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winners: table: Tel Aviv, Israel: 189 189 186 201 576 Roberto Marson (4–2–0) Wheelchair Fencing 1972: winners: table: Heidelberg, West Germany: 188 188 187 200 575 Eve M. Rimmer (2–2–0) Athletics 1976: winners: table: Toronto, Ontario, Canada 447 447 378 347 1172 Josefina Cornejo (4–1–0) Athletics
Usually, a single code corresponds to a single National Paralympic Committee (NPC). When different codes are displayed for different years, medal counts are combined in the case of a simple change of IPC code (such as from RHO to ZIM for Zimbabwe) or simple change of country name (such as from Ceylon to Sri Lanka). As the medals are attributed ...
Jessica Long, 29 medals at the Summer Paralympics. 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.
The two-time winner of the Olympic Marathon, Ethiopian Abebe Bikila, a wheelchair user since a car accident in 1969, never participated in the Paralympic Games, because the Ethiopian Archery team failed to arrive in Heidelberg for the 1972 Summer Paralympics. [6] [7]
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 .
The International Paralympic Committee recognises the fastest performances in athletics events at the Paralympic Games. Athletics has been part of every Summer Paralympic Games . In Paralympic athletics competitions, athletes are given a class depending on the type and extent of their disability.
List of 2022 Winter Paralympics medal winners; List of 2024 Summer Paralympics medal winners; A. List of Paralympic medalists in alpine skiing; B.
The 2012 Summer Paralympics, the fourteenth Summer Paralympic Games, and also more generally known as the London 2012 Paralympic Games, was a major international multi-sport event for the disabled governed by the International Paralympic Committee, that took place in London, United Kingdom from 29 August to 9 September.