Morocco at the Paralympics

Morocco at the Paralympics
IPC code	MAR
NPC	Royal Moroccan Federation of Sports for Disabled
Medals	Gold 12 Silver 7 Bronze 8 Total 27
Summer appearances
1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016 2020

Morocco made its Paralympic Games début at the 1988 Summer Paralympics in Seoul. It was represented by an all-male team, with five competitors in athletics, three in swimming, and a wheelchair basketball team. won a bronze medal in the 400m freestyle (category 4) in swimming - Morocco's sole medal of the 1988 Games.^[1][2]

Morocco has participated in every edition of the Summer Paralympics since then, albeit never in the Winter Paralympics. Moroccans have won a total of eleven gold medals (all since 2004), seven silver and eight bronze. Mustapha El Aouzari won gold in the men's 1,500m in athletics in 2004, in the T11 category for totally blind runners. The same year, Abdellah Ez Zine won gold in the men's 800m (T52 category). In 2008, Sanaa Benhama was Morocco's first female Paralympic champion, and the country's most successful Paralympian to date, when she won three gold medals in the 100m, 200m and 400m sprints, in the T13 category for partially sighted athletes. Abdelillah Mame won the country's other gold medal of the Games, in the men's 800m (T13).^[3]

Morocco took part in the 2012 Summer Paralympics, with the using Bedford as the UK base for its Paralympians.^[4]

Medals[]

Medals by Summer Games[] Games Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Total Rank 1988 Seoul 14 0 0 1 1 48 1992 Barcelona 5 0 0 0 0 – 1996 Atlanta 4 0 0 0 0 – 2000 Sydney 7 0 0 0 0 – 2004 Athens 10 2 4 0 6 42 2008 Beijing 18 4 1 2 7 32 2012 London 31 3 0 3 6 37 2016 Rio de Janeiro 26 3 2 2 7 39 2020 Tokyo 37 4 4 3 11 30 Total 11 7 8 27 74

Medals by Summer sport[] Sport Gold Silver Bronze Total Athletics 12 7 6 25 Swimming 0 0 1 1 Triathlon 0 0 1 1 Totals (3 sports) 12 7 8 27

List of medalists[]

Medal	Name	Games	Sport	Event	Date
Bronze		1988 Seoul	Swimming	Men's 400 m freestyle 4	0120 Octobre 1988
Gold	Abdellah Ez Zine	2004 Athens	Athletics		0120 September 2004
Gold	Mustapha El Aouzari	2004 Athens	Athletics		0121 September 2004
Silver	Abdelghani Gtaib	2004 Athens	Athletics		0120 September 2004
Silver	Laila El Garaa	2004 Athens	Athletics		0120 September 2004
Silver		2004 Athens	Athletics		0120 September 2004
Silver	Mustapha El Aouzari	2004 Athens	Athletics		0120 September 2004
Gold	Abdelillah Mame	2008 Beijing	Athletics		018 September 2008
Gold	Sanaa Benhama	2008 Beijing	Athletics		018 September 2008
Gold	Sanaa Benhama	2008 Beijing	Athletics		018 September 2008
Gold	Sanaa Benhama	2008 Beijing	Athletics		018 September 2008
Silver	Youssef Benibrahim	2008 Beijing	Athletics		018 September 2008
Bronze	Najat El Garaa	2008 Beijing	Athletics		018 September 2008
Bronze	Laila El Garaa	2008 Beijing	Athletics		018 September 2008
Gold	Najat El Garaa	2012 London	Athletics		0131 August 2012
Gold	El Amin Chentouf	2012 London	Athletics		013 September 2012
Gold	Azeddine Nouiri	2012 London	Athletics		013 September 2012
Bronze	Mohamed Amguoun	2012 London	Athletics		012 September 2012
Bronze	Abdelillah Mame	2012 London	Athletics		018 September 2012
Bronze	Najat El Garaa	2012 London	Athletics		013 September 2012
Gold	Azeddine Nouiri	2016 Rio de Janeiro	Athletics		0111 September 2016
Silver	Mahdi Afri	2016 Rio de Janeiro	Athletics		019 September 2016
Bronze	Mohamed Lahna	2016 Rio de Janeiro	Paratriathlon		0110 September 2016
Silver	El Amin Chentouf	2016 Rio de Janeiro	Athletics		0115 September 2016
Gold	Mohamed Amguoun	2016 Rio de Janeiro	Athletics		0115 September 2016
Bronze	Mahdi Afri	2016 Rio de Janeiro	Athletics		0117 September 2016

Athletes with most medals[]

The Moroccan athlete who won the most medals in the history of the Paralympic Games, is the Paralympian athlete Sanaa Benhama.

Athlete	Sport	Games				Total
Sanaa Benhama	Athletics	2008	3	0	0	3
Najat El Garaa	Athletics	2008–2012	1	0	2	3
Azeddine Nouiri	Athletics	2012–2016	2	0	0	2
Mustapha El Aouzari	Athletics	2004	1	1	0	2
El Amin Chentouf	Athletics	2012–2016	1	1	0	2
Abdelillah Mame	Athletics	2008–2012	1	0	1	2
Mohamed Amguoun	Athletics	2012–2016	1	0	1	2
Laila El Garaa	Athletics	2004–2008	0	1	1	2
Mahdi Afri	Athletics	2016	0	1	1	2
Abdellah Ez Zine	Athletics	2004	1	0	0	1
Abdelghani Gtaib	Athletics	2004	0	1	0	1
Youssef Benibrahim	Athletics	2008	0	1	0	1
	Athletics	2004	0	1	0	1
	Swimming	1988	0	0	1	1
Mohamed Lahna	Triathlon	2016	0	0	1	1

See also[]

• Morocco at the Olympics

References[]