The
2002 Winter Paralympics, the eighth
Winter Paralympics, were held in
Salt Lake City,
Utah,
United States, from March 7 to 16, 2002. A total of 416 athletes from 36 nations participated. They were the first Winter Paralympics in the American continent. These were the first Paralympic Winter Games for
Andorra,
Chile, the
People’s Republic of China,
Croatia,
Greece, and
Hungary.
Ragnhild Myklebust of
Norway won five gold medals in skiing and biathlon, becoming the most successful Winter Paralympic athlete of all times with 22 medals, 17 of them gold.