These defunct field events were once contested in previous Paralympic Games in which both men and women competed in various classes.
Football accuracy and distance were contested once in the 1976 Summer Paralympics.
Event | Year | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|---|
Football accuracy E1 [1] | 1976 | Jorn Nielsen ![]() | Only one competitor | |
Football distance E1 [2] | 1976 | Jorn Nielsen ![]() | Only one competitor |
The men's event scheduled between 1960 and 2008.
Precision club throw was contested between 1976 and 1984
Class | Year | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|---|
1A-1B | 1976 | Philip Wouters ![]() | Samir![]() | Peter Marsh ![]() |
Precision javelin was contested at seven Games from 1960 to Athletics at the 1988 Summer Paralympics. It was absent in the 1964 Summer Paralympics.
Class | Year | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|---|
1C-5 | 1976 | Walter Telsnig ![]() Roy Nungester ![]() | Honorio Romero ![]() | |
A | 1960 | Dick Thompson ![]() | Frank Ponta ![]() | Jacob![]() |
B | 1960 | Grimaldi![]() | Gary Hooper ![]() | Castelli![]() |
C | 1960 | Felice Lenardon ![]() | Walter Telsnig ![]() | Engelbert Rangger ![]() |
1976 | Chihiro Hatta ![]() | Antti Nikkinen ![]() | J. Stam![]() | |
Open | 1968 | Vincent Excell ![]() | Engelbert Rangger ![]() | Reno Levis ![]() |
1972 | Ernst Michel ![]() | Reno Levis ![]() | Vic Renalson ![]() |
This event was for men only and was contested from 1980 to 2012. They mainly competed by blind athletes or athletes with amputations.
Class | Year | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|---|
A | 1980 | Soedjeman Dipowidjojo ![]() | Ryszard Kozuch ![]() | Markku Onnela ![]() |
A5 | 1984 | Jerzy Szlezak ![]() | Stephen Muir ![]() | No bronze medalist |
A6 | 1984 | Brett Holcombe ![]() | Odd Lovseth ![]() | Michael Morley ![]() |
A6/A8-9/L6 | 1988 | Rodney Nugent ![]() | Yang Shaomin ![]() | Qin Zhongxing ![]() |
J3-4 | 1992 | Yang Shao ![]() | Qiu Lin ![]() | Ruben Alvarez ![]() |
F45-46 | 1996 | Zhao Xueen ![]() | Florian Bohl ![]() | Ruben Alvarez ![]() |
F46 | 2000 | Zhang Hong Wei ![]() | Anton Skachkov ![]() | Ruben Alvarez ![]() |
2004 | Anton Skachkov ![]() | Mai Wen Jie ![]() | Zhang Hong Wei ![]() | |
2012 | Liu Fuliang ![]() | Arnaud Assoumani ![]() | Aliaksandr Subota ![]() |
The women's competition scheduled between 1968 and 2000
Class | Year | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|---|
2 | 1972 | Ruth Lamsbach ![]() | Fetter![]() | Sharon Myers ![]() |
3 | 1972 | Eve Rimmer ![]() | Rosalie Hixson ![]() | Binns![]() |
4 | 1972 | Marga Floer ![]() | Ora Goldstein ![]() | Carol Bryant ![]() |
5 | 1972 | Marion O'Brien ![]() | Only one competitor | |
Complete | 1968 | Valerie Forder ![]() | Elena Monaco ![]() | Cornett![]() |
Incomplete | 1968 | Margaret Gibbs ![]() | Marga Floer ![]() | Carol Bryant ![]() |
Special class | 1968 | Zipora Rubin-Rosenbaum ![]() | Silvia Cochetti ![]() | Daphne Hilton ![]() |
Class | Year | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|---|
Open | 1968 | Baracatt![]() | Silvana Martino ![]() | Rosalie Hixson ![]() |
1972 | Megumi Kawakami ![]() | Rosalie Hixson ![]() | Hermina Kraft ![]() |
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The 1984 International Games for the Disabled, canonically the 1984 Summer Paralympics were the seventh Paralympic Games to be held. There were two separate competitions: one in Stoke Mandeville, England, United Kingdom for wheelchair athletes with spinal cord injuries and the other at the Mitchel Athletic Complex and Hofstra University on Long Island, New York, United States for wheelchair and ambulatory athletes with cerebral palsy, amputees, and les autres [the others]. Stoke Mandeville had been the location of the Stoke Mandeville Games from 1948 onwards, seen as the precursors to the Paralympic Games, as the 9th International Stoke Mandeville Games in Rome in 1960 are now recognised as the first Summer Paralympics. As with the 1984 Summer Olympics, the Soviet Union and other communist countries except China, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Yugoslavia boycotted the Paralympic Games. The Soviet Union did not participate in the Paralympics at the time, arguing that they have no disabled people in the country. The USSR made its Paralympic debut in 1988, during Perestroika.
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Rhodesia competed at the 1968 Summer Paralympics in Tel Aviv, Israel from 4 to 13 November 1968. The team ranked eleventh out of the twenty-eight competing nations in the medal table and won a total of twenty medals; six gold, seven silver and seven bronze. Rhodesia competed at the Paralympics in 1968 and in 1972 despite being excluded from the Summer Olympic Games in those years.
Ethiopia was one of 28 nations to send a delegation to the 1968 Summer Paralympics in Tel Aviv, Israel from November 4 to 13, 1968; two Ethiopian athletes competed, both of them men. Abraham Habte and Negatu each took part in both athletics and table tennis events. The team did not win any medals at these Games and, as of the 2010 Winter Paralympics, no Ethiopian athlete has won a medal at either the Summer or Winter Paralympics.
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