The 1998 Winter Paralympics, the seventh Winter Paralympics, were held alongside the Winter Olympics

1998 Winter Olympics

The 1998 Winter Olympics, officially the XVIII Olympic Winter Games, was a winter multi-sport event celebrated from 7 to 22 February 1998 in Nagano, Japan. Seventy-two nations and 2,176 participans contested in seven sports and 72 events at 15 venues. The games saw the introduction of Women's ice...

 in Nagano, Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

 from March 5 to March 14, 1998. They were the first Paralympic Winter Games to be held outside Europe

Europe

Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...

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Sports

The games consisted of 34 events in four sports: alpine skiing

Alpine skiing

Alpine skiing is the sport of sliding down snow-covered hills on skis with fixed-heel bindings. Alpine skiing can be contrasted with skiing using free-heel bindings: Ski mountaineering and nordic skiing – such as cross-country; ski jumping; and Telemark. In competitive alpine skiing races four...

, ice sledge hockey, ice sledge racing, and nordic skiing

Nordic skiing

Nordic skiing is a winter sport that encompasses all types of skiing where the heel of the boot cannot be fixed to the ski, as opposed to Alpine skiing....

. The sport of Nordic skiing comprised two disciplines, the biathlon

Biathlon

Biathlon is a term used to describe any sporting event made up of two disciplines. However, biathlon usually refers specifically to the winter sport that combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting...

 and cross-country skiing

Cross-country skiing

Cross-country skiing is a winter sport in which participants propel themselves across snow-covered terrain using skis and poles...

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• Alpine skiing
  Alpine skiing at the 1998 Winter Paralympics
  Alpine skiing at the 1998 Winter Paralympics consisted of 54 events, 35 for men and 19 for women.-Medal table:- Medal summary :The competition events were:*Downhill: men - women*Super-G: men - women*Giant slalom: men - women...
  
  
• Sledge hockey
  Ice sledge hockey at the 1998 Winter Paralympics
  - Medal summary :- References :...
  
  
• Ice sledge racing
• Nordic skiing
  • Biathlon
    Biathlon at the 1998 Winter Paralympics
    Biathlon at the 1998 Winter Paralympics consisted of twelve events, eight for men and four for women.-Medal table:- Medal summary :The competition event was:*7.5 km: men - women...
    
    
  • Cross-country skiing
    Cross-country skiing at the 1998 Winter Paralympics
    Cross-country skiing at the 1998 Winter Paralympics consisted of 39 events, 24 for men and 15 for women.For the first and only time the classification Intellectual disability was included in cross-country skiing events at the Paralympic Games....
    
    

Medal table

The top 10 NPCs

National Paralympic Committee

National Paralympic Committees are the national constituents of the worldwide Paralympic movement. Subject to the controls of the International Paralympic Committee , they are responsible for organizing their people's participation in the Paralympic Games.The Paralympic Games are a major...

by number of gold medals are listed below. The host nation (Japan) is highlighted.

1		18	9	13	40
2		14	17	13	44
3		13	8	13	34
4		12	16	13	41
5		12	10	9	31
6		10	5	8	23
7		8	0	0	8
8		7	16	11	34
9		7	5	7	19
10		5	9	8	22