2006 Winter Paralympics

Multi-parasport event in Turin, Italy February 2020 2006 Winter Paralympics Paralympics Torino 2006 logo.svg 180 Turin, Italy Passion wins any challengeParalimpiadi, dieci giorni di sport e festa La Stampa 2006 https://www.lastampa.it/torino/2006/03/07/news/paralimpiadi-dieci-giorni-di-sport-e-festa-1.37158795/ 2025-01-06(Italian: La passione vince ogni sfida) 39 486 58 in 4 sports 10 March 2006 19 March 2006 President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi IPC President Philip Craven Silvia BattaglioAroldo Ruschioni Stadio Olimpico Salt Lake 2002 Vancouver 2010 Athens 2004 Beijing 2008 The 2006 Winter Paralympic Games (it 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. 20 years later, Italy hosted the Winter Paralympics again in 2026, which were held in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo. Medal count 2006 Winter Paralympics medal table The top 10 NPCs by number of gold medals are listed below. The host nation (Italy) is highlighted. FlagIPC 2006 Winter 13 13 7 8 5 5 7 9 9 7 2 6 7 2 3 5 3 5 3 4 7 2 5 2 2 2 4 yes 2 0 0 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.Torino 2006 International Paralympic Committee 2008 http://www.paralympic.org/Paralympic_Games/Past_Games/Torino_2006/index.html 2008-08-06 class=skin-invert|20px Alpine skiing 24 No class=skin-invert|20px Ice sledge hockey 1 No Nordic skiing class=skin-invert|20px Biathlon 12 No class=skin-invert|20px Cross-country skiing 20 No 20px Wheelchair curling 1 No 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 Piazza 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. Torch relay 2006 Winter Paralympics torch relay The same torch design used for the Olympics was used for the Paralympic Games. On March 5, 2006, the torch began a 10-day journey between Rome, Torino and other cities and mountains.https://olympics.com/ioc/news/torino-2006-the-paralympic-flame-is-lit-in-rome TORINO 2006: The Paralympic Flame Is Lit In Rome Olympic.org 2006-03-05 2025-01-06 live https://web.archive.org/web/20240816060620/https://olympics.com/ioc/news/torino-2006-the-paralympic-flame-is-lit-in-rome 2024-08-16 The Paralympic flame has been lit under the Arch of Constantine on the front of the Coliseum in Rome, Italy. The flame was ignited at the coming together of three symbolic figures: a winner at the Rome 1960 Summer Paralympic Games, a current athlete with a disability and a young person with a disability. From the lighting in Rome, the flame was transmitted by satellite to Turin, where the then Mayor of Turin, Sergio Chiamparino, received it at the Piazza della Repubblica. From there, the flame was carried along the Via Milano to the Town Hall by the first four torchbearers and the fire burned at the Town Hall - except for two days on Monte Rosa - until 8 March, when started its journey through the city. Three days before the opening ceremonies, on 5 and 6 March, the Paralympic flame took a leg through the landscape of the Province of Vercelli and went up to the Margherita Hut at the peak of Monte Rosa, when started his way back to Turin. The route, organised together with local groups and authorities, included a parade through the streets of Alagna Valsesia by a group of athletes with a disability. Then a leg with another group of athletes carried the fire to the Alagna-Pianalunga gondola and the continued the way to towards Passo dei Salati. At the next day the torchbearers followed a trail for about an hour and was taken by helicopter to italian side of the Signalkuppe, reaching in a single group of athletes, the Margherita Hut. A special torch was used to burn the flame on the peak, and this group of athletes donate a symbolic book to the highest library in Europe, situated in the 4.554 meter refuge. At the end of the celebrations, the guides down the mountain with the flame. On March 8, the torch arrived again in the Torino City Hall and started their way before arriving in the Stadio Olimpico Grande Torino during the Opening Ceremonies.https://www.paralympicheritage.org.uk/torino-2006-paralympic-winter-games Torino 2006 Paralympic Winter Games 2016-01-19 2025-01-06 Calendar |- |bgcolor=#00cc33|   ●   ||Opening ceremony|| bgcolor=#3399ff|   ●   ||Event competitions || bgcolor=#ffcc00|   ●   ||Event finals||bgcolor=#ee3333|   ●   ||Closing ceremony |- |- ! March ! 