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made its

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debut at the

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, where it fielded thirteen athletes, who won two medals (a gold and a silver). Since then, the country has competed in every edition of the

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. Despite its climate, and despite having participated in every edition (bar one) of the

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, Iceland has been a highly infrequent participant in the

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. It made its Winter Paralympics debut at the 1994 Winter Paralympics, sending just one representative, Svanur Ingvarsson in ice sledge speed racing. The country was then absent from the Winter Paralympics for sixteen years, before making its return at the 2010 Games in Vancouver - again with just one athlete, Erna Friðriksdóttir in

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. Icelandic athletes have won a total of sixty-one Paralympic medals, all at the Summer Games: fourteen gold, thirteen silver and thirty-four bronze. This places Iceland in forty-seventh place on the

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.Iceland at the Paralympics
International Paralympic Committee This medal table also includes the 22 medals (10 gold, 6 silvers and 6 bronze) won at the 1992 Summer Paralympics for Intellectually Disabled, held in

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, who also organized by then International Coordenation Committee (ICC) and same Organizing Committee (COOB'92) who made the gestion of the 1992 Summer Paralympics held in

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and also part of same event. But the results are not on the International Paralympic Committee 's (IPC) database.

Medal tallies

Summer Paralympics

Medalists

See also

References