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See also: 2018 Winter Olympics

The 2018 Winter Paralympics (Hangul: 평창 동계 패럴림픽; Hanja: 平昌 冬季 패럴림픽;

RR: Pyeongchang Donggye Paereollimpik), the 12th Paralympic Winter Games, and also more
generally known as the PyeongChang 2018 Paralympic Winter Games, were an international
multi-sport event for athletes with disabilities governed by the International Paralympic
Committee (IPC), that was held in Pyeongchang County, Gangwon Province, South Korea, from
9 to 18 March 2018. They were the second Paralympics to be held in South Korea, following the
1988 Summer Paralympics in Seoul.

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XI Paralympic Winter Games

Host city Pyeongchang, South Korea

Motto Passion. Connected.

(Korean: 하나된 열정.)

Nations 49

Athletes 569

Events 80 in 6 sports

Opening 9 March

Closing 18 March

Opened by President Moon Jae-in

Cauldron Kim Eun-jung

Seo Soon-seok

Stadium Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium

Winter

← Sochi 2014 Beijing 2022 →

Summer

← Rio 2016 Tokyo 2020 →

569 athletes representing 49 National Paralympic Committees participated in these Games,

including newcomers Georgia, North Korea and Tajikistan. Following its debut as disciplines
under the Alpine programme in Sochi, snowboarding was expanded into a separate sport with
additional competitions.

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For the second time,the United States topped the medal table with 36 total medals and 13 gold
medals. Host nation South Korea placed 16th with 3 total medals and won its first gold and first
bronze at in Winter Paralympics.

Host selection

Main article: Bids for the 2018 Winter Olympics

As part of a formal agreement between the International Paralympic Committee and the
International Olympic Committee first established in 2001,[1] the winner of the bid for the 2018
Winter Olympics was also to host the 2018 Winter Paralympics.

Pyeongchang was elected as host during the 123rd IOC Session in Durban in 2011, earning the
required majority of at least 48 votes in the first round of voting.[2][3]

2018 Winter Olympics bidding results

City Nation Votes

Pyeongchang South Korea 63

Munich Germany 25

Annecy France 7

Opening ceremony

Opening ceremony at Pyeongchang

Olympic Stadium

Main article: 2018 Winter Paralympics opening ceremony

The opening ceremony was held on 9 March 2018 at Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium, which was
built specifically for the Winter Games.[4]

Closing ceremony

Main article: 2018 Winter Paralympics closing ceremony

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Sports

Competitions in the 2018 Winter Paralympics are being held in six Winter Paralympic sports,
with 80 medal events in total. Snowboarding has been expanded into a separate discipline for
2018, with 10 medal events (in 2014, two medal events in snowboarding were held within the
alpine skiing programme).

Alpine skiing (30) ()

Biathlon (18) ()

Cross-country skiing (20) ()

Para ice hockey (1) ()

Snowboarding (10) ()

Wheelchair curling (1) ()

Calendar

In the following calendar for the 2018 Winter Paralympics, each blue box represents an event
competition. The yellow boxes represent days during which medal-awarding finals for a sport are
held. The number in each yellow box represents the number of finals that are contested on that
day.[5]

● Opening ceremony Event competitions Event finals ● Closing ceremony

Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun Gold
March
9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 14th 15th 16th 17th 18th Medals
Ceremonies OC CC N/A

Alpine skiing 6 6 6 6 3 3 30
Biathlon 6 6 6 18
Cross-country skiing 2 4 6 6 2 20
Para ice hockey ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● 1 1
Snowboarding 5 5 10
Wheelchair curling ● ● ● ● ● ● ● 1 1
Total 0 12 8 9 12 12 0 11 10 6 80

Participating National Paralympic Committees

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Participating National Paralympic Committees

Andorra (1)

Argentina (2)

Armenia (1)

Australia (12)[6]

Austria (13)

Belarus (14)

Belgium (2)

Bosnia and Herzegovina (1)

Brazil (3)[7]

Bulgaria (1)

Canada (52)[8]

Chile (4)

China (26)[9]

Croatia (7)[10]

Czech Republic (21)

Denmark (1)[11]

Finland (13)

France (12)[12]

Georgia (2)

Germany (20)[13]

Great Britain (14)[14]

Greece (1)

Hungary (2)

Iceland (1)

Iran (5)

Italy (26)

Japan (38)

Kazakhstan (6)

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North Korea (2)[15]

