Colombia at the Paralympics
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 Paralympic Games, except 1984, but has never entered the Winter Paralympic Games.[1][2]
Colombians have won a total of seventy five medals: thirteen gold, twenty two silver and forty bronze, in swimming, athletics, cycling, powerlifting and boccia.[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
Medals at the Summer Games
| Games | Athletes | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 1960 Rome |
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 1964 Tokyo
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 1968 Tel Aviv
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 1972 Heidelberg
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 1976 Toronto |
11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
 1980 Arnhem |
11 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 31 |
  1984 Stoke Mandeville/New York |
Did Not Participate | |||||
 1988 Seoul |
17 | 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 |
39 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 61 |
 2016 Rio de Janeiro |
39 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 17 | 37 |
| 2020 Tokyo |
61 | 3 | 7 | 14 | 24 | 37 |
 2024 Paris |
74 | 7 | 7 | 14 | 28 | 19 |
| Total | 13 | 22 | 40 | 75 | 59 | |
Medals at Winter Games
| Games | Athletes | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Örnsköldsvik 1976 |
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 Geilo 1980
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 Innsbruck 1984
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| Innsbruck 1988
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| Albertville 1992
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| Lillehammer 1994
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| Nagano 1998
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| Salt Lake City 2002
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| Turin 2006
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| Vancouver 2010
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 Sochi 2014
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| Pyeongchang 2018
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| Beijing 2022
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| Total | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | − | |
Medals by Summer Sport
| Sport | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Athletics | 8 | 7 | 21 | 36 |
 Swimming | 4 | 14 | 9 | 27 |
 Boccia | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
 Cycling | 0 | 0 | 7 | 7 |
 Powerlifting | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Totals (5 entries) | 13 | 22 | 40 | 75 |
List of Medalists
See also
References
- ^ Colombia at the Paralympics, International Paralympic Committee
- ^ "IPC Historical Results Archive".
- ^ "Colombia y su historia en los Juegos Paralímpicos - Comité Paralímpico Colombiano" (in Spanish). 2021-06-29. Retrieved 2024-08-21.
- ^ Colombia at the Paralympics, International Paralympic Committee
External links
Media related to Colombia at the Paralympic Games at Wikimedia Commons
