Great Britain at the 1968 Summer Paralympics | |
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IPC code | GBR |
NPC | British Paralympic Association |
Website | www |
in Tel Aviv | |
Competitors | 75 in 10 sports |
Medals Ranked 2nd |
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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]
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]
Medal | Name | Sport | Event |
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![]() | Derek Nicholson | Archery | Men's St. Nicholas round cervical |
![]() | Ruth Brooks | Archery | Women's St. Nicholas round cervical |
![]() | Valerie Forder | Athletics | Women's 60m wheelchair B |
![]() | Carol Bryant | Athletics | Women's 60m wheelchair C |
![]() | Carol Bryant | Athletics | Women's slalom C |
![]() | Valerie Forder | Athletics | Women's pentathlon complete |
![]() | Margaret Gibbs | Athletics | Women's pentathlon incomplete |
![]() | William Easton George Monoghan | Lawn bowls | Men's pairs |
![]() | Gwen Buck Janet Laughton | Lawn bowls | Women's pairs |
![]() | Gwen Buck | Lawn bowls | Women's singles |
![]() | Michael Shelton | Snooker | Men's open |
![]() | John Britton | Swimming | Men's 25m freestyle class 2 incomplete |
![]() | David Ellis | Swimming | Men's 25m backstroke class 2 complete |
![]() | David Ellis | Swimming | Men's 25m breaststroke class 2 complete |
![]() | W. Thornton | Swimming | Men's 50m breaststroke class 3 complete |
![]() | Valerie Forder | Swimming | Women's 50m freestyle class 3 complete |
![]() | Davina Ingrams | Swimming | Women's 25m backstroke class 1 incomplete |
![]() | Gwen Buck | Swimming | Women's 25m backstroke class 2 incomplete |
![]() | Valerie Forder | Swimming | Women's 25m backstroke class 3 complete |
![]() | Karen Hill | Swimming | Women's 50m backstroke class 3 incomplete |
![]() | Bellamy | Swimming | Women's 50m backstroke class 5 (cauda equina) |
![]() | Valerie Forder | Swimming | Women's 50m breaststroke class 3 complete |
![]() | Bellamy | Swimming | Women's 50m breaststroke class 5 (cauda equina) |
![]() | Margaret Gibbs | Swimming | Women's 3x25m individual medley open |
![]() | Paul Lyall | Table tennis | Men's singles B |
![]() | Stephen Bradshaw Tommy Taylor | Table tennis | Men's doubles A2 |
![]() | Barnard Carol Bryant | Table tennis | Women's doubles C |
![]() | T. Palmer | Weightlifting | Men's middleweight |
![]() | Shelagh Finnegan Valerie Forder Sally Haynes | Wheelchair fencing | Women's foil team |
![]() | Tony Potter John Robertson Dennis Slough | Archery | Men's albion round team open |
![]() | Tony Potter John Robertson Dennis Slough | Archery | Men's FITA round team open |
![]() | Russ Scott | Athletics | Men's javelin throw D |
![]() | Clark | Athletics | Men's pentathlon incomplete |
![]() | Janet Swann | Athletics | Women's novices 60m wheelchair dash B |
![]() | Maggie Marr | Athletics | Women's club throw A |
![]() | Maggie Marr | Athletics | Women's discus throw A |
![]() | John Britton | Lawn bowls | Men's singles |
![]() | David Ellis | Swimming | Men's 25m freestyle class 2 complete |
![]() | W. Thornton | Swimming | Men's 50m freestyle class 3 complete |
![]() | John Watts | Swimming | Men's 100m freestyle open |
![]() | A. West | Swimming | Men's 25m backstroke class 1 complete |
![]() | Brian Dickinson | Swimming | Men's 50m backstroke class 4 complete |
![]() | John Britton | Swimming | Men's 25m breaststroke class 2 incomplete |
![]() | Carol Bryant | Swimming | Women's 100m breaststroke open |
![]() | Paul Lyall George Monoghan | Table tennis | Men's doubles B |
![]() | Carol Bryant | Table tennis | Women's singles C |
![]() | Ruth Brooks Levers | Table tennis | Women's doubles A2 |
![]() | Gwen Buck Susan Masham | Table tennis | Women's doubles B |
![]() | R. Rowe | Weightlifting | Men's heavyweight |
![]() | Stephen Bradshaw | Archery | Men's St. Nicholas round cervical |
![]() | Dick Thompson | Athletics | Men's 100m wheelchair A |
![]() | Dick Thompson | Athletics | Men's javelin throw A |
![]() | Tommy Taylor | Athletics | Men's pentathlon incomplete |
![]() | Carol Bryant | Athletics | Women's pentathlon incomplete |
![]() | A. West | Swimming | Men's 25m freestyle class 1 complete |
![]() | John Britton | Swimming | Men's 25m backstroke class 2 incomplete |
![]() | W. Thornton | Swimming | Men's 50m backstroke class 3 complete |
![]() | Gerry Kinsella | Swimming | Men's 50m backstroke class 4 incomplete |
![]() | Bellamy | Swimming | Women's 50m freestyle class 5 cauda equina |
![]() | Margaret Gibbs | Swimming | Women's 100m freestyle open |
![]() | S. Jones | Swimming | Women's 25m backstroke class 2 complete |
![]() | Women's team | Swimming | Women's 3x50m medley relay open |
![]() | George Monoghan | Table tennis | Men's singles B |
![]() | Susan Masham | Table tennis | Women's singles B |
![]() | Shelagh Finnegan Janet Swann | Table tennis | Women's doubles B |
![]() | Men's team | Wheelchair basketball | Men's tournament |
![]() | John Clark Brian Dickinson Terry Willett | Wheelchair fencing | Men's épée team |
![]() | John Clark Joe Slattery Cyril Thomas | Wheelchair fencing | Men's foil team |
![]() | Sally Haynes | Wheelchair fencing | Women's foil individual |
Medals by sport | ||||
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Sport | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | Total |
Swimming | 13 | 7 | 8 | 28 |
Athletics | 5 | 5 | 4 | 14 |
Table tennis | 3 | 4 | 3 | 10 |
Lawn bowls | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
Archery | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
Weightlifting | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Wheelchair Fencing | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
Snooker | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Wheelchair Basketball | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Total | 29 | 20 | 20 | 69 |
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]
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]
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]
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]
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