[17] John Stubbs, a former England disabled cricketer, set a new world record score of 691 in the ranking round on the route to victory in the men's individual compound open.

In the equivalent women's event Danielle Brown beat compatriot, and eventual bronze medallist, Mel Clarke before going on to win the gold.

[18] Legend: WR – World record; W – Won; L – Lost; N/A – Round not applicable for the event; The GB Paralympic team included thirty–five competitors in the sport of athletics, amongst them reigning champions Kenny Churchill, Danny Crates, Daniel Greaves and Stephen Miller.

[22] Shelly Woods was initially awarded the silver medal in the women's 5000 m T54, but a rerun was ordered by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) after the Australian, US and Swiss teams protested the result because six competitors were involved in a crash on the penultimate lap.

Following a letter from Fearnley and the Australian authorities to the IPC, which asked that the result not be overturned in the spirit of sportsmanship, the rerun was cancelled and Weir's medal reinstated.

[25] The decision was particularly controversial given that Chin had already been assessed earlier in the Games whilst she competed in the women's F37–38 shot put final.

[28] Murray advanced to the final where, despite at one stage taking a 3–1 lead, he was unable to beat Karen Hoi Ying Kwok and so won the silver medal.

[29] Murray was also a part of the four-person team that won the gold medal in the mixed BC1/BC2 event, beating the defending champions Portugal in the final.

[29] Lee Fawcett was the sole British fencer to qualify for the Games, he competed in both the foil and sabre B classification events.

Fawcett was the final British athlete to compete in Beijing, losing his sabre round of 16 match to Serhiy Shenkevych of Ukraine.

[39] Alsaedi (KUW) L 2–5 Czop (POL) W 5–4 Datsko (UKR) L 1–5 Francois (FRA) L 1–5 Arnau (ESP)W 5–0 Shenkevych (UKR)L 3–5 Szekeres (HUN)L 3–5 Mainville (CAN)W 5–3 The sport is classified as a B1 event, meaning that it is for blind athletes, however vision-impaired athletes are also able to take part as all competitors wear eyeshades to ensure they are equally disadvantaged.

Great Britain qualified through the International Blind Sports Federation European Championships, held in Greece in 2007, where the team won the silver medal.

[43] At the Paralympics teams in the sport of wheelchair rugby are made up of mixed classification tetraplegic athletes of both sexes.

[44] Great Britain qualified via the Europe Zonal Championship and went on to finish fourth out of eight teams, losing the bronze medal playoff to Canada.

[18] British shooters won a single medal at the Games, a gold for Matt Skelhon in the mixed R3–10 m air rifle prone SH1.

[48] Of the other six events in which there was a British competitor only Nathan Milgate, in the men's R1-10 m air rifle standing SH1, advanced to the final.

[1] Included in the squad was 50-year-old Dzaier Neil who had previously taken part in the 1984 Los Angeles Games before taking a ten-year break from the sport.

[54] In the individual events only Neil Robertson progressed as far as the round of 16 whilst the four teams entered won a total of just two matches between them.

[15] Shur (ISR) W 3–1 Popov (UKR) L 2–3 Kylevik (SWE)L 0–3 Ye (CHN) L 0–3 Lambert (CZE) W 3–1 Silva (BRA) W 3–1 Kobar (GER) L 0–3 Guilhem (FRA) W 3–1 Kowalski (POL) L 2–3 Michell (BRA) W 3–0 Zhou (CHN) L 1–3 Almeida (RSA) W 3–0 Lui (CHN) L 1–3 Clot (FRA) L 0–3 Moon (KOR) L 0–3 Obiora (NGR) L 1–3 Team Paralympic GB had competitors in four of the six wheelchair tennis disciplines; men's, women's and mixed quads singles and mixed quad doubles.