Canada has participated eleven times in the Summer Paralympic Games and in all Winter Paralympic Games. They first competed at the Summer Games in 1968 and the Winter Games in 1976.

At the 2000 Summer Paralympics, Stephanie Dixon set the Canadian record for most gold medals at a single Paralympics, Winter or Summer, with five.^[1]

At the 2002 Winter Paralympics, Canada set a new total Canadian gold medal record haul at a Winter Paralympics, with six.^[2]

At the 2004 Summer Paralympics, Chantal Petitclerc & Benoit Huot tied the five gold medal record at a single Games.^[1] Petitclerc also won the demonstration sport of Wheelchair Racing in the 2004 Summer Olympics.

At the 2008 Summer Paralympics, Chantal Petitclerc again tied the five gold medal record at a single Games.^[1]

In 2010, Brian McKeever of Canada became the first athlete in the world to be named to the Winter Paralympics and Winter Olympics teams in the same year. At the 2010 Winter Olympics, he was scheduled to compete in the men's 50 km cross-country race.^[3][4][5]

At the 2010 Winter Paralympics, Viviane Forest became the first para-athlete to win a gold in both the Winter and Summer Games, by winning the Women's Downhill for Visually Impaired. She had previously won gold in the 2000 and 2004 Summer Paralympics for women's goalball.^[6][7]

Lauren Woolstencroft became the first Canadian to win three gold medals at the same Winter Paralympics, at the 2010 edition;^[8] this was eventually upped to five golds. With her fourth gold medal, she helped Canada set a record for most gold medals at any Winter Paralympic Games by winning the seventh medal. The previous mark was six, set at the 2002 Salt Lake City Paralympics.^[2] With her fifth gold medal, she set the record for most gold medals won by any Winter Paralympian at a single Games, and she tied the record for gold medal haul of any Canadian Paralympian at a single Games, tying Chantal Petitclerc (who did the feat twice), Dixon, and Benoit Huot both Summer Paralympians.^[1] Her five gold medals are also the record for any Canadian Winter Paralympian or Olympian.^[9]

At the 2010 Games, Canada collected the most total medals and the most gold medals of any Winter Paralympics, up through 2010 for Canada, with 19 total medals, and 10 golds.^[10]

At the 2018 Winter Paralympics, cross country skier McKeever became Canada's most decorated Winter Paralympian when he won a 14th medal in five Games from 2002 to 2018, passing the late Lana Spreeman, who won 13 medals in para-alpine skiing between 1980 and 1994.^[11]

Canada has hosted the Games twice.

In 1976, and in 2010, Canada also hosted the Olympic Games counterpart, the 1976 Summer Olympics and the 2010 Winter Olympics respectively. Canada did not host the Paralympic Games counterpart to the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta; this was the last Winter Olympics that the host city did not also host the Winter Paralympics. The 1988 Summer Paralympics was the first Paralympics to be linked to the hosting of the Summer Olympics. The 1976 Summer Olympics were hosted in Montreal, and not linked to the Toronto Paralympiad.

The ranking in these table is based on information provided by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) and is consistent with IPC convention in its published medal tables, ordered first of all by the number of gold medals the athletes from a nation have won, followed by the number of silver medals and then the number of bronze medals.

Red border colour indicates host nation status.

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Medals by Summer Games Games Gold Silver Bronze Total Rank by Gold medals Rank by Total medals 1968 Tel-Aviv 6 6 7 19 12 12 1972 Heidelberg 5 6 8 19 13 10 1976 Toronto 25 26 26 77 6 6 1980 Arnhem 64 35 31 130 4 4 1984 New York 1984 Stoke Mandeville 87 82 69 238 3 3 1988 Seoul 55 42 55 130 4 4 1992 Barcelona 29 23 29 81 7 7 1996 Atlanta 24 21 24 69 7 7 2000 Sydney 38 35 25 98 3 5 2004 Athens 28 19 25 72 3 7 2008 Beijing 19 10 21 50 7 10 2012 London 7 15 9 31 20 13 2016 Rio de Janeiro 8 10 11 29 14 14 2020 Tokyo 5 10 6 21 23 19 2024 Paris Future event 2028 Los Angeles Future event Total 400 340 346 1086 4 7

Medals by Winter Games Games Gold Silver Bronze Total Rank by Gold medals Rank by Total medals 1976 Örnsköldsvik 2 0 2 4 9 8 1980 Geilo 2 3 1 6 8 7 1984 Innsbruck 2 8 4 14 10 8 1988 Innsbruck 5 3 5 13 8 9 1992 Tignes-Albertville 2 4 6 12 9 9 1994 Lillehammer 1 2 5 8 14 13 1998 Nagano 1 9 5 15 15 10 2002 Salt Lake City 6 4 5 15 6 7 2006 Turin 5 3 5 13 6 6 2010 Vancouver 10 5 4 19 3 3 2014 Sochi 7 2 7 16 3 4 2018 Pyeongchang 8 4 16 28 3 2 2022 Beijing 8 6 11 25 3 3 2026 Milan-Cortina Future event Total 58 52 76 186 8 7

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Medals by summer sport Medals by sport   Leading in that sport Sport Gold Silver Bronze Total Athletics 198 162 166 526 Swimming 163 123 123 409 Road cycling 9 8 9 26 Wheelchair basketball 6 1 1 8 Lawn bowls 4 1 2 7 Wrestling 3 7 0 10 Shooting 3 3 1 7 Archery 3 0 1 4 Goalball 2 1 3 6 Boccia 1 3 5 9 Equestrian 1 2 6 9 Table tennis 1 1 4 6 Sailing 1 1 2 4 Snooker 1 0 0 1 Track cycling 0 5 5 10 Powerlifting 0 3 0 3 Wheelchair rugby 0 2 1 3 Football 7-a-side 0 1 0 1 Paratriathlon 0 1 0 1 Volleyball 0 1 0 1 Judo 0 0 4 4 Rowing 0 0 1 1 Totals (22 entries) 396 326 334 1056

Medals by winter sport Medals by sport   Leading in that sport Sport Gold Silver Bronze Total Alpine skiing 27 38 49 114 Cross-country skiing 25 7 14 46 Wheelchair curling 3 0 2 5 Biathlon 2 3 8 13 Para ice hockey 1 3 2 6 Snowboarding 1 1 0 2 Totals (6 entries) 59 52 75 186

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Best results in non-medaling sports:

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Summer
Sport	Rank	Athlete	Event & Year
Badminton	8th	Olivia Meier	Women's singles SL4 in 2020
Football 5-a-side	did not participate
Paracanoe	4th	Christine Gauthier	Women's KL2 in 2016
Parataekwondo	did not participate
Wheelchair fencing	7th	Pierre Mainville	Men's individual sabre B in 2012
Wheelchair tennis	4th	Sarah Hunter & Brian McPhate	Quad doubles in 2004

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• Canada at the Olympics
• Canada at the Commonwealth Games
• Canada at the Pan American Games