Ireland at the Paralympics

Ireland at the
Paralympics
IPC code IRL
NPC Paralympics Ireland
Website www.paralympics.ie
Medals
Gold Silver Bronze Total
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Summer appearances

A team representing Ireland has competed at every Summer Paralympic Games but the country has never taken part in the Winter Paralympics. Irish athletes have won 178 Summer Paralympic medals, 47 gold, 57 silver and 74 bronze.[1] Paralympics Ireland (formerly the Paralympic Council of Ireland) is the National Paralympic Committee. Athletes from Northern Ireland may compete for either Great Britain or Ireland at the Paralympics, on the same basis as at the Olympics.

At the first Paralympic Games in 1960 in Rome Ireland were one of 23 nations to enter athletes. The team finished 12th in the medals table with both of Ireland's gold medals being won by Joan Horan. Horan won her medals in two different sports, one in women's St. Nicholas Round open archery and one in the women's 25 m Crawl complete class 2 swimming event.[2][3][4] At the next Games, hosted by Tokyo in 1964, no Irish athlete won a medal, this remains Ireland's only Summer Paralympics with no medal winners. The most medals won by Ireland at a Paralympic Games is 65, 20 of them gold, at the 1984 Games hosted in New York and Stoke Mandeville.

At the 2008 Summer Paralympics, held in Beijing, Ireland won five medals in total, three of them gold. There was controversy over the participation of Derek Malone in the 7-a-side cerebral palsy football tournament. Malone, who had competed in the 800 m event at the Athens Paralympics was ruled as ineligible to compete by Games classification authorities on the grounds that his disability was not severe enough.[5][6]

Medals by Summer Games

Games Gold Silver Bronze Total Rank
1960 Rome 200212
1964 Tokyo 0000-
1968 Tel-Aviv 045919
1972 Heidelberg 242821
1976 Toronto 41062021
1980 Arnhem 42111725
1984 Stoke Mandeville
1984 New York 		2015316614
1988 Seoul 1311184219
1992 Barcelona 034743
1996 Atlanta 1361045
2000 Sydney 531931
2004 Athens 031460
2008 Beijing 311536
2012 London 8351619
2016 Rio de Janeiro 4431128
Total 66 66 94 226 -

See also

References

  1. ↑ "IPC Historical Results Database". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 19 April 2010.
  2. ↑ "Ireland's first Paralympic athlete, Oliver Murphy, is honoured at the Renault Ireland Team 2012 Camp". Paralympic Council of Ireland. 14 April 2010. Retrieved 19 April 2010.
  3. ↑ "Ireland honours pioneering Paralympian". inside world parasport. 15 April 2010. Retrieved 19 April 2010.
  4. ↑ Results for Joan Horan from the International Paralympic Committee
  5. ↑ Gareth A Davies (13 September 2008). "IPC defend banning of Irish footballer Derek Malone from Paralympic Games". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 19 April 2010.
  6. ↑ "Games exit for Ireland's Malone". BBC Sport. 11 September 2008. Retrieved 19 April 2010.
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