New Zealand's Paralympic and Commonwealth Games medals

Year	Summer Paralympic Games	Number of Athletes	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total Medals
1968	Te Aviv	16	1	2	1	4
1972	Heidelberg	10	3	3	3	9
1976	Toronto	12	7	1	5	13
1980	Arnhem	18	7	6	6	19
1984	New York & Stoke Mandeville	13	8	10	7	25
1988	Seoul	17	2	4	11	17
1992	Barcelona	13	5	1		6
1996	Atlanta	34	9	6	4	19
2000	Sydney	42	6	8	4	18
2004	Athens	36	6	1	3	10
2008	Beijing	30	5	3	4	12
2012	London	24	6	7	4	17
2016	Rio de Janeiro	31	9	5	7	21
2020	Tokyo	29	6	3	3	12

Year	Winter Paralympic Games	Number of Athletes	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total Medals
1980	Geilo	3
1984	Innsbruck	8	1	3	1	5
1988	Innsbruck	3		1		1
1992	Albertville	7	2			2
1994	Lillehammer	7	3	0	3	6
1998	Nagano	5	4	1	1	6
2002	Salt Lake City	2	4		2	6
2006	Torino	2
2010	Vancouver	2	1			1
2014	Sochi	3		1		1
2018	PyeongChang	3	1		2	3
2022	Beijing	3	1	1	2	4

Year	Para athletes at the Commonwealth Games*	Number of Para Athletes	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total Medals
1982	Brisbane	1	1¹			1
1994	Victoria	1			1	1
2002	Manchester	4
2010	Delhi	4		1		1
2014	Glasgow	9	2			2
2018	Gold Coast	13	2	2		4
¹Gold medal won by Neroli Fairhall in archery, competing against a field of able-bodied athletes.
* From 1962 to 1974, the Commonwealth Paraplegic Games were held separately, just before or after the able-bodied Commonwealth games. From 1994 events for disabled athletes were included within the Commonwealth Games, and since 2002 disabled athletes have been full members of their national teams.

This table shows New Zealand’s Paralympic medals for both summer and winter Paralympics. New Zealand first attended the summer Paralympic Games in 1968, and the winter games in 1980. It also shows the medals won by New Zealand’s para athletes at the Commonwealth Games.

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