Colombia at the 1992 Summer Paralympics

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Colombia at the
1992 Summer Paralympics
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IPC code COL
NPC Colombian Paralympic Committee
Website www.comiteparalimpicocolombiano.org
in Barcelona
Competitors 6
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Silver
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Bronze
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Total
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Summer Paralympics appearances

Colombia competed at the 1992 Summer Paralympics in Barcelona, Spain. 6 competitors from Colombia won no medals and so did not place in the medal table. [1]

Colombia Country in South America

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a sovereign state largely situated in the northwest of South America, with territories in Central America. Colombia shares a border to the northwest with Panama, to the east with Venezuela and Brazil and to the south with Ecuador and Peru. It shares its maritime limits with Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Jamaica, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic. Colombia is a unitary, constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments, with the capital in Bogota.

1992 Summer Paralympics

The 1992 Summer Paralympics were the ninth Paralympic Games to be held. They were held in Barcelona, Spain. In addition, the 1992 Paralympic Games for Persons with mental handicap were held immediately after the regular Paralympics in the Spanish capital, Madrid.

Barcelona City and municipality in Catalonia, Spain

Barcelona is a city in Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within city limits, its urban area extends to numerous neighbouring municipalities within the Province of Barcelona and is home to around 4.8 million people, making it the sixth most populous urban area in the European Union after Paris, London, Madrid, the Ruhr area and Milan. It is one of the largest metropolises on the Mediterranean Sea, located on the coast between the mouths of the rivers Llobregat and Besòs, and bounded to the west by the Serra de Collserola mountain range, the tallest peak of which is 512 metres high.

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Colombia at the Paralympics

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Colombia at the 1992 Summer Olympics

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Croatia at the Paralympics

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Czechoslovakia at the Paralympics

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Colombia at the 1988 Summer Paralympics

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References

  1. "Colombia - National Paralympic Committee". www.paralympic.org. Retrieved 2016-06-13.