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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.
1984 Los Angeles Olympics included Men's 1500m and Women's 800m wheelchair races as demonstration events. 1984: The term Paralympic Games approved by the IOC. [2] It was used in the lead up to the 1988 Seoul Paralympics. [1] 1988: 15–24 October - Seoul Summer Paralympics - 3057 athletes from 61
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 .
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 Paralympiads Medals awarded Athlete(s) with the most medals Gold Silver Bronze Total Dartchery: 1960–1980 6 12 12
The team then improved to a fourth-place finish in 2016, and third in 2020, and unexpectedly finished first at the 2018 Winter Paralympics. The United States was the co-host of the 1984 Summer Paralympics in Stoke Mandeville and New York. It also hosted the 1996 Summer Paralympics in Atlanta and 2002 Winter Paralympics in Salt Lake City.
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. Visually impaired athletes participate in running events with the help of a sighted guide , to whom they may be attached by a tether .
Athletics was one of the first eight sports to be competed in the Summer Paralympics which began in 1960. [1] At the time it debuted, only track events were held: club throw, javelin throw, pentathlon (for male athletes) precision club throw and shot put which held between men and women. They were held between three classes per event: class A ...