2022 Winter Paralympics

XIII Paralympic Winter Games
Host city	Beijing, China
Motto	Joyful Rendezvous Upon Pure Ice and Snow; (Chinese: 纯洁的冰雪，激情的约会)
Events	78 in 6 sports
Opening	4 March
Closing	13 March
Opened by	President Xi Jinping (expected)
Stadium	Beijing National Stadium
	Winter ← PyeongChang 2018 Milan-Cortina 2026 → Summer ← Tokyo 2020 Paris 2024 →

The 2022 Winter Paralympics (Chinese: 2022年冬季残疾人奥林匹克运动会; pinyin: 2022 Nián Dōngjì Cánjí Rén Àolínpǐkè Yùndònghuì), officially known as the XIII Paralympic Winter Games and commonly known as Beijing 2022 Paralympic Games is an international winter multi-sport event for disabled athletes that is scheduled to take place in Beijing, People's Republic of China, from 4 to 13 March 2022.

Beijing will become the first city to host both the Summer and Winter Paralympics. These games will be the first Winter Paralympics held in China.

The Games[]

Sports[]

78 events in 6 sports will be held during the 2022 Winter Paralympics. In June 2019, the IPC dropped four of the six proposed disciplines for women's snowboarding (leaving only LL2 banked slalom and snowboard cross), as they did not meet the required viability benchmarks during the World Para Snowboard Championships.^[1]

Alpine skiing (30) ()
Biathlon (18) ()
Cross-country skiing (20) ()
Para ice hockey (1) (details)
Snowboarding (8) ()
Wheelchair curling (1) ()

Venues[]

Paralympic clusters

Beijing Cluster[]

Olympic Green venues

Beijing National Aquatics Center – curling
Beijing National Indoor Stadium – ice sledge hockey
Beijing National Stadium – opening and closing ceremonies
Beijing Paralympic Village
China National Convention Center – MPC/IBC

Yanqing Cluster[]

Xiaohaituo Alpine Skiing Field – alpine skiing
Yanqing MMC: Media Center
Yanqing Paralympic Village

Zhangjiakou Cluster[]

Kuyangshu Biathlon Field – cross-country skiing
Hualindong Ski Resort – biathlon
Genting Hotel – Media Center
Taiwu Ski Resort – snowboarding
Zhangjiakou Paralympic Village

Participating nations[]

On 9 December 2019, the World 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 the Russian Anti-Doping Agency being reinstated. As a result of the ban, WADA will allow individually cleared to take part in the 2022 Winter Paralympics under a neutral banner, as instigated at the 2018 Winter Paralympics, but they will not be permitted to compete in team sports. On 26 April 2021, it was confirmed Russian athletes would represent the Russian Paralympic Committee, with the acronym "RPC".^[2]

As of 26 June 2021, the following 6 National Paralympic Committees have qualified.

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(Host) ‍^[a]

^ Neutral athletes from Russia, competing under the flag of the Russian Paralympic Committee

Calendar[]

In the following calendar for the 2022 Winter Paralympics, each blue box represents an event competition. The yellow boxes represent days during which medal-awarding finals for a sport are held. The number in each yellow box represents the number of finals that are contested on that day.^[3]

●	Opening ceremony		Event competitions		Event finals	●	Closing ceremony

March	Fri 4th	Sat 5th	Sun 6th	Mon 7th	Tue 8th	Wed 9th	Thu 10th	Fri 11th	Sat 12th	Sun 13th	Gold Medals
Ceremonies	OC									CC	N/A
		6	6		6		3	3	3	3	30
		6			6			6			18
			2	4		6			6	2	20
Para ice hockey		●	●		●	●	●	●	●	1	1
			●	3				●	3		6
		●	●	●	●	●	●	●	1		1
Total	0	12	8	7	12	6	3	9	12	6	76

Branding[]

Emblem[]

The official emblem "Flying High" (飞得很高) was unveiled on 15 December 2017 at the Beijing National Aquatics Center. It is an inspiration of a skater and skier with a ribbon motif and the Chinese character "飞" (fēi, means fly), with the Paralympic colors and the Chinese flag colors. The emblem was designed by Lin Cunzhen who also created the Olympic emblem and the Nanjing 2014 Summer Youth Olympics logo.^[4]

On September 6, 2020, the Beijing Organising Committee for the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games announced that after communicating with the International Paralympic Committee to confirm, the existing 2022 Winter Paralympic Games emblem will be updated. The updated emblem adopts the same emblem collocation as the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris: the English words "PARALYMPIC GAMES" are removed, and the repainted and colored emblem of the International Paralympic Committee announced in 2019 is used instead. The organizing committee stated that this update "injects new vitality into the emblem."^[5]

Mascot[]

The mascot "Shuey Rhon Rhon" (Chinese: 雪容融; pinyin: Xuě Róng Róng) was unveiled on 17 September 2019 at the and was designed by Jiang Yufan.^[6] The mascot is designed with lanterns as the prototype. Lanterns represent harvest, celebration, warmth and light. The wishful shape at the top symbolizes auspicious happiness; the continuous pattern of the dove of peace and the Temple of Heaven symbolizes the peaceful friendship and highlights the characteristics of the place where the place is held; the decorative pattern incorporates the traditional Chinese paper-cut art; the snow on the face represents the meaning of "a fall of seasonable snow gives promise of a fruitful year" (Chinese: 瑞雪兆丰年; pinyin: Ruìxuě zhào fēngnián). It also reflects the anthropomorphic design and highlights the mascot's cuteness.

Notes[]

^ "IPC Governing Board meet in Rome". International Paralympic Committee. 27 June 2019. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
^ "IPC confirm details regarding RPC's Paralympic Games participation". International Paralympic Committee. 26 April 2021. Retrieved 20 May 2021.
^ "Beijing 2022 Paralympic Winter Games Competition Schedule Version 2.3" (PDF). Beijing 2022 Official Website. Retrieved 30 March 2021.
^ "Beijing 2022 unveils official Paralympic emblem". International Paralympic Committee. Archived from the original on 10 March 2018. Retrieved 15 December 2017.
^ "对标国际残奥委会新标志北京冬残奥会会徽修改_冬奥会". www.beijing2022.cn. Archived from the original on 2 January 2021. Retrieved 9 September 2020.
^ "北京2022年冬残奥会吉祥物阐释". beijing2022.cn. 17 September 2019.

External links[]

Official website

Preceded by Pyeongchang	Winter Paralympics Beijing XIII Paralympic Winter Games (2022)	Succeeded by Milan–Cortina

[3] Neutral athletes from Russia, competing under the flag of the Russian Paralympic Committee

[ipc-2023sports-1] "IPC Governing Board meet in Rome". International Paralympic Committee. 27 June 2019. Retrieved 27 April 2020.

[2] "IPC confirm details regarding RPC's Paralympic Games participation". International Paralympic Committee. 26 April 2021. Retrieved 20 May 2021.

[4] "Beijing 2022 Paralympic Winter Games Competition Schedule Version 2.3" (PDF). Beijing 2022 Official Website. Retrieved 30 March 2021.

[paralympic-2022emblem-5] "Beijing 2022 unveils official Paralympic emblem". International Paralympic Committee. Archived from the original on 10 March 2018. Retrieved 15 December 2017.

[6] "对标国际残奥委会新标志北京冬残奥会会徽修改_冬奥会". www.beijing2022.cn. Archived from the original on 2 January 2021. Retrieved 9 September 2020.

[7] "北京2022年冬残奥会吉祥物阐释". beijing2022.cn. 17 September 2019.

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