Argentina in the Paralympic Games . Argentina has participated in all the Summer Paralympic Games , since its first edition in Rome 1960 . It was the only Spanish-speaking country and the only Latin American country present in the first two editions. Regarding the Paralympic Winter Games, his first participation was in Vancouver 2010 , appearing since then in all editions.
The Argentine delegations obtained a total of 156 medals in the games, of which 31 are gold, 61 silver and 64 bronze. All were won in summer editions. Argentina is ranked number 30 in the historic medal table of the Paralympic Games
Summary
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- 1 History
- 2 Summer Games
- 1 First Paralympic Games
- 2 Tokyo 1964: the best Argentine performance in history
- 3 Tel Aviv 1968: golden record for Argentina
- 4 Heidelberg 1972
- 5 Toronto 1976
- 6 Arnhem 1980
- 7 New York / Stoke Mandeville 1984
- 8 Seoul 1988: the Olympic and Paralympic Games are integrated
- 9 Barcelona 1992
- 10 Atlanta 1996: the last Argentine gold medals
- 11 Sydney 2000: Guillermo Marro’s debut
- 12 Athens 2004: bats made history
- 13 Beijing 2008: Argentine judo stands out in China
- 14 London 2012: the last Paralympic games
- 15 Rio de Janeiro 2016
- 3 Winter Games
- 1 Vancouver 2010
- 2 Sochi 2014
- 4 Masters of Paralympic sport
- 5 Paralympic medals
- 1 1960 – Rome
- 2 1964 – Tokyo
- 3 1968 – Tel Aviv
- 4 1972 – Heidelberg
- 5 1976 – Toronto
- 6 1980 – Arhem
- 7 1984 – New York / Stoke Manville
- 8 1988 – Seoul
- 9 1992 – Barcelona
- 10 1996 – Atlanta
- 11 2000 – Sydney
- 12 2004 – Athens
- 13 2008 – Beijing
- 14 2012 – London
- 15 2016 – Rio de Janeiro
- 6 Reference
- 7 Source
History
The history of the Paralympic Movement dates back to 1888 , when the first sports clubs for deaf people emerged in Berlin . Later, after the Second World War , the Paralympic Movement began to develop fully. The objective that was set was to attend to the large number of war veterans and civilians who had been injured during the war.
In 1944 , at the request of the UK government, Dr Ludwig Guttmann opened a center for patients with spinal injuries at Stoke Mandeville Hospital.
The 29 of July of 1948 , day of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games of London 1948, Guttmann organized the first competition for wheelchair athletes, who baptized with the name “Stoke Mandeville Games.” These games were the embryo of the Paralympic Games, which took place for the first time in 1960 in Rome, Italy and in which 400 athletes from 23 countries participated. Since then, they have been held every four years without interruption: Tokyo 1964 , Tel-Aviv 1968, Heidelberg 1972 , Toronto 1976 , Arnhem 1980 , New York [1984] and Seoul 1988 .
For its part, in 1976 the first Paralympic Winter Games were held in Sweden . Like the Summer Games, these have taken place every four years: Innsbruck 1988 , Albertville 1992 , Lillehammer 1994 , Nagano 1998 , Salt Lake City 2002 , Turin 2006 , Vancouver 2010 and Sochi 2014 . The next ones will be held in 2018 in the city of Pyeongchang, South Korea .
Since the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games and the 1992 Albertville Olympic Games , France , the Summer and Winter Paralympic Games have taken place on the same site as the Olympic Games as a result of an agreement reached between the International Paralympic Committee and the International Olympic Committee .
On September 22, 1989 , the International Paralympic Committee was officially founded in Düsseldorf, Germany as a non-profit organization. His first major action was the organization of the Paralympic Games in Barcelona 1992. Since then he has organized the games in Atlanta 1996 , Sydney 2000, Athens 2004 , Beijing 2008 and London 2012 . The next edition will take place in Rio de Janeiro .
