Ethiopia at the 1968 Summer Paralympics
| Ethiopia at the 1968 Summer Paralympics | |||||||||
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| IPC code | ETH | ||||||||
| NPC | Ethiopian Paralympic Committee | ||||||||
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| Competitors | 2 | ||||||||
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Ethiopia was one of 28 nations to send a delegation to the 1968 Summer Paralympics in Tel Aviv, Israel from November 4 to 13, 1968; two Ethiopian athletes competed, both of them men.[1][2] Abraham Habte and Negatu[n 1] each took part in both athletics and table tennis events.[3] The team did not win any medals at these Games and, as of the 2010 Winter Paralympics, no Ethiopian athlete has won a medal at either the Summer or Winter Paralympics.[4]
Disability classifications
The Paralympics groups athletes' disabilities into one of five disability categories; amputation, the condition may be congenital or sustained through injury or illness; cerebral palsy; wheelchair athletes, there is often overlap between this and other categories; visual impairment, including blindness; Les autres, any physical disability that does not fall strictly under one of the other categories, for example dwarfism or multiple sclerosis.[5][6] Each Paralympic sport then has its own classifications, dependent on the specific physical demands of competition. Events are given a code, made of numbers and letters, describing the type of event and classification of the athletes competing.[7]
Athletics
Negatu entered five athletics events; club throw C, shot put C, javelin C, the open precision javelin and 100 metres wheelchair C.[3] He failed to advance to the finals in any of the events finishing 17th in the 100 metres, 38th in the club throw with a distance of 20.46 metres, 32nd in javelin with a throw of 12.90 metres, 65th in precision javelin with a score of 65 and 22nd in the shot put with a throw of 6.01 metres.[3]
Abraham Habte competed in the men's club throw C and precision javelin events but did not make either final. He scored 56 points in the precision javelin to earn 53rd position and finished 41st in the club throw with a distance of 18.82 metres.[3]
Table tennis
Habte and Negatu both entered the men's singles C classification and teamed up in the doubles C.[3] In the singles Negatu was eliminated in the first round and Habte was eliminated in the second round; the gold medal was won by Baruch Hagai for host nation Israel.[8] In the doubles the Ethiopian pair was eliminated by the eventual gold medalists, Israel's Hagai and Arieh Rubin, in the first round.[9]
See also
Notes
- ↑ Data is taken from the International Paralympic Committee website and is based on information contained/sourced in the original hardcopy final results publications. Some information from earlier Paralympic Games (i.e. 1960 – 1984) is incomplete and is missing first names of some athletes
References
- ↑ "Participation Numbers Tel Aviv 1968 Paralympic Games". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 17 May 2011.
- ↑ "Paralympic Games History – Summer". Australian Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 13 May 2011.
- 1 2 3 4 5 "Athlete Search Results Ethiopia 1968". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 18 May 2011.
- ↑ "Medal Standings Tel Aviv 1968 Paralympic Games". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 28 April 2011.
- ↑ "Paralympics categories explained". ABC. 3 September 2008. Retrieved 17 May 2011.
- ↑ "Making sense of the categories". BBC Sport. 6 October 2000. Retrieved 18 May 2011.
- ↑ "A-Z of Paralympic classification". BBC Sport. 28 August 2008. Retrieved 18 May 2011.
- ↑ "Results Tel Aviv 1968 Paralympic Games Table Tennis Men's Singles C". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 18 May 2011.
- ↑ "Results Tel Aviv 1968 Paralympic Games Table Tennis Men's Doubles C". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 18 May 2011.