Colombia at the Paralympics
| Colombia at the Paralympic Games | |
|---|---|
| IPC code | COL |
| NPC | Colombian Paralympic Committee |
| Website | www |
| Medals Ranked 59th |
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| Summer appearances | |
Colombia made its Paralympic Games début at the 1976 Summer Paralympics in Toronto, with competitors taking part in track and field, table tennis and wheelchair basketball. The country has participated in every subsequent edition of the Summer Paralympic Games, except 1984, but has never entered the Winter Paralympic Games.[1] [2]
Colombians have won a total of seventy five medals: thirteen gold, twenty two silver and forty bronze, in swimming, athletics, cycling, powerlifting and boccia.[3]
History
[edit ]Pedro Mejía won the country's first medals when he took a gold and a bronze in swimming in 1980. His winning time of 1:27.88 in the final of the 100m breaststroke, D category, set a new world record. Colombia had to wait 28 years for its next two medals, which both came in the 2008 Games. Elkin Serna ran the men's marathon in 2:31:16 in the T12 category for athletes with severe visual disability, finishing less than a minute behind Chinese athlete Qi Shun's world record time of 2:30:32, and took silver. Moisés Fuentes won bronze in the men's 100m breaststroke in the SB4 category.[4]
The 2020 Summer Paralympics represented the best performance by the Colombian committee, with a total amount of 24 medals won.
Medals
[edit ]Medals at the Summer Games
[edit ]| Games | Athletes | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Italy 1960 Rome | Did Not Participate | |||||
| Japan 1964 Tokyo | ||||||
| Israel 1968 Tel Aviv | ||||||
| Germany 1972 Heidelberg | ||||||
| Canada 1976 Toronto | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| Netherlands 1980 Arnhem | 11 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 31 |
| United Kingdom United States 1984 Stoke Mandeville/New York | Did Not Participate | |||||
| South Korea 1988 Seoul | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| Spain 1992 Barcelona | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| United States 1996 Atlanta | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| Australia 2000 Sydney | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| Greece 2004 Athens | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| China 2008 Beijing | 12 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 60 |
| United Kingdom 2012 London | 39 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 61 |
| Brazil 2016 Rio de Janeiro | 39 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 17 | 37 |
| Japan 2020 Tokyo | 61 | 3 | 7 | 14 | 24 | 37 |
| France 2024 Paris | 74 | 7 | 7 | 14 | 28 | 19 |
| Total | 13 | 22 | 40 | 75 | 59 | |
Medals at Winter Games
[edit ]| Games | Athletes | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sweden Örnsköldsvik 1976 | Did Not Participate | |||||
| Norway Geilo 1980 | ||||||
| Austria Innsbruck 1984 | ||||||
| Austria Innsbruck 1988 | ||||||
| France Albertville 1992 | ||||||
| Norway Lillehammer 1994 | ||||||
| Japan Nagano 1998 | ||||||
| United States Salt Lake City 2002 | ||||||
| Italy Turin 2006 | ||||||
| Canada Vancouver 2010 | ||||||
| Russia Sochi 2014 | ||||||
| South Korea Pyeongchang 2018 | ||||||
| China Beijing 2022 | ||||||
| Total | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | − | |
Medals by Summer Sport
[edit ]| Sport | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Athletics | 8 | 7 | 21 | 36 |
| Swimming | 4 | 14 | 9 | 27 |
| Boccia | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Cycling | 0 | 0 | 7 | 7 |
| Powerlifting | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Totals (5 entries) | 13 | 22 | 40 | 75 |
List of Medalists
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See also
[edit ]References
[edit ]- ^ Colombia at the Paralympics, International Paralympic Committee
- ^ "IPC Historical Results Archive".
- ^ "Colombia y su historia en los Juegos Paralímpicos - Comité Paralímpico Colombiano" (in Spanish). 2021年06月29日. Retrieved 2024年08月21日.
- ^ Colombia at the Paralympics, International Paralympic Committee
External links
[edit ]- Media related to Colombia at the Paralympic Games at Wikimedia Commons
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