1984 Summer Paralympics

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VII. Summer Paralympics
Paralympics logo Paralympics logo (until 1987)
Venue: United StatesUnited States New York Stoke Mandeville
United KingdomUnited Kingdom
Stadion: Olympic Stadium
Opening ceremony: NY: June 17, 1984 , SM: July 22, 1984
Closing ceremony: NY: June 30, 1984 , SM: August 1, 1984
Opened by: in NY: Ronald Reagan
(President of the USA )

in SM Prince Charles
(Prince of Wales)

Competitions: total : 975 in 18 sports
NY: 300 in 15 sports
SM:… in 10 sports
Countries: total : 54
NY: 45, SM: 41
Athletes: total : 2105 (1569 men and 536 women)
NY: about 1,800, SM: about 1,100
← Arnhem 1980
Seoul 1988 →
Medal table
space country gold medal Silver medal Bronze medal total
1 United StatesUnited States United States 137 131 129 397
2 United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom 107 112 112 331
3 CanadaCanada Canada 87 82 69 238
4th SwedenSweden Sweden 83 43 34 160
5 Germany BRBR Germany BR Germany 81 76 75 232
6th FranceFrance France 71 69 46 185
7th NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands 55 52 28 134
8th AustraliaAustralia Australia 49 54 51 154
9 PolandPoland Poland 46 39 21st 106
10 NorwayNorway Norway 30th 30th 30th 90
...
16 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland 18th 13 12 43
17th AustriaAustria Austria 14th 20th 10 44
Complete medal table

The 7th Summer Paralympics took place from June 16 to June 30, 1984 in New York and from July 22 to August 1, 1984 in Stoke Mandeville , Great Britain . They were the only ones to be held at two separate venues.

As in most of the previous Olympic years, the disabled sports federations in the International Stoke Mandeville Games Federation (ISMGF) wanted to play their games in the same city as the Summer Olympic Games in 1984; the Olympic Organizing Committee ( LAOOC ) of Los Angeles , however, refused to host the Paralympics because it was geared towards commerce

The originally planned alternative venue was to be Urbana / Illinois , but the city withdrew a few weeks before the start due to financial problems. Then the American National Wheelchair Association (NWAA) , one of the four associations in the ISMGF, announced that they would host their own games for wheelchair athletes in Mandeville, England, the origin of the Paralympic idea; the other three disabled sports organizations chose the offer to use the facilities of Hofstra University and the Mitchel Athletic Complex in New York.

Just as the 1984 Summer Olympics were boycotted by the Soviet Union and some other Eastern Bloc countries , the 1984 Summer Paralympics were just as badly hit.

142 athletes from Germany (109 men and 33 women), 45 from Austria (37/8) and 43 (35 /) from Switzerland took part in the games.

Participating Nations

Outstanding athletes

  • Jim Martinson , USA set a new world record in the 100 m wheelchair race with 17.13 seconds.
  • Mustapha Badid from France got gold in the 800 m wheelchair race with a time of 2: 17.27 minutes.

The most successful participants were Ingrid Lauridson (Denmark) and Marcia Bevard (USA) with 6 gold medals each and Siegmar Henker (Germany) with 5 gold and 1 silver.

sports

  • Boccia (New York)
  • Archery (New York, Stoke Mandeville)
  • Soccer (new york)
  • Weightlifting Powerlifting (New York, Stoke Mandeville)
  • Goalball (New York)
  • Athletics (New York, Stoke Mandeville)
  • Lawn Bowling (New York, Stoke Mandeville)
  • Cycling (New York)
  • Horseback riding (New York)
  • Wheelchair basketball (New York, Stoke Mandeville)
  • Wheelchair Fencing (Stoke Mandeville)
  • Shooting (New York, Stoke Mandeville)
  • Swimming (New York, Stoke Mandeville)
  • Snooker (Stoke Mandeville)
  • Table tennis (New York, Stoke Mandeville)
  • Volleyball (New York)
  • Wrestling (New York)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Results Archive Stoke Mandeville & New York 1984 Paralympic.org, accessed April 1, 2020
  2. ^ International Paralympic Committee: Stoke Mandeville & New York 1984 . Retrieved August 28, 2012.
  3. ↑ Split Paralympics , ARD.de
  4. ↑ Participation Numbers Paralympics.org, accessed April 1, 2020