Summer Games
First Paralympic Games
In Italy , Rome 1960, the first Paralympic Games in history were held. Argentina, who traveled with nine athletes (five men and four women), was in tenth place with a balance of six medals: two gold (Juan Sznitowski and Beatriz Perazzo), three silver (Juan Sznitowski, Amelia Mier and María Djukich) and one of bronze (Beatriz Galán). They were all in swimming .
Tokyo 1964: the best Argentine performance in history
The second Paralympic Games in history were in Asia . Tokyo hosted 237 athletes from 20 countries. To the eight sports available in the first Games ( athletics , swimming, basketball , snooker -a form of billiards-, archery dart, [[table tennis, fencing and archery ), weightlifting was added.
He traveled with 19 athletes (thirteen men and six women), he was in eighth place with a balance of 35 medals, a national record in the same Game: they were five gold, fifteen silver and fifteen bronze. Jorge Diz took the Challenger Cup for Best Performance.
Tel Aviv 1968: golden record for Argentina
With 21 athletes (fourteen men and seven women), he finished in ninth place in the general table, with 30 medals: ten gold, ten silver and ten bronze.
Heidelberg 1972
In its fourth edition, the Paralympic Games had the Germans as hosts. Heildelberg received 922 athletes from 42 countries: the ten sports of Tel Aviv 1968 were maintained (athletics, swimming, basketball, snooker -a form of billiards-, archery dart, table tennis, fencing, archery, weightlifting and boccia) and the goalball exhibition.
The country was 20th, with a total of nine medals: two gold, four silver and three bronze. Graciela Di Simone was chosen the best player in the basketball competition.
Toronto 1976
In its fifth edition, the Paralympic Games were held for the first time in America . The volleyball sitting and goalball joined the list of sports, which in total were thirteen.
He brought 21 athletes (eight men and thirteen women), was 23rd, with a total of fourteen medals: three gold, four silver and seven bronze. Gustavo Galíndez became the first Argentine to break a world record: it was in the 25-meter butterfly swimming stroke, where he took gold.
Arnhem 1980
Europe in its sixth edition. Arnhem , the Netherlands , hosted 1,647 athletes from 42 countries. Wrestling was incorporated into the program and snooker ( billiards ) was eliminated .
With 11 athletes (six men and five women), he was 24th, with a total of fifteen medals: four gold, five silver and six bronze.
New York / Stoke Mandeville 1984
For the first and only time in history, in 1984 the Paralympic Games were held in two different venues: the United States and Great Britain . New York was the sports venue for athletes with cerebral palsy, while Stoke Mandeville hosted wheelchair athletes. There were 2,093 athletes from 54 countries between both locations.
Argentina did not participate in the Games because it only had representatives in wheelchair sports. Two years after the Falklands War , the weather was not conducive to visiting England .
Seoul 1988: the Olympic and Paralympic games are integrated
The judo was added to the program of 16 sports and tennis first exhibition was held on wheelchair. Argentina traveled with 35 athletes (eighteen men and seventeen women) and finished in 39th place. For the first time in history, there were no golden ones: there were seven silver and two bronze.
Barcelona 1992
For the ninth Paralympic Games, Spain had its turn to be the host country. Barcelona was the venue for the 2,699 athletes from 83 countries who performed. The tennis on wheelchair had its historical debut, after being presented as an exhibition in Seoul 1988.
With 27 athletes (twenty-six men and one woman) and finished in 40th place. Horacio Bascioni had a historic performance and saved the Argentine drought: he was left with the gold in javelin throw and with a silver in shot put.
Atlanta 1996: the last Argentine gold medals
The United States once again hosted the 10th Paralympic Games in history: 3,255 athletes from 104 countries competed in Atlanta . Equitation joined the program that had a record number of disciplines, twenty. In addition, there were exhibitions of rugby, racquetball and sailing.
He traveled with 56 athletes (49 men and 7 women) and finished in 38th place. She obtained nine medals, including the last two golds in history: Betiana Basualdo in swimming and Néstor Suárez in athletics .
Sydney 2000: Guillermo Marro’s debut
The 11th Paralympic Games in history were in Sydney: 3,879 athletes from 123 countries were part of a new summit in world sport.
