Summer Paralympics 2016

XV. Summer Paralympics

Um mundo novo (A new world)
Venue:	Rio de Janeiro , Brazil
Stadion:	Maracanã Stadium
Opening ceremony:	September 7, 2016
Closing ceremony:	18th September 2016
Opened by:	Michel Temer
Competitions:	528 in 22 sports
Countries:	159
Athletes:	4,298
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The XV. The Summer Paralympic Games were held in Rio de Janeiro from September 7-18, 2016, following the 2016 Summer Olympics . The Brazilian city ​​was the first in South and Latin America to host the Summer Paralympics.

Medal table (after 528 of 528 decisions)
space	country				total
1	China	107	81	51	239
2	Great Britain	64	39	44	147
3	Ukraine	41	37	39	117
4th	United States	40	44	31	115
5	Australia	22nd	30th	29	81
6th	Germany	18th	25th	14th	57
7th	Netherlands	17th	19th	26th	62
8th	Brazil	14th	29	29	72
9	Italy	10	14th	15th	39
10	Poland	9	18th	12	39
...
41	Switzerland	2	2	1	5
...
50	Austria	1	4th	4th	9
Complete medal table

Locations

The city of Rio de Janeiro was commissioned with the organization on October 2, 2009 during the 121st session of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in Copenhagen . The contract between the host countries and the IOC stipulates that the Paralympics will be held in the same venue as the previous Olympic Games. The locations were largely the same as at the Olympic Games . The sports facilities were located in four zones within Rio de Janeiro : Maracanã , Barra , Deodoro and Copacabana . The opening and closing ceremonies were held in the Maracanã, the athletics competitions in the João Havelange Olympic Stadium .

Maracanã Maracanã - opening and closing ceremony Olympic Stadium - athletics Sambódromo - archery Barra → Main article : Rio de Janeiro Olympic Park Arena Carioca 1 - wheelchair basketball , wheelchair rugby Arena Carioca 2 - Boccia Arena Carioca 3 - judo , wheelchair fencing Arena do Futuro - Goalball Estádio Aquático Olímpico - swimming Centro Olímpico de Tênis - 5-a-side football , wheelchair tennis Pontal - cycling (road) Riocentro - powerlifting , sitting volleyball , table tennis Rio Olympic Arena - wheelchair basketball Rio Olympic Velodrome - cycling (track)

Deodoro → Main articles : Deodoro Sports Complex  and X-Park Deodoro Centro Nacional de Tiro - Shooting Centro Nacional de Hipismo - horse riding Estádio do Deodoro - 7-a-side football Copacabana Forte Copacabana - athletics, paratriathlon , cycling (road) Marina da Glória - sailing Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas - Parakanu , para rowing Olympic Village The Olympic Village was located near the Riocentro and the Olympic Park in Barra and was built on the occasion of the 2016 Summer Olympics .

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  Location map

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  Olympic Stadium

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  Rio Olympic Arena

sports

For the first time so far, paratriathlon and parakanu competitions were held in addition to the 20 proven sports . The cycling was divided into rail and road contests.

