Colombia at the Paralympics

Colombia made its Paralympic Games début at the 1976 Summer Paralympics in Toronto, with competitors taking part in track and field, table tennis and wheelchair basketball. The country has participated in every subsequent edition of the Summer Paralympics, except 1984, but has never entered the Winter Paralympics.[1]

Colombia at the
Paralympics
IPC codeCOL
NPCColombian Paralympic Committee
Websitewww.comiteparalimpicocolombiano.org
Medals
Gold
3
Silver
8
Bronze
12
Total
23
Summer appearances

Colombians have won a total of twenty three medals at the Paralympic Games: three gold, eight silver and twelve bronze. Pedro Mejía won the country's first medals when he took a gold and a bronze in swimming in 1980. His winning time of 1:27.88 in the final of the 100m breaststroke, D category, set a new world record. Colombia had to wait 28 years for its next two medals, which both came in the 2008 Games. Elkin Serna ran the men's marathon in 2:31:16 in the T12 category for athletes with severe visual disability, finishing less than a minute behind Chinese athlete Qi Shun's world record time of 2:30:32, and took silver. Moisés Fuentes won bronze in the men's 100m breaststroke in the SB4 category.[2] 2016 Summer Paralympics represented the best performance by the Colombian committee in the history of the Summer Paralympics, with a total amount of 17 medals won.

List of Medalists

Medal Name Games Sport Event
 GoldPedro Mejía 1980 Arnhem SwimmingMen's 100 m Breaststroke D
 BronzePedro Mejía 1980 Arnhem SwimmingMen's 100 m Backstroke C-D
 SilverElkin Serna 2008 Beijing AthleticsMen's Marathon T12
 BronzeMoisés Fuentes García 2008 Beijing SwimmingMen's 100 m Breaststroke SB4
 SilverElkin Serna 2012 London AthleticsMen's Marathon T12
 SilverMoisés Fuentes García 2012 London SwimmingMen's 100 m Breaststroke SB4
 GoldCarlos Serrano Zárate 2016 Rio de Janeiro SwimmingMen's 100 m Breaststroke SB7
 GoldMauricio Valencia 2016 Rio de Janeiro AthleticsMen's Javelin throw F34
 SilverCarlos Serrano Zárate 2016 Rio de Janeiro SwimmingMen's 100 m Freestyle S7
 SilverNelson Crispín 2016 Rio de Janeiro SwimmingMen's 50 m Freestyle S6
 SilverLuis Lucumí Villegas 2016 Rio de Janeiro AthleticsMen's Javelin throw F38
 SilverNelson Crispín 2016 Rio de Janeiro SwimmingMen's 100 m Freestyle S6
 SilverNelson Crispín 2016 Rio de Janeiro SwimmingMen's 100 m Breaststroke SB6
 BronzeMartha Liliana Hernandez 2016 Rio de Janeiro AthleticsWomen's 100 m T36
 BronzeWomen's Relay Team
Marcela González
Sonia Luna Rodríguez
Yesenia Restrepo Muñoz
Maritza Arango Buitrago		 2016 Rio de Janeiro AthleticsWomen's 4 × 100 m T11-T13
 BronzeCarlos Serrano Zárate 2016 Rio de Janeiro SwimmingMen's 50 m Freestyle S7
 BronzeNéstor Javier Ayala 2016 Rio de Janeiro CyclingMen's Road race T1–2
 BronzeMauricio Valencia 2016 Rio de Janeiro AthleticsMen's Shot put F34
 BronzeDiego Germán Dueñas 2016 Rio de Janeiro CyclingMen's Individual pursuit C4
 BronzeWeiner Díaz Mosquera 2016 Rio de Janeiro AthleticsMen's 400 m T38
 BronzeMoisés Fuentes García 2016 Rio de Janeiro SwimmingMen's 100 m Breaststroke SB4
 BronzeEdwin Matiz Ruíz 2016 Rio de Janeiro CyclingMen's Individual pursuit C5
 BronzeMaritza Arango Buitrago 2016 Rio de Janeiro AthleticsWomen's 1500 m T11

See also

References
  1. Colombia at the Paralympics, International Paralympic Committee
  2. Colombia at the Paralympics, International Paralympic Committee
  3. https://db.ipc-services.org/sdms/hira/web/country/colombia
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