| Individual Paralympic Athletes at the Paralympics | |
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| Summer appearances | |
| Independent Paralympic Participants (1992) Individual Paralympic Athletes (2000) Independent Paralympic Athletes (2016) RPC (2020) Neutral Paralympics Athletes (2024) | |
| Winter appearances | |
| Neutral Paralympic Athletes (2018) | |
Athletes have competed asIndependent Paralympians at the Paralympic Games for various reasons, includingpolitical transition,international sanctions, suspensions of National Paralympic Committees and compassion.
Independent Paralympic Participants at the Summer Paralympics was the name given to athletes from theFederal Republic of Yugoslavia at the1992 Summer Paralympics inBarcelona. Athletes fromthe parts of Yugoslavia still terming themselves "Yugoslavia" had competed as "Independent Olympic Participants" at the 1992 Summer Olympics, also hosted by Barcelona. They were not permitted to participate as "Yugoslavia", due toUnited Nations Security Council Resolution 757 placing sanctions on the country.[1]
In addition, 16 athletes competed asIndependent Paralympic Participants at the1992 Summer Paralympics winning eight medals.
| Medal | Name | Games | Sport | Event |
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 Gold | Nada Vuksanovic | 1992 Barcelona | Athletics | Women's Discus B2 |
| Gold | Ruzica Aleksov | 1992 Barcelona | Shooting | Mixed Air Pistol SH1>3 |
| Gold | Branimir Jovanovski | 1992 Barcelona | Shooting | Mixed Air Pistol SH1 |
| Gold | Nenad Krisanovic | 1992 Barcelona | Swimming | Men's 50 m Breaststroke SB2 |
 Silver | Nada Vuksanovic | 1992 Barcelona | Athletics | Women's Shot put B2 |
| Silver | Radomir Rakonjac | 1992 Barcelona | Shooting | Mixed Air Pistol SH1 |
| Silver | Nenad Krisanovic | 1992 Barcelona | Swimming | Men's 50 m Butterfly S3-4 |
 Bronze | Zlatko Kesler | 1992 Barcelona | Table tennis | Men's Singles 3 |
Two athletes competed asIndividual Paralympic Athletes at the2000 Summer Paralympics.
Like for the Olympics, a team of refugees has competed for the first time asIndependent Paralympic Athletes at the2016 Summer Paralympics.
Russia is currently suspended by theInternational Paralympic Committee, so status remains unclear due to thestate-sponsored doping program scandal.[2]
TheRussian Paralympic Committee remains suspended from the Paralympic movement since 2016, due to thestate-sponsored doping programme scandal, but theInternational Paralympic Committee has allowed athletes deemed clean to participate in five sports. They will compete under theParalympic flag, and theParalympic anthem will be used during ceremonies for those who win gold medals.[3]
ARefugee Paralympic Team (following the model used by the IOC for its sponsored Olympic team since 2016), is separated at the2020 Summer Paralympics from the former Independent Paralympic Athletes.
TheRussian Paralympic Committee, still suspended from the IPC and the IOC, was allowed to propose athletes, no longer competing as "independent" or "neutral" paralympians, but still with the supervision of the IPC. However, they did not compete under the name and with the national flag and anthem of Russia, but under the acronym RPC and with the Paralympic flag and anthem.
Athletes from Russia were scheduled to compete at the 2022 Winter Paralympics asNeutral Paralympic Athletes and athletes from Belarus as Paralympic Neutral Athletes. On 3 March 2022, both nations' athletes were banned from competing, reversing the previous decision to allow them to compete as neutrals.[4][5]
Russian athletes were previously scheduled to compete under the flag of theRussian Paralympic Committee as a result of doping-related sanctions. On 9 December 2019, theWorld Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) banned Russia from all international sport for a period of four years, after the Russian government was found to have tampered with lab data that it provided to WADA in January 2019 as a condition of theRussian Anti-Doping Agency being reinstated. On 26 April 2021, it was confirmed Russian athletes would represent theRussian Paralympic Committee, with the acronym 'RPC', at the2020 Summer Paralympics and the 2022 Winter Paralympics.[6]
The Russian Paralympic Committee delegation was banned from participating in the2022 Winter Paralympics afterRussia's invasion of Ukraine in violation of theOlympic Truce.[7] On 2 March 2022, theInternational Paralympic Committee (IPC) decided that Belarusian and Russian athletes would be allowed to compete at the Games as neutral athletes with their results not counting in the medal standings.[8][9][10] The athletes would still have received medals during ceremonies.[11] As a result of criticism by several National Paralympic Committees, who threatened to boycott the Games, the IPC announced on 3 March 2022 that they would reverse their earlier decision, banning Russian and Belarusian athletes from competing at the 2022 Winter Paralympics.[5]
Before being banned from the Winter Paralympics, 71 athletes from Russia were expected to compete.[12][13] The athletes were scheduled to compete in all sports included in the programme of the Games.[14] In total, 12 athletes from Belarus were expected to compete.[15]
Pavel Rozhkov, who served as interim Russian Paralympic Committee (RPC) president in 2021, served asChef de Mission of the Russian delegation.[13][16] In total, the Russian delegation consisted of ten alpine skiers, 33 skiers in biathlon and cross-country skiing, six snowboarders and the para ice hockey and wheelchair curling teams.[17][18][19]
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