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Bahrain made its Paralympic Games début the same year as its Olympic début, at the 1984 Summer Paralympics in Stoke Mandeville and New York City, sending a delegation to compete in athletics. The country has participated in every subsequent edition of the Summer Paralympics, but has never taken part in the Winter Paralympics.
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- ↑ "Athletics Results". 1984 Summer Paralympics. Archived from the original on 3 November 2020. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
- ↑ "British athletics medal winners – Shot put". National Paralympic Heritage Trust. 3 May 2019. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
