2018 Winter Paralympics
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multi-parasport event in Pyeongchang, South Korea
Key facts
- Location
- Pyeongchang , South Korea
- Motto
- Passion. Connected. , ( Korean : 하나된 열정. )
- Events
- 80 in 6 sports
- Opening
- 9 March 2018
- Closing
- 18 March 2018
- Opened by
- Moon Jae-in , President of South Korea
- Closed by
- Andrew Parsons , President of the International Paralympic Committee
- Cauldron
- Kim Eun-jung , Seo Soon-seok
- Stadium
- Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- South Korea
- Located in
- Pyeongchang County
- Followed by
- 2022 Winter Paralympics
- Follows
- 2014 Winter Paralympics
- Location
- Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium
- Sport
- parasport
- Official website
- www.pyeongchang2018.com/en/paralympics/index
- Image
- PyeongChang 2018 Winter Paralympics.svg
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- end time
- 2018-03-18
- point in time
- 2018-03-00
- mascot
- Soohorang and Bandabi
- topic's main category
- Category:2018 Winter Paralympics
- start time
- 2018-03-09
- Commons category
- 2018 Winter Paralympics
- edition number
- 12
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Encyclopedic overview
The 2018 Winter Paralympics (Korean: 2018년 동계 패럴림픽; RR: 2018nyeon 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, 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.
569 athletes representing a record 49 National Paralympic Committees participated in these Games, including 3 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 8 additional events.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “2018 Winter Paralympics” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.