Shen Xue is a Chinese retired pair skater. With her husband Zhao Hongbo, Shen is the 2010 Olympic champion, the 2002 & 2006 Olympic bronze medalist, a three-time World champion, a three-time Four Continents Champion, and a six-time Grand Prix Final champion.
Zhang Dan is a Chinese former pair skater. With Zhang Hao, she is the 2006 Olympic silver medalist, a four-time World medalist, and a two-time Four Continents champion. Zhang Dan retired from competition on May 6, 2012.
Xue Juan is a Chinese javelin thrower.
China was the host of the 2008 Summer Paralympics, held in Beijing. China's delegation included 547 people, of whom 332 were competitors. The athletes, 197 men and 135 women, ranged in age from 15 to 51 and competed in all twenty sports. 226 of the competitors participated in the Paralympic Games for the first time. The delegation was the largest in Chinese history and at the 2008 Games. China topped the medal count at the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens. China dominated the medal count winning the most gold, silver, bronze, and total medals by a wide margin in Beijing.
Natalia Dorota Partyka is a Polish para table tennis player. Born without a right hand and forearm, she participates in competitions for able-bodied athletes as well as in competitions for athletes with disabilities. Partyka reached the last 32 of the London 2012 Olympic women's table tennis.
China competed at the 2004 Summer Paralympics, held in Athens, Greece. China topped the medal table for the first time, becoming the first Asian country to top the medal count with more gold medals, more silver medals, and more medals overall than any other nation. This was an improvement from its previous best performance, where they had ranked sixth on the medal tally at the 2000 Summer Paralympics. China also broke the record for the most gold medals, the most silvers medals, the most bronze medals and the most medal overall won by Asian countries at a single Summer Paralympics, which was previously set by South Korea in 1988 with 40 gold, 35 silver and 19 bronze.
Neslihan Kavas is a Turkish female para table tennis player of class 9 and Paralympian.
Jeremy Campbell is an American Paralympic athlete competing mainly in F44 events.
Brian Frasure is a Paralympian athlete from the United States competing mainly in category T44 sprint events.
Leo-Pekka Tähti is a Finnish athlete and Paralympian competing mainly in category T54 sprint events.
Li Duan is a Chinese Paralympic long jumper F11. He became blind after an explosion on 11 September 1996. Before that, he was a professional basketball player who played for the Chinese Basketball Association team Shenyang Army during the 1995–96 CBA season.
Menggenjimisu or, in Mongolian, Mönggönjimis is a Paralympian athlete of short stature from China competing in category F40 shot put and discus events. Menggenjimisu won a gold medal at the 2008 Summer Paralympics F40 Discus competing under the name Jimisu Menggen. At the London Paralympics she was billed as Genjimisu Meng.
Sun Hai Tao is a paralympic athlete from China competing mainly in category F12 throws events.
Paul Nitz is a Paralympic athlete from the United States competing mainly in category T52 sprint events.
Xu Qing is a Chinese Paralympic swimmer. He lost both his arms in a car accident when he was 6 and began swimming training at 7, introduced to the sport by a doctor who had himself been a para-athlete.
Xue Juan is a Chinese para table tennis player. She won two gold medals at the 2016 Summer Paralympics.
Lei Lina is a Chinese and Australian table tennis player who has a leg length difference of 6 cm. Lei has won ten medals in five Paralympic Games, including six gold and four silver medals. Representing Australia, she won two gold meda, a silver and bronze medal at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics and the 2024 Paris Paralympics.
Lü Xiaolei is a Chinese retired para table tennis player. He won three Paralympic gold medals and a silver from 2004 to 2012.
Liu Lei is a Chinese Paralympic powerlifter. He won four consecutive gold medals at the Summer Paralympics. He also won two gold medals and one silver at the World Para Powerlifting Championships.
The opening ceremony of the 2022 Winter Paralympics took place on 4 March 2022 at the Beijing National Stadium in Beijing, China. The Games were opened by Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and President of China.
