2006 Winter Paralympics

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IX Paralympic Winter Games
Paralympics Torino 2006 logo.svg
Location Turin, Italy
MottoPassion lives here
(Italian: La passione vive qui)
Nations 39
Athletes486
Events58 in 4 sports
Opening10 March
Closing19 March
Opened by
Cauldron
Silvia Battaglio
Aroldo Ruschioni
Stadium Stadio Olimpico
Winter

The 2006 Winter Paralympic Games (Italian : Giochi paralimpici invernali del 2006), the ninth Paralympic Winter Games, took place in Turin, Italy from 10 to 19 March 2006. These were the first Winter Paralympic Games to be held in Italy. They were also the first Paralympics to use the new Paralympics logo.

Contents

Italy will host the Winter Paralympics again in 2026, scheduled to be held in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo.

Medal count

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

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 1313733
2Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 85518
3Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 79925
4Flag of France.svg  France 72615
5Flag of the United States.svg  United States 72312
6Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 53513
7Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 34714
8Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 2529
9Flag of Italy (2003-2006).svg  Italy*2248
10Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 2002
Totals (10 entries)564548149

Sports

The Games featured 58 medal events in five disciplines of four sports. As with other Paralympic Games, medals are awarded for each classification within each event. The sport of wheelchair curling made its Paralympic debut at these games. [1]

Venues

Five competition venues were used during the Winter Paralympics. They all hosted competitions during the 2006 Winter Olympics.

The Opening ceremonies were held at Stadio Olimpico Grande Torino and the closing and the awarding ceremonies for the snow events were also held in Turin were held at the Medals Plaza at Piaza Castello.

Alpine skiing events were held at Sestriere. Cross-country skiing and biathlon events were held shared by the Cesana San Sicario complex. All the skiing athletes were accommodated in the Mountain Paralympic Village in Sestriere.

Ice sledge hockey was held in Torino Esposizioni and wheelchair curling was held in Pinerolo Palaghiaccio. These athletes were accommodated in the Main Paralympic Village in Turin.

Calendar

      Opening ceremony      Event competitions      Event finals      Closing ceremony
March10th11th12th13th14th15th16th17th18th19th
Ceremonies                    
Alpine Skiing     2      4      2      4       2      4      2      4   
Biathlon     6        6        
Cross-country skiing      6        6       2      2      4   
Ice sledge hockey                                          1    
Wheelchair curling                                          1    

Participating National Paralympic Committes (NPC)s

Thirty-nine National Paralympic Committees (NPCs) classified athletes to compete at the 2006 Winter Paralympics. This was an increase of three from the 36 represented at the 2002 Winter Paralympics. The number in parentheses indicates the number of participants from each NPC.

Note that, although Greece was scheduled to compete, no Greek athlete took part in any event; the International Paralympic Committee does not list Greece as having entered any athlete in the Games, and considers that there were thirty-eight NPCs at the Games, rather than thirty-nine. [2] [3]

Participating nations. Green: fewer than 5 athletes; blue: 5-9; orange: 10-19; red: 20 or more. 2006 Winter paralympics team numbers.png
Participating nations. Green: fewer than 5 athletes; blue: 5–9; orange: 10–19; red: 20 or more.

A total of 486 athletes participated in the Games, 385 male and 101 female. This is an increase from the 430 athletes participated in 2002. Despite overall increase of delegates and athletes, the following nations who participated in the 2002 Winter Paralympics did not send athletes to Turin.

Mexico was the only country who had sent an athlete to the Winter Paralympics but not the Olympics.

Other information

These are the second Paralympic Games to be held in Italy, which hosted the first Summer Paralympics in Rome in 1960. [4]

These are the first Paralympic Games to feature a live webcast of events, hosted by ParalympicSport.TV.

The Games mascot is Aster, a star-shaped snowflake similar in design and was the younger brother to the Olympic mascots Neve and Gliz.

Unable to fund the hosting themselves, the Olympic organizing committee TOROC sold the rights off to a company for an estimated US$40 million [5]

See also

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