Tabulated below are the performance of the top-3 finish places on the medal table and overall rankings for this teams on the Summer Paralympics and Winter Paralympics, based on individual Games medals tables.

Summer Paralympics

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Games	1st place	med	2nd place	med	3rd place	med	Nations with medals
1960 Rome	Italy	29	Great Britain	20	West Germany	15
		28		15		6
		23		20		9
1964 Tokyo	United States	50	Great Britain	18	Italy	14
		41		23		15
		32		20		16
1968 Tel Aviv	United States	33	Great Britain	29	Israel	18
		27		20		21
		39		20		23
1972 Heidelberg	West Germany	28	United States	17	Great Britain	16
		17		27		15
		22		15		21
1976 Toronto	United States	66	Netherlands	45	Israel	40
		44		25		13
		45		14		16
1980 Arnhem	United States	75	Poland	75	West Germany	68
		66		50		48
		54		52		46
1984 Stoke Mandeville / New York	United States	136	Great Britain	107	Canada	87
		131		112		82
		129		112		69
1988 Seoul	United States	92	West Germany	76	Great Britain	64
		90		66		66
		91		51		53
1992 Barcelona / Madrid	United States	75	Germany	61	Great Britain	42
		52		51		51
		48		59		46
1996 Atlanta	United States	47	Australia	42	Germany	40
		46		32		58
		66		27		51
2000 Sydney	Australia	63	Great Britain	41	Canada	38
		39		43		33
		47		27		25
2004 Athens	China	63	Great Britain	35	Canada	28
		46		30		19
		32		29		25
2008 Beijing	China	89	Great Britain	42	United States	36
		70		29		35
		52		31		28
2012 London	China	95	Russia	36	Great Britain	34
		71		38		43
		65		28		43
2016 Rio de Janeiro	China	107	Great Britain	64	Ukraine	41
		81		39		37
		51		44		39
2020 Tokyo	China	96	Great Britain	41	United States	37
		60		38		36
		51		45		31	86

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Medalists
Rank	Nation	1st place	2nd place	3rd place
1	United States (USA)	8	1	2
2	China (CHN)	5	0	0
3	Germany (GER)	1	2	3
4	Australia (AUS)	1	1	0
5	Italy (ITA)	1	0	1
6	Great Britain (GBR)	0	9	4
7	Netherlands (NED)	0	1	0
	Poland (POL)	0	1	0
	Russia (RUS)	0	1	0
10	Canada (CAN)	0	0	3
11	Israel (ISR)	0	0	2
12	Ukraine (UKR)	0	0	1
Total	12 nations	16	16	16

Winter Paralympics

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Games	1st place	med	2nd place	med	3rd place	med
1976 Örnsköldsvik	West Germany	10	Switzerland	10	Finland	8
		12		1		7
		6		1		7
1980 Geilo	Norway	23	Finland	15	Austria	6
		21		7		10
		10		12		6
1984 Innsbruck	Austria	34	Finland	19	Norway	15
		19		9		13
		17		6		13
1988 Innsbruck	Norway	25	Austria	20	West Germany	9
		21		10		11
		14		14		10
1992 Tignes-Albertville	United States	20	Germany	12	Unified Team	10
		16		17		8
		9		9		3
1994 Lillehammer	Norway	29	Germany	25	United States	24
		22		21		12
		13		18		7
1998 Nagano	Norway	18	Germany	14	United States	13
		9		17		8
		13		13		13
2002 Salt Lake City	Germany	17	United States	10	Norway	10
		1		22		3
		15		11		6
2006 Turin	Russia	13	Germany	8	Ukraine	7
		13		5		9
		7		5		9
2010 Vancouver	Germany	13	Russia	12	Canada	10
		5		16		5
		6		10		4
2014 Sochi	Russia	30	Germany	9	Canada	7
		28		5		2
		22		1		7
2018 Pyeongchang	United States	13	Neutral Paralympic Athletes	8	Canada	8
		15		10		4
		8		6		16
2022 Beijing	China	18	Ukraine	10	Canada	8
		19		10		5
		23		8		11

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Medalists
Rank	Nation	1st place	2nd place	3rd place
1	Norway (NOR)	4	0	2
2	Germany (GER)	3	5	1
3	United States (USA)	2	1	2
4	Russia (RUS)	2	1	0
5	Austria (AUT)	1	1	1
6	China (CHN)	1	0	0
7	Finland (FIN)	0	2	1
8	Ukraine (UKR)	0	1	1
9	Switzerland (SUI)	0	1	0
	Neutral Paralympic Athletes (NPA)	0	1	0
11	Canada (CAN)	0	0	4
12	Unified Team (EUN)	0	0	1
Total	14 nations	13	13	13

External links

• The Geopolitics of Winter Olympic Medal Counts, The Atlantic, February 7, 2014
• One Benefit of Hosting the Olympics? More Medals, NPR, August 8, 2012