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table of the

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ranks the participating

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s (NPCs) by the number of gold medals won by their athletes during the competition. The 2016 Paralympics was the fifteenth

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to be held, a quadrennial competition open to athletes with

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and

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. The games were held in

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from 7 September to 18 September. Athletes from 63 NPCs won at least one gold medal, with a total of 83 having won at least one medal of any colour. Athletes from

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, and

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won their first Paralympic medals. Of those nations, the

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had never won an Olympic medal.

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won their first medals at the Summer Paralympics, having previously won a silver medal at the Winter Paralympic Games. Georgia, Kazakhstan,

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, and Vietnam won their first Paralympic gold medals. For the fourth consecutive games,

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topped the table, with 107 gold medals and 239 in total; their best result of any games to date.

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followed in second place, with 64 gold and 147 total medals.

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finished in third place, with 41 gold and 117 total medals, its most medals and highest finish to date.

Medal table

The ranking in this table is based on information provided by the

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(IPC) and is consistent with IPC convention in its published medal tables. By default, the table is ordered by the number of gold medals the athletes from a nation have won (in this context, a nation is an entity represented by a

). The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze medals. If NPCs are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically by IPC country code. In the

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competition, an additional thirteen bronze medals were awarded as the winners of the two

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brackets (for those who lost to the eventual finalists) each received a bronze medal. The swimming also saw multiple instances of the same medals being awarded, in the men's 100m backstroke S11, both

Wojciech Makowski Wojciech Makowski (born 19 February 1992) is a Polish Paralympic swimmer. He represented Poland at the 2016 Summer Paralympics held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and he won the silver medal in the men's 100 metre backstroke S11 event. He also com ...

and Bradley Snyder swam a dead heat in the final and were both awarded a silver medal, resulting in no bronze medal being given that for event, in the men's 100m breaststroke SB13, both Oleksii Fedyna and

Firdavsbek Musabekov Firdavsbek Musabekov is a visually impaired Uzbekistani Paralympic swimmer. He is a gold medalist at the 2016 Summer Paralympics held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Career He represented Uzbekistan at the 2016 Summer Paralympics held in Rio de Janei ...

swam a dead heat in the final and were both awarded a gold medal, resulting in no silver medal being given that for event. In both the women's 50, freestyle S11, two bronze medals were awarded each as two swimmers set the same time in third place. No bronze medal was awarded in the 4 × 400 Relay as only two teams completed the event. Therefore, the total number of bronze medals is greater than the total number of gold or silver medals.

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