1996 Summer Paralympics

X. Summer Paralympics

Venue:	Atlanta , USA
Opening ceremony:	August 16, 1996
Closing ceremony:	August 25, 1996
Opened by:	Al Gore (Vice President of the USA )
Olympic torch :	Mark Wellman
Competitions:	508 competitions in 20 sports
Countries:	104
Athletes:	3,259 (790 women, 2,469 men)
← Barcelona 1992
Sydney 2000 →

Medal table
space	country				total
1	United States	47	46	65	158
2	Australia	42	37	27	106
3	Germany	40	58	51	149
4th	Great Britain	39	42	41	122
5	Spain	39	31	36	106
6th	France	35	29	31	95
7th	Canada	24	22nd	24	70
8th	Netherlands	17th	11	17th	45
9	People's Republic of China	16	13	10	39
10	Japan	14th	10	13	37
...
18th	Switzerland	9	6th	6th	21st
...
25th	Austria	6th	6th	10	22nd
Complete medal table

The 10th Summer Paralympics took place in Atlanta from August 16 to August 25, 1996 . 508 competitions were held, which were divided into 20 sports. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) awarded medals in 17 of these 20 sports .

For the first time, mentally handicapped athletes took part alongside athletes with spinal cord impairments, cerebral palsy, amputations and visual impairments.

The games were supported by around 12,000 volunteers. Despite everything, these Paralympics turned out to be an embarrassment for the organizers, because the organizers in Atlanta had the facilities dismantled after the Summer Olympics, so that the Paralympics took place in ruins.

Participating Nations

The following 104 nations took part in the 1996 Paralympics:

Afghanistan  Egypt  Algeria  Angola  Argentina  Armenia  Azerbaijan  Australia  Bahrain  Belgium  Bermuda  Bosnia and Herzegovina  Brazil  Bulgaria  Burkina Faso  Chile  People's Republic of China  Chinese Taipei  Denmark  Germany  Dominican Republic  Ecuador  Ivory Coast  Estonia  Faroe Islands  Fiji  Finland  France  Greece  Honduras  Hong Kong  India  Indonesia  Iraq  Iran

Ireland  Iceland  Israel  Italy  Jamaica  Japan  Jordan  Yugoslavia  Canada  Kazakhstan  Qatar  Kenya  Kyrgyzstan  Croatia  Cuba  Kuwait  Colombia  Latvia  Libya  Lithuania  Luxembourg  Macau  Malaysia  Mauritius  Macedonia  Morocco  Moldova  Mexico  New Zealand  Netherlands  Nigeria  Norway  Austria  Oman  Pakistan

Panama  Peru  Poland  Portugal  Puerto Rico  Romania  Russia  Zambia  Saudi Arabia  Sweden  Switzerland  Sierra Leone  Zimbabwe  Singapore  Slovakia  Slovenia  South Korea  South Africa  Spain  Sri Lanka  Syria  Thailand  Czech Republic  Tunisia  Uganda  Ukraine  Hungary  Uruguay  Venezuela  Belarus  United Arab Emirates  United States  United Kingdom  Cyprus

sports

Cycling

Medals were awarded in 17 of the following sports. As a demonstration sport, racquetball, wheelchair rugby and sailing were not included in the rating.

• Boccia
• Archery
• 7-a-side football
• Goalball
• Judo
• Lawn bowling
• athletics
• Powerlifting
• Racquetball (demonstration sport)
• Cycling
• horse riding
• Wheelchair basketball
• Wheelchair fencing
• Wheelchair rugby (demonstration sport)
• Wheelchair tennis
• shoot
• swim
• Sailing (demonstration sport)
• Table tennis
• volleyball

Outstanding athletes

The Australian Louise Sauvage mastered the women's wheelchair runs and got gold in the 400 m, 800 m, 1500 m and 5000 m run.

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Web links

Commons : 1996 Summer Paralympics  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Paralympics Atlanta 1996 on the website of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC )

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} International Paralympic Committee: Paralympics Atlanta 1996 . Retrieved August 28, 2012.