In just a few hours the events will begin Paris Paralympic Games 2024, the seventeenth edition of this event that follows the Olympic Games and will last for twelve days of competition in which more than 4,400 athletes will compete in 22 sports.
Since the first Paralympic Games were held in Rome in 1960, 116 countries have managed to get on the podium to collect a medal. Which are the most successful and where does Spain stand on the podium?
Historical achievements of the Paralympic Games
- USA: 808 gold medals, 763 silver and 739 bronze: 2283 medals in total.
- United Kingdom: 562 gold medals, 545 silver medals and 535 bronze medals: 1642 medals in total.
- Canada: 445 gold medals, 373 silver and 402 bronze: 1220 medals in total.
- China: 434 gold medals, 449 silver and 250 bronze: 1023 medals in total.
- Australia: 380 gold medals, 399 silver medals and 380 bronze medals: 1159 medals in total.
- France: 338 gold medals, 342 silver medals and 330 bronze medals: 1010 medals in total.
- Germany: 281 gold medals, 333 silver and 306 bronze: 930 medals in total.
- Netherlands: 260 gold medals, 228 silver and 202 bronze: 690 medals in total.
- Poland: 254 gold medals, 241 silver and 196 bronze: 691 medals in total.
- Spain: 232 gold medals, 252 silver medals and 246 bronze medals: 730 medals in total.
