2010 Winter Paralympics
The 10th Paralympic Winter Games were held from 12 to 21 March 2010 in the Canadian city of Vancouver instead, the largest city in the province of British Columbia. The Paralympics is the Olympics for people with physical disabilities and found the place after the 2010 Winter Olympics. Successful nation with 13 gold medals was Germany.
The venues for the games covered a 120 - kilometer zone from the banks of Richmond to the downtown area of Vancouver. It should existing and new venues for the competitions to be used. For the second time Canada was after the summer Paralympics 1976 in Toronto hosted the games. The opening ceremony was held Stadium in Vancouver and the closing ceremony in Whistler BC Place.
Participant
- Andorra Andorra ( 2)
- Argentina Argentina (2 )
- Armenia Armenia (2 )
- Australia (11 )
- Belgium Belgium (1)
- Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina (1)
- Bulgaria Bulgaria ( 3)
- Chile Chile (2 )
- People's Republic of China People's Republic of China ( 7)
- Denmark Denmark ( 2)
- Germany Germany (20 )
- Finland Finland ( 5)
- France (21 )
- Greece Greece ( 2)
- Iran Iran (1 )
- Iceland Iceland ( 1)
- Italy Italy ( 35)
- Japan Japan (42 )
- Canada Canada ( 46)
- Kazakhstan Kazakhstan (1)
- Croatia Croatia ( 4)
- Mexico Mexico (2 )
- Mongolia Mongolia ( 2)
- New Zealand New Zealand ( 2)
- Netherlands Netherlands (1)
- Norway Norway ( 27)
- Austria Austria ( 19)
- Poland Poland ( 12)
- Romania Romania (1)
- Russia Russia ( 30)
- Sweden Sweden (26 )
- Switzerland Switzerland (15 )
- Serbia Serbia (1)
- Slovakia Slovakia (13 )
- Slovenia Slovenia (1)
- Spain ( 5)
- South Africa South Africa (1 )
- Flag of South Korea South Korea (25 )
- Czech Republic Czech Republic ( 19)
- Ukraine Ukraine ( 19)
- Hungary Hungary (2 )
- United States United States (50 )
- United Kingdom United Kingdom (12 )
- Belarus Belarus ( 9)