Colombia at the Paralympics explained

Npc:COL
Npcname:Colombian Paralympic Committee
Games:Paralympics
Gold:6
Silver:15
Bronze:26

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] [2]

Colombians have won a total of forty seven medals: six gold, fifteen silver and twenty six bronze, in swimming, athletics, cycling and powerlifting.[3]

History

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.[4]

The 2020 Summer Paralympics represented the best performance by the Colombian committee, with a total amount of 24 medals won.

Medals

See also: All-time Paralympic Games medal table.

Medals at Summer Games

GamesAthletesGoldSilverBronzeTotalRank
Did Not Participate
1972 Heidelberg
0 0 0 0
1 0 1 2
Did Not Participate
0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
0 1 1 2
0 2 0 2
2 5 10 17
3 7 14 24
Future Event
Total 6 15 26 47

Medals at Winter Games

GamesAthletesGoldSilverBronzeTotalRank
Did Not Participate
Geilo 1980
Innsbruck 1984
Innsbruck 1988
Albertville 1992
Lillehammer 1994
Nagano 1998
Salt Lake City 2002
Turin 2006
Vancouver 2010
Sochi 2014
Beijing 2022
Total 0 0 0 0

Medals by Summer Sport

List of Medalists

MedalNameGamesSportEvent
Pedro Mejía Men's 100 m Breaststroke D
Pedro Mejía Men's 100 m Backstroke C-D
Men's Marathon T12
Moisés Fuentes García Men's 100 m Breaststroke SB4
Men's Marathon T12
Moisés Fuentes García Men's 100 m Breaststroke SB4
Men's 100 m Breaststroke SB7
Mauricio Valencia Men's Javelin throw F34
Men's 100 m Freestyle S7
Men's 50 m Freestyle S6
Luis Lucumí Villegas Men's Javelin throw F38
Men's 100 m Freestyle S6
Men's 100 m Breaststroke SB6
Martha Liliana Hernandez Women's 100 m T36
Women's Relay Team
Marcela González
Sonia Luna Rodríguez
Yesenia Restrepo Muñoz
Maritza Arango Buitrago
Women's 4 × 100 m T11-T13
Men's 50 m Freestyle S7
Néstor Javier Ayala Men's Road race T1–2
Mauricio Valencia Men's Shot put F34
Diego Germán Dueñas Men's Individual pursuit C4
Weiner Díaz Mosquera Men's 400 m T38
Moisés Fuentes García Men's 100 m Breaststroke SB4
Edwin Matiz Ruíz Men's Individual pursuit C5
Women's 1500 m T11
Men's 200 m individual medley SM6
Men's 100 m Breaststroke SB7
Women's shot put F41
Women's 100 metres
Men's 100 metre breaststroke SB4
Men's javelin throw F38
Men's individual pursuit C4
Men's 200 metre individual medley SM7
Women's 400 metres T11
Men's 97 kg
Men's 50 metre butterfly S12

See also

Notes and References

  1. http://www.paralympic.org/Sport/Results/search.html?npc=COL&gender=all&medal=all&sport=all&games=all Colombia at the Paralympics
  2. Web site: IPC Historical Results Archive.
  3. Web site: 2021-06-29 . Colombia y su historia en los Juegos Paralímpicos - Comité Paralímpico Colombiano . 2024-08-21 . es.
  4. http://www.paralympic.org/Sport/Results/search.html?npc=COL&gender=all&medal=all&sport=all&games=all Colombia at the Paralympics