| Jamaica at the Paralympic Games | ||||||||||
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At the 1968 Summer Paralympics in Tel Aviv
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| Competitors | ||||||||||
| Medals Rank: 14 |
Gold 3 |
Silver 1 |
Bronze 1 |
Total 5 |
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| Paralympic history (summary) | ||||||||||
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| 1960 • 1964 • 1968 • 1972 • 1976 • 1980 • 1984 • 1988 • 1992 • 1996 • 2000 • 2004 • 2008 | ||||||||||
Jamaica was one of twenty-eight nations that competed at the 1968 Summer Paralympics in Tel Aviv, Israel from November 4 to 13, 1968.[1][2] The team finished fourteenth in the medal table and won a total of five medals; three gold, one silver and one bronze.[3] Eleven athletes represented Jamaica at the Games; seven men and four women.[1]
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The Paralympics groups athletes' disabilities into one of five disability categories; amputation, the condition may be congenital or sustained through injury or illness; cerebral palsy; wheelchair athletes, there is often overlap between this and other categories; visual impairment, including blindness; Les autres, any physical disability that does not fall strictly under one of the other categories, for example dwarfism or multiple sclerosis.[4][5] Each Paralympic sport then has its own classifications, dependent on the specific physical demands of competition. Events are given a code, made of numbers and letters, describing the type of event and classification of the athletes competing.[6]
Seven Jamaican archers competed at the Games, none won a medal.[7] The best result was achieved by Quida White who placed fifth in the St. Nicholas round for paraplegic women; Lewis[n 1] finished eleventh in the same event.[8]
Seven of Jamaica's competitors took part in athletics. Two medals were won by Jamaican athletes, both gold and both in the precision javelin.[7] Excell took the men's title, with a score of 74, and Baracatt the women's, with a score of 78.[9][10]
The only dartchery event at the Games was the mixed pairs event which took a knockout format. Two Jamaican pairs entered; Excell and Hall lost in the first round to the eventual gold medallists from the United States; Long and Baracatt also lost in the first round to British pair Nicholson and Taylor.[11]
Three Jamaican swimmers competed at the Games. Patrick Reid took part in two men's class 2 complete classification events but failed to advance past the heats in either.[7] Octavius Morgan competed in three men's class 4 incomplete classification events and achieved a best finish of fifth in the breaststroke.[7][12] Jamaica's two swimming medals were both won by Meikle; she won gold in the women's 50 m breaststroke class 4 incomplete and silver in the 50 m freestyle.[7]
Five Jamaica players took part in table tennis singles events and a pair in the women's doubles. All of the singles players were eliminated at the round of 16 stage.[7] In the women's doubles C event Baracatt and Lewis reached the quarter-finals before losing to Great Britain's Bryant and Barnard, who went on to win the gold medal.[13]
One athlete entered a weightlifting event for Jamaica. Hall won the bronze medal in the men's lightweight with a lift of 110 kg; the gold was won by Johnsen of Norway with a new world record lift of 150 kg.[14]
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