Argentina at the Paralympics

Argentina at the Paralympic Games
Flag of Argentina IPC code  ARG NPC Comité Paralimpico Argentino
Paralympic history
Summer Games
1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012
Winter Games
1976-2006 2010 2014

Argentina participated in the inaugural Paralympic Games in 1960 in Rome, with a delegation consisting in five swimmers, and has taken part in every edition of the Summer Paralympics since then. The country made its Winter Paralympics début in 2010, with a two-man delegation in alpine skiing.

Argentinians have won a total of 146 medals at the Paralympic Games, of which 30 gold, 59 silver and 57 bronze. All of these medals were won at the Summer Games. This places Argentina 30th on the all-time Paralympic Games medal table.

Argentinians won two gold medals in swimming in 1960. In 1964, four of their six gold medals also came through swimming, the other two being obtained in athletics (women's shot put) and weightlifting. In 1968, in a reversal of this trend, Argentinians won ten gold medals, of which nine in athletics and only one in swimming (H. Aresca in the men's 25m freestyle). These nine athletics medals were all won in javelin, shot put, club throw or discus events, and eight of them were won by women. In 1972, the Argentinian delegation was much less successful, with just one gold medal in athletics (in the men's javelin), and one in women's wheelchair basketball. In 1976, Cristina Benedetti won Argentina's only athletics gold, in the slalom, while Gustavo Galindez took two gold medals in swimming. In 1980, it was once again swimming which brought Argentina all four of its gold medals. The only time that Argentina did not win medals was in 1984, and won 7 silvers and 2 bronze in 1988, when the country sent only small delegations, to compete in track and field. In 1992 the country's only Paralympic champion was Horacio Bascioni, in the men's javelin. In 1996, Nestor Suarez won the men's 100m sprint in the T46 category, while swimmer Betiana Basualdo won the women's 100m freestyle in the S2 category, thus providing their country with two gold medals. These are Argentina's most recent Paralympic gold medals; since 1996, argentinians have won only silver and bronze.

Medal tables

See also: All-time Paralympic Games medal table

Medals by Summer Games

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total	Rank
1960 Rome	2	3	1	6	10
1964 Tokyo	6	15	16	37	8
1968 Tel-Aviv	10	10	10	30	9
1972 Heidelberg	2	4	3	9	20
1976 Toronto	3	4	7	14	23
1980 Arnhem	4	5	6	15	24
1988 Seoul	0	7	2	9	39
1992 Barcelona	1	1	0	2	40
1996 Atlanta	2	5	2	9	38
2000 Sydney	0	2	3	5	54
2004 Athens	0	2	2	4	61
2008 Beijing	0	1	5	6	58
2012 London	0	1	4	5	62
Total	30	60	59	149	33

Medals by sport

Sport	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Athletics	14	30	27	71
Swimming	14	23	22	59
Wheelchair basketball	1	2	2	5
Weightlifting	1	0	1	2
Table tennis	0	2	1	3
Judo	0	1	2	3
Football 5-a-side	0	1	1	2
Cycling	0	0	1	1
Total	30	59	57	146

See also

• Argentina at the Olympics