With 43 athletes (31 men and 12 women) and finished in 54th place. These Games were Guillermo Marro’s first as a Paralympic athlete: there he began his successful career, with a bronze in the 100-meter backstroke.
Athens 2004: bats made history
The 12th Paralympic Games, held in Greece , marked a before and after. The Football for the Blind joined the program for the first time in history, today become one of the global sports star.
Los Murcielagos, the Argentine soccer 5 team, made history in their first participation, with a silver medal. Argentina traveled with 55 athletes (44 men and 11 women) and finished in 62nd place (two silver and two bronze).
Beijing 2008: Argentine judo stands out in China
China took over the 13th Paralympic Games and, as in Athens, once again reflected its power as the first in the medal table, ahead of Great Britain and the United States.
In the midst of local strength, Argentine judo became strong: Fabián Ramírez and Jorge Lencina won two bronze medals for the Argentine delegation (33 men and 9 women), which added six medals in total (58th place). In addition, Sebastián Baldasarri wrote his name in history with a silver disc launch.
London 2012: the last paralympic games
The largest adapted sport event in history was four years ago, with 4,302 athletes from 164 countries. England hosted the 14th Paralympic Games but failed to clinch first place in the medal table: the British finished third, behind China and Russia .
The Argentine delegation of 60 athletes (fifty men and ten women) ranked 62nd. There were five medals: one silver and four bronze. José Effron and Jorge Lencina once again put the national judo in good shape, which had already won two medals in Beijing.
Rio de Janeiro 2016
Argentina’s participation in the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , which took place in that city of Brazil from September 7 to 18, 2016 , was the 15th Paralympic performance of Argentine athletes, in the also 15th edition of the Paralympic Games .
The delegation was made up of 82 athletes, of which 57 were men (70%) and 25 were women (30%), who participated in 15 sports. It is the largest female delegation in the history of Argentine Paralympic sport and the second largest delegation behind the one that traveled to London 2012, which was attended by 142 athletes. The Argentine delegation was organized by the Argentine Paralympic Committee (COPAR) and the national sports federations of each sport acting in them.
Winter Games
Vancouver 2010
Argentina’s participation in the 2010 Winter Paralympics was the first performance of the Argentine Paralympic athletes at the Paralympic Winter Games that were being made in 1976 .
The Argentine delegation presented 2 athletes (both men) in Paralympic alpine skiing, who competed in the men’s giant seated slalom event. Juan Ignacio Maggi was the standard bearer and did not qualify for the final; Leonardo Martínez, for his part, qualified for the final round, arriving in 25th position.
Sochi 2014
Argentina’s participation in the Paralympic Games in Sochi 2014 was the second Paralympic performance of Argentine athletes in the Paralympic Winter Games that had been held in 1976 . The Argentine delegation presented 3 athletes (all male), who competed in two sports. The best result was obtained by Carlos Javier Codina Thomatis, who qualified for the final round, arriving in 9th position, just one place away from obtaining a diploma . [1]
Masters of Paralympic Sport
In 1986 , a bill arises in Argentina promoted by the Chamber of Deputies: that of the Masters of Sports. Olympic medal-winning athletes over 40 years of age would receive a monthly pension according to the type of medal obtained.
This project is drafted and is taken up again in the 90s. Once put into operation, it only remained that the place was awarded to the Paralympic athletes.
In 2004 , with the clean and jerk of the official presentation of the Argentine Paralympic Committee (COPAR), all the medal winners who met the age were added. Before, a file had to be put together: Susana Masciotra, Elsa Beltrán and Fernando Bustelli were the Masters of Sport who made the list, with period newspapers, Stoke Mandeville archives and the International Paralympic Committee (IPC).
With the certification of the IPC, the State added the athletes to the payroll, who today continue to collect their pension. Many of them are the most responsible for the extensive Argentine Paralympic medal table. In total there are 149 medals: 29 gold, 60 silver and 60 bronze.
Paralympic medals
Paralympic medals won by Argentina since the first Games played in 1960.
