Canada at the Paralympics

At the 2000 Summer Paralympics, Stephanie Dixon sets the Canadian record for most gold medals at a single Paralympics, Winter or Summer, with 5.[1]

At the 2002 Winter Paralympics, Canada set a new total Canadian gold medal record haul at a Winter Paralympics, with 6.[2]

At the 2004 Summer Paralympics, Chantal Petitclerc ties the 5 gold medal record at a single Games.[1] She also won the demonstration sport of Wheelchair Racing in the 2004 Summer Olympics.

At the 2008 Summer Paralympics, Chantal Petitclerc again ties the 5 gold medal record at a single Games.[1]

In 2010, Brian McKeever of Canada became the first athlete in the world to be named to the Winter Paralympics and Winter Olympics teams in the same year. At the 2010 Winter Olympics, he was scheduled to compete in the men's 50 km cross-country race.[3][4][5]

At the 2010 Winter Paralympics, Viviane Forest became the first para-athlete to win a gold in both the Winter and Summer Games, by winning the Women's Downhill for Visually Impaired. She had previously won gold in the 2000 and 2004 Summer Paralympics for women's goalball.[6][7]

Lauren Woolstencroft became the first Canadian to win 3 golds at the same Winter Paralympics, at the 2010 edition,[8] this was eventually upped to 5 golds. With her 4th gold medal, she helped Canada set a record for most gold medals at any Winter Paralympic Games by winning the 7th medal. The previous mark was six, set at the 2002 Salt Lake City Paralympics.[2] With her 5th gold medal, she set the record for most gold medals won by any Winter Paralympian at a single Games, and she tied the record for gold medal haul of any Canadian Paralympian at a single Games, tying Chantal Petitclerc (who did the feat twice) and Stephanie Dixon, both Summer Paralympians.[1] Her five gold are also the record for any Canadian Winter Paralympian or Olympian.[9]

At the 2010 Games, Canada collected the most total medals and the most gold medals of any Winter Paralympics, up through 2010 for Canada, with 19 total medals, and 10 golds.[10]

At the 2018 Winter Paralympics cross country skier Brian McKeever became Canada's most decorated Winter Paralympian when he won a 14th medal in five Games from 2002 to 2018, passing the late Lana Spreeman, who won 13 medals in para-alpine skiing between 1980 and 1994.[11]

Canada has hosted the Games twice.

In 1976, and in 2010, Canada also hosted the Olympic Games counterpart, the 1976 Summer Olympics and the 2010 Winter Olympics respectively. Canada did not host the Paralympic Games counterpart to the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta; this was the last Winter Olympics that the host city did not also host the Winter Paralympics. The 1988 Summer Paralympics was the first Paralympics to be linked to the hosting of the Summer Olympics. The 1976 Summer Olympics were hosted in Montreal, and not linked to the Toronto Paralympiad.

The ranking in these table is based on information provided by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) and is consistent with IPC convention in its published medal tables, ordered first of all by the number of gold medals the athletes from a nation have won, followed by the number of silver medals and then the number of bronze medals.

Medals by Summer Games

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1968 Tel-Aviv	6	6	7	19
1972 Heidelberg	5	6	8	19
1976 Toronto (Host)	25	26	26	77
1980 Arnhem	64	35	31	130
1984 New York-Stoke Mandeville	87	82	69	238
1988 Seoul	54	42	55	151
1992 Barcelona-Madrid	29	23	29	81
1996 Atlanta	24	24	24	72
2000 Sydney	38	33	25	96
2004 Athens	28	19	25	72
2008 Beijing	19	10	21	50
2012 London	7	15	9	31
2016 Rio	8	10	11	29
Totals (13 games)	394	331	340	1065

Medals by sport

  Leading in that sport

Sport	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Athletics	198	162	166	526
Swimming	163	123	123	409
Wheelchair basketball	6	1	1	8
Cycling	5	13	13	31
Lawn bowls	4	1	2	7
Wrestling	3	7	0	10
Shooting	3	3	1	7
Archery	3	0	1	4
Goalball	2	1	3	6
Boccia	1	3	5	9
Equestrian	1	2	6	9
Table tennis	1	1	4	6
Sailing	1	1	2	4
Powerlifting	0	3	0	3
Wheelchair rugby	0	2	1	3
Football 7-a-side	0	1	0	1
Paratriathlon	0	1	0	1
Volleyball	0	1	0	1
Judo	0	0	4	4
Rowing	0	0	1	1
Totals (20 sports)	391	326	333	1050

Medals by Winter Games

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1976 Örnsköldsvik	2	0	2	4
1980 Geilo	2	3	1	6
1984 Innsbruck	2	8	4	14
1988 Innsbruck	5	3	5	13
1992 Tignes-Albertsville	2	4	6	12
1994 Lillehammer	1	2	5	8
1998 Nagano	1	9	5	15
2002 Salt Lake City	6	4	5	15
2006 Turin	5	3	5	13
2010 Vancouver (Host)	10	5	4	19
2014 Sochi	7	2	7	16
2018 Pyeongchang	8	4	16	28
Totals (12 games)	51	47	65	163

Medals by sport

  Leading in that sport

Sport	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Alpine skiing	26	37	46	109
Cross-country skiing	19	6	10	35
Wheelchair curling	3	0	1	4
Biathlon	2	2	6	10
Para ice hockey	1	2	2	5
Totals (5 sports)	51	47	65	163

• Canadian Paralympic Committee
• Canadian Paralympic Athletics Championships
• Canada at the Olympics
• Canada at the Commonwealth Games
• Canada at the Pan American Games

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• "Results". International Paralympic Committee. 2010. Retrieved 2010-03-19.