|Winter Paralympic Games| |The Paralympic flame in Vancouver
during the 2010 Winter Paralympics| 1980 • 1984 • 1988 • 1992 •
1994 • 1998 • 2002 2006 • 2010 • 2014 • 2018 • 2022 |Alpine
skiing • Biathlon • Cross‑country skiing • Ice sledge hockey •
The Winter Paralympic Games is an international multi-sport
event where athletes with physical disabilities compete. This
includes athletes with mobility disabilities, amputations,
blindness, and cerebral palsy. The Winter Paralympic Games are
held every four years directly following the Winter Olympic
Games. The Winter Paralympics are also hosted by the city that
hosted the Winter Olympics. The International Paralympic
Committee (IPC) oversees the Winter Paralympics. Medals are
awarded in each event: with gold medals for first place, silver
for second and bronze for third, following the tradition that
the Olympic Games started in 1904. The Winter Paralympics began
in 1976 in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden. Those Games were the first
Paralympics (Summer or Winter) that featur