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Tables of both men's and women's competitions of participating nations who took part in goalball including rank classifications during the tournament. Key- : denotes nation did not compete in that year. X : denotes nation participated but didn't advance to the final rounds. Q : denotes qualified for the next Paralympic Games.
The ball's diameter is around 24 centimetres (9.4 in). [5] A non-official ball of about 0.9 kilograms (2.0 lb) has also been produced by several companies for use by younger players. At the Paralympic level, the ball has been measured leaving the hand in excess of 60 kilometres per hour (37 mph).
Goalball at the XV Paralympic Games Venue Future Arena Dates 8–16 September 2016 Competitors 120 from 14 nations Medalists Lithuania (men) Turkey (women) United States (men) China (women) Brazil (men) United States (women) ← 2012 2020 → Goalball at the 2016 Summer Paralympics Tournament men women Rosters men women
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The Paralympic sports comprise all the sports contested in the Summer and Winter Paralympic Games. As of 2020, the Summer Paralympics included 22 sports and 539 medal events, [1] and the Winter Paralympics include 5 sports and disciplines and about 80 events. [2] The number and kinds of events may change from one Paralympic Games to another.
The men’s wheelchair basketball team will also be looking to defend its title and win its third gold medal. Paralympic events differ from the Olympics in that for each sporting event the ...
The US once dominated the Paralympics in the same way it does the Olympic Games. Between 1976 and 1996, Team USA topped the medal table at every single Paralympics.
In the first edition of the Summer Paralympic Games in 1960, Italy finished the sport in the first place of the medal table, between 1964 and 1996 there was a clear dominance of the United States, being broken in 2000, when Australia dominated the sport at home and since 2004, China has dominated the sport.