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Several athletes with disabilities have competed in both the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games. New Zealander Neroli Fairhall was the first paraplegic competitor in the Olympic Games. After competing in the 1980 Summer Paralympics , Fairhall won gold when archery was held during the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane .
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 athlete only include games when they won medals. See the particular article on the athlete for more details on when and for what nation an athlete competed.
International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Retrieved 3 April 2010 . The information from the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) website is based on sources which does not present all information from earlier Paralympic Games (1960–1984), such as relay and team members.
Paralympic swimmers participate in four different lengths: 50 metre, 100 metre, 150 metre (SM3 individual medley events) 200 metre and 400 metre (individual medley events). In the beginning of the Paralympic Games , they competed in three lengths: 25 metre, 50 metre and 75 metre events, 25 metre and 75 metre events were abolished in the 1988 ...
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 ...
The 100 metres sprint has been one of original track events in the Summer Paralympics since 1968. The first track events were for male wheelchair competitors only (female wheelchair competitors took part in 60m sprints in that year, they took part in the 100m sprint in 1976). Able-bodied athletes took part in track events in 1976.
1.2 Amputee athletes. 1.3 Blind athletes. ... 400m sprint events began in the 1976 Summer Paralympics was open to both male and female wheelchair competitors.
Paralympic athletes for the Soviet Union (1 C, 3 P) Paralympic athletes for Spain (107 P) Paralympic athletes for Sri Lanka (6 P) Paralympic athletes for Sweden (13 P)