Finland at the Paralympics

Finland participated in the inaugural Paralympic Games in 1960 in Rome, with a single representative, swimmer Tauno Valkama - who won gold in his sole event, the 50m crawl. The country was absent from the 1964 Games, but returned in 1968, and has participated in every subsequent edition of the Summer Paralympics. Finland has also taken part in every edition of the Winter Paralympics, from the first in 1976.[1]

Finland at the
Paralympics
IPC codeFIN
NPCFinnish Paralympic Committee
Websitewww.paralympia.fi
Summer appearances
Winter appearances

Finland's 'awakening' to the Paralympics came in 1976, both at the inaugural Winter Games (where it finished third on the medal chart), and at the Summer Games, where it won fifty medals - forty-seven more than it had at the previous summer edition. The country performed strongly throughout the 1980s, then began to decline, in terms of both medal hauls and ranking. In 2004, Finns won only eight medals - the first time since 1972 that they had won fewer than ten. At the Winter Games, Finland was initially a major power, ranking in the top 3 until 1988, and in the top 10 until 2002, despite a gradual yet steady decline. At the 2006 Winter Games, Finland failed to win a single medal; the country won only a silver and a bronze in 2010.[2]

Medal tallies

Summer Paralympics
Event Gold Silver Bronze Total Ranking
1960 Summer Paralympics100115th
1968 Summer Paralympics0000-
1972 Summer Paralympics021328th
1976 Summer Paralympics1220185013th
1980 Summer Paralympics819134017th
1984 Summer Paralympics1913265815th
1988 Summer Paralympics1123165022nd
1992 Summer Paralympics86112517th
1996 Summer Paralympics4541330th
2000 Summer Paralympics1361043rd
2004 Summer Paralympics413833rd
2008 Summer Paralympics222640th
2012 Summer Paralympics411627th
2016 Summer Paralympics111356th

Winter Paralympics
Event Gold Silver Bronze Total Ranking
1976 Winter Paralympics877223rd
1980 Winter Paralympics15712322nd
1984 Winter Paralympics1996342nd
1988 Winter Paralympics988254th
1992 Winter Paralympics734145th
1994 Winter Paralympics6712257th
1998 Winter Paralympics757199th
2002 Winter Paralympics41389th
2006 Winter Paralympics0000-
2010 Winter Paralympics011217th
2014 Winter Paralympics010116th
2018 Winter Paralympics102316th
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See also

References
  1. Finland at the Paralympics, International Paralympic Committee
  2. Finland at the Paralympics, International Paralympic Committee


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