Great Britain and Northern Ireland competed, under the name Great Britain, at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 7 September to 18 September 2016. The first places for which the team qualified were for six athletes in sailing events.

Administration On 19 November 2014, the British Paralympic Association announced the appointment of Penny Briscoe as chef-de-mission to the British Paralympic team at Rio 2016. The Association's President Tim Reddish OBE was Head of Delegation, while CEO Tim Hollingsworth was Secretary General. On 3 August 2015, the BPA announced that Anna Scott-Marshall would replace Jane Jones as Deputy Secretary General of the British delegation.

Tim Reddish OBE – Head of Delegation Penny Briscoe – Chef de Mission David Courell – Deputy Chef de Mission Georgina Sharples – Deputy Chef de Mission Tim Hollingsworth – Secretary General Anna Scott-Marshall – Deputy Secretary General Dr Stuart Miller – Chief Medical Officer Tash Carpenter – Chief Press Officer

Funding As with previous Games UK Sport was the body responsible for allocating elite funding for Paralympic sports. In December 2012 a record £347 million of funding for Olympic and Paralympic athletes was announced with the aim of becoming the first nation in recent history to win more medals at the Games following being the host nation.

Three sports, wheelchair fencing, goalball and five-a-side football, had all their funding withdrawn, a decision that was confirmed following an appeal process. On the 5 February 2015, UK Sport announced that funding would be restored to wheelchair fencing for the Rio cycle.

Medal and performance targets

UK Sport targeted at least 121 medals for Rio to surpass the 120 medals won at the 2012 Games in London, setting the target range as 113-165 medals. The GB squad surpassed this target on 16 September and finished with a total of 147 medals, which was their best medal haul since the 1988 Summer Paralympics in Seoul, South Korea. The team won medals in 15 sports, and won gold across 11 sports, which eclipsed even China who medalled in 13 sports and topped the podium in 9 sports. It was only the second time that a country had won gold medals across so many sports matching the achievement of China in 2008.

Key Target missed Target met Target exceeded

Sport Medals target set Medals or resultTarget missed, met, or exceededArchery 3-6 6Athletics 28-34 33Boccia 2–5 1Cycling 16–22 21 Equestrian 8-11 11Football 7-a-side 0 0Judo 2–4 0Para-Canoe 2–3 5 Para-Triathlon 3-7 4Powerlifting 1-3 2Rowing 2–3 4Sailing 2–3 2 Shooting 2-5 0Swimming 35-45 47Table Tennis 4–6 3Wheelchair Basketball 0–2 1 Wheelchair Fencing 1-2 1Wheelchair Rugby 0-1 0Wheelchair Tennis 2–3 6Total 113-165 147

Competitors

Dame Sarah Storey DBE, the track and road cyclist, and Wheelchair Basketball player Simon Munn participated at their seventh Paralympic Games. Storey celebrated this achievement by becoming Great Britain's most successful female paralympian.

The youngest athlete on the team was thirteen-year-old swimmer Abby Kane. Anne Dunham MBE was the oldest member of the team at 67, bringing four Games worth of experience to a team of equestrian riders. Both athletes won medals during 11 days of competition.

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games. Note that guides in Athletics and Para-Triathlon, competition partners in Boccia, and pilots in Cycling are counted as athletes:

| style="text-align:left; width:78%; vertical-align:top;"| SportMenWomenTotalArchery 6 5 11Athletics 29 26 55Boccia 9 5 14Cycling 10 10 20Equestrian 1 4 5Football 7-a-side 14 0 14Judo 4 1 5Paracanoeing 3 3 6Paratriathlon 6 7 13Powerlifting 2 2 4Rowing 5 4 9Sailing 3 3 6Shooting 8 3 11Swimming 15 15 30Table Tennis 10 3 13Wheelchair Basketball 12 12 24Wheelchair Fencing 2 1 3Wheelchair Rugby 11 1 12Wheelchair Tennis 7 3 10 Total 157 108 265

Disability classifications

Every participant at the Paralympics has their disability grouped into one of five disability categories; amputation, the condition may be congenital or sustained through injury or illness; cerebral palsy; wheelchair athletes, there is often overlap between this and other categories; visual impairment, including blindness; Les autres, any physical disability that does not fall strictly under one of the other categories, for example dwarfism or multiple sclerosis. Each Paralympic sport then has its own classifications, dependent upon the specific physical demands of competition. Events are given a code, made of numbers and letters, describing the type of event and classification of the athletes competing. Some sports, such as athletics, divide athletes by both the category and severity of their disabilities, other sports, for example swimming, group competitors from different categories together, the only separation being based on the severity of the disability.

Medallists

The following British competitors won medals at the Games. In the 'by discipline' sections below, medallists' names are in bold.

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