Great Britain at the 1968 Summer Paralympics

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Great Britain at the
1968 Summer Paralympics
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg
IPC code GBR
NPC British Paralympic Association
Website www.paralympics.org.uk
in Tel Aviv
Competitors75 in 10 sports
Medals
Ranked 2nd
Gold
29
Silver
20
Bronze
20
Total
69
Summer Paralympics appearances (overview)

Great Britain was one of twenty-eight nations to send athletes to the 1968 Summer Paralympics in Tel Aviv, Israel from November 4 to 13, 1968. [1] [2] The team finished second in the medal table and won sixty-nine medals: twenty-nine gold, twenty silver and twenty bronze. [3] Athletes from the whole United Kingdom, including Northern Ireland, were able to compete for the team. Seventy-five British athletes took part in the Games; fifty-one men and twenty-four women. [1]

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Disability classifications

The Paralympics groups athletes' disabilities into one of five disability categories; amputation, the condition may be congenital or sustained through injury or illness; cerebral palsy; wheelchair athletes, there is often overlap between this and other categories; visual impairment, including blindness; Les autres, any physical disability that does not fall strictly under one of the other categories, for example dwarfism or multiple sclerosis. [4] [5] Each Paralympic sport then has its own classifications, dependent on the specific physical demands of competition. Events are given a code, made of numbers and letters, describing the type of event and classification of the athletes competing. [6]

Medalists

MedalNameSportEvent
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Derek Nicholson Archery Men's St. Nicholas round cervical
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Ruth Brooks Archery Women's St. Nicholas round cervical
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Valerie Forder Athletics Women's 60m wheelchair B
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Carol Bryant Athletics Women's 60m wheelchair C
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Carol Bryant Athletics Women's slalom C
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Valerie Forder Athletics Women's pentathlon complete
Gold medal icon.svg GoldMargaret Gibbs Athletics Women's pentathlon incomplete
Gold medal icon.svg Gold William Easton
George Monoghan
Lawn bowls Men's pairs
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Gwen Buck
Janet Laughton
Lawn bowls Women's pairs
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Gwen Buck Lawn bowls Women's singles
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Michael Shelton Snooker Men's open
Gold medal icon.svg Gold John Britton Swimming Men's 25m freestyle class 2 incomplete
Gold medal icon.svg Gold David Ellis Swimming Men's 25m backstroke class 2 complete
Gold medal icon.svg Gold David Ellis Swimming Men's 25m breaststroke class 2 complete
Gold medal icon.svg GoldW. Thornton Swimming Men's 50m breaststroke class 3 complete
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Valerie Forder Swimming Women's 50m freestyle class 3 complete
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Davina Ingrams Swimming Women's 25m backstroke class 1 incomplete
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Gwen Buck Swimming Women's 25m backstroke class 2 incomplete
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Valerie Forder Swimming Women's 25m backstroke class 3 complete
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Karen Hill Swimming Women's 50m backstroke class 3 incomplete
Gold medal icon.svg GoldBellamy Swimming Women's 50m backstroke class 5 (cauda equina)
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Valerie Forder Swimming Women's 50m breaststroke class 3 complete
Gold medal icon.svg GoldBellamy Swimming Women's 50m breaststroke class 5 (cauda equina)
Gold medal icon.svg GoldMargaret Gibbs Swimming Women's 3x25m individual medley open
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Paul Lyall Table tennis Men's singles B
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Stephen Bradshaw
Tommy Taylor
Table tennis Men's doubles A2
Gold medal icon.svg GoldBarnard
Carol Bryant
Table tennis Women's doubles C
Gold medal icon.svg GoldT. Palmer Weightlifting Men's middleweight
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Shelagh Finnegan
Valerie Forder
Sally Haynes
Wheelchair fencing Women's foil team
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Tony Potter
John Robertson
Dennis Slough
Archery Men's albion round team open
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Tony Potter
John Robertson
Dennis Slough
Archery Men's FITA round team open
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Russ Scott Athletics Men's javelin throw D
Silver medal icon.svg SilverClark Athletics Men's pentathlon incomplete
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Janet Swann Athletics Women's novices 60m wheelchair dash B
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Maggie Marr Athletics Women's club throw A
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Maggie Marr Athletics Women's discus throw A
Silver medal icon.svg Silver John Britton Lawn bowls Men's singles
Silver medal icon.svg Silver David Ellis Swimming Men's 25m freestyle class 2 complete
Silver medal icon.svg SilverW. Thornton Swimming Men's 50m freestyle class 3 complete
Silver medal icon.svg Silver John Watts Swimming Men's 100m freestyle open
Silver medal icon.svg SilverA. West Swimming Men's 25m backstroke class 1 complete
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Brian Dickinson Swimming Men's 50m backstroke class 4 complete
Silver medal icon.svg Silver John Britton Swimming Men's 25m breaststroke class 2 incomplete
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Carol Bryant Swimming Women's 100m breaststroke open
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Paul Lyall
George Monoghan
Table tennis Men's doubles B
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Carol Bryant Table tennis Women's singles C
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Ruth Brooks
Levers
Table tennis Women's doubles A2
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Gwen Buck
Susan Masham
Table tennis Women's doubles B
Silver medal icon.svg SilverR. Rowe Weightlifting Men's heavyweight
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Stephen Bradshaw Archery Men's St. Nicholas round cervical
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Dick Thompson Athletics Men's 100m wheelchair A
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Dick Thompson Athletics Men's javelin throw A
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Tommy Taylor Athletics Men's pentathlon incomplete
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Carol Bryant Athletics Women's pentathlon incomplete
Bronze medal icon.svg BronzeA. West Swimming Men's 25m freestyle class 1 complete
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze John Britton Swimming Men's 25m backstroke class 2 incomplete
Bronze medal icon.svg BronzeW. Thornton Swimming Men's 50m backstroke class 3 complete
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Gerry Kinsella Swimming Men's 50m backstroke class 4 incomplete
Bronze medal icon.svg BronzeBellamy Swimming Women's 50m freestyle class 5 cauda equina
Bronze medal icon.svg BronzeMargaret Gibbs Swimming Women's 100m freestyle open
Bronze medal icon.svg BronzeS. Jones Swimming Women's 25m backstroke class 2 complete
Bronze medal icon.svg BronzeWomen's team Swimming Women's 3x50m medley relay open
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze George Monoghan Table tennis Men's singles B
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Susan Masham Table tennis Women's singles B
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Shelagh Finnegan
Janet Swann
Table tennis Women's doubles B
Bronze medal icon.svg BronzeMen's team Wheelchair basketball Men's tournament
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze John Clark
Brian Dickinson
Terry Willett
Wheelchair fencing Men's épée team
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze John Clark
Joe Slattery
Cyril Thomas
Wheelchair fencing Men's foil team
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Sally Haynes Wheelchair fencing Women's foil individual

