Finland at the Paralympics

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 the Paralympics
IPC code	FIN
NPC	Finnish Paralympic Committee
Website	www.paralympia.fi
Medals	Gold 155 Silver 151 Bronze 169 Total 475
Summer appearances
1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016 2020 2024
Winter appearances
1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022

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]

Medals

See also: All-time Paralympic Games medal table

Summer Paralympics Event Gold Silver Bronze Total Ranking 1960 Summer Paralympics 1 0 0 1 15th 1964 Summer Paralympics did not participate 1968 Summer Paralympics 0 0 0 0 - 1972 Summer Paralympics 0 2 1 3 28th 1976 Summer Paralympics 12 20 18 50 13th 1980 Summer Paralympics 8 19 13 40 17th 1984 Summer Paralympics 19 13 27 59 15th 1988 Summer Paralympics 11 23 16 50 22nd 1992 Summer Paralympics 8 6 11 25 17th 1996 Summer Paralympics 4 5 4 13 30th 2000 Summer Paralympics 1 3 6 10 43rd 2004 Summer Paralympics 4 1 3 8 33rd 2008 Summer Paralympics 2 2 2 6 40th 2012 Summer Paralympics 4 1 1 6 27th 2016 Summer Paralympics 1 1 1 3 56th 2020 Summer Paralympics 1 3 1 5 52nd 2024 Summer Paralympics 0 1 3 4 71st Total 76 100 107 283 21

Winter Paralympics Event Gold Silver Bronze Total Ranking 1976 Winter Paralympics 8 7 7 22 3rd 1980 Winter Paralympics 16 7 12 35 2nd 1984 Winter Paralympics 19 9 6 34 2nd 1988 Winter Paralympics 9 8 8 25 4th 1992 Winter Paralympics 7 3 4 14 5th 1994 Winter Paralympics 6 7 12 25 7th 1998 Winter Paralympics 7 5 7 19 9th 2002 Winter Paralympics 4 1 3 8 9th 2006 Winter Paralympics 0 0 0 0 - 2010 Winter Paralympics 0 1 1 2 17th 2014 Winter Paralympics 0 1 0 1 16th 2018 Winter Paralympics 1 0 2 3 16th 2022 Winter Paralympics 2 2 0 4 13th Total 79 51 62 192 6

Multi-medalists

Finnish athletes who have won at least three gold medals or five or more medals of any colour.

No.	Athlete	Sport	Years	Games	Gender	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Jouko Grip	Athletics  Cross-country skiing	1980-2002	9	M	12	5	0	17
2	Tanja Kari	Athletics  Cross-country skiing	1988-1994	4	F	6	2	0	8
3	Leo-Pekka Tahti	Athletics	2004-2024	6	M	5	1	2	8
4	Lahja Hamalainen	Ice sledge speed racing	1980-1984	2	F	4	0	3	7
5	Matti Launonen	Athletics  Swimming  Table tennis	1972-2004	8	M	2	7	4	13
6	Toni Piispanen	Athletics	2012, 2020-2024	3	M	2	2	1	5

See also

• Finland at the Olympics

References

1. Finland at the Paralympics, International Paralympic Committee
2. Finland at the Paralympics, International Paralympic Committee