Portugal at the Paralympics

Portugal at the Paralympic Games
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Paralympic history
Summer Games
1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012

Portugal made its Paralympic Games début at the 1972 Summer Paralympics (two years before the Carnation Revolution), where it was represented solely by a men's team in wheelchair basketball. They were eliminated at the preliminary stage of the competition, with one victory (over Switzerland) and three defeats. Portugal was then absent from the Paralympic Games until the 1984 Summer Games, where its athletes won the country's first fourteen medals, including three gold in track and field and one in boccia. Portugal has competed at every subsequent edition of the Summer Paralympics, but -almost uniquely among Western European countries- has never taken part in the Winter Games.

Portuguese athletes have won a total of 80 Paralympic medals, of which 25 gold, 27 silver and 28 bronze. As of 2010, Portugal ranks thirty-sixth on the all-time Paralympic Games medal table. The country's best performance came in 2000, when it won 15 medals (of which 6 gold), and ranked 26th.

Medal tallies

Summer Paralympics

See also: All-time Paralympic Games medal table

Games	Athletes	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total	Rank
1972 Heidelberg	11	0	0	0	0	–
1984 New York / Stoke Mandeville	17	4	3	7	14	26
1988 Seoul	13	3	5	6	14	28
1992 Barcelona	30	3	3	3	9	29
1996 Atlanta	35	6	4	4	14	26
2000 Sydney	52	6	5	4	15	26
2004 Athens	29	2	5	5	12	41
2008 Beijing	35	1	4	2	7	42
2012 London	30	0	1	2	3	63
Total		25	30	33	88	35

Medals by Summer sport

Sport	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total	Rank
Athletics	20	15	21	56	35
Boccia	16	17	10	43	1
Cycling	0	1	1	2	27
Football 7-a-side	0	1	0	1	8
Swimming	0	3	6	9	44
Table tennis	0	0	1	1
Total	36	37	39	112

See also

• Portugal at the Olympics