Mexico at the Paralympics

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]

Mexico at the
Paralympics
IPC codeMEX
NPCFederacion Mexicana de Deporte
Medals
Gold
97
Silver
90
Bronze
101
Total
288
Summer appearances
Winter appearances

Mexicans have won a total of 273 Paralympic medals, of which 93 are gold, 88 silver and 92 bronze,[2] 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.[3]

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.[4]

Mexican delegations to the Winter Games, by contrast, have been small (one competitor in 2006, two in 2010), and have not won any medals.[5]

Medal tables

Medals by Summer Games

[6]

Games Athletes Total Rank
1960 RomeDid not participate
1964 Tokyo
1968 Tel-Aviv
1972 Heidelberg70000N/A
1976 Toronto32161493912
1980 Arnhem2820166429
1984 New York /
         Stoke Mandeville
54614173725
1988 Seoul348962324
1992 Barcelona1901101146
1996 Atlanta383541231
2000 Sydney771012123417
2004 Athens771410103415
2008 Beijing6710372014
2012 London8164112123
2016 Rio de Janeiro714291529
2020 Tokyo
2024 Paris
2028 Los Angeles
Total514979010128819

Medals by Winter Games

Games Athletes Total Rank
1976 ÖrnsköldsvikDid not participate
1980 Geilo
1984 Innsbruck
1988 Innsbruck
1992 Tignes - Albertville
1994 Lillehammer
1998 Nagano
2002 Salt Lake City
2006 Turin10000-
2010 Vancouver20000-
2014 Sochi10000-
2018 Pyeongchang10000-
2022 Beijing
2026 Milan-Cortina
Total50000-

See also

References

  1. Mexico at the Paralympics, International Paralympic Committee
  2. Mexico - 2012 Paralympic - London 2012 Archived 2013-01-28 at Archive.today
  3. Mexico at the Paralympics, International Paralympic Committee
  4. Mexico at the Paralympics, International Paralympic Committee
  5. Mexico at the Paralympics, International Paralympic Committee
  6. "Mexico Summer Paralympics". Retrieved 4 September 2012.


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