Austria at the Paralympics

Austria at the
Paralympics
IPC code AUT
NPC Austrian Paralympic Committee
Website www.oepc.at (in German)
Summer appearances
Winter appearances

Austria made its Paralympic Games début at the inaugural Paralympic Games in Rome in 1960, and has participated in every edition of both the Summer and Winter Paralympics. Austria was also the host of the 1984 and 1988 Winter Paralympics, both held in Innsbruck.[1]

Austrian athletes have won a total of 637 Paralympic medals, of which 199 gold, 245 silver and 220 bronze, placing it seventh (behind the USA, Great Britain, Canada, France, Australia and Germany) on the all-time Paralympic Games medal table. 314 of Austria's medals were won at the Winter Paralympics (of which 102 gold, 108 silver and 104 bronze), which places the country second on the Winter Paralympics all-time medal table, behind Norway (which has 315 Winter medals, of which 134 gold).[2]

Austria's largest medal haul at the Summer Games came in 1976, with a total of 50. Its lowest came in 2008, with just six medals overall - the first time ever it had failed to obtain ten medals. At the Winter Games, Austria topped the medal table when it hosted the Games in 1984, with 70 medals; its lowest total was in 2018, with 7,and for the first time in history the country did not get a gold medal.[3]

Medal tallies

Summer Paralympics

Event Gold Silver Bronze Total Ranking
1960 Summer Paralympics11811304th
1964 Summer Paralympics4171212th
1968 Summer Paralympics27101915th
1972 Summer Paralympics6661812th
1976 Summer Paralympics1716175010th
1980 Summer Paralympics142384511th
1984 Summer Paralympics1420104417th
1988 Summer Paralympics137153520th
1992 Summer Paralympics54132222nd
1996 Summer Paralympics66102225th
2000 Summer Paralympics2761539th
2004 Summer Paralympics81042220th
2008 Summer Paralympics411633rd
2012 Summer Paralympics4361330th
2016 Summer Paralympics144950th

Winter Paralympics

Event Gold Silver Bronze Total Ranking
1976 Winter Paralympics51614356th
1980 Winter Paralympics6106223rd
1984 Winter Paralympics341917701st
1988 Winter Paralympics201014442nd
1992 Winter Paralympics839204th
1994 Winter Paralympics71612356th
1998 Winter Paralympics71611348th
2002 Winter Paralympics91010294th
2006 Winter Paralympics347147th
2010 Winter Paralympics344117th
2014 Winter Paralympics254119th
2018 Winter Paralympics025722nd

See also

References

  1. ↑ Austria at the Paralympics, International Paralympic Committee
  2. ↑ Austria at the Paralympics, International Paralympic Committee
  3. ↑ Austria at the Paralympics, International Paralympic Committee
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