Great Britain at the 1960 Summer Paralympics

Great Britain at the 1960 Summer Paralympics
Flag of the United Kingdom
IPC code	GBR
NPC	British Paralympic Association
Website	www.paralympics.org.uk
in Rome
Competitors	31 in 6 sports
Medals Ranked 2nd	Gold 20 Silver 15 Bronze 20 Total 55
Summer Paralympics appearances (overview)
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Great Britain at Rome 1960

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, competing as Great Britain, participated in the inaugural Paralympic Games in 1960 in Rome. The 1960 Paralympics, now considered to have been the first Paralympic Games, were initially known as the ninth Stoke Mandeville Games, Games for athletes with disabilities founded in Great Britain in 1948.^[1][2]

Great Britain fielded the second largest delegation at the 1960 Games (after Italy's), with 31 competitors (18 men and 13 women) in archery, athletics, snooker, swimming, table tennis and wheelchair basketball. It also fielded by far the greatest number of female athletes (13), whereas all other countries fielded four or less (with the exception of Austria, which sent seven). All British competitors won medals in every event they entered, putting Great Britain second on the medal table with 20 gold, 15 silver and 20 bronze. Britain's first ever Paralympic gold medal was won by Margaret Maughan, in archery.^[3][4][5]

Medalists[]

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Margaret Maughan	Archery	Women's Columbia round open
Gold	Dick Thompson	Athletics	Men's club throw A
Gold	Dick Thompson	Athletics	Men's javelin throw A
Gold	Dick Thompson	Athletics	Men's javelin throw B
Gold	Dick Thompson	Athletics	Men's precision javelin throw A
Gold		Snooker	Men's paraplegics open
Gold		Swimming	Men's 25m crawl incomplete class 1
Gold		Swimming	Men's 25m backstroke complete class 2
Gold		Swimming	Men's 25m backstroke incomplete class 1
Gold		Swimming	Women's 25m crawl incomplete class 1
Gold	Pauline Foulds	Swimming	Women's 50m crawl complete class 4
Gold		Swimming	Women's 25m backstroke complete class 1
Gold	Masson	Swimming	Women's 25m backstroke incomplete class 2
Gold	Pauline Foulds	Swimming	Women's 50m backstroke complete class 4
Gold	Margaret Maughan	Swimming	Women's 50m backstroke complete class 5
Gold	Susan Masham	Swimming	Women's 25m breaststroke complete class 2
Gold		Swimming	Women's 25m breaststroke incomplete class 1
Gold	Tommy Taylor	Table tennis	Men's singles A
Gold	M. Beck Tommy Taylor	Table tennis	Men's doubles A
Gold	Anderson	Table tennis	Women's singles A
Silver		Archery	Men's FITA round open
Silver		Archery	Men's Windsor round open
Silver	Kathleen Comley	Archery	Women's FITA round open
Silver		Archery	Women's Windsor round open
Silver	Michael Shelton	Snooker	Men's paraplegics open
Silver		Swimming	Men's 25m crawl complete class 1
Silver		Swimming	Men's 50m crawl incomplete class 3
Silver		Swimming	Men's 25m backstroke complete class 1
Silver		Swimming	Men's 25m backstroke incomplete class 2
Silver	Peter Stanton	Swimming	Men's 50m backstroke complete class 4
Silver		Swimming	Men's 25m breaststroke incomplete class 1 and 2
Silver	Susan Masham	Swimming	Women's 25m backstroke complete class 2
Silver	Edwards	Swimming	Women's 50m breaststroke incomplete class 4
Silver	Edwards Gubbin	Table tennis	Women's doubles C
Silver	Men's team class A names:[6]	Wheelchair basketball	Men's class A tournament
Bronze	Carl Hepple	Archery	Men's Columbia round open
Bronze		Archery	Men's FITA round open
Bronze		Archery	Women's Columbia round open
Bronze		Archery	Women's FITA round open
Bronze	Kathleen Comley	Archery	Women's Windsor round open
Bronze		Athletics	Men's club throw C
Bronze	Carl Hepple	Athletics	Men's javelin throw C
Bronze	Dick Thompson	Athletics	Men's shot put A
Bronze		Athletics	Men's pentathlon open
Bronze		Swimming	Men's 50m backstroke incomplete class 4
Bronze		Swimming	Men's 25m breaststroke complete class 1
Bronze		Swimming	Women's 50m backstroke complete class 3
Bronze		Swimming	Women's 50m breaststroke complete class 3
Bronze	Waller	Swimming	Women's 50m backstroke incomplete class 3
Bronze	M. Beck	Table tennis	Men's singles A
Bronze		Table tennis	Men's doubles B
Bronze	Philips George Swindlehurst	Table tennis	Men's doubles C
Bronze	Gubbin	Table tennis	Women's singles C
Bronze	Froggart Susan Masham	Table tennis	Women's doubles B
Bronze	Men's team class B	Wheelchair basketball	Men's class B

Medals by sport[]

Medals by sport
Sport				Total
Swimming	11	8	5	24
Athletics	4	0	4	8
Table Tennis	3	1	5	9
Archery	1	4	5	10
Snooker	1	1	0	2
Wheelchair Basketball	0	1	1	2
Total	20	15	20	55

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