Winter Paralympics and Winter Olympics staged in same venue for the first time

Following the successful staging in the same venue of the Summer Paralympics and the Summer Olympics for the first time at the Seoul 1988 Games, the Winter Paralympics and Winter Olympics followed suit by being staged in 1992 in Tignes-Albertville in France.  Since these Winter Games, the Winter Paralympics and the Winter Olympics have been staged at the same destination and the same venue (though not at the same time due to logistics).

For the first time in the history of the Winter Paralympics, demonstration events in Alpine and Nordic Skiing for athletes with an intellectual disability and Biathlon for athletes with a visual impairment were held.

The official mascot at the Games was Alpy - designed by Vincent Thiebaut – who represented the summit of the Grande Motte mountain in Tignes.  Alpy was shown on a mono-ski to demonstrate athleticism and the colours of white, green and blue were used to represent purity/snow, hope/nature and discipline/the lake.

Of the 365 competitors at the Tignes-Albertville 1992 Winter Paralympics only 77 were women.

The medal table at the Games was topped for the first time by the USA who claimed 45 medals, 20 of which were gold.  Germany finished the medal table in second place while a Unified Team (the name used for the sports team of the former Soviet Union excluding the Baltic states) took third place.

The Tignes-Albertville 1992 Games also proved to be the last Games were the Winter Paralympics and Olympics were held in the same year as their Summer counterparts.

Date Games were held: March 21- April 1

Number of nations represented: 24

Number of competitors: 365

Number of medals awarded: 235