Colombia competed at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 7 to 18 September 2016.
Delegation Colombia sent a team of 39 athletes, 26 men and 13 women, and 1 official to the 2016 Summer Paralympics.
Disability classifications
Every participant at the Paralympics has their disability grouped into one of five disability categories; amputation, the condition may be congenital or sustained through injury or illness; cerebral palsy; wheelchair athletes, there is often overlap between this and other categories; 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. 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. Some sports, such as athletics, divide athletes by both the category and severity of their disabilities, other sports, for example swimming, group competitors from different categories together, the only separation being based on the severity of the disability.
Medalists
Medal Name Sport Event Date Carlos Serrano Zárate Swimming Men's 100 metre breaststroke SB7 Mauricio Valencia Athletics Men's javelin throw F34 Nelson Crispín Swimming Men's 50 metre freestyle S6 Luis Fernando Lucumí Villegas Athletics Men's javelin throw F38 Nelson Crispín Swimming Men's 100 metre breaststroke SB6 Carlos Serrano Zárate Swimming Men's 100 metre freestyle S7 Nelson Crispín Swimming Men's 100 metre freestyle S6 Martha Liliana Hernández Florián Athletics Women's 100 metre T36 Carlos Serrano Zárate Swimming Men's 50 metre Butterfly S7 Diego Germán Dueñas Cycling Men's individual pursuit C4 Edwin Fabián Mátiz Ruiz Cycling Men's individual pursuit C5 Mauricio Valencia Athletics Men's shot put F34 Moisés Fuentes Swimming Men's 100 metre breaststroke SB4 Women's relay team Colombia Athletics Women's 4x100 metre Relay T11-13 Néstor Javier Ayala Cycling Men's Road Race T1-2 Maritza Arango Buitrago Athletics Women's 1500 metre - T11 Weiner Díaz Athletics Men's 400 metre - T38
Cycling
With one pathway for qualification being one highest ranked NPCs on the UCI Para-Cycling male and female Nations Ranking Lists on 31 December 2014, Colombia qualified for the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio, assuming they continued to meet all other eligibility requirements.
Wheelchair tennis Colombia qualified one competitors in the men's single event, Eliecer Oquendo. This spot was a result of a Bipartite Commission Invitation place. Colombia also earned a spot in the women's singles event. Angelica Bernal got the spot as a result of a Bipartite Commission Invitation place.
See also Colombia at the 2016 Summer Olympics
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