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table of the

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ranks the participating

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s (NPCs) by the number of gold medals won by their athletes during the competition. The 2016 Paralympics was the fifteenth

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to be held, a quadrennial competition open to athletes with physical and

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. The games were held in

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from 7 September to 18 September. Athletes from 63 NPCs won at least one gold medal, with a total of 83 having won at least one medal of any colour. Athletes from

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, and

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won their first Paralympic medals. Of those nations, the

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had had never won an Olympic medal until

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won their first medals at the Summer Paralympics, having previously won a silver medal at the Winter Paralympic Games. Georgia, Kazakhstan,

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, and Vietnam won their first Paralympic gold medals. For the fourth consecutive games,

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topped the table, with 107 gold medals and 239 in total; their best result of any games to date.

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followed in second place, with 64 gold and 147 total medals.

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finished in third place, with 41 gold and 117 total medals, its most medals and highest finish to date.

Medal table

The ranking in this table is based on information provided by the

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(IPC) and is consistent with IPC convention in its published medal tables. By default, the table is ordered by the number of gold medals the athletes from a nation have won (in this context, a nation is an entity represented by a

). The number of silver medals is next considered, followed by the number of bronze medals. If nations remain tied, they are ranked equally and listed alphabetically by IPC country code. In the

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competition, an additional thirteen bronze medals were awarded as the winners of the two

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brackets (for those who lost to the eventual finalists) each received a bronze medal. The swimming also saw multiple instances of the same medals being awarded, in the men's 100m backstroke S11, both Wojciech Makowski and Bradley Snyder swam a dead heat in the final and were both awarded a silver medal, resulting in no bronze medal being given that for event, in the men's 100m breaststroke SB13, both Oleksii Fedyna and Firdavsbek Musabekov swam a dead heat in the final and were both awarded a gold medal, resulting in no silver medal being given that for event. In both the women's 50, freestyle S11, two bronze medals were awarded each as two swimmers set the same time in third place. No bronze medal was awarded in the 4 × 400 Relay as only two teams completed the event. Therefore, the total number of bronze medals is greater than the total number of gold or silver medals.

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Medal table

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