Medals by sport

Medals by sport
Sport Gold medal icon.svg Silver medal icon.svg Bronze medal icon.svg Total
Swimming 137828
Athletics 55414
Table tennis 34310
Lawn bowls 3104
Archery 2215
Weightlifting 1102
Wheelchair Fencing 1034
Snooker 1001
Wheelchair Basketball 0011
Total29202069

Dartchery

The only dartchery event at the Games was the mixed pairs event which took a knockout format. Two British pairs entered the competition: Nicholson [n 1] and Taylor beat a team from Jamaica in the first round but lost in the second round to the Swiss pair; Robertson and Todd reached the third round where they lost to Italians Francesco Deiana and Raimondo Longhi. [7]

Snooker

One snooker event was contested at the Games, the men's open event. Keaton was eliminated in the first round by Jimmy Gibson of Ireland. Michael Shelton had wins over Goll, of Austria, and Newton from Australia to earn a place in the final against Gibson. Shelton defeated Gibson to take gold and the Irishman won the silver medal. [8]

Swimming

Twenty-nine British swimmers competed at the Games winning twenty-eight medals: thirteen gold, seven silver and eight bronze. [9] Forder won three gold medals in women's 50 m class 3 complete events, finishing first in the backstroke, breaststroke and freestyle. [10] [11] [12] Six other swimmers won multiple medals for Great Britain; Bellamy won two gold medals and a bronze in the women's class 5 (cauda equina); Britton, a gold, silver and bronze in men's class 2 incomplete events; Ellis, two golds and a silver in men's class 2 complete; Gibbs who won gold in the women's 3×25 m individual medley open and bronze in the 100 m freestyle open; Thornton who took a gold, silver and bronze in men's class 3 complete events; and West who won backstroke silver and freestyle bronze for men's class 1 complete events. [9] Ingrams won gold in the women's 25 m backstroke class 1 incomplete in a world record time; White and Rosaleen Gallagher of Ireland won the silver and bronze medals in the event. [13]

Table tennis

Twenty five British players entered table tennis events and won ten medals; three gold, 4 silver and four bronze. [9] In the women's doubles C event Bryant and Barnard won the gold medal after beating pairs from the United States, Jamaica, Belgium and Australia. [14]

See also

Notes

  1. Data is taken from the International Paralympic Committee website and is based on information contained/sourced in the original hardcopy final results publications. Some information from earlier Paralympic Games (i.e. 1960–1984) is incomplete and is missing first names of some athletes

References

  1. 1 2 "Participation Numbers Tel Aviv 1968 Paralympic Games". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 17 May 2011.
  2. "Paralympic Games History – Summer". Australian Paralympic Committee. Archived from the original on 5 June 2011. Retrieved 13 May 2011.
  3. "Medal Standings Tel Aviv 1968 Paralympic Games". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 28 April 2011.
  4. "Paralympics categories explained". ABC. 3 September 2008. Archived from the original on September 12, 2008. Retrieved 17 May 2011.
  5. "Making sense of the categories". BBC Sport. 6 October 2000. Retrieved 18 May 2011.
  6. "A-Z of Paralympic classification". BBC Sport. 28 August 2008. Retrieved 18 May 2011.
  7. "Results Tel Aviv 1968 Paralympic Games Dartchery Mixed Pairs open". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 17 May 2011.
  8. "Results Tel Aviv 1968 Paralympic Games Snooker Men's Snooker Event open". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 18 May 2011.
  9. 1 2 3 "Athlete Search Results". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 18 May 2011.
  10. "Results Tel Aviv 1968 Paralympic Games Swimming Women's 50 m Breaststroke class 3 complete". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 18 May 2011.
  11. "Results Tel Aviv 1968 Paralympic Games Swimming Women's 50 m Freestyle class 3 complete". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 18 May 2011.
  12. "Results Tel Aviv 1968 Paralympic Games Swimming Women's 50 m Backstroke class 3 complete". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 18 May 2011.
  13. "Results Tel Aviv 1968 Paralympic Games Swimming Women's 25 m Backstroke class 1 incomplete". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 18 May 2011.
  14. "Results Tel Aviv 1968 Paralympic Games Table Tennis Women's Doubles C". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 18 May 2011.