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  Paralympic standing and sitting volleyball | ||||||||||
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Volleyball at the 1984 Summer Paralympics in Stoke Mandeville and New York consisted of standing and sitting volleyball events for men.
| Volleyball at the VII Paralympic Games | ||||||||||
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| Paralympic standing and sitting volleyball | ||||||||||
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Volleyball at the 1984 Summer Paralympics in Stoke Mandeville and New York consisted of standing and sitting volleyball events for men.
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's standing |  Israel (ISR) [1] Nitzan Atzmon Moshe Barbalat Shlomo Borenshtein Aharon Danziger Roni Fradkin Eliezer Kalina Zvi Karsh Yigal Pazi Eliyahu Unger Hagai Zamir |  West Germany (FRG) |  France (FRA) |
| Men's sitting |  Netherlands (NED) | West Germany (FRG) |  Sweden (SWE) |
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Israel (ISR) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Netherlands (NED) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 3 | West Germany (FRG) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 4 | France (FRA) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Sweden (SWE) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (5 nations) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
The 1984 International Games for the Disabled, canonically the 1984 Summer Paralympics were the seventh Paralympic Games to be held. There were two separate competitions: one in Stoke Mandeville, United Kingdom for wheelchair athletes with spinal cord injuries and the other at the Mitchel Athletic Complex and Hofstra University on Long Island, New York, United States of America for wheelchair and ambulatory athletes with cerebral palsy, amputees, and les autres [the others]. Stoke Mandeville had been the location of the Stoke Mandeville Games from 1948 onwards, seen as the precursors to the Paralympic Games, as the 9th International Stoke Mandeville Games in Rome in 1960 are now recognised as the first Summer Paralympics. As with the 1984 Summer Olympics, the Soviet Union and other communist countries except China, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Yugoslavia boycotted the Paralympic Games. The Soviet Union did not participate in the Paralympics at the time, arguing that they have no disabled people in the country. The USSR made its Paralympic debut in 1988, during Perestroika.
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