South Korea (36) (host)

Mexico (1)[16]

Mongolia (1)

Netherlands (9)

Neutral Paralympic Athletes (30)

New Zealand (3)

Norway (32)

Poland (9)

Romania (1)

Serbia (1)

Slovakia (11)

Slovenia (1)

Spain (3)

Sweden (24)[17]

Switzerland (13)

Tajikistan (1)

Turkey (1)

Ukraine (20)

United States (68)

Uzbekistan (1)

Russia is currently suspended by the International Paralympic Committee due to the state-
sponsored doping program scandal.[18] However, the IPC has allowed Russian athletes to
qualify as neutral participants. They will field around 30–35 athletes in 5 sports, participating
as Neutral Paralympic Athletes (NPA), who will march under the Paralympic flag at the
Opening and Closing Ceremonies and the Paralympic anthem will be played in any
ceremony.[19]

Four more nations competed in Pyeongchang than at the previous winter games. Georgia,
North Korea and Tajikistan all made their Winter Paralympics debut,[20] while Hungary fielded
a team after not competing in 2014. Tajikistan is the only country who had sent an athlete to
these Games but not the 2018 Winter Olympics.
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Venues

Main article: Venues of the 2018 Winter Olympics and Paralympics

Pyeongchang Mountain cluster

Alpensia

The Alpensia Resort in Daegwallyeong-myeon will be the focus of the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter
Paralympics.[21]

Alpensia Resort – biathlon, cross-country skiing

Main Olympic Village – athletes village

Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium – awards and opening and closing ceremonies

Standalone venue

Jeongseon Alpine Centre – alpine skiing and snowboarding[22]

Gangneung coastal cluster

Gangneung Curling Centre – wheelchair curling

Gangneung Hockey Centre – para ice hockey

Medals

Main article: 2018 Winter Paralympics medal table

* Host nation (South Korea)[23]

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Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total

1 United States (USA) 13 15 8 36

2 Neutral Paralympic Athletes (NPA) 8 10 6 24

3 Canada (CAN) 8 4 16 28

4 France (FRA) 7 8 5 20

5 Germany (GER) 7 8 4 19

6 Ukraine (UKR) 7 7 8 22

7 Slovakia (SVK) 6 4 1 11

8 Belarus (BLR) 4 4 4 12

9 Japan (JPN) 3 4 3 10

10 Netherlands (NED) 3 3 1 7

11 Switzerland (SUI) 3 0 0 3

12 Italy (ITA) 2 2 1 5

13 Great Britain (GBR) 1 4 2 7

14 Norway (NOR) 1 3 4 8

15 Australia (AUS) 1 0 3 4

Finland (FIN) 1 0 2 3

16 New Zealand (NZL) 1 0 2 3

South Korea (KOR)* 1 0 2 3

19 Croatia (CRO) 1 0 1 2

China (CHN) 1 0 0 1
20
Kazakhstan (KAZ) 1 0 0 1

22 Austria (AUT) 0 2 5 7

23 Spain (ESP) 0 1 1 2

24 Sweden (SWE) 0 1 0 1

Belgium (BEL) 0 0 1 1
25
Poland (POL) 0 0 1 1

Totals (26 nations) 80 80 81 241

Broadcasting

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Television rights were sold in various countries and territories; the IPC partnered with the IOC's
streaming service Olympic Channel for online streaming coverage of these Paralympics.[24]

In 2017, the European Broadcasting Union renewed its rights to the Paralympics in 25 European
countries through 2020 [25] In the United States, NBC Sports announced plans to air nearly twice
as much coverage on linear television as it did in Sochi, with 94 hours airing primarily on NBCSN
and the U.S. version of Olympic Channel, along with online streaming content.[26][27] In Canada,
the CBC announced that it would broadcast over 600 hours of coverage in English and French
across its platforms, including CBC Television, Ici Radio-Canada Télé, and sublicence partners
Sportsnet One and AMI-tv.[28] Channel 4 returned as the Games' rightsholder in the United
Kingdom, planning over 100 hours of television coverage on Channel 4 and 4seven.[29]

Tickets

Ticket prices for the 2018 Winter Paralympics were announced on 8 June 2017 and tickets went
on sale on 21 August 2017.[30]

Prices for sporting event tickets range from ₩10,000 to 50,000 (approx. $8–45 USD). Opening
and closing ceremony tickets range from ₩10,000 to ₩140,000 (approx. $8-125 USD).[30][31]

