Great Britain at the 1994 Winter Paralympics
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| IPC code | GBR | ||||||||
| NPC | British Paralympic Association | ||||||||
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| Competitors | 23 in 4 sports | ||||||||
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Medals Ranked 21st |
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Great Britain competed at the 1994 Winter Paralympics held in Lillehammer, Norway. Twenty-three athletes, all of whom were men,. competed for Britain. The team won five medals at the Games, all bronze, and finished 21st in the medal table. Richard Burt won two medals in alpine skiing, as he had done in the 1992 Games. In addition to the medal performances the team had seven top ten finishes.
The following British athletes won medals at the Games. In total five medals were won, all bronze, and the team finished 21st in the medal table. The four medals won in alpine skiing are to date the last won in the sport by Britain at the Winter Paralympics. In the 'by discipline' sections below, medallists' names are in bold.
Every participant at the Paralympics has their disability grouped into one of five disability categories; amputation, the condition may be congenital or sustained through injury or illness; cerebral palsy; wheelchair athletes, there is often overlap between this and other categories; visual impairment, including blindness; Les autres, any physical disability that does not fall strictly under one of the other categories, for example dwarfism or multiple sclerosis. Each Paralympic sport then has its own classifications, dependent upon the specific physical demands of competition. Events are given a code, made of numbers and letters, describing the type of event and classification of the athletes competing. Events with "B" in the code are for athletes with visual impairment, codes LW1 to LW9 are for athletes who stand to compete and LW10 to LW12 are for athletes who compete sitting down. In biathlon events, which contain a target shooting component, blind and visually impaired athletes are able to compete through the use of acoustic signals, whose signal intensity varies dependent upon whether or not the athlete is on target.
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