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Wheelchair fencing at the 1968 Summer Paralympics consisted of ten events, seven for men and three for women.
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Wheelchair fencing at the 1968 Summer Paralympics consisted of ten events, seven for men and three for women.
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Épée individual | Roberto Marson  Italy | Vittorio Loi Italy | Serge Bec  France |
| Épée team |  France (FRA) |  Italy (ITA)Vittorio Loi Roberto Marson Franco Rossi |  Great Britain (GBR)John Clark Brian Dickinson Terry Willett |
| Novices foil | Hans-Joachim Boehm  West Germany | Sasson Aharoni  Israel | Willi Schneider West Germany |
| Foil individual | Roberto Marson Italy | Vittorio Loi Italy | Giuliano Koten Italy |
| Foil team | Italy (ITA) Giovanni Ferraris Vittorio Loi Roberto Marson Franco Rossi Germano Zanarotto | France (FRA) | Great Britain (GBR) Cyril Thomas John Clark Joe Slattery |
| Sabre individual | Roberto Marson Italy | Serge Bec France | Wilfred van Brauene  Belgium |
| Sabre team | France (FRA) | Italy (ITA) Giovanni Ferraris Roberto Marson Germano Zanarotto |  Israel (ISR) |
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Novices foil | Shoshana Sharabi Israel | Pequin France | Ayala Malchan Israel |
| Foil individual | Delattre France | Elena Monaco Italy | Sally Haynes  Great Britain |
| Foil team | Great Britain (GBR) Valerie Forder Sally Haynes Shelagh Finnegan | France (FRA) | Italy (ITA) Elena Monaco Gabriella Monaco Irene Monaco |
The 1968 Summer Paralympics were the third Paralympic Games to be held. Organised under the guidance of the International Stoke Mandeville Games Federation (ISMGF), they were known as the 17th International Stoke Mandeville Games at the time. The games were originally planned to be held alongside the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, but in 1966, the Mexican government decided against it due to difficulties. The Israeli government offered to host the games in Tel Aviv, a suggestion that was accepted.
The 1972 Summer Paralympics, the fourth edition of the Paralympic Games, were held in Heidelberg, West Germany, from 2 to 11 August 1972. The games ended 15 days before the 1972 Summer Olympics held in Munich, also in West Germany.
Wheelchair fencing is a version of fencing for athletes with a disability. Wheelchair fencing is governed by the International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports Federation that is a federation of the International Paralympic Committee, and is one of the sports in the Summer Paralympic Games. The Paralympic games take place every 4 years in different countries.
Alison Yu Chui Yee is a wheelchair fencer from Hong Kong. When she was 11 years old, she had bone cancer, leading to the amputation of her left leg. She began as a swimmer but switched to fencing at the age of 17. At the 2004 Summer Paralympics, she won four gold medals in both the individual and team events of épée and foil. She was the first athlete to win four gold medals in fencing in category A in 2004. At the 2008 Summer Paralympics, she represented Hong Kong again, but since the team matches were canceled, she only won one gold and one silver medal in the individual events.
Wheelchair fencing at the 1964 Summer Paralympics consisted of seven events.
Hong Kong made its Paralympic Games début at the 1972 Summer Paralympics in Heidelberg, and has taken part in every subsequent edition of the Summer Paralympics. It has never participated in the Winter Paralympics.
The 1968 Summer Paralympics was an international multi-sport event held in Tel Aviv, Israel, from November 4 to 13, 1968, in which athletes with physical disabilities competed against one another. The Paralympics are run in parallel with the Olympic Games; these Games were originally planned to be held alongside the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, but two years prior to the event the Mexican government pulled out due to technical difficulties. At the time, the event was known as the 17th International Stoke Mandeville Games. The Stoke Mandeville Games were a forerunner to the Paralympics first organized by Sir Ludwig Guttmann in 1948. This medal table ranks the competing National Paralympic Committees (NPCs) by the number of gold medals won by their athletes.
Roberto Marson was an Italian multisport athlete who competed at the Summer Paralympics on four occasions and won a total of 26 Paralympic medals. He lost the use of his legs when a pine tree he was chopping down fell on his back.
Italy competed at the 1968 Summer Paralympics in Tel Aviv, Israel. The team finished seventh in the medal table and won a total of 39 medals; 12 gold, 10 silver and 17 bronze.
Argentina competed at the 1968 Summer Paralympics in Tel Aviv, Israel. The team finished ninth in the medal table and won a total of 30 medals; 10 gold, 10 silver and 10 bronze.
Wheelchair fencing classification is the classification system for wheelchair fencing which is governed by the IWAS. People with physical disabilities are eligible to compete included people with physical disabilities. Classification for national competitions is done through the local national Paralympic committee.
Caz Walton OBE is a British retired wheelchair athlete and former Great Britain Paralympic team manager. She was a multi-disciplinary gold medallist who competed in numerous Paralympic Games. Between 1964 and 1976 she won medals in athletics, swimming, table tennis, and fencing. She took a break from the Paralympics, entering the basketball and fencing competitions in 1988. In total Walton won ten gold medals during her Paralympic career, making her one of the most successful British athletes of all time. Walton should also have been awarded gold in the 1968 Tel Aviv Women's Pentathlon incomplete but, due to a miscalculation of her total score which went unnoticed at the time, she was given third place and a bronze medal.
Wheelchair fencing has been contested at every Summer Paralympic Games since they were first held in 1960.
Valerie Robertson is a British former Paralympic athlete who competed in archery, athletics, swimming, and wheelchair fencing, winning at least a silver medal in each. She won a total of six Paralympic gold medals at three Games. After completing her Paralympic career, Robertson had a very successful transition to wheelchair lawn bowling.
Wheelchair fencing at the 2016 Summer Paralympics was held in Rio de Janeiro from 4 September to 8 September 2016.
Iraq competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan, from 24 August to 5 September 2021.
Judit Horváth Pálfi is a Hungarian retired wheelchair fencer who competed at international fencing competitions. She is a four-time Paralympic silver medalist.
Shoshana Sharabi was an Israeli Paralympic athlete, wheelchair fencer and wheelchair basketball player. She won three gold medals, in foil and in wheelchair basketball.
Ayala Malchan-Katz is an Israeli Paralympic athlete. Between the years 1968-1988 she participated in six Paralympic competitions and won 13 medals, of which 5 were gold.
