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Dennis Miller is a New Zealand Paralympian who competed in athletics and table tennis. At the 1976 Summer Paralympics, he won gold medals in the 60m 1C and Slalom 1C. [1] At the 1980 Summer Paralympics, he won a gold medal in the Slalom 1C, and a bronze medal in the 60m 1C. [2] At the 1984 Summer Paralympics, he won a gold medal in the Slalom 1C. [3] He also competed at the 1972 Summer Paralympics. [4]
Graham Thomas Condon was a disabled athlete who won seven medals for New Zealand competing in Paralympic swimming and athletic events and a total of 36 medals in international competition overall. He was also a local-body politician and a disability advocate.
Australia has participated officially in every Paralympic Games since its inauguration in 1960 except for the 1976 Winter Paralympics.
Switzerland made its Paralympic Games début at the inaugural Paralympic Games in Rome in 1960, and has participated in every edition of the Summer Paralympics. It also took part in the inaugural Winter Paralympics in 1976 in Örnsköldsvik, and has competed in every edition of the Winter Games.
Japan competed at the 1968 Summer Paralympics in Tel Aviv, Israel from November 4 to 13, 1968. The team finished sixteenth of the twenty-eight competing nations in the medal table and won a total of twelve medals; two gold, two silver and eight bronze. Forty-eight Japanese athletes took part in the Games; forty-one men and seven women.
Australia sent a team to compete at the 1972 Summer Paralympics in Heidelberg, West Germany. Australian won 25 medals - 6 gold, 9 silver and 10 bronze medals in six sports. Australia finished 11th on the gold medal table and 9th on the total medal table.
Australia has participated in every Summer Paralympic Games since the inception of the Paralympics in the year 1960. The 1976 Paralympic Games in Toronto was Australia's fifth Paralympic Games. Australia competed in 10 out of the 13 sports and were able to win medals in six of these sports. There were 44 athletes representing Australia at the Games with a number of these athletes participating in multiple sports. Of the 44 athletes, 34 were males and 10 were females. As a team, Australia won 41 medals, 16 of which were gold. This placed it just outside the top 10 in 11th position at the end of the Games. The Australian team won more gold medals at the 1976 Paralympic Games than at any of the previous four Paralympic Games. 26 athletes finished on the podium in their respective events. This represents more than half the number of athletes that Australia sent to Toronto. Six world records were broken by Australian athletes on their way to winning their respective events.
Following the success of the first ever 1976 Winter Paralympics in Örnsköldsvik four years earlier, Norway was selected to host the Paralympic Games in 1980.
Brian Frederick McNicholl, OAM is a New Zealand-born Australian Paralympic powerlifter, weightlifter, wheelchair basketballer, and athlete, who won five medals at six Paralympic games from 1976 to 1996.
New Zealand sent a 12 sportspeople strong delegation to the 1976 Olympiad for the Physically Disabled in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. At these Games, New Zealand won 13 medals at the 1976 Summer Paralympics: 7 golds, 1 silver, and 5 bronze medals. Eve Rimmer was the most decorated Paralympian at these Games, winning 5 gold medals in athletics.
Robert Lindon McIntyre nicknamed "Macca", was an Australian Paralympic athlete, wheelchair basketball player and coach.
Juana Soto is a paralympic athlete from Mexico competing mainly in category TW4 sprint events.
Josef Meusburger is an Austrian para-alpine skier.
Patricia Hill is a New Zealand Paralympian who competed in athletics. At the 1980 Summer Paralympics, she won a gold medal in the Slalom 2; a silver medal in the 200m 2; and a bronze medal in the 400m 2. At the 1984 Summer Paralympics, she won a gold medal in the Slalom 2, and silver medals in the Marathon 2 and Pentathlon 2. At the 1988 Summer Paralympics, she won bronze medals in the Marathon 2 and Slalom 3.
Michelle Kalivati is a New Zealand Paralympian who competed in athletics. At the 1984 Summer Paralympics, she won gold medals in the 200m 3 and Pentathlon 3, and silver medals in the 100m 3 and Slalom 3.
Elisabeth Osterwalder is a Swiss Para-alpine skier and athlete. She represented Switzerland at the 1984 Paralympic Winter Games. She won a total of seven medals.
Waltraud Hagenlocher was a German paralympic athlete. She won fourteen medals.
Ayala Malchan-Katz is an Israeli Paralympic athlete. Between the years 1968-1988 she participated in six Paralympic competitions and won 12 medals, of which 4 were gold.
Batia Shviki is an Israeli Paralympic athlete. She won two gold medals and one bronze medal. She was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame.
Shmuel Haimovitz was an Israeli weightlifter who won five Paralympic medals and set several world records. From 2001 to his death in 2017 was the commissioner for equal rights for people with disabilities in Israel.