Argentina participated in the inaugural Paralympic Games in 1960 in Rome, with a delegation consisting in five swimmers, and has taken part in every edition of the Summer Paralympics since then. The country made its Winter Paralympics début in 2010, with a two-man delegation in alpine skiing.Argentina at the Paralympics, International Paralympic Committee
Argentines have won a total of 146 medals at the Paralympic Games, of which 30 gold, 59 silver and 57 bronze. All of these medals were won at the Summer Games. This places Argentina 30th on the all-time Paralympic Games medal table.Argentina at the Paralympics, International Paralympic Committee
Argentines won two gold medals in swimming in 1960. In 1964, four of their six gold medals also came through swimming, the other two being obtained in athletics (women's shot put) and weightlifting. In 1968, Argentines won ten gold medals, of which nine in athletics and only one in swimming (H. Aresca in the men's 25m freestyle). These nine athletics medals were all won in javelin, shot put, club throw or discus events, and eight of them were won by women.
In 1972, the Argentine delegation was much less successful, with just one gold medal in athletics (in the men's javelin), and one in women's wheelchair basketball. In 1976, Cristina Benedetti won Argentina's only athletics gold, in the slalom, while Gustavo Galindez took two gold medals in swimming. The only time that Argentina did not win medals was in 1984. In 1992, the country's only Paralympic champion was Horacio Bascioni, in the men's javelin. In 1996, Nestor Suarez won the men's 100m sprint in the T46 category, while swimmer Betiana Basualdo won the women's 100m freestyle in the S2 category, thus providing their country with two gold medals.Argentina at the Paralympics, International Paralympic Committee
Medals
Medals by Summer Games Games Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Total Rank Rome 1960 5 2 3 1 6 10 Tokyo 1964 24 6 15 16 37 8 Tel Aviv 1968 21 10 10 10 30 9 Heidelberg 1972 21 2 4 3 9 20 Toronto 1976 20 3 4 7 14 23 Arnhem 1980 11 4 5 6 15 24 New York 1984/ Stoke Mandeville 1984 6 0 0 0 0 44 Seoul 1988 35 0 7 2 9 39 Barcelona 1992 27 1 1 0 2 44 Atlanta 1996 56 2 5 2 9 38 Sydney 2000 43 0 2 3 5 54 Athens 2004 55 0 2 2 4 64 Beijing 2008 42 0 1 5 6 58 London 2012 63 0 1 4 5 62 Rio de Janeiro 2016 82 1 1 3 5 54 Tokyo 2020 55 0 5 4 9 63 Paris 2024 72 2 3 8 13 37 Total 33 69 76 178 40
Medals by Winter Games Games Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Total Rank Örnsköldsvik 1976 did not participate Geilo 1980 Innsbruck 1984 Innsbruck 1988 Albertville 1992 Lillehammer 1994 Nagano 1998 Salt Lake City 2002 Turin 2006 Vancouver 2010 2 0 0 0 0 − Sochi 2014 3 0 0 0 0 − Pyeongchang 2018 2 0 0 0 0 − Beijing 2022 2 0 0 0 0 − Total 0 0 0 0 −
Medals by Summer Sport
Medals by Winter Sport Games Gold Silver Bronze Total Total 0 0 0 0
Medalists