1960 – Rome
- Swimming (50 m free) silver – Beatriz Perazzo
- Swimming (50m backstroke) gold – Juan Sznitowski
- Swimming (50 m backstroke) silver – María Djukich
- Swimming (50 m free) silver – Amelia Mier
- Swimming (50 m free) silver – Juan Sznitowski
- Swimming (50 m free) bronze – Beatriz Galán
Total 6: 2 gold / 3 silver / 1 bronze
1964 – Tokyo
- Athletics (bullet) gold – Susana Olarte
- Swimming (50 m free face up) gold – Silvia Cochetti,
- Swimming (50 m breaststroke) gold – Silvia Cochetti
- Swimming (50 m free face down) gold – Silvia Cochetti
- Swimming (50 m free face down) gold – Juan Sznitowski
- Weights (light) gold – Fernando Bustelli
- Athletics (4x40m post) Silver – Jorge Diz, Roberto Iglesias, Rodolfo Novoa and Héctor Brandoni
- Athletics (discus) Silver – Silvia Cochetti
- Athletics (nails) Silver – Jorge Diz
- Athletics (Javelin) Silver – Jorge Diz
- Athletics (Javelin) Silver – Susana Olarte
- Athletics (clava) Silver – Susana Olarte
- Swimming (25 m free face down) Silver – Hel vio Aresca
- Swimming (50 m free face down) SILVER – Jorge Diz
- Swimming (50 m breaststroke) Silver – Estela Faloco
- Swimming (50 m free face up) Silver – Estela Faloco
- Swimming (50 m free face down) Silver – Estela Faloco
- Swimming (50 m breaststroke) Silver – Roberto Iglesias
- Silver Table Tennis – Hel saw Aresca and Honorio Romero
- Silver Table Tennis – Honorio Romero
- Men’s basketball Silver – Rodolfo Novoa, Héctor Brandoni, Eduardo Albelo, * Federico Marín, Dante Tosi, Wilmar González and Juan Grusovin
- Athletics (discus) bronze – Alberto Ocampo
- Athletics (nails) bronze – Silvia Cochetti
- Athletics (pentathlon) bronze – Jorge Diz
- Athletics (bullet) bronze – Jorge Diz
- Athletics (discus) bronze – Susana Olarte
- Athletics (Pentathlon) Bronze – Juan Sznitowski
- Athletics (nails) bronze – Noemí Tortul
- Athletics (javelin) bronze – Noemí Tortul
- Athletics (bullet) bronze – Noemí Tortul
- Swimming (25 m free face up) bronze – Hel vio Aresca
- Swimming (50m breaststroke) bronze – Amelia Mier
- Swimming (50 m free face up) bronze – Amelia Mier
- Swimming (50 m free face down) bronze – Amelia Mier
- Swimming (50 m free face up) bronze – Juan Sznitowski
- Swimming (50 m free face up) bronze – Dante Tosi
- Weights (feather) bronze – Héctor Brandoni
Total 37: 6 gold / 15 silver / 16 bronze
1968 – Tel Aviv
- Athletics (bullet) gold – Silvia Cochetti
- Athletics (discus) gold – Silvia Cochetti
- Athletics (nails) gold – Dina Galíndez
- Athletics (discus) gold – Dina Galíndez
- Athletics (javelin) gold – Miguel Ángel González
- Athletics (slalom) gold – Susana Masciotra
- Athletics (bullet) gold – Susana Olarte
- Athletics (nails) gold – Susana Olarte
- Athletics (discus) gold – Susana Olarte
- Swimming (25 m free) gold – Hel vio Aresca
- Athletics (nails) silver – Silvia Cochetti
- Athletics (pentathlon) silver – Silvia Cochetti
- Athletics (nails) silver – Jorge Diz
- Athletics (60 m) silver – Dina Galíndez
- Athletics (bullet) silver – Dina Galíndez
- Athletics (bullet) silver – Miguel Ángel González
- Athletics (bullet) silver – Noemí Tortul
- Athletics (nails) silver – Noemí Tortul
- Swimming (50 m free) silver – Carlos Carranza
