Wheelchair racing at the 1996 Summer Olympics featured as a demonstration event within the athletics programme on 1 August 1996. There were two events...

Wheelchair racing at the Summer Olympics featured as demonstration competitions at the multi-sport event, appearing within the Olympic athletics programme...

participated in the different athletics events at the 2000 Summer Olympics. Two athletes from East Timor participated as individual Olympic athletes. A total...

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American wheelchair racer, who competed at the Olympic and Paralympic level. At the 1996 Olympic Games, he placed second in the 1500m wheelchair racing event...

Olympic sports are sports that are contested in the Summer Olympic Games and Winter Olympic Games. The 2020 Summer Olympics included 33 sports; the 2022...

competed at 28 Summer Olympic Games, missing only the inaugural 1896 Summer Olympics and the boycotted 1980 Summer Olympics. This count includes the 1906...

The 1996 Summer Olympics torch relay was run from April 27, 1996, until July 19, 1996, prior to the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. The route covered...

1985. He began wheelchair racing in 1988. He competed but did not win any medals at the 1992 Barcelona and 1996 Atlanta Paralympics. At the 1994 Commonwealth...

28 different sports. The 2004 Games marked the first time since the 1996 Summer Olympics that all countries with a National Olympic Committee were in attendance...

sprint at the 2012 Paralympic Games. From 1984 to 2004, numerous athletes competed in wheelchair racing at the Olympics. Medals were not awarded and the contests...

International Paralympic Committee. "The History of Wheelchair Racing at the Boston Marathon". Against the Wind. WILL. Archived from the original on July 27, 2011...

(800 m) at the 2002 World Championships and a gold at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in the 800 m. At the 2004 Summer Olympics (where wheelchair racing was an...

The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (French: Jeux olympiques) are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions...

The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 the Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of the New...

The 1936 Summer Olympics (German: Olympische Sommerspiele 1936), officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad (German: Spiele der XI. Olympiade) and...

lit and kept the Olympic Flame). Mixed-sex sport has a long history at the modern Olympic Games, dating back to the 1900 Summer Olympics (the first in which...

The United Kingdom has been represented at every modern Olympic Games, and as of the 2020 Summer Olympics is third in the all-time Summer Olympic medal...

of the Olympics to the Modern Games, a component which they felt was lost during the 1996 Summer Olympics. This was the last edition of the Summer Paralympics...

September 27, 1976) is an American Paralympic wheelchair racing athlete. Madsen is a Native American from the Omaha tribe. She grew up in Nebraska, graduating...

wheelchair racing events at international track and field competitions. She was the youngest Paralympic champion from the United States at the 1996 Summer...

at the 1988 Summer Olympics in wheelchair racing. At her third Paralympics, Cody helped set a world record in the 4 × 100 m relay at the 1992 Summer Paralympics...

athlete and wheelchair rugby player who won three gold medals in athletics at the 2000 Summer Paralympics, and a gold medal in wheelchair rugby at the 2012 Summer...

is an Australian Paralympic wheelchair racing athlete. She has won three medals in athletics at seven Paralympics from 1996 to 2021. When she was young...

during the Olympic Games, but may also occur at other sporting events. Demonstration sports were officially introduced in the 1924 Summer Olympics, though...

establishing himself as the best wheelchair tennis player in the United States. In 1984, the Summer Olympics added a men's 1500-meter wheelchair race as an exhibition...

Paralympic Games were in Athens (2004) where she won two gold medals in wheelchair racing in the 100m and 400m. In total in her Paralympic career she won 16 medals...

category T54 wheelchair racing events. Couprie has competed in four Paralympics, winning five medals. His first games were in Seoul in 1988 Summer Paralympics...

steering. The front wheels were smaller than the back wheels, and when at high speed, they were prone to wobbling. By 1997, racing wheelchairs had basically...

every Winter Olympic Games and every Summer Olympic Games since its debut at the 1900 games with the exception of the 1980 Summer Olympics, which it boycotted...