Finland's 'awakening' to the Paralympics came in 1976, both at the inaugural Winter Games (where it finished third on the medal chart), and at the Summer Games, where it won fifty medals - forty-seven more than it had at the previous summer edition. The country performed strongly throughout the 1980s, then began to decline, in terms of both medal hauls and ranking. In 2004, Finns won only eight medals - the first time since 1972 that they had won fewer than ten. At the Winter Games, Finland was initially a major power, ranking in the top 3 until 1988, and in the top 10 until 2002, despite a gradual yet steady decline. At the 2006 Winter Games, Finland failed to win a single medal; the country won only a silver and a bronze in 2010.[2]
finland, paralympics, finland, participated, inaugural, paralympic, games, 1960, rome, with, single, representative, swimmer, tauno, valkama, gold, sole, event, crawl, country, absent, from, 1964, games, returned, 1968, participated, every, subsequent, edition. Finland participated in the inaugural Paralympic Games in 1960 in Rome with a single representative swimmer Tauno Valkama who won gold in his sole event the 50m crawl The country was absent from the 1964 Games but returned in 1968 and has participated in every subsequent edition of the Summer Paralympics Finland has also taken part in every edition of the Winter Paralympics from the first in 1976 1 Finland at theParalympicsIPC codeFINNPCFinnish Paralympic CommitteeWebsitewww wbr paralympia wbr fiMedalsRanked 17thGold 153 Silver 148 Bronze 166 Total 467Summer appearances19601964196819721976198019841988199219962000200420082012201620202024Winter appearances1976198019841988199219941998200220062010201420182022Finland s awakening to the Paralympics came in 1976 both at the inaugural Winter Games where it finished third on the medal chart and at the Summer Games where it won fifty medals forty seven more than it had at the previous summer edition The country performed strongly throughout the 1980s then began to decline in terms of both medal hauls and ranking In 2004 Finns won only eight medals the first time since 1972 that they had won fewer than ten At the Winter Games Finland was initially a major power ranking in the top 3 until 1988 and in the top 10 until 2002 despite a gradual yet steady decline At the 2006 Winter Games Finland failed to win a single medal the country won only a silver and a bronze in 2010 2 Contents 1 Medals 1 1 Summer Paralympics 1 2 Winter Paralympics 2 See also 3 ReferencesMedals editSee also All time Paralympic Games medal table Summer Paralympics edit Event Gold Silver Bronze Total Ranking1960 Summer Paralympics 1 0 0 1 15th1964 Summer Paralympics did not participate1968 Summer Paralympics 0 0 0 0 1972 Summer Paralympics 0 2 1 3 28th1976 Summer Paralympics 12 20 18 50 13th1980 Summer Paralympics 8 19 13 40 17th1984 Summer Paralympics 19 13 27 59 15th1988 Summer Paralympics 11 23 16 50 22nd1992 Summer Paralympics 8 6 11 25 17th1996 Summer Paralympics 4 5 4 13 30th2000 Summer Paralympics 1 3 6 10 43rd2004 Summer Paralympics 4 1 3 8 33rd2008 Summer Paralympics 2 2 2 6 40th2012 Summer Paralympics 4 1 1 6 27th2016 Summer Paralympics 1 1 1 3 56th2020 Summer Paralympics 1 3 1 5 52ndTotal 76 99 104 279 21 Winter Paralympics edit Event Gold Silver Bronze Total Ranking1976 Winter Paralympics 8 7 7 22 3rd1980 Winter Paralympics 16 7 12 35 2nd1984 Winter Paralympics 19 9 6 34 2nd1988 Winter Paralympics 9 8 8 25 4th1992 Winter Paralympics 7 3 4 14 5th1994 Winter Paralympics 6 7 12 25 7th1998 Winter Paralympics 7 5 7 19 9th2002 Winter Paralympics 4 1 3 8 9th2006 Winter Paralympics 0 0 0 0 2010 Winter Paralympics 0 1 1 2 17th2014 Winter Paralympics 0 1 0 1 16th2018 Winter Paralympics 1 0 2 3 16th2022 Winter Paralympics 2 2 0 4 13thTotal 79 51 62 192 6See also editFinland at the OlympicsReferences edit Finland at the Paralympics International Paralympic Committee Finland at the Paralympics International Paralympic Committee nbsp This article summarising a nation s participation in the Paralympic Games is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Finland at the Paralympics amp oldid 1121428982, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
