Portugal at the Paralympics explained

Npc:POR
Npcname:Portuguese Paralympic Committee
Games:Paralympics
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Gold:25
Silver:30
Bronze:39

Portugal made its Paralympic Games début at the 1972 Summer Paralympics (two years before the Carnation Revolution), where it was represented solely by a men's team in wheelchair basketball. They were eliminated at the preliminary stage of the competition, with one victory (over Switzerland) and three defeats. Portugal was then absent from the Paralympic Games until the 1984 Summer Games, where its athletes won the country's first fourteen medals, including three gold in track and field and one in boccia. Portugal has competed at every subsequent edition of the Summer Paralympics, but -almost uniquely among Western European countries[1] - has never taken part in the Winter Games.[2]

Portuguese athletes have won a total of 92 Paralympic medals, of which 25 gold, 30 silver and 37 bronze. As of 2010, Portugal ranks thirty-sixth on the all-time Paralympic Games medal table. The country's best performance came in 2000, when it won 15 medals (of which 6 gold) and ranked 26th.[3]

Medal tallies

Summer Paralympics

See also: All-time Paralympic Games medal table.

GamesAthletesGoldSilverBronzeTotalRank
11 0 0 0 0
17 4 3 7 14 26
13 3 5 6 14 29
30 3 3 3 9 29
35 6 4 4 14 26
52 6 5 4 15 26
29 2 5 5 12 41
35 1 4 2 7 42
30 0 1 2 3 63
37 0 0 4 4 73
37 0 0 2 2 77
Total 25 30 39 94 35

Medals by Summer sport

Row in gold background is a sport in which they are leading in i.e. won most world championship titles.

Medalists

MedalNameGamesSportEvent
Men's 100m C8
Men's 200m C8
Men's 1500m cross country C8
Mixed team
Men's 100m C8
Men's relay team Men's relay C7-8
Men's bicycle 5000m CP div 4
Men's 200m C8
Men's 800m C8
Men's long jump C8
Women's 60m C2
Women's 1000m cross country C7
Men's bicycle 1500m CP div 4
Men's singles C4
Women's distance throw C1
Women's precision throw C1
Mixed team C1-C2
Men's 100m C8
Men's 200m C8
Men's kick ball C2
Women's 200m C7
Women's 400m C7
Men's 400m C8
Men's precision throw C1
Men's precision throw C1
Women's precision throw C1
Mixed individual C1
Mixed individual C2
Men's 200m B1
Men's 400m B1
Men's 1500m B1
Men's 5000m B1
Mixed individual C2
Men's team
Men's 800m B1
Men's relay C5-8
Women's 50m backstroke S3-4
Men's 400m T10
Men's 800m T10
Men's 1500m T10
Men's 5000m T10
Men's individual C1 wad
Mixed pairs C1 wad
Men's 800m T10
Mixed team C1-2
Women's 50m backstroke S3
Women's 50m freestyle S3
Men's 400m T10
Men's 10000m T10
J. Onofre da Costa Men's marathon T12
Women's 100m freestyle S3
Men's 200m T12
Men's 400m T11
Men's 1500m T11
Men's marathon T11
Men's relay T13
Mixed individual BC3
Men's 200m T11
Men's 800m T46
Men's 10000m T11
Mixed individual BC3
Women's 50m backstroke S3
Men's 100m T12
Men's 400m T13
Women's 400m T38
Mixed team BC1-BC2
Mixed individual BC1
Mixed team BC1/BC2
Men's 10000m T11
Men's marathon T11
Mixed individual BC2
Mixed individual BC4
Mixed pairs BC4
Men's 400m T13
Mixed individual BC2
Men's 50m freestyle S1
Men's 50m backstroke S1
Women's 50m backstroke S3
Mixed individual BC1
Men's 400m T12
Mixed individual BC1
Mixed team BC1/2
Mixed pairs BC3
Mixed pairs BC4
Men's 50m backstroke S1
Mixed pairs BC3
Men's long jump F20
Mixed individual BC3
Men's 400m T12
Men's marathon T46
Mixed individual BC3
Mixed team BC1-2
Men's shot put F40
Men's VL2

See also

Notes and References

  1. Only two other Western European countries have participated in the Summer Games but never in the Winter ones: Ireland and Luxembourg. Additionally, the microstates of Monaco, San Marino and the Vatican have never taken part in the Paralympic Games.
  2. http://www.paralympic.org/Sport/Results/search.html?npc=POR&gender=all&medal=all&sport=all&games=all Portugal at the Paralympics
  3. http://www.paralympic.org/Sport/Results/search.html?npc=POR&gender=all&medal=all&sport=all&games=all Portugal at the Paralympics