Great Britain at the 1992 Winter Paralympics
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| IPC code | GBR | ||||||||
| NPC | British Paralympic Association | ||||||||
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| Competitors | 15 in 3 sports | ||||||||
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Medals Ranked 15th |
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Great Britain competed at the 1992 Winter Paralympics held in Tignes and Albertville, France, the first Winter Paralympics to be celebrated concurrently with the Winter Olympic Games.
The British team entered athletes in all three disciplines contested at the Games; eleven in alpine skiing, four in biathlon and three in cross-country skiing. Five medals were won by British athletes, one silver and four bronze, meaning Britain placed fifteenth in the medal table. This remains Great Britain's second best Winter Paralympic medal total after the 1984 Winter Paralympics in Innsbruck, Austria, where the team won ten medals. All five medals were won in alpine skiing events, two by Richard Burt and three by . In addition to the medal performances the team had fourteen top ten finishes. The achievements of the British Paralympic team at the 1992 Winter Games helped to raise awareness of sports for disabled athletes.
The following British athletes won medals at the Games. In total five medals were won, all in alpine skiing, and the team finished fifteenth in the medal table. This was the best medal total by Great Britain at a Winter Paralympics since 1984 in Innsbruck. In the 'by discipline' sections below, medallists' names are in bold.
The team was made up of athletes from the whole United Kingdom; athletes from Northern Ireland, who could later elect to hold Irish citizenship under the pre-1999 article 2 of the Irish constitution, were only eligible to represent Great Britain at this time. However no Northern Irish athletes took part in the Winter Paralympics until 2010 in Vancouver.
These were the first Games, along with the Summer Games in Barcelona, to be coordinated by the British Paralympic Association. Funding for elite training programmes came from the Paralympics Trust, which was set up with a £500,000 government grant.
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