Competition schedule

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Opening ceremony

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Qualifying competitions

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Final decisions

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graduation ceremony

Schedule of the Summer Paralympics 2016 (with number of decisions)
September	7. Wed	8. Thu	9. Fri.	10 Sat	11. So	12. Mon.	13th Tuesday	14. Wed	15th Thursday	16. Fri.	17th Sat	18. So	total
Ceremonies	EZ											AZ
5-a-side football ( blind football )			●		●		●		●		1		1
7-a-side football ( CP football )		●		●		●		●		1			1
Boccia				●	●	3	●	●	●	4th			7th
Archery				●	1	1	1	1	1	2	2		9
Goalball		●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	2			2
Judo		4th	4th	5									13
athletics		10	20th	16	19th	14th	19th	14th	19th	16	25th	5	177
Para canoe								●	6th				6th
Para oars			●	●	4th								4th
Paratriathlon				3	3								6th
Powerlifting ( bench press )		2	3	3	3	3	3	3					20th
Cycling (track)		4th	5	5	3								17th
Cycling (road)								8th	8th	8th	9		33
horse riding					●	●	1	2	2	6th			11
Wheelchair basketball		●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	1	1		2
Wheelchair fencing						2	4th	4th	2	2			14th
Wheelchair rugby								●	●	●	●	1	1
Wheelchair tennis			●	●	●	●	1	1	2	2			6th
shoot		2	2	2	1	1	2	2					12
swim		16	16	14th	15th	16	15th	15th	14th	16	15th		152
sailing						●	●	●	●	●	3		3
Sitting volleyball			●	●	●	●	●	●	●	1	1		2
Table tennis		●	●	●	5	8th	8th	●	●	4th	4th		29
Medal decisions	0	38	50	48	54	48	54	50	54	65	61	6th	528
September	7. Wed	8. Thu	9. Fri.	10 Sat	11. So	12. Mon.	13th Tuesday	14. Wed	15th Thursday	16. Fri.	17th Sat	18. So	total

symbolism

logo

The official logo was designed by the Brazilian agency Tafíl Design and unveiled on November 26, 2014 as part of the lighting of the Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas Christmas tree .

It combines the symbol of a heart and that for infinity, which, according to IPC President Philip Craven , should represent the "heart" of the games, the athletes, on the one hand, and their "infinite power to master obstacles" on the other.

mascot

→ Main article : Vinicius and Tom

The official mascots of the Summer Olympics and the Paralympics 2016, Tom and Vinicius, were officially presented on November 24, 2014, their names were given by a vote on December 14, 2015. Tom, the mascot of the Paralympics, is reminiscent of a tree and is supposed to symbolize the rich flora of the country. His companion Vinicius, who is modeled after a cat, represents the animal world of Brazil. According to their fictional story, they are both the product of the joy of all Brazilians at hosting the Games.

Participating Paralympic Committees

Suspension of associations and athletes

Exclusion of the Russian team

On August 7, 2016, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) decided to exclude Russian athletes from the games. It had previously received additional information from Canadian lawyer Richard McLaren (known as the McLaren Report ), who led the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) investigation into the allegations of state doping in Russia. The Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko announced that he would take legal action against the decision of the IPC. However, the International Court of Justice for Sports (CAS) confirmed the IPC's decision on August 23, 2016.
Even at the Summer Olympics , it was a partial exclusion come Russian athletes.

Exclusion of various athletes

• The cyclist Michael Gallagher was because EPO - doping from the array of September 2 Australian was removed from the team.
• After the Saudi Arabian weightlifter Mashal Alkhazai tested positive for methenolone , an anabolic steroid , he had to travel home on September 12th before he could take part in his first competition. In addition, he was banned from the IPC for 8 years .
• Mohammad Naiem Durani , Afghan athlete who competed in the F44 javelin throw, was banned from the association for four years on September 13 after testing positive for the substance 19-norandrosterone. This led to the immediate cancellation of his competition result.
• The Argentine judoka Jorge Lencina had tested positive for the substance clomiphene , so he was excluded from the games and his competition results from the competition in the class up to 90 kg.

