1992 Summer Paralympics

IX Paralympic Games
Host city Barcelona and Madrid, Spain
Motto Sport Without Limits
(Catalan: Esport Sense Límits)
(Spanish: Deporte Sin Límites)
Nations 82 (BCN)
75 (MAD)[1]
Athletes 3,020 (BCN)
1,600 (MAD)[1][2]
Events 487 in 15 sports (BCN)
68 in 5 sports (MAD)
Opening 3 September (BCN)
15 September (MAD)
Closing 14 September (BCN)
22 September (MAD)
Opened by Queen Sofía of Spain
Cauldron Antonio Rebollo (BCN)
Coral Bistuer (MAD)
Stadium Estadi Olímpic de Montjuïc (BCN)
Palacio de Deportes de la Comunidad de Madrid (MAD)
Summer
← Seoul 1988 Atlanta 1996 →
Winter
← 1992 Lillehammer 1994 →

The 1992 Summer Paralympics (Spanish: Juegos Paralímpicos de Verano de 1992; Catalan: Jocs Paralímpics d'estiu de 1992) were the ninth Paralympic Games to be held. They were held in Barcelona, Spain. In addition, the 1992 Paralympic Games for Persons with mental handicap were held immediately after the regular Paralympics in the Spanish capital, Madrid.[2]

Sports

The games consisted of 560 events spread over fifteen sports. Powerlifting and weightlifting were considered to be a single sport. Wheelchair tennis, a demonstration sport at the 1988 Summer Paralympics, was contested as an official medal sport for the first time.[1]

Venues

In total 11 venues were used at the 1992 Summer Olympics and one new one was used at the Games in Barcelona.[3]

Montjuic

Parque de Mar

Valle de Hebrón

In the north of the city,the Horta-Guinardó District,hosted three sports:

Another Venues

Madrid

Medal count

A total of 1710 medals were awarded during the 1992 games: 555 gold, 557 silver, and 594 bronze. The United States topped the medal count with more gold medals, more silver medals, and more medals overall than any other nation. Germany took the most bronze medals, with 59.[4] The Madrid medals are counted too and added in the table[2] In the table below, the ranking sorts by the number of gold medals earned by a nation (in this context a nation is an entity represented by a National Paralympic Committee).

  Host country (Spain)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 United States (USA)755248175
2 Germany (GER)615159171
3 Great Britain (GBR)425145138
4 Spain (ESP)*393249120
5 Australia (AUS)373736110
6 France (FRA)363635107
7 Canada (CAN)29232981
8 Unified Team (EUN)19151650
9 Sweden (SWE)16331968
10 China (CHN)168731
Totals (10 nations)3703383431051

Participating delegations

One hundred three delegations participated at the 1992 Summer Paralympics.

South Africa returned to the Paralympics for the first time since being declared "undesirable" due to its policy of apartheid in 1980.[5][6] Twenty-one countries did not send a delegation to Barcelona, but sent one to Madrid; they were: Aruba, Bolivia, Côte d'Ivoire, Curaçao, El Salvador, Fiji, Ghana, Guatemala, Honduras, Jordan, Lebanon, Malta, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Philippines, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Suriname and Zimbabwe.[2]

Paralympic Games for Persons with mental handicap

The first Paralympic Games for Persons with mental handicap were held immediately after the regular Paralympic games in the Spanish capital of Madrid from September 15 to 22.[7] Over 1,400 athletes from 74 nations participated in the competition, which was sponsored by the Association Nacional Prestura de Servicio (ANDE) and sanctioned by the International Coordinating Committee of World Sport Organizations for the Disabled and the International Association of Sport for the Mentally Handicapped. The games featured a cultural exchange group, a group of intellectually disabled men from Nagasaki who played taiko (traditional drums) during the opening and closing ceremonies and selected track events.[2][8]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Barcelona 1992 - General Information". International Paralympic Committee. 2008. Retrieved 2011-07-12.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Madrid 1992 – the Paralympic Games that time forgot!". Paralympicanorak.wordpress.com. June 25, 2012. Retrieved October 13, 2012.
  3. ↑ elmundodeportivo.es. "Sedes e instalaciones". Retrieved 5 October 2009.
  4. ↑ "Medal Standings - Barcelona 1992 Paralympic Games". International Paralympic Committee. 2008. Retrieved 2011-07-12.
  5. ↑ "'The Netherlands against Apartheid' - 1970s", International Institute of Social History
  6. ↑ South Africa at the Paralympics, International Paralympic Committee
  7. ↑ Yabe, Kyonosuke; Kusano, Katsuhiko; Nakata, Hideo (2012). Adapted Physical Activity: Health and Fitness. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 23–. ISBN 978-4-431-68272-1. Retrieved 20 September 2017.
  8. ↑ DePauw, Karen P; Rich, Sarah (Winter 1993). "1992 Ad". Palaestra. Retrieved 11 February 2012.
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