1984 Summer Paralympics

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VII Paralympic Games
Host city	New York, United States
Nations participating	45
Athletes participating	1800
Events	~300 in 15 sports
Opening ceremony	June 17
Closing ceremony	June 30
Officially opened by	Ronald Reagan
Stadium	Mitchel Athletic Complex

VII Paralympic Games
Host city	Stoke Mandeville, Great Britain
Nations participating	41
Athletes participating	1100
Events	603 in 10 sports
Opening ceremony	July 22
Closing ceremony	August 1
Officially opened by	HRH Prince Charles
Stadium	Stoke Mandeville Stadium

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 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 1 Sports 2 Medal table 3 Participating delegations 4 References

[edit] 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]

• Archery - Cerebral palsy, wheelchair, and les autres
• Athletics - All
• Boccia - Cerebal palsy
• Cycling - Cerebal palsy
• Equestrian - Cerebal palsy
• Football 7-a-side - Cerebal palsy
• Goalball - Visually impaired
• Lawn bowls - Amputee and wheelchair
• Lifting - Amputee, cerebal palsy, wheelchair, and les autres
  • Powerlifting
  • Weightlifting
• Shooting - Amputee, cerebal palsy, wheelchair, and les autres
• Snooker - Wheelchair
• Swimming - All
• Table tennis - Amputee, cerebal palsy, wheelchair, and les autres
• Volleyball - Amputee and les autres
• Wheelchair basketball - Wheelchair and les autres
• Wheelchair fencing - Wheelchair
• Wrestling - Visually impaired

[edit] 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
37	South Korea	0	2	2	4
39	Jordan	0	1	2	3
39	Zimbabwe	0	1	2	3
41	Bahamas	0	1	1	2
41	Indonesia	0	1	1	2
43	Bahrain	0	0	2	2

[edit] Participating delegations

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

Argentina Australia Austria Bahamas Bahrain Belgium Brazil Burma Canada China Denmark East Germany Ecuador Egypt Faroe Islands Finland France Great Britain

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

Mexico Netherlands New Zealand Norway Papua New Guinea Poland Portugal South Korea Spain Sweden Switzerland Thailand Trinidad and Tobago United States Venezuela West Germany Yugoslavia Zimbabwe

[edit] References

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