[1] A total of 506 athletes from 44 nations participated in 64 events from five different sport disciplines.

[5][6] Viviane Forest of Canada became the first Paralympian to win a gold medal in both the Winter and Summer Games when she won the women's downhill event for visually impaired athletes.

She had previously won gold medals in the 2000 and 2004 Summer Paralympics for women's goalball.

If nations are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically by IPC country code.

In the men's downhill standing two silver medals were awarded for a second-place tie.