Kazakhstan, having become independent in 1991, made its
Paralympic Games début at the
1994 Winter Paralympics in
Lillehammer, with merely two athletes competing in cross-country skiing and biathlon. The country has competed in every edition of the Summer and Winter Paralympics since then. Kazakhstan has obtained only one Paralympic medal: a silver in cross-country skiing, won by
Lubov Vorobieva during the country's inaugural participation in the Games in 1994.[1] Along with
Liechtenstein, Kazakhstan was the only participating country to have won a medal only at the
Winter Paralympic Games, until
end to 2016.[2]