| Great Britain at the 2006 Winter Paralympics | |
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| IPC code | GBR |
| NPC | British Paralympic Association |
| Website | www |
| in Turin | |
| Competitors | 20[1] in 3 sports |
| Medals Ranked 17th |
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| Winter Paralympics appearances (overview) | |
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland competed at the 2006 Winter Paralympics held in Turin, Italy. The team was known by it shortened name of Great Britain, for identification purposes.
The team was able to be made up of athletes from the whole United Kingdom; athletes from Northern Ireland, who elected to hold Irish citizenship under the pre-1999 article 2 of the Irish constitution, were eligible to represent either Great Britain or Ireland at the Paralympics.[2] However no Northern Irish athletes took part in the Winter Paralympics for either team until 2010 in Vancouver.[3] All competitors had disabilities that were organised into one of five Paralympic categories for the Games.
Great Britain entered a total of twenty athletes at the Games; three individuals in alpine skiing and teams of twelve athletes in ice sledge hockey and five athletes in wheelchair curling. The team won a single silver medal, in the debut sport of wheelchair curling, and finished seventeenth in the medal table.[1][4] In addition to the medal there were top ten finishes from Sean Rose and Liz Miller, in alpine skiing, and the ice sledge hockey team.
- ^ a b "Turin welcomes Winter Paralympics". BBC Sport. 10 March 2006. Retrieved 20 April 2010.
- ^ "Full text of the constitution" (PDF). Department of the Taoiseach. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 April 2005. Retrieved 15 April 2010.
- ^ "NI skier Kelly Gallagher named in GB Paralympic team". BBC Sport. 3 February 2010. Retrieved 4 March 2010.
- ^ "Winter Paralympic Games Medal Tables 1976–2006". British Paralympic Association. Archived from the original on 9 June 2011. Retrieved 20 April 2010.