Rhodesia at the 1968 Summer Paralympics

Rhodesia at the
1968 Summer Paralympics
This flag was used to represent Rhodesia. On 11 October 1968, a green and white tricolour was adopted.
IPC codeRHO
in Tel Aviv
Medals
Ranked 11th
Gold
6
Silver
7
Bronze
7
Total
20
Summer Paralympics appearances (overview)

Rhodesia competed at the 1968 Summer Paralympics in Tel Aviv, Israel from 4 to 13 November 1968.[1] The team ranked eleventh out of the twenty-eight competing nations in the medal table and won a total of twenty medals; six gold, seven silver and seven bronze.[2][n 1] Rhodesia competed at the Paralympics in 1968 and in 1972 despite being excluded from the Summer Olympic Games in those years.[3]

  1. ^ "Paralympic Games History – Summer". Australian Paralympic Committee. Archived from the original on 5 June 2011. Retrieved 13 May 2011.
  2. ^ "Medal Standings Tel Aviv 1968 Paralympic Games". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 28 April 2011.
  3. ^ Little, Cliff (2008). "The Paralympic Protest Paradox: The Politics of Rhodesian Participation in the Paralympic Games, 1960–1980" (PDF). Pathways: Critiques and Discourse in Olympic Research: 125. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 August 2012. Retrieved 18 May 2011.


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