2026 Winter Paralympics medal table

2026 Winter Paralympics medals
LocationMilan & Cortina d'Ampezzo,
 Italy
Highlights
Most gold medals China (15)
Most total medals China (44)
Medalling NPCs27

The medal table of the 2026 Winter Paralympics ranks the participating National Paralympic Committees (NPCs) by the number of gold medals that were won by their athletes during the competition. The 2026 Paralympics were the fourteenth Games held, a quadrennial competition open to athletes with physical and intellectual disabilities. The games were held in Milan, Cortina d'Ampezzo, and other areas in Lombardy and Northeast Italy from 6 to 15 March 2026. There were 79 medal events. A mixed doubles event made its debut in wheelchair curling.[1]

Brazil and Latvia both won the first-ever Winter Paralympic medal in their histories, with Cristian Ribera winning the silver medal in the Men's sitting cross-country skiing sprint, and Poļina Rožkova and Agris Lasmans winning the bronze in the mixed doubles curling respectively.[2][3]

Ribera's medal was also the first in Winter Paralympic history won by a tropical, Latin American or South American National Paralympic Committee.

Medals

On 15 July 2025, the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Organising Committee unveiled the designs of the medals. The reverse of each medal represents Braille on the left and the Games logo on the right, with the Paralympics logo on the obverse. Each medal is 80mm wide and 10mm thick.[4][5] They were created by the Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato (IPZS).[6][7]

Medal table

Two bronze medals were awarded for a third-place tie in the Women's sprint pursuit, visually impaired.

Key

  *   Host nation (Italy)

2026 Winter Paralympics medal table
RankNPCGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 China15131644
2 United States135624
3 Russia81312
4 Italy*77216
5 Austria72413
6 France44412
7 Ukraine38819
8 Canada34815
9 Netherlands3317
10 Sweden3047
11 Germany26917
12 Norway2428
13 South Korea2417
14 Switzerland2226
15 Spain2114
16 Czech Republic1416
17 Belarus1102
18 Kazakhstan1012
19 Japan0314
20 Finland0202
21 Australia0112
 Poland0112
23 Brazil0101
 Great Britain0101
 New Zealand0101
26 Slovakia0033
27 Latvia0011
Totals (27 entries)797980238

Podium sweeps

Date Sport Event Team Gold Silver Bronze Ref
7 March Para biathlon Men's sprint, visually impaired  Ukraine Oleksandr Kazik
Guide: Serhii Kucheriavyi
Iaroslav Reshetynskyi
Guide: Dmytro Drahun
Anatolii Kovalevskyi
Guide: Oleksandr Mukshyn
[8]
15 March Para cross-country skiing Men's 20km, standing  China Wang Chenyang
Huang Lingxin
Liu Xiaobin
[9]

See also

References

  1. ^ "IPC Governing Board take key decisions for future Paralympic Games".
  2. ^ "É prata! Cristian Ribera é segundo no sprint e faz história nos Jogos Paralímpicos de Inverno". Comitê Paralímpico Brasileiro (in Brazilian Portuguese). Comitê Paralímpico Brasileiro. 10 March 2026. Retrieved 10 March 2026.
  3. ^ "Latvia's achievement: the first Winter Paralympic medal won at the Cortina Curling Olympic Stadium". Olympics.com. 13 March 2026. Retrieved 13 March 2026.
  4. ^ "Milano Cortina 2026 unveils medals for Paralympic and Olympic Winter Games". International Paralympic Committee. 15 July 2025. Retrieved 15 July 2025.
  5. ^ "Milano Cortina unveil striking medals". Inside the Games. 16 July 2025. Archived from the original on 16 July 2025.
  6. ^ "Italy showcases medals for 2026 Winter Games". Reuters. 15 July 2025. Archived from the original on 2 September 2025.
  7. ^ "Winter Olympics and Paralympics medal designs announced". Wallpaper. 15 July 2025. Retrieved 15 July 2025.
  8. ^ "Para Biathlon Men's Sprint Vision Impaired - Results" (PDF). 7 March 2026. Retrieved 7 March 2026.
  9. ^ "Para Cross-Country Skiing – Men's 20km Interval Start Free Standing – Results" (PDF). milano-cortina2026.bornan.sport. 15 March 2026. Retrieved 15 March 2026.