Top medal-winning nations at Summer Paralympics ---------------------------------------------------- Evolving from the Stoke Mandeville Games for wheelchair athletes, Rome hosted the first Summer Paralympics in 1960 – featuring 400 athletes from 23 nations. This year, over 4,000 athletes are due to take part in the Tokyo Paralympics Year Host 1st place 2nd place 3rd place 1960 Rome, ITA ITA 29 28 23 GBR 20 15 20 GER 15 6 9 1964 Tokyo, JPN USA 50 41 32 GBR 18 23 20 ITA 14 15 16 1968 Tel Aviv, ISR USA 33 27 39 GBR 29 20 20 ISR 18 21 23 1972 Heidelberg, FRG* FRG 28 17 22 USA 17 27 31 GBR 16 15 21 1976 Toronto, CAN USA 66 44 45 NED 45 25 14 ISR 40 13 16 1980 Arnhem, NED USA 75 66 54 POL 75 50 52 FRG 68 48 46 1984 New York, USA USA 137 131 129 GBR 107 112 112 CAN 87 82 69 1988 Seoul, KOR USA 91 90 88 FRG 76 65 52 GBR 65 65 54 1992 Barcelona, ESP USA 75 52 48 GER 61 51 59 GBR 40 47 41 1996 Atlanta, USA USA 46 46 65 AUS 42 37 27 GER 40 58 51 2000 Sydney, AUS USA 63 39 47 GBR 41 43 47 CAN 38 33 25 2004 Athens, GRE CHN 63 46 32 GBR 35 30 29 CAN 28 19 25 2008 Beijing, CHN CHN 89 70 52 GBR 42 29 31 USA 36 35 28 2012 London, GBR CHN 95 71 65 RUS 36 38 28 GBR 34 43 43 2016 Rio de Janeiro,BRA CHN 107 81 51 GBR 64 39 44 UKR 41 37 39 ALL-TIME PARALYMPIC MEDAL TABLE United States leads all-time ranking with haul of over 2,100 medals, winning 771 golds. China is gaining ground having finished with most medals at last four Paralympics Table sorted by number of gold medals 771 700 708 United States Total medals: 2,179 626 583 581 Great Britain 1,790 508 514 481 Germany† 1,503 433 339 250 China 1,022 394 326 337 Canada 1,057 368 326 337 Australia 1,125 346 347 345 France 1,038 276 246 227 Netherlands 749 262 259 208 Poland 729 Markus Rehm GER Targeting third long jump gold in T64 category Source: International Paralympic Committee FRG* – West Germany, Germany† – Includes medals won by West Germany 1960-88 ---------------------------------------------------- Picture: Getty Images © GRAPHIC NEWS