| Ice sledge speed racing at the Winter Paralympics | |
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| Events | 16 (men: 8; women: 8) |
| Games | |
Ice sledge speed racing was contested at the Winter Paralympic Games from the second Winter Games in 1980, to the 1988 Winter Games, and then at the 1994 and 1998 Winter Games.
The events were held indoors for the first time at the 1994 Paralympics in Lillehammer. [1]
| Event | Class | 76 | 80 | 84 | 88 | 92 | 94 | 98 | 02 | 06 | 10 | Years |
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| 1500 m men | Sitting | •• | • | • | • | •• | 5 | |||||
| 1000 m men | Sitting | • | • | • | •• | 4 | ||||||
| 700 m men | Sitting | • | • | 2 | ||||||||
| 500 m men | Sitting | ••• | •• | •• | • | •• | 5 | |||||
| 300 m men | Sitting | • | • | 2 | ||||||||
| 100 m men | Sitting | ••• | •• | •• | • | •• | 5 | |||||
| 1500 m women | Sitting | •• | 1 | |||||||||
| 1000 m women | Sitting | • | • | • | •• | 4 | ||||||
| 800 m women | Sitting | •• | 1 | |||||||||
| 700 m women | Sitting | •• | • | • | 3 | |||||||
| 500 m women | Sitting | •• | •• | • | • | •• | 5 | |||||
| 300 m women | Sitting | • | 1 | |||||||||
| 100 m women | Sitting | •• | •• | • | • | •• | 5 | |||||
| Total Events | 14 | 16 | 12 | 8 | 16 | |||||||
[3] [4] NPCs in italics no longer compete at the Winter Paralympics
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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| 1 |  Norway (NOR) | 48 | 51 | 42 | 141 |
| 2 |  Japan (JPN) | 9 | 12 | 11 | 32 |
| 3 |  Finland (FIN) | 9 | 0 | 3 | 12 |
| 4 |  Austria (AUT) | 4 | 3 | 3 | 10 |
| 5 |  Great Britain (GBR) | 0 | 4 | 4 | 8 |
| 6 |  Sweden (SWE) | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 7 |  Germany (GER) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (7 entries) | 70 | 70 | 67 | 207 | |
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