Overview by nations / teams

As of November 8, 2019

Europe (46 countries)
Albania  Armenia (2)  Azerbaijan (25)  Belgium (26)  Bosnia and Herzegovina (14)  Bulgaria (7)  Denmark (21)  Germany (155)  Estonia (6)  Faroe Islands (1)  Finland (26)  France (123)  Georgia (5)  Greece (60)  Great Britain (251)	Ireland (44)  Iceland (5)  Italy (97)  Kosovo  Croatia (19)  Latvia (11)  Lithuania (13)  Luxembourg (3)  Malta (1)  North Macedonia (2)  Moldova (2)  Montenegro (2)  Netherlands (115)  Norway (25)  Austria (27)	Poland (90)  Portugal (37)  Romania (12)  Sweden (58)  Switzerland (24)  Serbia (16)  Slovakia (28)  Slovenia (8)  Spain (111)  Czech Republic (37)  Turkey (79)  Ukraine (168)  Hungary (43)  Belarus (20)  Cyprus (2)
America (27 countries)
US Virgin Islands (1)  Argentina (82)  Aruba (1)  Bermuda (2)  Brazil (286)  Chile (15)  Costa Rica (2)  Dominican Republic (2)  Ecuador (5)	El Salvador (1)  Guatemala (1)  Haiti (1)  Honduras (2)  Jamaica (3)  Canada (151)  Colombia (39)  Cuba (22)  Mexico (69)	Nicaragua (3)  Panama (2)  Peru (5)  Puerto Rico (4)  Suriname (1)  Trinidad and Tobago (3)  Uruguay (4)  Venezuela (24)  United States (271)
Asia (40 countries)
Afghanistan (1)  Bahrain (2)  China, People's Republic (306)  China (Taiwan), Republic of (13)  Hong Kong (24)  India (19)  Indonesia (9)  Iraq (14)  Iran (108)  Israel (33)  Japan (132)  Jordan (10)  Cambodia (1)  Kazakhstan (11)	Qatar (3)  Kyrgyzstan (3)  Korea, Democratic People's Republic (2)  Korea Republic (80)  Kuwait (6)  Laos (1)  Macau (1)  Malaysia (19)  Mongolia (8)  Myanmar (2)  Nepal (2)  Oman (2)  East Timor (2)  Pakistan (1)	Palestine (1)  Papua New Guinea (2)  Philippines (5)  Saudi Arabia (4)  Singapore (13)  Sri Lanka (9)  Syria (2)  Tajikistan (1)  Thailand (45)  Turkmenistan (2)  Uzbekistan (32)  United Arab Emirates (18)  Vietnam (11)
Africa (41 countries)
Egypt (45)  Algeria (60)  Angola (4)  Ethiopia (5)  Benin (1)  Botswana (1)  Burkina Faso (1)  Burundi (1)  Djibouti  Ivory Coast (5)  Gabon (1)  Gambia (1)  Ghana (3)  Guinea-Bissau (1)	Cameroon (1)  Cape Verde (2)  Kenya (9)  Congo, Democratic Republic (2)  Congo, Republic (1)  Lesotho (2)  Libya (3)  Madagascar (1)  Malawi (1)  Mali (2)  Morocco (24)  Mauritius (2)  Mozambique (1)  Namibia (9)	Niger (2)  Nigeria (23)  Rwanda (13)  Sao Tome and Principe (1)  Senegal (2)  Seychelles (1)  Sierra Leone (1)  Zimbabwe (5)  South Africa (43)  South Sudan  Tanzania (1)  Tunisia (31)  Uganda (1)
Oceania (5 countries)
Australia (168)  Fiji (2)	New Zealand (27)  Samoa (2)	Tonga (2)
Independent teams (1 country)
Independent Paralympic Participants (2)

According to the IPC, as with the Summer Olympics , a refugee team should compete, which then ran under the flag of the Paralympics. These are the Syrian Ibrahim Al Hussein (swimmer 50 and 100 meters freestyle) and the Iranian Shahrad Nasajpour (discus throw).

tickets

Tickets for the individual events cost between 10 (around 3 euros) and 130  reais (around 36 euros). By September 7th, 1.66 million tickets had been sold.

With 133,000 units sold, August 23rd was the most profitable day to date.

reporting

Arrival of the athletes in early September

On August 24, 2016, the IPC announced that Dailymotion could be won as an official live streaming partner. 15 English-language channels were available to broadcast the competitions in athletics, cycling, soccer, judo, weightlifting, sitting volleyball, swimming, table tennis, wheelchair basketball, wheelchair fencing, wheelchair rugby and wheelchair tennis. The opening and closing ceremonies were also shown there, as well as highlights from all events, news and short videos. All in all, 72 hours of material were available per day.

In Germany, ZDF took over the live broadcast from 11 p.m. to 3 a.m. in the Paralympics format and from 9 a.m. of the next day in the Paralympics showed a 90-minute summary of the events in which, in addition to the competitions, interviews Background reports and explanatory pieces on disabled sports were important. Together with the ARD , all athletics competitions were made available in the respective media libraries, the transmission of other competitions was reserved there provided that German participation was required.

