18 * The Guardian | Monday 10 September 2012 The Guardian | Monday 10 September 2012 * 19 2012 The Paralympics in numbers 34 GOLD 36 GOLD

The top 25 medal winners 10 4,269 9 7 athletes went to the Paralympics. Among those who were the single 10th representative of their countries 3rd 12th was Rim Ju Song of North Korea 20th Great Britain 2nd 9 South Korea Canada 9 14 Russia 31 10 28 38 9 GOLD BRONZE SILVER 15 43 43 19 39 27 21 164 BRONZE SILVER 95 GOLD The number of diff erent disciplines countries sent athletes, and GB’s 31 9th in which Paralympians competed was the biggest delegation, with 18 Poland 294 members 8 102 120 9 13 32 MEDALS MEDALS GOLD 6th 19th 22 8th 36 22 40 USA Ireland 5 8 Germany 26 of GB’s gold GB athletes won gold 3 medallists are in 34 events, including women, and 18 mixed cox four rowing 16 of them are men 16th 19 29 5 38 SILVER 4th BRONZE 18 25th 1st 98 9 66 3 Ukraine £45m MEDALS Belarus 9 2 The expected total revenue from tickets sold for the Paralympics 6 5 10 28 24 45 BRONZE SILVER 11 3 15th 11 23rd Cuba 8 13th Italy 8 84 17 MEDALS 64 13 4 16 17th 18 65 71 Spain 9 BRONZE SILVER Age of the oldest GB Age of the youngest 21 21 28 competitor, archer British Paralympian, 10  Kate Murray swimmer Chloe Davis 5 5 231 MEDALS 6 14th 5 8 Tunisia 32 6 5 11th 7 GOLD 24th 7th 42 22nd Iran Japan 6.3m 11.2m Nigeria 19 2 7 The number of viewers who saw at Viewers watched at least fi ve 5 least fi ve minutes of the T43/T44 minutes of the Paralympic 8 100m fi nal, won by Jonnie Peacock Games opening ceremony ▼ 13 24 16 14 43 12 Rest of the world 18th 5th 6 26 Algeria 36 Belgium 46 UAE 52 Jamaica 65 Singapore South Africa Australia 27 Azerbaijan 37 Morocco 47 Latvia 52 Macedonia 67 Cyprus 9 21st 28 Egypt 38 Hungary 47 Namibia 58 Croatia 67 Ethiopia 4 New 7 29 Sweden 39 Serbia 47 Romania 59 Bulgaria 67 India 30 23 Zealand 30 Austria 40 Kenya 50 Denmark 59 Iraq 67 Saudi Arabia BRONZE SILVER 31 Thailand 41 Slovakia 51 Angola 61 Colombia 67 Slovenia 29 32 Finland 42 Czech Rep. 52 Bosnia Herz. 62 Argentina 67 Uzbekistan 33 43 Turkey 52 Chile 63 Portugal 73 Venezuela 85 17 34 Hong Kong 44 Greece 52 Fiji 63 Taiwan 74 Indonesia MEDALS 35 Norway 45 Israel 52 Iceland 65 Malaysia 74 Sri Lanka

Team GB medals by sport GRAPHIC: PAUL SCRUTON, MICHAEL ROBINSON Archery Athletics Boccia Cycling (Road) Cycling (Track) Equestrian Judo Power– Rowing Sailing Shooting Table Wheelchair 176 57 lifting tennis tennis The number of classifi cations for The number of classifi cations in the 2 29 2 7 15 11 2 1 2 3 39 diff erent levels of impairment discipline with the most divisions – medals medals medals medals medals medals medals 1 medal medals medals medals 4 2 within all Paralympics disciplines athletics, including track and fi eld medal medals medals 3cm How much taller  Oscar Pistorius (left) was than Alan Oliveira in the blades they wore when the latter triumphed in the T43/44 200m fi nal 4cm The length Oliveira legally extended his blades by – three weeks before Games – leading Pistorius to cry foul

Tickets sold London 2012 2008 8 Sydney 4 1 , 9 9 2 12 565 2000 Golds won by the most-decorated Athens Number of golds won by each of Total number of medals awarded number of years Dutch wheelchair records were broken at the Games, 2004 athlete in the Games, swimmer GB’s two most-decorated athletes, in the London tennis player  Esther Vergeer of which 232 were world records Jacqueline Freney of Australia 1.2m 0.85m 1.8m 2.7m wheelchair racer  (left) has been world singles champion and 333 were Paralympic records and cyclist Sarah Storey (right)