1992 Summer Paralympics

IX Paralympic Games
Host city	Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Motto	Sport Without Limits
Teams participating	82[1]
Athletes participating	3020[1]
Events	487 in 15 sports
Opening ceremony	September 3
Closing ceremony	September 14
Officially opened by	Queen Sofia
Paralympic Torch	Antonio Rebollo (archer)
Paralympic Stadium	Estadi Olímpic de Montjuïc
Summer:
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Winter:
<  Tignes-Albertville 1992 Lillehammer 1994  >

The 1992 Summer Paralympics were the ninth Paralympic Games to be held. They were held in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. In addition, the 1992 Paralympic Games for Persons with mental handicap were held immediately after the regular Paralympics in the Spanish capital, Madrid.

Sports

The games consisted of 487 events spread over fifteen sports. Powerlifting and weightlifting were considered to be a single sport. Wheelchair tennis, a demonstration sport at the 1988 Summer Paralympics, was contested as an official medal sport for the first time.^[1]

• Archery
• Athletics
• Boccia
• Cycling
• Football 7-a-side
• Goalball
• Judo
• Lifting
  • Powerlifting
  • Weightlifting
• Shooting
• Swimming
• Table tennis
• Volleyball
• Wheelchair basketball
• Wheelchair fencing
• Wheelchair tennis

Medal count

A total of 1503 medals were awarded during the Barcelona games: 490 gold, 487 silver, and 526 bronze. The United States topped the medal count with more gold medals, more silver medals, and more medals overall than any other nation. Germany took the most bronze medals, with 59.^[2] In the table below, the ranking sorts by the number of gold medals earned by a nation (in this context a nation is an entity represented by a National Paralympic Committee).

      Host country (Spain)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	75	52	48	175
2	Germany (GER)	61	51	59	171
3	Great Britain (GBR)	40	47	41	128
4	France (FRA)	36	36	34	106
5	Spain (ESP)	34	31	42	107
6	Canada (CAN)	28	21	26	75
7	Australia (AUS)	24	27	25	76
8	Unified Team (EUN)	16	14	15	45
9	Netherlands (NED)	14	14	11	39
10	Norway (NOR)	13	13	7	33

Participating delegations

Eighty-three delegations participated at the Barcelona Paralympics.

South Africa returned to the Paralympics for the first time since being declared "undesirable" due to its policy of apartheid in 1980.^{[3] [4]}

Paralympic Games for Persons with mental handicap

The first Paralympic Games for Persons with mental handicap were held immediately after the regular Paralympic games in the Spanish capital of Madrid from September 15–22. Over 1,400 athletes from 74 nations participated in the competition, which was sponsored by the Association Nacional Prestura de Servicio (ANDE) and sanctioned by the International Coordinating Committee of World Sport Organizations for the Disabled and the International Association of Sport for the Mentally Handicapped. The games featured a cultural exchange group, a group of intellectually disabled men from Nagasaki who played taiko (traditional drums) during the opening and closing ceremonies and selected track events.^[5]

See also

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• 1992 Summer Olympics
• 1992 Winter Paralympics
• Cheating at the Paralympic Games

References