Argentina at the 1960 Summer Paralympics

Argentina was one of the seventeen nations that competed at the inaugural Summer Paralympic Games in 1960 held in Rome, Italy from September 19 to 24, 1968.[1][2] Preparations for the Games began two years prior in 1958 to stage what was at the time called the 9th Annual International Stoke Mandeville Games.[3] The team finished tenth in the medal table with a total of six medals, two gold, three silver and one bronze.[4] The Argentinian team consisted of five athletes, one man and four women.[1][n 1]

Argentina at the 1960 Summer Paralympics
IPC code	ARG
NPC	Argentine Paralympic Committee
Website	www.coparg.org.ar
in Rome
Competitors	5 in 1 sport
Medals Ranked 10th	Gold 2 Silver 3 Bronze 1 Total 6
Summer Paralympics appearances
1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016 2020

Disability classifications

Athletes at the first Paralympics in 1960 were all afflicted by spinal cord injuries and required the use of a wheelchair.[3] This is in contrast to later Paralympics that include events for participants that fit into any of five different disability categories; amputation, either congenital or sustained through injury or illness; cerebral palsy; wheelchair athletes; 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 upon 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]

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Perazzo	Swimming	50 m crawl incomplete class 3
Gold	Juan Sznitowski	Swimming	50 m backstroke complete class 5
Silver	Mier	Swimming	50 m complete class 5
Silver	Juan Sznitowski	Swimming	50 m crawl complete class 5
Bronze	Galan	Swimming	50 m crawl incomplete class 4

Swimming

Main article: Swimming at the 1960 Summer Paralympics

All five of Argentina's athletes in Rome took part in swimming events. Each won at least one medal as none of their events contained more than three competitors.[8] The most successful of the five was Sznitowski who won two medals; he won the gold medal in the men's 50 metres backstroke complete class 5 and the silver medal in the 50 metres crawl complete class 5.[8] Argentina's other gold medal was won by Perazzo in the women's 50 metres crawl incomplete class 3. The only swimmer in the event, she finished in a time of 1 minute 15.3 seconds to claim the medal.[9] Further medals were won by Djukich, silver in the women's 50 metres backstroke incomplete class 4, Galan, a bronze in the women's 50 metres crawl incomplete class 4 and Mier who took silver in the women's 50 metres crawl complete class 5.[8]

See also

• Argentina at the 1960 Summer Olympics

Notes

1. 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 (ie 1960 - 1984) is incomplete and is missing first names of some athletes. Additionally some athletes whose gender could not be clearly identified from the source information are registered as 'x' based on their participation in mixed events.[1]

References

1. "Participation Numbers Rome 1960 Paralympic Games". International Paralympic Committee. Archived from the original on 5 June 2011. Retrieved 17 May 2011.
2. "Paralympic Games History – Summer". Australian Paralympic Committee. Archived from the original on 5 June 2011. Retrieved 13 May 2011.
3. "Paralympic Games Rome 1960 IPC Celebrates 50 Years After Rome". International Paralympic Committee. Archived from the original on 5 June 2011. Retrieved 24 May 2011.
4. "Medal Standings Rome 1960 Paralympic Games". International Paralympic Committee. Archived from the original on 5 June 2011. Retrieved 24 May 2011.
5. "Paralympics categories explained". ABC. 3 September 2008. Retrieved 17 May 2011.
6. "Making sense of the categories". BBC Sport. 6 October 2000. Retrieved 18 May 2011.
7. "A-Z of Paralympic classification". BBC Sport. 28 August 2008. Retrieved 18 May 2011.
8. "Athlete Search Results Argentina 1960". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 24 May 2011.
9. "Results Rome 1960 Paralympic Games Swimming Women's 50 m Crawl incomplete class 3". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 24 May 2011.