2002 Winter Paralympics

VIII Paralympic Winter Games

Host city	Salt Lake City, Utah
Motto	Mind, Body, Spirit
Nations	36
Athletes	416
Events	92 in 4 sports
Opening	7 March
Closing	16 March
Opened by	President George W. Bush
Cauldron	Muffy Davis Chris Waddell
Stadium	Rice-Eccles Stadium
Winter ← Nagano 1998 Turin 2006 → Summer ← Sydney 2000 Athens 2004 → 2002 Winter Olympics

The 2002 Winter Paralympics, the eighth Paralympic Winter Games, were held in Salt Lake City, Utah, from 7 to 16 March 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, 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 time with 22 medals, 17 of them gold.^[1]