great_britain winter paralympics great_britain competed held france celebrated concurrently winter olympic games british team entered athletes disciplines contested games alpine skiing cross country skiing medals won british athletes silver bronze meaning britain placed fifteenth medal table remains great_britain second best winter paralympic medal total winter paralympics austria team won medals medals won alpine skiing events addition medal performances team fourteen finishes achievements british paralympic team winter games helped raise awareness sports disabled athletes following british athletes won medals games total medals won alpine skiing team finished fifteenth medal table best medal total great_britain discipline sections names bold team selection funding team athletes united_kingdom athletes northern_ireland later elect hold irish citizenship article irish constitution eligible represent great_britain time northern irish athletes took vancouver games summer games barcelona coordinated funding elite training programmes came set government grant disability classification participant paralympics disability grouped disability categories condition sustained injury illness cerebral wheelchair athletes overlap categories visual including les physical disability fall strictly categories example multiple paralympic sport classifications dependent specific physical demands competition events given code numbers letters describing type event classification athletes competing events code athletes visual codes athletes stand compete athletes compete sitting events contain target shooting component blind visually impaired athletes able compete use acoustic signals signal intensity varies dependent athlete target alpine skiing british alpine took games men events women britain medals games won alpine skiing events team silver medal won giant classification won bronze super missed silver medal run race officials started prematurely course sighted guide noticed took mountain complete race reigning world champion downhill won bronze medals downhill super giant events classification won bronze downhill british delegation filed protest claiming american ahead category medical committee rejected protest grounds classifications determined start competition win medals winter paralympics men women british men competed events visually impaired classifications athletes won medal highest placed finisher came sixth kilometres young competed cross country skiing events games men cross country skiing british men took cross country skiing games competed events athlete entered kilometres kilometres classification teamed kilometres relay team finished competing nations achieved best finish individual event sixth place previously won bronze medal event games brown failed place individual events men
Great Britain at the 1992 Winter Paralympics