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The 1996 Summer Paralympics medal table is a list of National Paralympic Committees (NPCs) ranked by the number of gold medals won by their athletes during the 1996 Summer Paralympics, held in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, from August 16 to August 25, 1996.
The 1996 Paralympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, were held from August 16 to 25. It was the first Paralympics to get mass media sponsorship, [1] and had a budget of USD $81 million. [2] It was the first Paralympic Games where International Sports Federation for Persons with an Intellectual Disability athletes were given full medal ...
This is a list of multiple Paralympic gold medalists, listing people who have won ten or more gold medals at the Paralympic Games. The Paralympics listed for each ...
Medal Host Number of medal events Medals awarded Athlete(s) with the most medals (Gold-Silver-Bronze) Gold Silver Bronze Total 1960: winners: table: Rome, Italy: 113 113 94 84 291 Maria Scutti (9–1–2) Athletics 1964: winners: table: Tokyo, Japan: 144 144 138 136 418 Dean Slaugh (4–0–0) Archery Serge Bec (3–1–0) Wheelchair Fencing
Janelle Cherie Falzon, OAM [1] (born 4 April 1981) [2] is an Australian paralympic swimmer. She was born in Sydney, New South Wales. [3] At the 1996 Summer Paralympics, she won a gold medal in the Women's 4 × 100 m Freestyle S7-10 event, [4] for which she won a Medal of the Order of Australia, [1] and two bronze medals in the Women's 100 m Backstroke S8 and Women's 400 m Freestyle S8 events. [4]
Australian gold medalist Priya Cooper after presentation ceremony. Swimming at the 1996 Summer Paralympics consisted of 168 events, 87 for men and 81 for women. Because of a tie in the men's 100 m freestyle S4 event, a total of 169 bronze medals were awarded.
Cooper was a co-captain of the Australian team at the 1996 Summer Paralympics, [3] [13] where she competed in six individual events and two relay events in the S8 class, [4] [14] winning five gold medals, [15] four individual and one team, one silver medal and one bronze medal. She set world records at the 1996 Paralympic Games in Atlanta in ...
Australian and American athletes at the 1996 Summer Paralympics. The United States was the host nation for the 1996 Summer Paralympics in Atlanta, Georgia . Its athletes finished first in the gold and overall medal count.