Ecuador at the 2016 Summer Paralympics | |
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IPC code | ECU |
NPC | Ecuadorian Paralympic Sport Federation |
in Rio de Janeiro | |
Competitors | 5 in 1 sports |
Medals |
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Summer Paralympics appearances | |
Ecuador competed at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 7 September to 18 September 2016. The team consisted of five athletes, four men, one woman, and one male sighted guide.
Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Ecuador also includes the Galápagos Islands in the Pacific, about 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) west of the mainland. The capital city is Quito and the largest city as well.
The 2016 Summer Paralympics, the 15th Summer Paralympic Games, were a major international multi-sport event for athletes with disabilities governed by the International Paralympic Committee, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 7 September to 18 September 2016. The Games marked the first time a Latin American and South American city hosted the event, the second Southern Hemisphere city and nation, the first one being the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney, and also the first time a Lusophone (Portuguese-speaking) country hosted the event. These Games saw the introduction of two new sports to the Paralympic program: canoeing and the paratriathlon.
Rio de Janeiro, or simply Rio, is anchor to the Rio de Janeiro metropolitan area and the second-most populous municipality in Brazil and the sixth-most populous in the Americas. Rio de Janeiro is the capital of the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil's third-most populous state. Part of the city has been designated as a World Heritage Site, named "Rio de Janeiro: Carioca Landscapes between the Mountain and the Sea", by UNESCO on 1 July 2012 as a Cultural Landscape.
Athlete | Events | Heat | Final | ||
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Time | Rank | Time | Rank | ||
Damian Carcelen | 400 m T20 | 51.68 | 4 Q | 51.80 | 8 |
Ronny Santos Iza | 54.41 | 5 | Did not advance | ||
Darwin Castro (Guide – Sebastian Rosero) | 1500 m T11 | 4:21.29 | 3 | Did not advance | |
5000 m T11 | N/A | 16:25.38 | 7 |
Athlete | Events | Result | Rank |
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Damian Carcelen | Long Jump F20 | 5.87 | 12 |
Ronny Santos Iza | 6.74 | 7 | |
Stalin Mosquera | Shot Put F20 | 14.79 | 6 |
Athlete | Events | Result | Rank |
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Poleth Mendes Sanchez | Shot Put F20 | 12.02 | 5 |
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