Beijing Paralympics 2008

Total medals taken by Wales at the Paralympic Games

GOLD

SILVER

BRONZE

10

3

1

TOTAL MEDALS

14

FACT: The Welsh athletes contributed more than 20% of the gold medals won by Team GB.

Population per gold medals won

(qualifying criteria – top ten countries winning 5 or more gold medals)

Country

No. of gold medals

Population (millions) per medal won

Wales

8.28*

0.359

New Zealand

5

0.855

Australia

23

0.931

Tunisia

9

1.147

Hong Kong

5

1.391

England

32.75*

1.550

Czech Republic

6

1.737

Canada

19

1.757

Sweden

5

1.845

Ukraine

24

1.919

* medals shared with other home countries are counted as 0.5 or 0.25 depending on event e.g. relays/team events.