Belgium Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to th ...

made its

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début at the inaugural Paralympic Games in

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in 1960, and has participated in every edition of the Summer Paralympics. It also took part in the inaugural Winter Paralympics in 1976 in

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, and has competed in every edition of the Winter Games except 1980, 1998 and 2002. Belgian athletes have won a total of 98 Paralympic medals, of which 27 gold, 37 silver and 34 bronze, placing it 25th on the

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. Belgium's best result at the Summer Games came in 1984, when it finished 12th on the medal table, with its largest ever haul of medals: 57, of which 22 gold. Its worst result came in 2008, with just one bronze medal, placing it 69th on the medal table. At the Winter Games, Belgium has won two bronze medals: a bronze obtained by Willy Mercier in the Men's

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(B1 category) in

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in 1994 and

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won a bronze medal in the women's visually impaired downhill in 2018.

Multi medallists

Belgian multi medallists who have won at least three medals.Belgium at the Paralympics
International Paralympic Committee

Multi medallists

Medals

Summer Paralympic Games

Winter Paralympic Games

See also

References