2002 Winter Paralympics

The 8th Winter Paralympics were held from 7 to 16 March 2002 the U.S. city of Salt Lake City, the capital of the U.S. state of Utah, discharged. The Paralympics is the Olympics for people with physical disabilities. Approximately 416 athletes from 36 nations took part in the competitions in three sports and were housed in the Paralympic village.

Andorra, Chile, China, Croatia, Greece and Hungary began participating in Paralympic Winter Games. The German team led the medals table with 17 gold, 22 silver and 11 bronze medals ahead of the United States and Norway.

The Media and visitor interest in Paralympic Games went to Nagano 1998 on. Due to high demand for tickets to certain events, the total number of available tickets has been increased from 225,000 to 248,000. The final sale amounted to 211 790 - so that is 85% of the tickets were sold.

A total of 836 accredited media representatives reported from the Games in Salt Lake City for print media, photography, radio and television stations and more than 30 stations. After months of negotiations, a live broadcast of all sports has been saved worldwide.

Overshadowed the games from the first doping case in the history of the Winter Paralympics were: At Thomas Oelsner from Germany Methenolon was detected, after which he had to return his two gold medals in biathlon and cross-country skiing, was excluded from the games and locked internationally for two years.

Competitions

  • Alpine Skiing
  • Cross-country skiing
  • Sledge Hockey

Participant

Of the 36 nations that had signed up for the Games in Salt Lake City, Andorra, Chile, China, Croatia, Greece and Hungary took part for the first time at the Paralympic Winter Games.

  • Andorra Andorra ( 2) *
  • Bulgaria Bulgaria (1)
  • Denmark Denmark (1)
  • Germany Germany (27 )
  • Estonia Estonia ( 13)
  • Finland Finland ( 14)
  • France (18 )
  • Greece Greece ( 1) *
  • Italian Italy ( 13)
  • Croatia Croatia (2) *
  • Netherlands The Netherlands (4 )
  • Norway Norway ( 27)
  • Austria Austria (22 )
  • Poland Poland ( 14)
  • Russia Russia ( 26)
  • Sweden Sweden ( 19)
  • Switzerland Switzerland (18 )
  • Slovakia Slovakia (14 )
  • Spain ( 8)
  • Czech Republic Czech Republic (6 )
  • Ukraine Ukraine ( 10)
  • Hungary Hungary ( 1) *
  • United Kingdom United Kingdom (2 )
  • Belarus Belarus ( 4)
  • Chile Chile ( 2) *
  • Canada Canada ( 27)
  • United States United States (57 )
  • Armenia Armenia ( 6)
  • People's Republic of China People's Republic of China ( 4) *
  • Iran Iran (1 )
  • Japan Japan (36 )
  • Kazakhstan Kazakhstan (1)
  • Flag of South Korea South Korea (6 )
  • South Africa South Africa (1 )
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