As of 19 January, tickets to the Paralympic Games were 70% sold. (155,000 tickets out of a total
of 223,353 allocated).[32][33][34]

Marketing

Emblem

The emblem for the 2018 Winter Paralympics was unveiled on 29 October 2013 at the National
Museum of Korea. It incorporates stylized renditions of the hangul letter ㅊ ch (as also used in
the Olympic emblem), which symbolizes part of the name Pyeongchang and resembles ice
crystals. The Paralympic emblem features two of these letters joined together, symbolizing
equality and a "grand" festival welcoming international athletes and spectators.[35][36]

Mascot
Main article: Soohorang and Bandabi

The official mascots of the 2018 Winter Olympics and Paralympics were unveiled on 2 June
2016. The Paralympic mascot, Bandabi, is an Asian black bear that symbolizes "strong will and
courage".[37]

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Cultural events

To attract interest from residents and foreign tourists, the Korea Tourism Organization organized
Snow Festival, a "Hallyu festival", to serve as cultural programming for the Paralympics. Actors
Jang Keun-suk and Lee Dong-wook purchased 2,018 and 1,000 tickets for themselves and fans
to attend meetups at para ice hockey games, while a K-pop concert featuring B1A4 and BtoB
was also organized.[38][39][40][41][42]

Concerns and controversies

North Korean relations

See also: North Korea–South Korea relations and North Korea at the 2018 Winter Paralympics

Prior to the 2018 Winter Olympics, North Korea agreed to have its athletes march together with
those of the South Korean team during the opening ceremonies, and field a unified women's
hockey team. However, during a meeting in Pyeongchang between the leaders of their National
Paralympic Committees, the two countries were unable to organize a similar arrangement for the
Paralympics. The South Korean Paralympic Committee stated that North Korean officials had
requested that the Liancourt Rocks (which are the subject of an ongoing sovereignty dispute
between South Korea and Japan) be included on the Korean Unification Flag during the
Paralympics. South Korea declined this request, as they considered it contradictory to IPC
recommendations against political gestures.[43]

IPC president Andrew Parsons expressed disappointment over the decision, but noted that the
country "respects and values the IPC's vision and mission" and had "committed to working
further with the IPC to improve the lives of people with an impairment in North Korea", while also
acknowledging that the IOC had "made great progress in opening up dialogue between the two
nations" prior to the Olympics, and that their meeting "underlines the tremendous ability of sport
to bring countries together in positive dialogue."[44]

See also

2018 Winter Olympics

Winter Olympics

Notes

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2. Longman, Jeré; Sang-hun, Choe (6 July 2011). "2018 Winter Games to Be Held in
Pyeongchang, South Korea" . The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331 . Archived from the
original on 4 August 2017. Retrieved 7 June 2017.

3. Hersh, Philip (6 July 2011). "Pyeongchang wins 2018 Winter Olympics" . Chicago Tribune.
Archived from the original on 9 April 2017.

4. Horwitz, Josh (25 January 2018). "South Korea's $100 million Winter Olympics stadium will be
used exactly four times" . Quartz. Retrieved 9 March 2018.

5. "CoSport – Paralympic Event Tickets" . www.cosport.com. Archived from the original on 9

February 2018. Retrieved 9 February 2018.

6. "Australia's Seven Network to show PyeongChang 2018" . Retrieved 8 January 2018.

7. "Brasil terá três atletas na Paralimpíada de Inverno de PyeongChang 2018" . Retrieved

28 February 2018.

8. "PyeongChang 2018" . Retrieved 8 January 2018.

9. "平昌冬残奥会中国体育代表团在京成立" . 中国中央电视台. 3 March 2018.

10. Paralympic Games (19 January 2018). "@Paralympic Twitter account" . Twitter. Retrieved
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11. "PyeongChang 2018: Daniel Wagner's Winter Games dream" . Retrieved 8 January 2018.

12. "PyeongChang 2018: Bochet to carry French flag" . Retrieved 8 January 2018.

13. "Germany reveal kit for PyeongChang 2018" . Retrieved 8 January 2018.

14. "British alpine skiers and snowboarders named for PyeongChang 2018" . Retrieved
8 January 2018.

15. "North Korea invited to participate in first-ever Winter Paralympic Games at Pyeongchang
2018" . 9 February 2018. Retrieved 9 February 2018.

