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== Venues ==
In the total 11 venues used at the ] and a 1 new was used at the Games.<ref>{{cita web|url = http://hemeroteca.elmundodeportivo.es/preview/1992/09/04/pagina-7/1454072/pdf.html|título =Sedes e instalaciones|fechaacceso = ] de ]|autor = elmundodeportivo.es}}</ref>

=== Montjuic ===
*] – opening/closing ceremonies, athletics
*] – table tennis and volleyball
*] – swimming
*] – Wheelchair Fencing and Judo
*] - Football-7-side
*] – Powerlifiting and Weightlifting
*] – athletics (marathon start)

=== Parque de Mar ===
*] – Boccia

=== Valle de Hebrón ===
In north of city,the ] District,hosted three sports:

*] – Archery
*] – Goalball
*]- Wheelchair Tennis

=== Another Venues ===
*] (]) – Wheelchair Basketball
*] – Shooting
*] – cycling (individual road race)


==Medal count== ==Medal count==

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The 1992 Summer Paralympics (Spanish: Juegos Paralímpicos de Verano de 1992; Catalan: Jocs Paralímpics d'estiu de 1992) were the ninth Paralympic Games to be held. They were held in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. In addition, the 1992 Paralympic Games for Persons with mental handicap were held immediately after the regular Paralympics in the Spanish capital, Madrid.

Sports

The games consisted of 560 events spread over fifteen sports. Powerlifting and weightlifting were considered to be a single sport. Wheelchair tennis, a demonstration sport at the 1988 Summer Paralympics, was contested as an official medal sport for the first time.

Venues

In the total 11 venues used at the 1992 Summer Olympics and a 1 new was used at the Games.

Montjuic

Parque de Mar

Valle de Hebrón

In north of city,the Horta-Guinardó District,hosted three sports:

Another Venues

Medal count

Main article: 1992 Summer Paralympics medal table

A total of 1710 medals were awarded during the 1992 games: 555 gold, 557 silver, and 594 bronze. The United States topped the medal count with more gold medals, more silver medals, and more medals overall than any other nation. Germany took the most bronze medals, with 59. The Madrid medals are counted too and added in the table In the table below, the ranking sorts by the number of gold medals earned by a nation (in this context a nation is an entity represented by a National Paralympic Committee).

  Host country (Spain)

1  United States (USA) 75 52 48 175
2  Germany (GER) 61 51 59 171
3  Great Britain (GBR) 42 51 45 138
4  Spain (ESP) 39 32 49 120
5  Australia (AUS) 37 37 36 108
6  France (FRA) 36 36 35 107
7  Canada (CAN) 29 23 29 83
8  Unified Team (EUN) 19 15 16 50
9  Sweden (SWE) 16 33 19 68
10  China (CHN) 16 8 7 30

Participating delegations

One hundred three delegations participated at the 1992 Summer Paralympics.

South Africa returned to the Paralympics for the first time since being declared "undesirable" due to its policy of apartheid in 1980. Twenty-one countries did not send a delegation to Barcelona,but sent one to Madrid; they were: Aruba, Bolivia, Côte d'Ivoire, Curaçao, El Salvador, Fiji, Ghana, Guatemala, Honduras, Jordan, Lebanon, Malta, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Philippines, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Suriname and Zimbabwe.

Paralympic Games for Persons with mental handicap

The first Paralympic Games for Persons with mental handicap were held immediately after the regular Paralympic games in the Spanish capital of Madrid from September 15–22. Over 1,400 athletes from 74 nations participated in the competition, which was sponsored by the Association Nacional Prestura de Servicio (ANDE) and sanctioned by the International Coordinating Committee of World Sport Organizations for the Disabled and the International Association of Sport for the Mentally Handicapped. The games featured a cultural exchange group, a group of intellectually disabled men from Nagasaki who played taiko (traditional drums) during the opening and closing ceremonies and selected track events.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Barcelona 1992 - General Information". International Paralympic Committee. 2008. Retrieved 2011-07-12.
  2. ^ "Madrid 1992 – the Paralympic Games that time forgot!". Paralympicanorak.wordpress.com. June 25, 2012. Retrieved October 13, 2012.
  3. elmundodeportivo.es. "Sedes e instalaciones". Retrieved 5 de octubre de 2009. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  4. "Medal Standings - Barcelona 1992 Paralympic Games". International Paralympic Committee. 2008. Retrieved 2011-07-12.
  5. "'The Netherlands against Apartheid' - 1970s", International Institute of Social History
  6. South Africa at the Paralympics, International Paralympic Committee
  7. DePauw, Karen P; Rich, Sarah (Winter 1993). "1992 Ad". Palaestra. Retrieved 11 February 2012.
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