Incidents

On the morning of September 17, 2016 at 10:40 am local time, the Iranian cyclist Bahman Golbarnezhad had such a serious accident in the C4 road race in the so-called Grumari curve that he suffered cardiac arrest at the scene of the accident while being treated by rescue workers. He died a little later in the nearby university hospital ( Unimed Rio Hospital ). How this accident came about is still being explored. The Iranian flag in the Paralympic village was hoisted at half-mast, while Golbarnezhad, who was only 48 years old, is expected to observe a minute's silence during the closing ceremony.

Web links

Commons : Overview page with media for the Rio Summer Paralympics  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Application from Rio de Janeiro
• Schedule / Results Schedule and Results

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IPC announces medal event and athlete quotas for Rio 2016 ™ Paralympics ( Memento of the original from June 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ^ Paralympic Countries. In: rio2016.com. IOC , accessed September 6, 2016 . 
3. ^ Paralympic Athletes. In: rio2016.com. IOC , accessed September 6, 2016 . 
4. ↑ Canoeing and triathlon added to 2016 Paralympic Games. In: bbc.co.uk. BBC, accessed August 29, 2016 . 
5. ↑ Meet the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games mascots and help choose their names . Rio 2016 Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games. Retrieved December 15, 2014.
6. ↑ Rio 2016: Olympic and Paralympic mascots launched . Retrieved December 15, 2014.
7. ↑ Rio 2016 mascots inspired by animals and plants of Brazil . 15th December 2014. 
8. ↑ Russian team excluded from Paralympics. In: tagesschau.de. August 7, 2016. Retrieved August 12, 2016 . 
9. ↑ Breaking news CAS: Complete exclusion of Russian disabled athletes for Rio at tagesschau.de, 23 August 2016 (accessed on 23 August 2016).
10. ↑ Australians are convicted of epo-doping. spox.com, September 2, 2016, accessed September 24, 2019 . 
11. ↑ Doping: Weightlifter banned for eight years. In: spox.com. September 12, 2016. Retrieved September 24, 2016 . 
12. ↑ Rio 2016 Paralympics: Afghanistan's Mohammad Naiem Durani banned for doping. In: bbc.com. September 19, 2016. Retrieved September 24, 2016 . 
13. ^ Positive doping test in judoka. In: spox.com. September 14, 2019, accessed September 24, 2016 . 
14. ↑ Bigger team travels to the Paralympics. In: dbs-npc.de. DBS NPC, August 25, 2016, accessed August 29, 2016 . 
15. ↑ China to send biggest ever team to Rio Paralympics. In: chinadaily.com.cn. China Dialy, August 3, 2016, accessed August 30, 2016 . 
16. ^ Rio Paralympics: Two refugee Para-athletes named for Rio Paralympics. In: bbc.com. BBC, August 26, 2016, accessed August 30, 2016 . 
17. ↑ Refugees to compete in dedicated team at Rio 2016 Paralympics. In: paralympic.org. Paralympic.org, August 5, 2016, accessed August 26, 2016 . 
18. ^ Rio Paralympics: Two refugee Para-athletes named for Rio Paralympics. In: bbc.com. BBC, August 26, 2018, accessed August 30, 2016 . 
19. ↑ Paralympics: Craven: 1.66 million tickets for Paralympics sold , in: Zeit Online, September 7, 2016, accessed September 11, 2016
20. ↑ New record for Rio 2016: 133,000 tickets for Paralympic Games sold in just one day. In: rio2016.com. Rio 2016, August 24, 2016, accessed August 25, 2016 . 
21. ↑ The IPC selects Dailymotion to live stream 680 hours from Rio 2016 Paralympics. Paralympic.org, August 24, 2016, accessed August 25, 2016 . 
22. ↑ Paralympics 2016 live on ZDF. In: presseportal.zdf.de. ZDF.de, August 23, 2016, accessed on August 25, 2016 . 
23. ^ Statement on Iranian cyclist Bahman Golbarnezhad. Retrieved September 18, 2016 .