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Bahrain at the Paralympics
Bahrain at the Paralympic Games the men’s slalom in the 1A category. His compatriot Ali
Alhasan took bronze in the same event, while Adel Sultan
provided a silver medal in the 100m sprint (categories
5-6). In 1992, Al Saqer won the country’s only medal, a
bronze in the discus (THW2-3). There was no medals in
1996, but in 2000 Ayman Al Heddi and Ahmed Kamal ob-
tained a silver and a bronze, respectively, in the discus
and the shot put. Ahmed Meshaima’s silver in the shot
put (F37) is Bahrain’s most recent medal to date; the
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country failed to make it onto the medal chart with its
IPC code BRN small delegation of three athletes in 2008.[2]
Three women have represented Bahrain at the Para-
NPC Bahrain Disabled Sports Federation
lympics: M. Alkhinna and S. Mohamed in sprinting and
Paralympic history slalom in 2004; and Fatema Nedham in the discus in
2008.[3] Bahraini women’s participation in the Paralymics
Summer Games
thus predates their participation in the Olympics, which
1960–1980 • 1984 • 1988 • 1992 • 1996 • 2000 • 2004 • 2008 began in 2004.[4]
Bahrain made its Paralympic Games début the same year
as its Olympic début, at the 1984 Summer Paralympics in
See also
Stoke Mandeville and New York, sending a delegation to • Bahrain at the Olympics
compete in track and field. The country has participated
in every subsequent edition of the Summer Paralympics,
but has never taken part in the Winter Paralympics.[1]
References
Bahraini competitors have won a total of nine Para- [1] Bahrain at the Paralympics, International
lympic medals, all of them in track and field: one gold, Paralympic Committee
three silver and five bronze. The country’s inaugural par- [2] Bahrain at the Paralympics, International
ticipation in the Games yielded two bronze medals, when Paralympic Committee
K. Alqatam finished third in the men’s javelin (category [3] Bahrain at the Paralympics, International
5), and Adel Sultan finished third in the men’s 100m Paralympic Committee
sprint (category 5). Bahrain won its first (and so far only) [4] "Running into History", ESPN, September 25, 2004
gold medal four years later, with Khaled Al Saqer winning
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