1984 Winter Paralympics

III Winter Paralympics

Host city	Innsbruck, Austria
Nations participating	21
Athletes participating	419
Events	107 in 3 sports
Opening ceremony	14 January
Closing ceremony	20 January
Officially opened by	Rudolf Kirchschläger
Paralympic stadium	Olympiahalle
Winter:
<  Geilo 1980 Innsbruck 1988  >
Summer:
<  Stoke Mandeville/New York 1984 Seoul 1988  >

The 1984 Winter Paralympic Games (German: Paralympische Winterspiele 1984) were the third Winter Paralympics. They were held from 14 to 20 January 1984 in Innsbruck, Austria. They were the first Winter Games organized by the International Co-ordinating Committee (ICC), which was formed on March 15, 1982 in Leysin, Switzerland. These Games were accessible for all athletes with cerebral palsy. For the first time, an exhibition event was held at the Olympic Winter Games in Sarajevo and 30 male three-track skiers took part in the Giant Slalom event. Three sports were contested: alpine skiing, cross-country skiing, and ice sledge speed racing. The most successful athlete was German alpine skier Reinhild Moeller, who won 3 gold medals and 1 silver medal.^[1] The Games, then known as the Third World Winter Games for the Disabled, were fully sanctioned by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).^[2]

Sports

• Alpine skiing
• Ice sledge speed racing
• Cross-country skiing

Medal table

Participating countries; first time participants are blue.

The top 10 NPCs by number of gold medals are listed below. The host nation (Austria) is highlighted.

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Austria	34	19	17	70
2	Finland	19	9	6	34
3	Norway	15	13	13	41
4	West Germany	10	14	10	34
5	United States	7	14	14	35
6	Sweden	7	2	5	14
7	Switzerland	5	16	16	37
8	France	4	2	0	6
9	Poland	3	2	8	13
10	Canada	2	8	4	14

See also

• 1984 Winter Olympics
• 1984 Summer Paralympics

References

External links

• International Paralympic Committee
• The event at SVT's open archive (Swedish)

Paralympic Games
Charter Host cities IPC NPCs Medal tables Medalists Sports Symbols
Summer Games	Rome 1960 Tokyo 1964 Tel Aviv 1968 Heidelberg 1972 Toronto 1976 Arnhem 1980 New York/Stoke Mandeville 1984 Seoul 1988 Barcelona/Madrid 1992 Atlanta 1996 Sydney 2000 Athens 2004 Beijing 2008 London 2012 Rio de Janeiro 2016 Tokyo 2020
Winter Games	Örnsköldsvik 1976 Geilo 1980 Innsbruck 1984 Innsbruck 1988 Tignes/Albertville 1992 Lillehammer 1994 Nagano 1998 Salt Lake City 2002 Turin 2006 Vancouver 2010 Sochi 2014 Pyeongchang 2018 Beijing 2022
Olympic Games Youth Olympic Games Ancient Olympic Games