Finland at the 1976 Summer Paralympics

Finland at the
1976 Summer Paralympics
IPC codeFIN
NPCFinnish Paralympic Committee
Websitewww.paralympia.fi/en
in Toronto
Competitors50 in 5 sports
Medals
Ranked 13th
Gold
12
Silver
20
Bronze
18
Total
50
Summer Paralympics appearances (overview)

Finland competed at the 1976 Summer Paralympics in Toronto. The country was represented by 50 athletes (46 men and 4 women) competing in archery, athletics, dartchery, swimming, table tennis, volleyball, weightlifting and wheelchair basketball.

1976 marked Finland's first major success at the Summer Paralympics. In 1960, it had won a single gold medal. In 1968, having missed the 1964 Games, it won no medals at all; and in 1972, it obtained just two silver and a bronze.[1] The Finnish medal haul at the Toronto Games thus marked an overwhelming improvement: Finnish athletes won a total of 50 medals, of which twelve gold, twenty silver and eighteen bronze.[2]