1976 Summer Paralympics
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| Host city | Toronto, Canada | ||
| Teams participating | 32 | ||
| Athletes participating | 1,657 (1,404 men, 253 women) |
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| Events | 447 in 13 sports | ||
| Opening ceremony | August 3 | ||
| Closing ceremony | August 11 | ||
| Officially opened by | Kevin Cheuk | ||
| Paralympic Stadium | Woodbine Racetrack Centennial Park Stadium |
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The 1976 Summer Paralympics were the fifth Paralympic Games to be held. They were held in Toronto, in the province of Ontario, Canada from August 3 to 11, 1976. They were originally known as the Torontolympiad.[1]
This marked the first time that Canada hosted the Summer Paralympics, which has now been followed by Canada's first Winter Paralympics, the 2010 Winter Paralympics in Vancouver.
The 1976 Summer Olympics were also hosted by Canada, in Montreal.
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[edit] Opening Ceremonies, Venues and Closing Ceremonies
The opening of the 1976 games were held at Woodbine Race Track in north Etobicoke. There was no athletes village, so the athletes were housed at York University (Keele campus), University of Toronto (Erindale?) and the CNIB (national headquarters in Toronto). Closing ceremonies and outdoor events (mainly track and field) took place at Centennial Park Stadium. Centennial Gymnasium and Centennial Park's Olympic Pool were the other venues (for indoor and swimming events respectively).
[edit] Sports
At the 1976 games, amputees and visually impaired athletes competed for the first time; previous editions of the Paralympic Games had included only wheelchair athletes. Within the sport of athletics, new wheelchair racing distances of 200 m, 400 m, 800 m and 1500 m were added. Shooting and goalball, both previously demonstration events, were included as official medal sports.[2]
- Archery
- Athletics
- Dartchery
- Goalball
- Lawn bowls
- Shooting
- Snooker
- Swimming
- Table tennis
- Volleyball
- Weightlifting
- Wheelchair basketball
- Wheelchair fencing
[edit] Medal table
The top 10 NPCs by number of gold medals are listed below. The host nation, Canada, is highlighted.
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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| 1 |  United States |
66 | 44 | 45 | 155 |
| 2 |  Netherlands |
45 | 25 | 14 | 84 |
| 3 |  Israel |
40 | 13 | 16 | 69 |
| 4 |  West Germany |
37 | 34 | 26 | 97 |
| 5 |  Great Britain |
29 | 29 | 36 | 94 |
| 6 |  Canada |
25 | 26 | 26 | 77 |
| 7 |  Poland |
24 | 17 | 12 | 53 |
| 8 |  France |
23 | 21 | 14 | 58 |
| 9 |  Sweden |
22 | 27 | 24 | 73 |
| 10 |  Austria |
17 | 16 | 17 | 50 |
[edit] Participating delegations
Forty delegations took part in the Toronto Paralympics.[3]
South Africa was competing at the Paralympics for the fourth time. Although banned from the Olympic Games due to its policy of apartheid, it was not banned from the Paralympics until 1980, and Canada, as host country, did not object to its participation. These were, however, to be its last Paralympics before the dismantling of apartheid; The Netherlands, as hosts of the 1980 Games, declared South Africa's further participation "undesirable".[4][5]
[edit] See also
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- Canada at the Paralympics
- World Paralympiads in Canada
- 1976 Summer Paralympics – Toronto
- 2010 Winter Paralympics – Vancouver—Whistler
- 1976 Winter Paralympics
- 1976 Summer Olympics
[edit] References
- ^ www.paralympic.ca
- ^ "Toronto 1976". International Paralympic Committee. 2008. http://www.paralympic.org/Paralympic_Games/Past_Games/Toronto_1976/index.html. Retrieved 2008-08-06.
- ^ "Medal Standings - Toronto 1976 Paralympic Games". International Paralympic Committee. 2008. http://www.paralympic.org/Sport/Results/reports.html?type=medalstandings&games=1976PG&sport=all. Retrieved 2008-08-08.
- ^ "'The Netherlands against Apartheid' - 1970s", International Institute of Social History
- ^ South Africa at the Paralympics, International Paralympic Committee
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