1960 Summer Paralympics

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I. Summer Paralympics
International Stoke Mandeville Games
Paralympics logo (until 1987)
Venue: Rome ItalyItalyItaly 
Opening ceremony: November 18, 1960
Closing ceremony: November 25, 1960
Opened by: Camillo Giardina
(Minister of Public Health)
Olympic oath : Shigeo Aono
Competitions: 57 competitions in 8 sports
Countries: 23
Athletes: 400
Tokyo 1964 →
Medal table
space country gold medal Silver medal Bronze medal total
1 ItalyItaly Italy 29 28 23 80
2 United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom 20th 15th 20th 55
3 Germany team all GermanAll-German team Germany 15th 6th 9 30th
4th AustriaAustria Austria 11 8th 11 30th
5 United StatesUnited States United States 11 7th 7th 25th
6th NorwayNorway Norway 9 3 4th 16
7th AustraliaAustralia Australia 3 6th 1 10
8th NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands 3 6th 0 9
9 FranceFrance France 3 3 1 7th
10 ArgentinaArgentina Argentina 2 3 1 6th
... ...
13 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland 1 3 - 4th
Complete medal table

The 1st Paralympic Summer Games - at that time still under the name International Stoke Mandeville Games - were held from September 18 to September 25, 1960 in the Italian capital Rome . They began seven days after the end of the XVII. Summer Olympics at the same competition venues. The Paralympics are the Olympic Games for people with physical disabilities . Initially, only paraplegic athletes were admitted to the competitions . 400 athletes from 23 nations took part in the competitions in eight sports.

Ceremonies

Opening ceremony

The opening ceremony of the Paralympics 1960 took place on September 18, 1960 in front of around 5000 spectators in the Acqua Acetosa stadium. The Italian Minister of Public Health, Camillo Giardina , declared the Games open.

Closing ceremony

The closing ceremony took place on September 25, 1960 in the presence of the Games' patrons, Donna Carla Gronchi and Sir Ludwig Guttmann, in the Palazzo dello Sport in the Olympic Village . Guttmann summarized the games as follows: "The vast majority of the competitors and accompanying persons understood how to enable the re-integration of paraplegics into society and the world of sport."

sports

The competition program comprised a total of eight sports that were classified as suitable for paraplegic athletes:

Attendees

The following nations sent athletes to the Paralympic Games (the number of athletes in brackets):

Europe (165 athletes from 15 nations)
America (32 athletes from 2 nations)
Oceania (11 athletes from 1 nation)
Africa (1 athlete from 1 nation)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d International Paralympic Committee: Paralympics Rome 1968 . Retrieved August 28, 2012.
  2. ^ Rome 1960: Participation Numbers. In: paralympic.org , accessed January 30, 2020.