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Deaf Hungarian fencer Ildikó Újlaky-Rejtő won two individual medals (a gold and a bronze) and five team medals at the Olympics between 1960 and 1976. She never competed at the Deaflympics, as fencing was never part of the event's programme. [1] [2] Several athletes with disabilities have competed in both the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games.
32–38: Athletes with cerebral palsy; classes 32–34 compete in wheelchairs, while 35–38 are ambulant; 40–46: Ambulant athletes with amputations or other disabilities such as dwarfism; 51–58: Wheelchair athletes with spinal cord injuries or amputations; 61–64: Athletes with limb differences; The IPC recognizes records for each of ...
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.
Athlete(s) with the most medals (Gold-Silver-Bronze) Paralympiads medal events in 2016 Gold Silver Bronze Total Archery: Since 1960 15 9 152 143 133 428 Paola Fantato (5–1–2) Athletics: Since 1960 15 160 2848 2791 2708 8348 Zipora Rubin (13–5–5) Heinz Frei (11-6–5) Boccia: Since 1984 9 7 63 63 63 189
The Paralympic Games are a major international multi-sport event for athletes with physical disabilities or intellectual impairments. This includes athletes with mobility disabilities, amputations, blindness, and cerebral palsy. Paralympic sports refers to organized competitive sporting activities as part of the global Paralympic movement.
In 1997, Healthy Athletes became an official Special Olympics initiative, offering health information and screenings to Special Olympics athletes worldwide. [8] [28] By 2010, the Healthy Athletes program had given free health screenings and treatment to more than 1 million people with intellectual disabilities.
In Paralympic athletics competitions, athletes are given a class depending on the type and extent of their disability. The classes are as follows: [1] 11–13: Blind and visually impaired; 20: Intellectually disabled; 32–38: Athletes with cerebral palsy; classes 32–34 compete in wheelchairs, while 35–38 are ambulant
[1] 400 athletes from 23 countries competed at the 1960 Games though only athletes in wheelchairs competed. At the 1976 Summer Games athletes with different disabilities were included for the first time at a summer Paralympics. With the inclusion of more disability classifications, the 1976 Summer Games expanded to 1,600 athletes from 40 countries.
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