1968 Summer Paralympics medal table

The 1968 Summer Paralympics was an international multi-sport event held in Tel Aviv, Israel, from November 4 to 13, 1968, in which athletes with physical disabilities competed against one another.^[1][2] The Paralympics are run in parallel with the Olympic Games; these Games were originally planned to be held alongside the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, but two years prior to the event the Mexican government pulled out due to technical difficulties.^[3] At the time, the event was known as the 17th International Stoke Mandeville Games.^[4][5] The Stoke Mandeville Games were a forerunner to the Paralympics first organized by Sir Ludwig Guttmann in 1948.^[2] This medal table ranks the competing National Paralympic Committees (NPCs) by the number of gold medals won by their athletes.

A total of 576 medals were awarded in 10 sports. Athletes from 22 of the 28 competing NPCs won at least one medal with the United States taking both the most gold, with 33, and most in total, with 99.^[6] Host nation Israel won 62 medals at the Games, 18 gold, 21 silver and 23 bronze. Zipora Rubin-Rosenbaum won gold medals in the club throw, javelin, shot put and pentathlon and a silver medal in the discus for the host nation.^[7] South Africa, who were banned from the Olympic Games because of the policy of apartheid, were invited to the Paralympics and won a total of 26 medals.^[6][8]

Italian athlete Roberto Marson, who had previously won two gold medals in athletics at the 1964 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, was proclaimed the outstanding athlete of the Games. He won ten gold medals, three in athletics field events, three in swimming and four in wheelchair fencing.^[3] Ed Owen of the United States won medals in three different sports; four golds and a bronze in athletics, two golds in swimming and a silver in wheelchair basketball.^[3][9]

Medal table

The ranking in this table is based on information provided by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) and is consistent with IPC convention in its published medal tables. By default, the table is ordered by the number of gold medals the athletes from a nation have won (in this context, a "nation" is an entity represented by a National Paralympic Committee). The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze medals. If nations are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically by IPC country code.

Two bronze medals were awarded in each dartchery, snooker, table tennis and lawn bowls event.^{[10][11][12][13]} Some swimming events did not award silver or bronze medals.^[14]

  *   Host nation

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Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	a33	a27	a39	a99
2	Great Britain	b29	c20	c20	b69
3	Israel*	c18	b21	b23	c62
4	Australia	d15	d16	j7	e38
5	France	e13	f10	h9	g32
6	West Germany	f12	e12	e11	f35
7	Italy	g12	g10	d17	d39
8	Netherlands	h12	n4	p4	j20
9	Argentina	i10	h10	f10	h30
10	South Africa	j9	i10	k7	i26
11	Rhodesia	k6	j7	l7	k20
12	Canada	l6	l6	m7	l19
13	Norway	m5	p3	s1	p9
14	Jamaica	n3	v1	t1	t5
15	Austria	o2	k7	g10	m19
16	Japan	p2	s2	i8	n12
17	Sweden	q1	m6	q4	o11
18	New Zealand	r1	t2	u1	u4
19	Ireland	s0	o4	o5	q9
20	Belgium	t0	q3	r3	s6
21	Spain	u0	r3	v1	v4
22	Switzerland	v0	u2	n6	r8
Total		189	186	201	576

See also

• 1968 Summer Olympics medal table

References

Paralympic Games
Charter Host cities IPC NPCs Medal tables Medalists Sports Symbols
Summer Games	Rome 1960 Tokyo 1964 Tel Aviv 1968 Heidelberg 1972 Toronto 1976 Arnhem 1980 New York/Stoke Mandeville 1984 Seoul 1988 Barcelona/Madrid 1992 Atlanta 1996 Sydney 2000 Athens 2004 Beijing 2008 London 2012 Rio de Janeiro 2016 Tokyo 2020
Winter Games	Örnsköldsvik 1976 Geilo 1980 Innsbruck 1984 Innsbruck 1988 Tignes/Albertville 1992 Lillehammer 1994 Nagano 1998 Salt Lake City 2002 Turin 2006 Vancouver 2010 Sochi 2014 Pyeongchang 2018 Beijing 2022
Olympic Games Youth Olympic Games Ancient Olympic Games