2008 Summer Paralympics medal table

List of medals won by Paralympic delegations 2008 Summer Paralympics medals Beijing, CHN Most total medals CHN 2008 Summer 211 Most gold medals CHN 2008 Summer 89 Medalling NPCs 76 2004 Paralympics medal tables 2012 thumb|right|alt=Six medals are shown to display the front and back of each. From left to right, silver, gold and bronze.|The front and reverse of each medal from the 2008 Summer Paralympics The medal table of the 2008 Summer Paralympics ranks the participating National Paralympic Committees (NPCs) by the number of gold medals won by their athletes during the competition. The 2008 Paralympics was the thirteenth Games to be held, a quadrennial competition open to athletes with physical and intellectual disabilities. The games were held in Beijing, People's Republic of China, from 6 September to 17 September 2008.Beijing 2008 http://www.paralympic.org/paralympic-games/beijing-2008 Paralympic.org 31 July 2012 7 May 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20130507095929/http://paralympic.org/paralympic-games/beijing-2008 live Some 3,951 athletes from 146 NPCs participated in 472 events in 20 sports, with Burundi, Gabon, Georgia, Haiti and Montenegro making their Paralympic debuts. This set new records for both the number of NPCs competing and the number of athletes overall. The design of the medals was similar to those awarded in the 2008 Summer Olympics,Design Concept for the Medals of the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games http://en.paralympic.beijing2008.cn/graphic/n214342419.shtml 1 August 2012 Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games dead https://web.archive.org/web/20120825073417/http://en.paralympic.beijing2008.cn/graphic/n214342419.shtml 25 August 2012 featuring jade discs inserted into the medals themselves, with different color discs included for the three types of medals. A total of 21 designs were submitted from designers from the China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Tsinghua University and the China Banknote Printing and Minting Corporation, with the final design approved in the autumn of 2007.Medals unveiled for Paralympic Games of 2008 http://en.beijing2008.cn/paralympic/news/news/n214196157.shtml 1 August 2012 Beijing 2008 14 November 2007 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20110221120204/http://en.beijing2008.cn/paralympic/news/news/n214196157.shtml 21 February 2011 Athletes from a record 76 NPCs won medals, leaving 70 NPCs without a medal.Day 12: China biggest winner at Paralympics Xinhua/People's Daily http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90779/90867/6501446.html 17 September 2008 31 July 2012 5 June 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20110605191040/http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90779/90867/6501446.html live Athletes from Croatia,Horvat Karmen Best Croatian Paralympic Athletes Of 2008 http://dalje.com/en-sports/photo--best-croatian-paralympic-athletes-of-2008/231520 31 July 2012 Dalje.com 6 February 2009 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20121113024432/http://dalje.com/en-sports/photo--best-croatian-paralympic-athletes-of-2008/231520 13 November 2012 Mongolia,Dambadondog wins Mongolia's first ever Paralympic medal http://en.paralympic.beijing2008.cn/news/sports/archery/n214601931.shtml 31 July 2012 Beijing 2008 14 September 2008 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20090422182118/http://en.paralympic.beijing2008.cn/news/sports/archery/n214601931.shtml 22 April 2009 Saudi Arabia,Osamah wins Saudi Arabia's first gold http://en.paralympic.beijing2008.cn/news/sports/athletics/n214591867.shtml 31 July 2012 Beijing 2008 8 September 2008 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20090207035224/http://en.paralympic.beijing2008.cn/news/sports/athletics/n214591867.shtml 7 February 2009 SingaporeYip's year: A sweet sixteen http://en.paralympic.beijing2008.cn/news/special/features/n214606123.shtml 31 July 2012 Beijing 2008 17 September 2008 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20120416101250/http://en.paralympic.beijing2008.cn/news/special/features/n214606123.shtml 16 April 2012 and Venezuela won their first ever gold medals.Venezuela sports minister hails Beijing Paralympics as "perfect" http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/paralympics/2008-09/15/content_7028462.htm 31 July 2012 China Daily 15 September 2008 11 July 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20100711061522/http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/paralympics/2008-09/15/content_7028462.htm live Host China topped the medal table with 211 medals in total, including 89 gold medals, while Great Britain placed second with 102 medals, including 42 golds.2008 Medal Tally http://www.abc.net.au/paralympics/2008/results/medaltally/ 1 August 2012 ABC https://web.archive.org/web/20081026061334/http://www.abc.net.au/paralympics/2008/results/medaltally/ 2008-10-26 dead Canadian wheelchair racer Chantal Petitclerc, S9 swimmers Natalie du Toit and Matthew Cowdrey, from South Africa and Australia respectively, each won five gold medals at the 2008 Games. Brazilian S5 swimmer Daniel Dias won the most individual medals overall,Daniel Dias http://www.laureus.com/content/daniel-dias 31 July 2012 Laureus 28 October 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20121028213612/http://www.laureus.com/content/daniel-dias live a total of nine medals, comprising four golds, four silvers and a bronze. Medal table Olympic medal table thumb|right|alt=Two men wearing yellow outfits standing next to a woman with medals around her neck.