Mexico at the Paralympics

Mexico at the Paralympics
Mexico at the Paralympic Games
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Flag of Mexico
IPC code  MEX
NPC Federacion Mexicana de Deporte
Paralympic history
Summer Games
1960 • 1964 • 1968 • 1972 • 1976 • 1980 • 1984 • 1988 • 1992 • 1996 • 2000 • 2004 • 2008
Winter Games
1976–2002 • 2006 • 2010

Mexico made its Paralympic Games début at the 1972 Summer Paralympics in Heidelberg, with a delegation of seven athletes competing in track and field, swimming, weightlifting and wheelchair fencing. It has competed in every edition of the Summer Paralympics since then, and made its Winter Paralympics début in 2006.[1]

Mexicans have won a total of 221 Parlympic medals, of which 81 are gold, 73 silver and 67 bronze, placing them 25th on the all-time Paralympic Games medal table. Although Mexicans did not win any medals at the 1972 Games, they swept up sixteen gold (fifteen in athletics, one in swimming) in 1976, along with fourteen silver and nine bronze, and continued to win medals during every subsequent edition of the Summer Games.[2]

Among the most successful Mexican Paralympians, Josefina Cornejo won four gold medals in track and field at the 1976 Games, reiterating that result four years later. Runner Juana Soto also took four gold in 1980, as did Leticia Torres in 1988.[3]

Mexican delegations to the Winter Games, by contrast, have been small (one competitor in 2006, two in 2010), and have not won any medals.[4]

See also

References

  1. ^ Mexico at the Paralympics, International Paralympic Committee
  2. ^ Mexico at the Paralympics, International Paralympic Committee
  3. ^ Mexico at the Paralympics, International Paralympic Committee
  4. ^ Mexico at the Paralympics, International Paralympic Committee


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