10th ! 11th ! 12th ! 13th ! 14th ! 15th ! 16th ! 17th ! 18th ! 19th |- |Ceremonies |bgcolor=#00cc33 align=center|   ●    |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |bgcolor=#ee3333 align=center|   ●    |- |Alpine Skiing |  |bgcolor=#ffcc00|   2    |bgcolor=#ffcc00|   4    |bgcolor=#ffcc00|   2    |bgcolor=#ffcc00|   4    |  |bgcolor=#ffcc00|   2    |bgcolor=#ffcc00|   4    |bgcolor=#ffcc00|   2    |bgcolor=#ffcc00|   4    |- |Biathlon |  |bgcolor=#ffcc00|   6    |  |  |bgcolor=#ffcc00|   6    |  |  |  |  |  |- |Cross-country skiing |  |  |bgcolor=#ffcc00|   6    |  |  |bgcolor=#ffcc00|   6    |  |bgcolor=#ffcc00|   2    |bgcolor=#ffcc00|   2    |bgcolor=#ffcc00|   4    |- |Ice sledge hockey |  |bgcolor=#3399ff|   ●    |bgcolor=#3399ff|   ●    |  |bgcolor=#3399ff|   ●    |bgcolor=#3399ff|   ●    |bgcolor=#3399ff|   ●    |bgcolor=#3399ff|   ●    |bgcolor=#ffcc00|   1    |  |- |Wheelchair curling |  |  |bgcolor=#3399ff|   ●    |bgcolor=#3399ff|   ●    |bgcolor=#3399ff|   ●    |bgcolor=#3399ff|   ●    |bgcolor=#3399ff|   ●    |bgcolor=#3399ff|   ●    |bgcolor=#ffcc00|   1    |  |- Participating National Paralympic Committees (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 and paraded during the Opening Ceremonies, 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.Paralympic Games results and delegations database, International Paralympic Committee"Torino 2006", International Paralympic Committee 22em AND 2006 Winter (2) ARM 2006 Winter (2) AUS 2006 Winter (10) AUT 2006 Winter (25) BLR 2006 Winter (6) BEL 2006 Winter (1) BUL 2006 Winter (3) CAN 2006 Winter (35) CHI 2006 Winter (2) CHN 2006 Winter (8) CRO 2006 Winter (1) CZE 2006 Winter (5) DEN 2006 Winter (6) FIN 2006 Winter (7) FRA 2006 Winter (19) GER 2006 Winter (35) GBR 2006 Winter (20) HUN 2006 Winter (2) IRI 2006 Winter (1) ITA 2006 Winter (39) (Host) JPN 2006 Winter (40) KAZ 2006 Winter (2) KOR 2006 Winter (3) LAT 2006 Winter (1) MEX 2006 Winter (1) MGL 2006 Winter (1) NZL 2006 Winter (2) NOR 2006 Winter (29) POL 2006 Winter (11) RUS 2006 Winter (29) SVK 2006 Winter (17) SLO 2006 Winter (1) RSA 2006 Winter (1) ESP 2006 Winter (9) SWE 2006 Winter (19) SUI 2006 Winter (21) UKR 2006 Winter (12) USA 2006 Winter (56) 300px|thumb|right|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.http://ftp.torino2006.it/uploads/pdf/dossier_paralimpiadi_eng.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20051211055834/http://ftp.torino2006.it/uploads/pdf/dossier_paralimpiadi_eng.pdf dead 2005-12-11 Torino 2006 Paralympic Bid Dossier 2006-12-12 2020-02-27 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 decided to separate the organization of the two events, separating its Paralympic department into another Organizing Committee (ComParTo) to facilitate the management, organization and training of resources. In the end, ComParTo managed to raise an estimated amount of USD40 million. Despite this, the entire organization of both events was carried out in a unified manner.http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/10-olympic-games-bankrupted-host-countries9.htm 10 Olympic Games That Nearly Bankrupted Their Host Countries 2014-01-19 2016-08-15 See also Sports 2006 Winter Olympics References External links Official website of Torino Paralympics 2006 → Archive copy at the Wayback Machine Torino 2006 Paralympic Games (English) → Archive copy at the Wayback Machine ParalympicSport.TV International Paralympic Committee Winter Paralympics Turin Salt Lake City Vancouver IX Paralympic Winter Games (2006) Category:Winter Paralympic Games by year Category:2006 in disability sport Category:2006 in multi-sport events Category:2006 in Italian sport Category:Sports competitions in Turin Category:March 2006 sports events in Europe Category:Winter sports competitions in Italy Category:2000s in Turin Category:Parasports in Italy Category:Olympic Games in Italy Category:2006 in international sports