1968 Summer Paralympics medal table

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The 1968 Summer Paralympics was an international multi-sport event held in Tel Aviv, Israel, from November 4 to 13, 1968, in which athletes with physical disabilities competed against one another. [1] [2] The Paralympics are run in parallel with the Olympic Games; these Games were originally planned to be held alongside the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, but two years prior to the event the Mexican government pulled out due to technical difficulties. [3] At the time, the event was known as the 17th International Stoke Mandeville Games. [4] [5] The Stoke Mandeville Games were a forerunner to the Paralympics first organized by Sir Ludwig Guttmann in 1948. [2] This medal table ranks the competing National Paralympic Committees (NPCs) by the number of gold medals won by their athletes.

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A total of 576 medals were awarded in 10 sports. Athletes from 22 of the 28 competing NPCs won at least one medal with the United States taking both the most gold, with 33, and most in total, with 99. [6] Host nation Israel won 62 medals at the Games, 18 gold, 21 silver and 23 bronze. Zipora Rubin-Rosenbaum won gold medals in the club throw, javelin, shot put and pentathlon and a silver medal in the discus for the host nation. [7] South Africa, who were banned from the Olympic Games because of the policy of apartheid, were invited to the Paralympics and won a total of 26 medals. [6] [8]

Italian athlete Roberto Marson, who had previously won two gold medals in athletics at the 1964 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, was proclaimed the outstanding athlete of the Games. He won ten gold medals, three in athletics field events, three in swimming and four in wheelchair fencing. [3] Ed Owen of the United States won medals in three different sports; four golds and a bronze in athletics, two golds in swimming and a silver in wheelchair basketball. [3] [9]

Medal table

The ranking in this table is based on information provided by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) and is consistent with IPC convention in its published medal tables. By default, the table is ordered by the number of gold medals the athletes from a nation have won (in this context, a "nation" is an entity represented by a National Paralympic Committee). The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze medals. If nations are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically by IPC country code.

Two bronze medals were awarded in each dartchery, snooker, table tennis and lawn bowls event. [10] [11] [12] [13] Some swimming events did not award silver or bronze medals. [14]

  *   Host nation (Israel)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1Flag of the United States.svg  United States 33273999
2Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 29202069
3Flag of Israel.svg  Israel*18212362
4Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 1516738
5Flag of France.svg  France 1310932
6Flag of the German Olympic Team (1960-1968).svg  West Germany 12121135
7Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 12101739
8Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 124420
9Flag of Argentina (1861-2010).svg  Argentina 10101030
10Flag of South Africa (1928-1982).svg  South Africa 910726
11Flag of Rhodesia (1964).svg  Rhodesia 67720
12Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 66719
13Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 5319
14Flag of Jamaica.svg  Jamaica 3115
15Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 271019
16Flag of Japan (1870-1999).svg  Japan 22812
17Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 16411
18Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 1214
19Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland 0459
20Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium 0336
21Flag of Spain (1945-1977).svg  Spain 0314
22Flag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland 0268
Totals (22 entries)189186201576

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