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3 – 12 November - Tokyo Summer Paralympics - 375 athletes from 21 countries ; 144 events in 9 sports. Weightlifting added to the program. [4] Opening ceremony held in front of 5,000 spectators. [5] 1968: 4–13 November - Tel Aviv Summer Paralympics - 750 athletes from 29 countries ; 181 events in 10 sports. [4]
The Paralympic Games or Paralympics is a periodic series of international multisport events involving athletes with a range of disabilities. There are Winter and Summer Paralympic Games , which since the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea , have been held shortly after the corresponding Olympic Games .
This medal table also includes the medals won at the 1992 Summer Paralympics for Intellectually Disabled, held in Madrid, who also organized by then International Coordenation Committee (ICC) and same Organizing Committee (COOB'92) who made the gestion of the 1992 Summer Paralympics held in Barcelona and also part of same event.
Games 1st place med 2nd place med 3rd place med 1976 Örnsköldsvik West Germany 10 Switzerland 10 Finland 8 12: 1: 7 6: 1: 7 1980 Geilo Norway 23 Finland 15 Austria 6 21: 7: 10 10: 12
Discipline Contested Number of Medals awarded Athlete(s) with the most medals (Gold-Silver-Bronze) Paralympiads medal events in 2018 Gold Silver Bronze
There have also been other amputee medallists at the Olympic Games prior to the creation of the Paralympics. Olivér Halassy of Hungary, whose left leg was amputated below the knee, won three medals (two gold and a silver) in water polo, in 1928, 1932 and 1936. Károly Takács, also of Hungary, won gold in shooting at the 1948 Summer Olympics ...
This category contains articles listing chronological summaries of the Paralympics. Pages in category "Chronological summaries of the Paralympics" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
Athletics has been contested at every Summer Paralympics since the first games in 1960.Men and women from all disability groups compete in the sport. Some athletes use wheelchairs or prosthetic limbs and compete in their respective sport independently and under their own power.