- Basketball fem. silver – Silvia Cochetti, Dina Galíndez, Noemí Tortul, * Susana Olarte, Susana Masciotra, Amelia Mier and Estela Fernández
- Athletics (Javelin) Bronze – Silvia Cochetti
- Athletics (bullet) bronze – Jorge Diz
- Athletics (pentathlon) bronze – Jorge Diz
- Athletics (javelin) bronze – Dina Galíndez
- Athletics (discus) bronze – Miguel Ángel González
- Athletics (javelin) bronze – Noemí Tortul
- Athletics (4 × 40 m post) bronze – Jorge Diz, Carlos Carranza, Hugo Loto and Bautista Rubio
- Athletics (4 × 40 m post) bronze – Susana Olarte, Silvia Cochetti, Amelia * Mier and Noemí Tortul
- Swimming (50 m breaststroke) bronze – Carlos Carranza
- Swimming (50 m free) bronze – Silvia Cochetti
Total 30: 10 Gold / 10 Silver / 10 Bronze
1972 – Heidelberg
- Athletics Gold (javelin) – Rubén Ferrari
- Basketball fem. GOLD – Graciela Di Simone, Noemí Tortul, Silvia Tedesco, * Liliana Charadía, Diana Masini, Beatriz Dávila, Cristina Benedetti and Graciela Puy
- Athletics (slalom) silver – Cristina Benedetti
- Athletics (discus) silver – Olga Richetti
- Athletics (Slalom) Silver – Olga Richetti
- Athletics (javelin) silver – Raúl Di Paolo
- Athletics (Javelin) Bronze – Olga Richetti
- Swimming (25m breaststroke) bronze – Olga Richetti
- Men’s basketball bronze – Juan Constantini, Héctor Leurino, Guillermo * Prieto, Alberto Parodi, Daniel Tonso, Juan Vega and Aldo Di Meola
Total 9: 2 gold / 4 silver / 3 bronze
1976 – Toronto
- Athletics (disc) gold – Cristina Benedetti
- Swimming (25 m butterfly) gold – Gustavo Galíndez
- Swimming (25 m combined) gold – Gustavo Galíndez
- Athletics (disc) silver – Lucy González Parra
- Swimming (50 m backstroke) silver – Gustavo Galíndez
- Swimming (50 m free) silver – Gustavo Galíndez
- Swimming (25 m breaststroke) silver – Raúl Langhi
- Athletics (discus) bronze – Luis Grieb
- Athletics (Javelin) Bronze – Honorio Romero
- Swimming (50 m breaststroke) bronze – Gustavo Galíndez
- Swimming (25 m butterfly) bronze – Luis Pérez
- Swimming (75 m combined) bronze – Marcela Rizzotto
- Swimming (25 m butterfly) bronze – Marcela Rizzotto
- Basketball fem. BRONZE – (María C. Spara, Elsa Beltrán, Graciela Gazzola, * Yolanda Rosa, Susana Momeso and Susana Bainer)
Total 14: 3 gold / 4 silver / 7 bronze
1980 – Arhem
- Swimming (25 m breaststroke) gold – Eugenia García
- Swimming (25 m breaststroke) gold – Mónica López
- Swimming (50 m free) gold – Marcela Rizzotto
- Swimming (50m breaststroke) gold – Marcela Rizzotto
- Athletics (disc) silver – Luis Grieb
- Swimming (25 m free) silver – Mónica López
- Swimming (25 m backstroke) silver – Mónica López
- Swimming (3 × 25 free post) silver – Susana Mascota, Mónica López and * Eugenia García
- Swimming (25 m butterfly) silver – Marcela Rizzotto
- Athletics (bullet) bronze – Eugenia García
- Athletics (discus) bronze – Eugenia García
- Athletics (clava) bronze – Eugenia García
- Swimming (25 m free) bronze – Eugenia García
- Swimming (25 m backstroke) bronze – Eugenia García
- Swimming (50m backstroke) bronze – Marcela Rizzotto
Total 15: 4 gold / 5 silver / 6 bronze
1984 – New York / Stoke Manville
Argentina presented only one track team in New York (it did not win medals). Wheelchair sports were played in England and Argentina did not participate, when the Malvinas War was still recent.
