2006 Winter Paralympics
multi-parasport event in Turin, Italy
The 2006 Winter Paralympic Games (Italian: Giochi paralimpici invernali del 2006), the ninth Paralympic Winter Games, took place in Turin, Italy, from 10 to 19 March 2006. These were the first Winter Paralympic Games to be held in Italy. They were also the first Paralympics to use the new Paralympics logo.
20 years later, Italy hosted the Winter Paralympics again in 2026, which were held in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo.
Medal count
The top 10 NPCs by number of gold medals are listed below. The host nation (Italy) is highlighted.
Sports
The Games featured 58 medal events in five disciplines of four sports. As with other Paralympic Games, medals are awarded for each classification within each event. The sport of wheelchair curling made its Paralympic debut at these games.
Alpine skiing (24) ()
Ice sledge hockey (1) ()
Nordic skiing
Biathlon (12) ()
Cross-country skiing (20) ()
Wheelchair curling (1) ()
Venues
Five competition venues were used during the Winter Paralympics.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “2006 Winter Paralympics” is multi-parasport event in Turin, Italy. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Winter, Paralympics and multi-parasport, not as a finished interpretation.
Why this record matters
The phrase “multi-parasport event in Turin, Italy” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.
Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q749605. VIAF identifies the subject as 159344200. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2006 and 2026.
Institutional narratives can privilege the records that survived while minimizing voices that were never formally collected. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
How to read it
Compare institutional narratives with records created by participants and affected communities. Dates and formal titles are useful anchors, but not substitutes for context.
- Event chronology
- Institutional context
- Locating named record creators
Contemporary correspondence, government or organizational records, oral histories and cited historical scholarship.
Three-step research path
- Establish the record: confirm the title “2006 Winter Paralympics”, its source revision and the description used here.
- Expand the search: follow 2006 Winter Paralympics primary sources, 2006 Winter Paralympics archive and Winter research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
- Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.
Questions for further research
- Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “2006 Winter Paralympics”?
- Who created the surviving record, and for what administrative purpose?
- Which voices are present, absent or mediated by the institution?
Search terms from this dossier
This entry incorporates text from “2006 Winter Paralympics” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.