16. "PyeongChang 2018: Arly Velasquez ready to surprise" . Retrieved 8 January 2018.

17. Hjelmberg, Henrik. "Svenska truppen till Paralympics uttagen" . Sveriges Paralympiska
Kommitté. Archived from the original on 26 February 2018. Retrieved 25 February 2018.

18. "With one year until 2018 Winter Games, Russia's status murky" . 9 February 2017.

19. "IPC allow Russian athletes to compete as neutrals at Pyeongchang 2018 but maintain
suspension" . Retrieved 9 February 2018.

20. "Following the Feb. 9-25 Olympic Games, the 12th Winter Paralympic Games opened March
9 in PyeongChang, some 180 kilometers east of Seoul, along with the sub-host cities of
Gangneung and Jeongseon" . Yonhap News. 18 March 2018. Retrieved 18 March 2018.

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21. PyeongChang 2018 Alpensia Resort and water park complete and full for summer season
Archived 12 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine.

22. "Jeongseon Alpine Centre to host Para alpine skiing and snowboard in 2018" .
www.paralympic.org. Retrieved 9 February 2018.

23. "Medal Standings" . Pyeongchang 2018 Paralympics. Retrieved 9 March 2018.

24. "International Paralympic Committee and Olympic Channel join forces to cover Pyeongchang
2018" . Inside the Games. Retrieved 10 March 2018.

25. "EBU - EBU brings the best of Paralympic sport to over 25 countries across Europe" .
European Broadcasting Union. Retrieved 9 March 2018.

26. "How to Watch—And What to Expect From—the Winter Paralympics 2018 on NBC" .
Sports Illustrated. Retrieved 8 March 2018.

27. "Why do Americans ignore the Paralympics?" . The Boston Globe. Retrieved 9 March 2018.

28. "CBC/Radio-Canada offer 600-plus hours of Paralympic coverage" . CBC Sports. Retrieved
9 March 2018.

29. "Channel 4 to broadcast 100 hours of Paralympics from Pyeongchang 2018" . Inside the
Games. Retrieved 10 March 2018.

30. "PyeongChang 2018 ticket prices announced" . www.paralympic.org. Retrieved 8 June

2017.

31. "PyeongChang 2018 Paralympic Winter Games Ticket Prices Announced" . Retrieved
9 March 2018.

32. "평창패럴림픽 티켓 판매율 0.2%…관심 절실" [PyeongChang Paralympics Ticket Selling

Rate 0.2% ... An urgent concern]. Yonhapnews. 27 October 2017.

33. "Pyeongchang 2018 unveil ticket design and open offline sales in bid to encourage
buyers" . 9 February 2018. Retrieved 9 February 2018.

34. "Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic ticket sales rise to 61 per cent" . Retrieved 9 February 2018.

35. "Pyeonchang 2018 unveils official Paralympic emblem" . 29 October 2013. Retrieved
9 February 2018.

36. "PyeongChang 2018 Launches Official Emblem" . olympic.org. International Olympic

Committee. Retrieved 12 August 2016.

37. "Tiger and bear mascots unveiled for Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics and
Paralympics" . 2 June 2016. Retrieved 9 March 2018.

38. "Stars invite fans to join them at Paralympics" . Korea JoongAng Daily. Retrieved 7 March
2018.

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39. "Jang Keun-suk and Lee Dong-wook in 'Christmas in March' for Paralympics" . Korea
Herald. Retrieved 7 March 2018.

40. "Actor Lee Dong-wook named honorary ambassador for PyeongChang Olympics" . Yonhap
News Agency. Retrieved 7 March 2018.

41. Herald, The Korea (4 March 2018). "[PyeongChang 2018] S. Korea to hold hallyu festival to
boost Paralympics" . Retrieved 7 March 2018.

42. "Festival celebrating Korean culture launched to help promote Winter Paralympic Games" .
Inside the Games. Retrieved 7 March 2018.

43. " 'Flag dispute' halts joint Korean march" . BBC News. 8 March 2018. Retrieved 10 March
2018.

44. "North, South Korea to march separately in Paralympics opening ceremony" . CBC Sports.
Retrieved 8 March 2018.

External links

Pyeongchang 2018 web site

Media related to 2018 Winter Paralympics at Wikimedia Commons

Winter Paralympics
Preceded by Pyeongchang Succeeded by
Sochi XII Paralympic Winter Games Beijing
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