Kuwait has competed in 12 Summer Games. To date, Kuwait has won two bronze Olympic medals and the Kuwaiti shooter Fehaid Al-Deehani won a gold medal as an independent athlete.
Athletics at the 1980 Summer Paralympics consisted of 275 events. Bahamas, Jamaica, Kenya, Kuwait, Luxembourg, Sudan and Zimbabwe won their first ever medals in this sport.
The 1980 Summer Paralympics medal table is a list of National Paralympic Committees (NPCs) ranked by the number of gold medals won by their athletes during the 1980 Summer Paralympics, held in Arnhem, Netherlands, from June 21 to 30, 1980.
Argentina participated in the inaugural Paralympic Games in 1960 in Rome, with a delegation consisting in five swimmers, and has taken part in every edition of the Summer Paralympics since then. The country made its Winter Paralympics début in 2010, with a two-man delegation in alpine skiing.
Colombia made its Paralympic Games début at the 1976 Summer Paralympics in Toronto, with competitors taking part in track and field, table tennis and wheelchair basketball. The country has participated in every subsequent edition of the Summer Paralympics, except 1984, but has never entered the Winter Paralympics.
Denmark made its Paralympic Games début at the 1968 Summer Paralympics in Tel Aviv with a delegation of eight competitors, in swimming and table tennis. The country has participated in every subsequent edition of the Summer Paralympics, and in every edition of the Winter Games since 1980.
The Netherlands participated in the inaugural Paralympic Games in 1960 in Rome, where it sent a delegation of five athletes. The country has participated in every subsequent edition of the Summer Paralympics. It made its Winter Paralympics début in 1984, and has taken part in every subsequent edition of the Games, except 2006. The Netherlands was the host country of the 1980 Summer Paralympics, in Arnhem.
Norway has participated in every edition of both the Summer and Winter Paralympics, except the second Summer Games in 1964. It was one of the seventeen countries to take part in the inaugural Paralympic Games in 1960 in Rome, where it sent a delegation of eleven athletes. Norway was the host country of both the 1980 Winter Paralympics, in Geilo, and the 1994 Winter Paralympics, in Lillehammer.
There were 4 female and 22 male athletes representing the country at the 2000 Summer Paralympics.
Kuwait competed at the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, Greece. The team included 14 athletes, 13 men and 1 women. Competitors from Kuwait won 6 medals, including 1 gold, 2 silver and 3 bronze to finish 48th in the medal table.
Athletes have competed as Independent Olympians at the Olympic Games for various reasons, including political transition, international sanctions, suspensions of National Olympic Committees, and compassion. Independent athletes have come from the Republic of Macedonia, East Timor, South Sudan and Curaçao following geopolitical changes in the years before the Olympics, from the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia as a result of international sanctions, from India and Kuwait due to the suspensions of their National Olympic Committees, and Russia for mass violations of anti-doping rules.
Seventeen male athletes from Kuwait competed at the 1996 Summer Paralympics in Atlanta, United States.
Kuwait competed at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, United Kingdom from August 29 to September 9, 2012.
Kuwait competed at the 1992 Summer Paralympics in Barcelona, Spain. 24 competitors from Kuwait won 5 medals, 1 gold, 3 silver and 1 bronze and finished 36th in the medal table.
Kuwait competed at the 1988 Summer Paralympics in Seoul, South Korea. 30 competitors from Kuwait won 17 medals including 5 gold, 5 silver and 7 bronze and finished 25th in the medal table.
Kuwait competed at the 1984 Summer Paralympics in Stoke Mandeville, Great Britain and New York City, United States. 22 competitors from Kuwait won 8 medals including 1 gold, 3 silver and 4 bronze and finished 31st in the medal table.
Czechoslovakia competed at the 1980 Summer Paralympics in Arnhem, Netherlands. 7 competitors from Czechoslovakia won 2 medals, 1 silver and 1 bronze, and finished 37th in the medal table.
