1968 Summer Paralympics
Template:Short description Template:Infobox Olympic games The 1968 Summer Paralympics (Template:Langx) were the third Paralympic Games to be held. Organised under the guidance of the International Stoke Mandeville Games Federation (ISMGF), they were known as the 17th International Stoke Mandeville Games at the time.<ref>Summer Games Governance 1960 to 1992. International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports Federation. Retrieved on 2011-05-07.</ref> The games were originally planned to be held alongside the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, but in 1966, the Mexican government decided against it due to difficulties.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The Israeli government offered to host the games in Tel Aviv, a suggestion that was accepted.
The opening ceremony took place in the Hebrew University stadium at the Givat Ram campus in Jerusalem and the games took place in Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv District, at the Israel Sports Center for the Disabled. The closing ceremony took place in the Tel Aviv Trade Center. Therefore, these games were the first in Paralympic history to not be held concurrently with the Olympic Games.
Sports
Lawn bowls was included in the program for the first time. In wheelchair basketball, a women's team event was added, as was a 100 m wheelchair race for men in athletics.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Archery
- Dart archery
- Athletics
- Lawn bowls
- Snooker
- Swimming
- Table tennis
- Weightlifting
- Wheelchair basketball
- Wheelchair fencing
Medal table
Template:Main The top ten listed NOCs by number of gold medals are listed below. The host nation, Israel, is highlighted.
Participating delegations
Twenty-eight delegations took part in the Tel Aviv Paralympics.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Canada, Denmark, Ethiopia, India, Jamaica, New Zealand, South Korea and Spain took part in the Summer Paralympics for the first time.
Having made its Paralympic Games début four years earlier, South Africa continued to compete at the Paralympics, by sending a delegation to the Tel Aviv Games. It was, at the time, banned from the Olympic Games due to its policy of apartheid, but it was not banned from the Paralympics until 1980 Summer Paralympics in Arnhem.<ref>"'The Netherlands against Apartheid' - 1970s", International Institute of Social History</ref><ref>South Africa at the Paralympics, International Paralympic Committee</ref> Template:Clear Template:Div col
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References
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- 1968 Summer Paralympics
- 1968 Summer Olympics
- International sports competitions hosted by Israel
- Multi-sport events in Israel
- 1968 in Israeli sport
- 1968 in multi-sport events
- Sports competitions in Tel Aviv
- Summer Paralympic Games by year
- November 1968 sports events in Asia
- 1960s in Tel Aviv
- Parasports in Israel