Latvia has taken part in every subsequent edition of the Summer Paralympics, but missed the 1998 and 2002 Winter Games, appearing with a one-man delegation in 2006, before being absent again in 2010.

[1] Latvians have won a total of 20 Paralympic medals, of which five gold, seven silver and eight bronze.

[2] The country obtained its first medals in 2000 in Sydney, when Aigars Apinis took bronze in both the discus and the shot put (F52 category).

Latvia's third medal of the Sydney Games was also a bronze, through Armands Lizbovskis in the long jump (F13).

At the same Games, Edgars Bergs took silver in the shot put and bronze in the discus (F35).