Colombia at the Paralympics
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| IPC code | COL |
| NPC | Colombian Paralympic Committee |
| Website | www |
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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]
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.
Medals by Summer Games[3]
| Games | Athletes | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 1960 Rome |
did not participate | |||||
 1964 Tokyo |
did not participate | |||||
 1968 Tel Aviv |
did not participate | |||||
 1972 Heidelberg |
did not participate | |||||
 1976 Toronto |
11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
 1980 Arnhem |
11 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 31 |
 1984 Stoke Mandeville |
did not participate | |||||
 1988 Seoul |
16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
 1992 Barcelona |
6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
 1996 Atlanta |
2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
 2000 Sydney |
3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
 2004 Athens |
5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
 2008 Beijing |
12 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 60 |
| 2012 London |
37 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 61 |
 2016 Rio de Janeiro |
39 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 17 | 37 |
| 2020 Tokyo |
future event | |||||
 2024 Paris |
future event | |||||
| 2028 Los Angeles |
future event | |||||
| Total | 3 | 8 | 12 | 23 | 66 | |
Medals by sport
| Sport | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Swimming | 2 | 5 | 4 | 11 |
 Athletics | 1 | 3 | 5 | 9 |
 Cycling | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Totals (3 entries) | 3 | 8 | 12 | 23 |
List of Medalists
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See also
References
- ^ Colombia at the Paralympics, International Paralympic Committee
- ^ Colombia at the Paralympics, International Paralympic Committee
- ^ https://db.ipc-services.org/sdms/hira/web/country/colombia
External links
Media related to Colombia at the Paralympic Games at Wikimedia Commons
