Mexico at the Paralympics

Mexico at the Paralympics
IPC code	MEX
NPC	Federacion Mexicana de Deporte
Medals	Gold 97 Silver 90 Bronze 101 Total 288
Summer appearances
1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016
Winter appearances
2006 2010 2014 2018

Mexico made its Paralympic Games début at the 1972 Summer Paralympics in Heidelberg, with a delegation of seven athletes competing in track and field, swimming, weightlifting and wheelchair fencing. It has competed in every edition of the Summer Paralympics since then, and made its Winter Paralympics début in 2006.^[1]

Mexicans have won a total of 273 Paralympic medals, of which 93 are gold, 88 silver and 92 bronze,^[2] placing them 25th on the all-time Paralympic Games medal table. Although Mexicans did not win any medals at the 1972 Games, they swept up sixteen gold (fifteen in athletics, one in swimming) in 1976, along with fourteen silver and nine bronze, and continued to win medals during every subsequent edition of the Summer Games.^[3]

Among the most successful Mexican Paralympians, Josefina Cornejo won four gold medals in track and field at the 1976 Games, reiterating that result four years later. Runner Juana Soto also took four gold in 1980, as did Leticia Torres in 1988.^[4]

Mexican delegations to the Winter Games, by contrast, have been small (one competitor in 2006, two in 2010), and have not won any medals.^[5]

Medal tables

Medals by Summer Games

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Games	Athletes				Total	Rank
1960 Rome	Did not participate
1964 Tokyo
1968 Tel-Aviv
1972 Heidelberg	7	0	0	0	0	N/A
1976 Toronto	32	16	14	9	39	12
1980 Arnhem	28	20	16	6	42	9
1984 New York /          Stoke Mandeville	54	6	14	17	37	25
1988 Seoul	34	8	9	6	23	24
1992 Barcelona	19	0	1	10	11	46
1996 Atlanta	38	3	5	4	12	31
2000 Sydney	77	10	12	12	34	17
2004 Athens	77	14	10	10	34	15
2008 Beijing	67	10	3	7	20	14
2012 London	81	6	4	11	21	23
2016 Rio de Janeiro	71	4	2	9	15	29
Total	514	97	90	101	288	19

Medals by Winter Games

Games	Athletes				Total	Rank
1976 Örnsköldsvik	Did not participate
1980 Geilo
1984 Innsbruck
1988 Innsbruck
1992 Tignes - Albertville
1994 Lillehammer
1998 Nagano
2002 Salt Lake City
2006 Turin	1	0	0	0	0	-
2010 Vancouver	2	0	0	0	0	-
2014 Sochi	1	0	0	0	0	-
2018 Pyeongchang	1	0	0	0	0	-
Total	5	0	0	0	0	-

See also

• Mexico at the Olympics

References