1988 – Seoul
- Athletics (bullet) silver – José Haylan
- Athletics (nails) silver – José Haylan
- Athletics (disc) silver – José Haylan
- Athletics (slalom) silver – Carlos Maslup
- Swimming (100 m breaststroke) silver – Beatriz Greco
- Swimming (25 m breaststroke) silver – Carlos Maslup
- Swimming (75 m combined) silver – Carlos Maslup
- Athletics (disco) BRONZE – Carlos Maslup
- Swimming (75 m combined) bronze – Beatriz Greco
Total 9: 7 silver / 2 bronze
1992 – Barcelona
- Athletics (javelin) gold – Horacio Bascioni
- Athletics (bullet) silver – Horacio Bascioni
Total 2: 1 Gold / 1 Silver
1996 – Atlanta
- Athletics (100 m) gold – Néstor Suárez
- Swimming (100 m free) gold – Betiana Basualdo
- Athletics (disc) silver – Horacio Bascioni
- Swimming (50 m free) silver – Betiana Basualdo
- Swimming (100 m free) silver – Alejandra Perezlindo
- Athletics (disc) silver – María Angélica Rodríguez
- Judo (+78 kg) silver – Fabián Ramírez
- Swimming (50 m backstroke) BRONZE – Betiana Basualdo
- Bronze Table Tennis – José Haylan
Total 9: 2 gold / 5 silver / 2 bronze
2000 – Sydney
- Athletics (disc) silver – Horacio Bascioni
- Athletics (disc) silver – Jorge Godoy
- Athletics (100m) bronze – Elisabeth Delgado
- Athletics (Javelin) Bronze – Claudia Vignatti
- Swimming (100 m backstroke) bronze – Guillermo Marro
Total 5: 2 silver / 3 bronze
2004 – Athens
Swimming (100 m backstroke) silver – Guillermo Marro Futbol 5 SILVER – (Gonzalo Abbas Hachache, Diego Cerega, Eduardo Díaz, Carlos Figueroa, Darío Lencina, Antonio Mendoza, Oscar Moreno, Julio Ramírez, Lucas Rodríguez and Silvio Velo)
Swimming (100 m backstroke) bronze – Betiana Basualdo
Cycling (time trial) bronze – Rodrigo López
Total 4: 2 silver / 2 bronze
2008 – Beijing
- Athletics (disc) silver – Sebastián Baldassarri
- Athletics (discus) bronze – Elizabeth Almada
- Iván Figueroa, José Luis Jiménez, Darío
- Lencina, Gustavo Maidana, Antonio Mendoza, Lucas Rodríguez and Silvio Velo)
- Judo (-81 kg) bronze – Jorge Lencina
- Judo (-73 kg) bronze – Fabián Ramírez
- Swimming (100 m backstroke) bronze – Guillermo Marro
Total 6: 1 silver / 5 bronze
2012 – London
- Judo (-81 kg) silver – José Effron
- Athletics (200 m) bronze – Hernán Barreto
- Cycling (pursuit) bronze – Rodrigo López
- Judo (-85 kg) bronze – Jorge Lencina
- Swimming (100 m breaststroke) bronze – Nadia Báez
Total 5: 1 Silver / 4 Bronze
2016 – Rio de Janeiro
- Athletics (100 m) gold – Yanina Martínez
- Athletics (bullet) silver – Hernán Urra
- Athletics (100 m) bronze – Hernán Barreto
- Athletics (200 m) bronze – Hernán Barreto
- Bronze 5-sided soccer – Darío Lencia, Ángel Deldo, Federico Accardi, Froilán * Padilla, Maximiliano Espinillo, Germán Muleck, Silvio Velo, Lucas Rodríguez, * David Peralta and Nicolás Veliz.
Total 5: 1 gold / 1 silver / 3 bronze
