From sled hockey to para Nordic skiing, wheelchair curling and para snowboard, the Paralympic Winter Games always have given the world much to look forward to every four years. Ever since the first Olympic-style games for athletes with disabilities took place in 1960, hundreds of athletes with disabilities come together from across the world to participate in one of the world's biggest winter sporting events. With 79 medal events across six Paralympic Sports, the 2026 Milan Cortina Paralympics promise the same level of competition, excitement, and community as years past.

With the Milan Cortina Paralympics just 100 days away, here's a look back at some of the most memorable moments from past Paralympics.

The 2018 Paralympic sled hockey final between the United States and Canada was a tense yet thrilling final that went into overtime and saw the United States win an unprecedented third-straight Paralympic gold medal. After Cananda took the lead in the first period, the United States' Declan Farmer scored the game-tying goal in the last minute of the third period. Farmer netted a second goal in overtime to win the gold medal for the United States. 

In one of the more emotional moments at the Paralympic Games, Ukraine completed a double podium sweep in para biathlon. Ukraine's Vitaliy Lukyanenko, Anatolii Kovalevskyi and Dmytro Suiarko completed a 1-2-3 finish in the men's sprint vision impaired event in biathlon. Emotions were running high for all three athletes as they competed days after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Ukraine's Iryna Bui, Oleksandra Kononova and Liudmyla Liashenko swept the podium in the women's middle distance 10km race just hours earlier.

China's Wang Chenyang surprised the world when he won cross-country gold in the men's middle-distance standing race at the 2022 Paralympic Winter Games. The 20-year-old Chinese skier, who lost his arms at age 11, stunned five-time Paralympic champion Benjamin Daviet of France by just 1.3 seconds. 

The Aigner sisters made history in Beijing after Veronika Aigner won gold in the women's giant slalom vision impaired with her sister Elisabeth Aigner as her guide. Their sister, Barbara Aigner, claimed bronze in the event with her guide Klara Sykora. Barbara's twin, Johannes Aigner, made history of his own in Beijing after becoming the first Austrian athlete to win five Para alpine skiing medals at the same Paralympics. Together, the sibling claimed a total of nine medal in Beijing and would have placed eighth in the medal table if they were their own country.

China claimed its first medal in sled hockey on home ice in Beijing after defeating PyeongChang bronze medalists South Korea, 4-0, in the bronze medal match. Shen Yifeng, Wang Zhidong, and Li Hongguan scored goals to secure the bronze medal, which came just five years after the Chinese sled hockey program came into existence. 

After reinjuring her elbow in biathlon the day before, the United States' Oksana Masters came back to defeat her competition in the sprint in cross-country skiing - sitting event and win her first Paralympic gold medal at the 2018 Paralympic Games. Masters had fractured her arm just a few weeks before the Games, and although she was told not to compete, she recovered quickly enough to not only compete, but also to claim a silver medal in the 6km sitting event.

In a tender moment in Beijing, Austria's Carina Edlinger gave her guide dog Riley his medal as she received her bronze medal with her guide Lorenz Josef Lampl in cross-country skiing.