1984 Summer Paralympics

VII Paralympic Games
Host city New York, United States
Stoke Mandeville, United Kingdom
Nations participating 45 (USA)
41 (UK)
Athletes participating 1800 (USA)
1100 (UK)
Events ~300 in 15 sports (USA)
603 in 10 sports (UK)
Opening ceremony June 17 (USA)
July 22 (UK)
Closing ceremony June 30 (USA)
August 1 (UK)
Officially opened by President Ronald Reagan (USA)
Charles, Prince of Wales (UK)
Stadium Mitchel Athletic Complex (USA)
Stoke Mandeville Stadium (UK)
Summer:
 < Arnhem 1980 Seoul 1988 > 
Winter:
 < Innsbruck 1984 Innsbruck 1988 > 

The 1984 Summer Paralympics were the seventh Paralympic Games to be held. They were held in two separate locations, Stoke Mandeville, United Kingdom (wheelchair athletes with spinal cord injuries) and in the Mitchel Athletic Complex and Hofstra University in Long Island, New York, United States of America (wheelchair and ambulatory athletes with cerebral palsy, amputees, and les autres (the others) conditions as well as blind and visually impaired athletes). Stoke Mandeville had been the location of the Stoke Mandeville Games from 1948 onwards, seen as the precursors to the Paralympic Games.[1]

These were the last Summer Paralympics not held in the venues of the Summer Olympic Games.

Contents

Sports

Competitors were divided into five disability-specific categories: amputee, cerebal palsy, visually impaired, wheelchair, and les autres (athletes with physical disabilities that had not been eligible to compete in previous Games). The wheelchair category was for those competitors who used a wheelchair due to a spinal cord disability. However some athletes in the amputee and cerebral palsy categories also competed in wheelchairs. Within the sport of athletics, a wheelchair marathon event was held for the first time. The Trails for the first wheelchair event to be held at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games was held in conjunction with the New York Games. However, despite the long and established history of using "paralympic" terminology, in the United States the US Olympic Committee prohibited the Games organizers from using the term. The seventeen contested sports are listed below, along with the disability categories which competed in each.[2]

Medal table

Main article: 1984 Summer Paralympics medal table
 Rank  Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 United States 136 131 129 396
2 Great Britain 107 112 112 331
3 Canada 87 82 69 238
4 Sweden 80 43 34 157
5 West Germany 79 76 74 229
6 France 71 69 45 185
7 Netherlands 55 51 28 134
8 Australia 49 54 51 154
9 Poland 46 39 21 106
10 Denmark 30 13 16 59
11 Norway 29 31 30 90
12 Belgium 22 21 14 57
13 Spain 22 10 12 44
14 Ireland 20 15 30 65
15 Finland 19 13 26 58
16 Switzerland 18 13 12 43
17 Austria 14 20 10 44
18 Hungary 12 12 4 28
19 Israel 11 21 12 44
20 Yugoslavia 11 9 11 31
21 Italy 9 19 14 42
22 Japan 9 7 8 24
23 New Zealand 8 10 7 25
24 Brazil 7 17 4 28
25 Mexico 6 14 17 37
26 Portugal 4 3 7 14
27 Hong Kong 3 5 9 17
28 China 2 12 8 22
29 Trinidad and Tobago 2 0 1 3
30 Luxembourg 1 4 1 6
31 Kuwait 1 3 4 8
32 Burma 1 2 1 4
33 Egypt 1 1 5 7
34 Kenya 1 1 1 3
35 East Germany 0 3 1 4
36 Iceland 0 2 8 10
37 India 0 2 2 4
South Korea 0 2 2 4
39 Jordan 0 1 2 3
Zimbabwe 0 1 2 3
41 Bahamas 0 1 1 2
Indonesia 0 1 1 2
43 Bahrain 0 0 2 2
44 Argentina 0 0 0 0
Ecuador 0 0 0 0
Faroe Islands 0 0 0 0
Greece 0 0 0 0
Guatemala 0 0 0 0
Jamaica 0 0 0 0
Liechtenstein 0 0 0 0
Malta 0 0 0 0
Papua New Guinea 0 0 0 0
Thailand 0 0 0 0
Venezuela 0 0 0 0
Total (54 NPCs) 973 946 848 2767

Participating delegations

Fifty-four delegations took part in the 1984 Paralympics.[3]

  • Greece
  • Guatemala
  • Hong Kong
  • Hungary
  • Iceland
  • India
  • Indonesia
  • Ireland
  • Israel
  • Italy
  • Jamaica
  • Japan
  • Jordan
  • Kenya
  • Kuwait
  • Liechtenstein
  • Luxembourg
  • Malta

See also

References

  1. ^ "2012 – The Paralympics come home", BBC, July 4, 2008
  2. ^ "Stoke Mandeville & New York 1984". International Paralympic Committee. 2008. http://www.paralympic.org/Paralympic_Games/Past_Games/Stoke_Mandeville_New_York_1984/index.html. Retrieved 2008-08-06. 
  3. ^ "Medal Standings - New York / Stoke Mandeville 1984 Paralympic Games". International Paralympic Committee. 2008. http://www.paralympic.org/Sport/Results/reports.html?type=medalstandings&games=1984PG&sport=all. Retrieved 2008-08-08. 

External links

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