Summer Paralympics 2016 / Participants (Independent Paralympic Participants)

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For the first time, a team of independent Paralympic participants , consisting of two athletes, took part in the Summer Paralympic Games that took place in Rio de Janeiro in 2016 . These were refugees or asylum seekers . The British Tony Sainsbury, who had already coached the British Paralympics team five times, acted as their boss de mission .

Members of the team

Parathlete		Country of origin	Participation country	sport
Ibrahim Al Hussein	♂	Syria	Greece	swim
Shahrad Nasajpour	♂	Iran	United States	athletics

Participants by sport

athletics

Athletes	competition	Pre-fight		Semifinals		final		rank
		Expanse	rank	Expanse	rank	Expanse	rank
Shahrad Nasajpour	Discus throwing T37	-		-		39.64 m	11	11

swim

Athletes	competition	leader		final		rank
		time	rank	time	rank
Ibrahim Al Hussein	50 m freestyle S9	35.54 s	7th	eliminated		18th
	100 m freestyle S9	1: 20.98 min	7th	eliminated		21st

See also

• Refugee Olympic Team (refugee team at the 2016 Olympic Summer Games )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rio Paralympics: Two refugee Para-athletes named for Rio Paralympics. In: BBC . August 26, 2016. Retrieved September 15, 2016