|Daniel Dias (center left), who won nine medals overall at the 2008 Games, with President of Brazil Dilma Rousseff thumb|right|upright|alt=A woman with dark hair wearing a black outfit against a black background, she holds a microphone.|Canadian wheelchair racer Chantal Petitclerc won five gold medals at the 2008 Games. thumb|right|upright|alt=A disabled Caucasian sprinter running on running blades, he wears the green and yellow of South Africa.|Sprinter Oscar Pistorius won three gold medals for South Africa at the 2008 Paralympics.Paralympics 100m: Oscar Pistorius says past experience vital https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/disability-sport/18146074 31 July 2012 BBC Sport BBC 21 May 2012 thumb|right|upright|alt=A man wearing sunglasses and a white and blue tracksuit with medals around his neck.|British para-dressage rider Lee Pearson wearing his medals from the 2008 Paralympics The ranking in this table is based on information provided by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) and is consistent with IPC convention in its published medal tables. By default, the table is ordered by the number of gold medals the athletes from a nation have won (in this context, a "nation" is an entity represented by a National Paralympic Committee). The number of silver medals is next considered, followed by the number of bronze medals. If nations remain tied, they are ranked equally and listed alphabetically by IPC country code.Beijing 2008 https://paralympics.org.nz/games/previous-summer-games/beijing-2008/ Paralympics New Zealand 7 September 2024 In the judo competition, an additional thirteen bronze medals were awards as the losing competitors in both of the semi-finals were each awarded a medal rather than having a playoff bout to decide the medallist.IPC Historical Results Database http://www.paralympic.org/Athletes/Results Paralympic.org 1 August 2012 28 September 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20230928102524/https://www.paralympic.org/Athletes/Results live The swimming also saw multiple instances of the same medals being awarded, in the women's 100m backstroke S10, both Sophie Pascoe and Shireen Sapiro swam a dead heat in the final and were both awarded a gold medal, resulting in no silver medal being given that for event. In both the women's 400, freestyle S13 and the men's 100m butterfly S11, two bronze medals were awarded each as two swimmers set the same time in third place. 2008 Summer Paralympics medal tableFinal medals table https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/disability_sport/7592388.stm BBC Sport 17 September 2008 4 September 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20100423050200/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/other_sports/disability_sport/7592388.stm 23 April 2010 live Host nation (China) 10 Remaining NPCs flagIPCteam 2008 Summer NPC 89 70 52 yes 42 29 31 36 35 28 24 18 32 23 29 27 21 3 6 19 10 21 18 23 22 16 14 17 15 21 22 14 25 20 12 21 19 10 8 13 10 3 7 9 9 3 6 3 18 5 14 8 5 12 13 5 10 7 5 9 10 5 7 1 5 6 3 5 3 6 5 3 4 5 3 4 5 3 3 5 3 1 4 7 7 4 4 4 4 4 1 4 3 8 4 1 2 4 1 1 3 2 6 3 2 4 3 1 1 3 1 0 2 3 5 2 3 1 2 2 2 1 5 7 1 4 2 1 3 3 1 2 1 1 2 0 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 1 0 1 0 5 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 5 1 0 3 0 0 2 2 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 1 5 0 1 2 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 Changes in medal standings + List of changes in medal standingsRuling date Sport Event NPC Gold Silver Bronze TotalNotes 14 September 2008 Athletics Women's discus throw F37–38 GBR 2008 Summer −1 −1On 14 September 2008, Rebecca Chin was stripped of the silver medal she had won in the F37-38 discus competition. The IPC overruled a change in her classification made earlier in the month, making her ineligible to have won the medal as she was reclassified as a F44 competitor.Davies Gareth A Rebecca Chin stripped of Paralympic silver by 'failing' system https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/paralympic-sport/2959412/Chin-stripped-of-silver-by-failing-system-Paralympics.html 1 August 2012 Daily Telegraph 15 September 2008 22 July 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20130722164920/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/paralympic-sport/2959412/Chin-stripped-of-silver-by-failing-system-Paralympics.html live AUS 2008 Summer +1 −1 CHN 2008 Summer +1 +1 See also 2008 Summer Olympics medal table References 30em External links International Paralympic Committee https://web.archive.org/web/20030218004422/http://www.paralympic.org/ 2003-02-18 Official Website of the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games Medal table Category:Summer Paralympics medal tables