Where are the Paralympic Games taking place?
The Milano Cortina 2026 Paralympic Winter Games will be hosted by the Italian cities of Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo.
The Games will mark the 50th anniversary of the first Paralympic Winter Games and also see the Games return to Italy for the second time in history, 20 years after Torino 2006.
When are the Paralympic Games taking place?
The Paralympics will take place from 6 to 15 March 2026.
Will the flame be lit at Stoke Mandeville Stadium?
Stoke Mandeville Stadium will host a leg of the torch relay. Find out more about the Paralympic Torch relay here.
How do I purchase tickets?
Discover how to buy tickets for all the sessions of the upcoming Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games here.
Paralympic Games Schedule
Around 600 athletes will compete in 79 medal events across six sports – Para alpine skiing, Para biathlon, Para cross-country skiing, Para ice hockey, Para snowboard and wheelchair curling. One new medal event, the wheelchair curling mixed doubles will be featured for the first time.
The Opening Ceremony will take place on 6 March 2026 in the Arena di Verona and The Closing Ceremony will take place on 15 March 2026 in the renovated Cortina Curling Stadium, former venue of the 1956 Olympic Winter Games.
View the full schedule here.
When are the next Summer Paralympic Games?
The LA28 Paralympic Games will take place between 15-27 August 2028.
22 sports have been included by the in the initial sport programme for LA28. There will be 552 medal events and a total of 4,400 athlete quota places – the same number of quota places as for Paris 2024 and Tokyo 2020.
Across the 22 sports, there will be 243 medal events for female athletes (44 per cent), eight more than for Paris 2024, while the number of medal events for male athletes has been reduced by eight to 263 (48 per cent). The number of open or mixed gender medal events has increased by three to 46 (eight per cent).
Of the 4,400 athlete quota places available across the 22 sports initially included, 1,967 are for female Para athletes (45 per cent), 107 more than for Paris 2024. There will be 2,228 quota slots for male Para athletes (51 per cent), 27 more than Paris 2024, and 205 gender-free slots (five per cent), a reduction of 134 places.
For the second successive Paralympic Games, the men’s and women’s medal events in goalball, sitting volleyball and wheelchair basketball will each feature eight teams. Eight teams will also contest the blind football and wheelchair rugby competitions.
Para climbing, a sport proposed by the Organising Committee will make its Paralympic debut at LA28, will have eight medal events (four male and four female) and have a maximum of 10 athletes contesting each medal event.
