2022 Winter Paralympics medal table explained

2022 Winter Paralympics medals
Location:Beijing,
Award1 Type:Most gold medals
Award2 Type:Most total medals
Previous:2018
Main:Paralympics medal tables
Next:2026

The medal table of the 2022 Winter Paralympics ranks the participating National Paralympic Committees (NPCs) by the number of gold medals that are won by their athletes during the competition.

Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, athletes from Belarus and Russia were considered to compete under a neutral flag without appearing in the medal standings. However, following threats of boycott by multiple delegations, the IPC issued a blanket ban on Russian and Belarusian athletes, expelling them from the Paralympic Games.[1] [2]

There were 78 medal events across six sports.[3]

Athletes from 19 NPCs won medals, leaving 27 NPCs without a medal. 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, comprising three golds and four silvers.

Medal table

By default, the table is ordered by the number of gold medals the athletes from a nation have won, where nation is an entity represented by a National Paralympic Committee (NPC). The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze medals. If there is still a tie after that, then the nations shared the tied rank and are listed alphabetically according to their NPC code.

Podium sweeps

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5 MarchBiathlonMen's 6 kilometres vision impairedVitaliy Lukyanenko
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Borys Babar

Oleksandr Kazik
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Serhii Kucheriavyi

Dmytro Suiarko
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Oleksandr Nikonovych

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7 MarchSnowboardingMen's snowboard cross ULJi Lijia
Wang Pengyao
Zhu Yonggang
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8 MarchBiathlonWomen's 10 kilometres standingIryna Bui
Oleksandra Kononova
Liudmyla Liashenko
8 MarchBiathlonMen's 10 kilometres vision impairedVitaliy Lukyanenko
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Borys Babar

Anatolii Kovalevskyi
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Oleksandr Mukshyn

Dmytro Suiarko
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Oleksandr Nikonovych

See also

Notes and References

  1. News: Russian, Belarusian athletes banned from Beijing Paralympics in reversal of original decision by organizers. 3 March 2022. 3 March 2022. The San Francisco Diego Union Tribute.
  2. News: Houston. Michael. 3 March 2022. Athletes from Russia and Belarus banned from competing at Beijing 2022 Paralympics. InsideTheGames.biz. 3 March 2022.
  3. News: 4 March 2022 . Record number of female Para athletes set for Beijing 2022 Paralympic Winter Games . Paralympic.org . 4 March 2022.
  4. News: Burke. Patrick. 13 March 2022. China becomes fifth host to top Winter Paralympics medals table. InsideTheGames.biz. 13 March 2022.
  5. News: Burke. Patrick. 13 March 2022. Pedersen claims unmatched fourth gold medal of Beijing 2022 Paralympics with slalom victory. InsideTheGames.biz. 13 March 2022.
  6. News: Winter Paralympics 2022: GB win first medal as Ukraine soar on day one. 5 March 2022. 13 March 2022. The Guardian.
  7. Web site: Beijing Results . 14 March 2022 . Paralympic.org.