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Encyclopedia > 1984 Summer Paralympics

See also: 1984 Summer Olympics The Games of the XXIII Olympiad were held in 1984 in Los Angeles, United States. ...


The 1984 Summer Paralympics were the seventh Paralympic Games to be held. They were held in Stoke Mandeville, United Kingdom (wheelchair athletes) and New York, United States of America (cerebral palsy, visually impaired, amputees, and les autres). Silver 2004 The Paralympic Games are the official Olympics for athletes with physical disabilities. ... Stoke Mandeville is a village to the south of Aylesbury in the county of Buckinghamshire. ... State nickname: Empire State Other U.S. States Capital Albany Largest city New York Governor George Pataki Official languages None (English is de facto) Area 141,205 km² (27th)  - Land 122,409 km²  - Water 18,795 km² (13. ...

Games of the VII Paralympics
(New York)
Nations participating 45
Athletes participating 1,800
Events ~300 in 15 sports
Opening ceremonies June 17, 1984
Closing ceremonies June 30, 1984
Officially opened by Ronald Reagan
(Stoke Mandeville)
Nations participating 41
Athletes participating 1,100
Events ~300 in 10 sports
Opening ceremonies July 22, 1984
Closing ceremonies August 1, 1984
Officially opened by HRH Prince Charles
Rank NPC Name  Gold   Silver Bronze Total 
1 United States 101 91 84 276
2 Great Britain 75 80 85 240
3 Sweden 51 30 22 103
4 Canada 48 52 49 149
5 West Germany 44 42 29 115
6 Netherlands 44 40 17 101
7 France 37 39 23 99
8 Australia 29 38 26 93
9 Norway 22 24 20 66
10 Denmark 22 6 11 39
11 Spain 21 8 12 41
12 Poland 20 15 13 48
13 Finland 15 10 17 42
14 Ireland 13 11 20 44
15 Hungary 12 12 3 27
16 Belgium 9 11 6 26
17 Yugoslavia 7 9 8 24
18 Austria 5 13 7 25
19 Switzerland 5 2 2 9
20 Portugal 4 2 7 13
21 Italy 3 7 6 16
22 Japan 3 2 5 10
23 China 2 12 8 22
24 Israel 2 6 7 15
25 New Zealand 2 3 1 6
26 Egypt 2 0 3 5
27 Trinidad and Tobago 2 0 1 3
28 Luxembourg 1 4 1 6
29 Brazil 1 3 2 6
30 Burkina Faso 1 1 2 4
31 Mexico 0 3 3 6
32 Iceland 0 2 6 8
33 East Germany 0 2 1 3
India 0 2 1 3
35 Indonesia 0 1 1 2
36 Zimbabwe 0 1 0 1
37 Hong Kong 0 0 1 1
Korea 0 0 1 1


June 17 is the 168th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (169th in leap years), with 197 days remaining. ... 1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... June 30 is the 181st day of the year (182nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 184 days remaining, and the last day of June. ... 1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Order: 40th President Vice President: George H.W. Bush Term of office: 20 January 1981 – 20 January 1989 Preceded by: Jimmy Carter Succeeded by: George H.W. Bush Date of birth: 6 February 1911 Place of birth: Tampico, Illinois Date of death: 5 June 2004 Place of death: Bel-Air... July 22 is the 203rd day (204th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 162 days remaining. ... 1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... August 1st is the 213th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (214th in leap years), with 152 days remaining. ... 1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other people known as Charles, Prince of Wales, see Charles, Prince of Wales (disambiguation) His Royal Highness The Prince Charles, Prince of Wales (Charles Philip Arthur George Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly Windsor), styled HRH The Prince Charles, Duke of Rothesay in Scotland and HRH The Prince of Wales elsewhere (born... Yugoslavia (Jugoslavija in all south Slavic languages) is a term used for three separate but successive political entities that existed during most of the 20th century on the Balkan Peninsula in Europe. ... East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR), German Deutsche Demokratische Republik (DDR), was a Communist state that existed from 1949 to 1990 in the former Soviet occupation zone of Germany. ... National motto: 널리 인간을 이롭게 하라 Translation: Bring benefit to all people Official language Korean Capital Seoul Largest city Seoul President Roh Moo-hyun Prime Minister Lee Hae-chan Area  - Total  - % water Ranked 107th 99,274 km² 0. ...

International Paralympic Games
Summer Paralympics
1960 | 1964 | 1968 | 1972 | 1976 | 1980 | 1984 | 1988 | 1992 | 1996 | 2000 | 2004 | 2008 | 2012 | 2016
Winter Paralympics
1976 | 1980 | 1984 | 1988 | 1992 | 1994 | 1998 | 2002 | 2006 | 2010 | 2014

  Results from FactBites:
 
Station Information - Paralympic Games (187 words)
Sir Ludwig Guttmann organized a sports competition in 1948 which became known as the Stoke Mandeville Games, involving World War II veterans with spinal cord injuries; in 1952 competitors from the Netherlands took part.
The first Olympic Style games for disabled athletes were held in Rome in 1960 which became the Paralympics.
The first Winter Paralympics were held in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden in 1976.
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