Paralympic Games: Paralympic Games 1984 New York, United States & Stoke Mandeville, United Kingdom

VII Paralympic Games

Host city

New York, United States
Stoke Mandeville, United Kingdom

Nations participating

45 (USA)
41 (UK)

Athletes participating

1800 (USA)
1100 (UK)

Events

~300 in 15 sports (USA)
603 in 10 sports (UK)

Opening ceremony

June 17 (USA)
July 22 (UK)

Closing ceremony

June 30 (USA)
August 1 (UK)

Officially opened by

Ronald Reagan (USA)
HRH Prince Charles (UK)

Stadium

Mitchel Athletic Complex (USA)
Stoke Mandeville Stadium (UK)

Summer:

< Arnhem 1980	Seoul 1988 >

Winter:

< Innsbruck 1984	Innsbruck 1988 >

The 1984 Summer Paralympics were the seventh Paralympic Games to be held. They were held in two separate locations, Stoke Mandeville, United Kingdom(wheelchair athletes with spinal cord injuries) and in the Mitchel Athletic Complexand Hofstra University in Long Island, New York, United States of America(wheelchair and ambulatory athletes with cerebral palsy, amputees, and les autresconditions as well as blind and visually impaired athletes). Stoke Mandeville had been the location of the Stoke Mandeville Games from 1948 onwards, seen as the precursors to the Paralympic Games.^[1]

These were the last Summer Paralympics not held in the venues of the Summer Olympic Games.

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[edit]Sports

Competitors were divided into five disability-specific categories: amputee, cerebal palsy, visually impaired, wheelchair, and les autres (athletes with physical disabilities that had not been eligible to compete in previous Games). The wheelchair category was for those competitors who used a wheelchair due to a spinal cord disability. However some athletes in the amputee and cerebral palsy categories also competed in wheelchairs. Within the sport of athletics, a wheelchairmarathon event was held for the first time. The Trails for the first wheelchair event to be held at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games was held in conjunction with the New York Games. However, despite the long and established history of using "paralympic" terminology, in the United States the US Olympic Committee prohibited the Games organizers from using the term. The seventeen contested sports are listed below, along with the disability categories which competed in each.^[2]

Archery - Cerebral palsy, wheelchair, and les autres
Athletics - All
Boccia - Cerebal palsy
Cycling - Cerebal palsy
Equestrian - Cerebal palsy
Football 7-a-side - Cerebal palsy
Goalball - Visually impaired
Lawn bowls - Amputee and wheelchair
Lifting - Amputee, cerebal palsy, wheelchair, and les autres
- Powerlifting
- Weightlifting
Shooting - Amputee, cerebal palsy, wheelchair, and les autres
Snooker - Wheelchair
Swimming - All
Table tennis - Amputee, cerebal palsy, wheelchair, and les autres
Volleyball - Amputee and les autres
Wheelchair basketball - Wheelchair and les autres
Wheelchair fencing - Wheelchair
Wrestling - Visually impaired

[edit]Medal table

Main article: 1984 Summer Paralympics medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	136	131	129	396
2	Great Britain	107	112	112	331
3	Canada	87	82	69	238
4	Sweden	80	43	34	157
5	West Germany	79	76	74	229
6	France	71	69	45	185
7	Netherlands	55	51	28	134
8	Australia	49	54	51	154
9	Poland	46	39	21	106
10	Denmark	30	13	16	59
11	Norway	29	31	30	90
12	Belgium	22	21	14	57
13	Spain	22	10	12	44
14	Ireland	20	15	30	65
15	Finland	19	13	26	58
16	Switzerland	18	13	12	43
17	Austria	14	20	10	44
18	Hungary	12	12	4	28
19	Israel	11	21	12	44
20	Yugoslavia	11	9	11	31
21	Italy	9	19	14	42
22	Japan	9	7	8	24
23	New Zealand	8	10	7	25
24	Brazil	7	17	4	28
25	Mexico	6	14	17	37
26	Portugal	4	3	7	14
27	Hong Kong	3	5	9	17
28	China	2	12	8	22
29	Trinidad and Tobago	2	0	1	3
30	Luxembourg	1	4	1	6
31	Kuwait	1	3	4	8
32	Burma	1	2	1	4
33	Egypt	1	1	5	7
34	Kenya	1	1	1	3
35	East Germany	0	3	1	4
36	Iceland	0	2	8	10
37	India	0	2	2	4
	South Korea	0	2	2	4
39	Jordan	0	1	2	3
	Zimbabwe	0	1	2	3
41	Bahamas	0	1	1	2
	Indonesia	0	1	1	2
43	Bahrain	0	0	2	2
44	Argentina	0	0	0	0
	Ecuador	0	0	0	0
	Faroe Islands	0	0	0	0
	Greece	0	0	0	0
	Guatemala	0	0	0	0
	Jamaica	0	0	0	0
	Liechtenstein	0	0	0	0
	Malta	0	0	0	0
	Papua New Guinea	0	0	0	0
	Thailand	0	0	0	0
	Venezuela	0	0	0	0
	Total (54 NPCs)	973	946	848	2767