Para ice hockey at the Winter Paralympics

Para ice hockey at the Winter Paralympics has been held since the 1994 Winter Paralympics, when it was known as ice sledge hockey (the sport was renamed by the International Paralympic Committee in 2016).[1][2]

Para ice hockey at the Winter Paralympics
Governing bodyIPC
Events1 (mixed)
Games

  • Medalists

The tournament was to change from a men's to a mixed tournament for the 2010 Paralympic Games in Vancouver, allowing the teams to include female players,[3] but no women participated in the 2010 tournament.[4]

Medalists

Open
Games Gold Silver Bronze
1994 Lillehammer Sweden Norway Canada
1998 Nagano Norway Canada Sweden
2002 Salt Lake City United States Norway Sweden
2006 Turin Canada Norway United States
2010 Vancouver United States Japan Norway
2014 Sochi United States Russia Canada
2018 Pyeongchang United States Canada South Korea
2022 Beijing United States Canada China

Tournaments

Year Host Gold medal game Bronze medal game
Gold medalist Score Silver medalist Bronze medalist Score Fourth place
1994
details
Lillehammer
Sweden
1–0
OT

Norway

Canada
2–0
Great Britain
1998
details
Nagano
Norway
2–0
Canada

Sweden
10–1
Estonia
2002
details
Salt Lake City
United States
4–3
GWS

Norway

Sweden
2–1
GWS

Canada
2006
details
Torino
Canada
3–0
Norway

United States
4–3
Germany
2010
details
Vancouver
United States
2–0
Japan

Norway
2–1
Canada
2014
details
Sochi
United States
1–0
Russia

Canada
3–0
Norway
2018
details
Peyongchang
United States
2–1
OT

Canada

South Korea
1–0
Italy
2022
details
Beijing
United States
5–0
Canada

China
4–0
South Korea

Medal table

This is the all time medal count won in Para ice hockey at the Winter Paralympics.

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 United States5016
2 Canada1326
3 Norway1315
4 Sweden1023
5 Japan0101
 Russia0101
7 China0011
 South Korea0011
Totals (8 entries)88824

Participating nations

Key
The team did not participate that year.
References:[5]
Nation 94
98
02
06
10
14
18
22
Total
 Canada (CAN)324143228
 China (CHN)31
 Czech Republic (CZE)55664
 Estonia (EST)5463
 Germany (GER)41
 Great Britain (GBR)4773
 Italy (ITA)876455
 Japan (JPN)555285
 Norway (NOR)2122345-7
 Russia (RUS)21
 RPC (RPC)[lower-alpha 1]DQ0
 Slovakia (SVK)71
 South Korea (KOR)67344
 Sweden (SWE)13368877
 United States (USA)61311117
Total teams57688887

See also

Notes

  1. Russia and Belarus were banned from competing in the Paralympics after the countries' invasion of Ukraine.[6]

References

  1. "Para ice hockey - Fast Facts". paralympic.org. International Paralympic Committee. Archived from the original on August 8, 2019. Para ice hockey was formerly known as ice sledge hockey until it was rebranded in 2016.
  2. "Our Sport". paraicehockey.co.uk. British Para Ice Hockey Association. Archived from the original on August 5, 2020. In 2016, the sport was renamed and rebranded from IPC Ice Sledge Hockey to Para Ice Hockey.
  3. Sledge Hockey Teams Can Add Women For 2010 Games, The Sports Network, April 3, 2009
  4. Vancouver 2010 Paralympic Winter Games - Ice Sledge Hockey, International Paralympic Committee (IPC)
  5. Participation and Medallist Reports, International Paralympic Committee (IPC)
  6. "IPC to decline athlete entries from RPC and NPC Belarus for Beijing 2022". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 3 March 2022.
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