Npc: | DOM |
Npcname: | Paralympic Committee of the Dominican Republic |
Games: | Summer Paralympics |
Year: | 2024 |
Flagcaption: | Flag of the Dominican Republic |
Location: | Paris, France |
Competitors: | 5 |
Sports: | 3 |
Appearances: | auto |
Dominican Republic is scheduled to compete at the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris, France from 28 August to 8 September.
The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.
width=180 | Sport | width=55 | Men | width=55 | Women | width=55 | Total |
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Athletics | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Cycling | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||
Taekwondo | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||
Total | 3 | 2 | 5 |
See main article: Athletics at the 2024 Summer Paralympics and Athletics at the 2024 Summer Paralympics – Qualification. Track and field athletes from Dominican Republic has achieved quota places for the following events based on their results at the 2023 World Championships, 2024 World Championships, or through high performance allocation, as long as they meet the minimum entry standard (MES).
See main article: Cycling at the 2024 Summer Paralympics. For the first time since 2016, Dominican Republic sent one male para-cyclist after finished the top eligible nation's at the 2022 UCI Nation's ranking allocation ranking.[1]
See main article: Taekwondo at the 2024 Summer Paralympics. Dominican Republic entered three athletes to compete at the Paralympics competition. Geraldo Castro Encarnacion (men's under 63 kg), Julio Figuereo (men's above 80 kg) and Elisabeth Geraldo (women's under 52 kg) qualified for the games, in their respective classes, following the homecrowd triumph of their gold medal results, at the 2024 Pan American Qualification Tournament in Santo Domingo, marking the nation's debut at these sports.[2]
Athlete | Event | First round | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Repechage 1 | Repechage 2 | Final / | ||
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Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Rank | |||
Geraldo Castro Encarnacion | Men's −63 kg | ||||||||
Julio Figuereo | Men's +80 kg | ||||||||
Elisabeth Geraldo | Women's −52 kg |