimpaired%2Bdownhill%2Bgold/2698348/story.html . 23 March 2010 . dead .
  8. Web site: Para-alpine star Viviane Forest has potential for huge Games medal haul . Vancouver Sun . John Korobanik . 11 March 2010 . 19 March 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100324090309/http://www.vancouversun.com/sports/Para%2Balpine%2Bstar%2BViviane%2BForest%2Bpotential%2Bhuge%2BGames%2Bmedal%2Bhaul/2672109/story.html . 24 March 2010 . dead .
  9. Web site: Men's Downhill—Standing. Website of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Paralympics. VANOC. 15 April 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20100415194039/http://www.vancouver2010.com/paralympic-games/paralympic-alpine-skiing/schedule-and-results/mens-downhill---standing-_asm110101pPE.html. 15 April 2010 . live.

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