United States at the 1968 Summer Paralympics

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
United States at the
1968 Summer Paralympics
Flag of the United States.svg
Flag of the United States
IPC codeUSA
NPCUnited States Paralympic Committee
Websitewww.teamusa.org/US-Paralympics
in Tel Aviv
Competitors82 in 9 sports
Medals
Ranked 1st
Gold
33
Silver
27
Bronze
39
Total
99
Summer Paralympics appearances (overview)

The United States competed at the 1968 Summer Paralympics in Tel Aviv, Israel from November 4 to 13, 1968.[1] The team finished first out of the twenty-eight competing nations in the medal table and won ninety-nine medals: thirty-three gold, twenty-seven silver and thirty-nine bronze.[2] Eighty-two American athletes took part; fifty-three men and twenty-nine women.[3][n 1]

Ed Owen won medals in six different sports; nine golds and a bronze in athletics, two golds in swimming and a silver in wheelchair basketball.[4][5]

Disability classifications[]

The Paralympics groups athletes' disabilities 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.[6][7] 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.[8]

Medalists[]

The following United States athletes won medals at the Games;[9]

Medal Name Sport Event
 Gold Arballo Archery
 Gold Classon

O'Donnell		 Archery
 Gold Geissinger
Kelderhouse
Klemens		 Archery
 Gold Branum
Chess

Roman		 Athletics
 Gold E. Cox
C. Giesse
Keyser
Stratman		 Athletics
 Gold C. Geisse Athletics
 Gold C. Giesse Athletics
 Gold Rosalie Hixson Athletics
 Gold Kirn Athletics
 Gold Kirn Athletics
 Gold Athletics
 Gold Ed Owen Athletics
 Gold Ed Owen Athletics
 Gold Ed Owen Athletics
 Gold Ed Owen Athletics
 Gold Roman Athletics
 Gold H. Smith Athletics
 Gold H. Smith Athletics
 Gold Athletics
 Gold Geissinger
Kelderhouse		 Dartchery
 Gold Ailes Swimming
 Gold Ailes Swimming
 Gold Branum Swimming
 Gold Chrysler Swimming
 Gold Chrysler Swimming
 Gold Crase Swimming
 Gold Foust Swimming
 Gold Gorman Swimming
 Gold Kaminski Swimming
 Gold Moore Swimming
 Gold Ed Owen Swimming
 Gold Ed Owen Swimming
 Gold Dunn
McNichol		 Table tennis
 Silver Archery
 Silver Soulek Archery
 Silver Webb Archery
 Silver Branum Athletics
 Silver Branum Athletics
 Silver Cameron Athletics
 Silver Demorest Athletics
 Silver Gianino Athletics
 Silver Gurman Athletics
 Silver Keyser Athletics
 Silver Kirn Athletics
 Silver H. Smith Athletics
 Silver Athletics
 Silver Athletics
 Silver Rosalie Hixson
Marilyn Warren Woods		 Lawn bowls
 Silver Soulek Lawn bowls
 Silver Branum Swimming
 Silver Cornett Swimming
 Silver Crase Swimming
 Silver Gorman Swimming
 Silver Gorman Swimming
 Silver Moore Swimming
 Silver Moore Swimming
 Silver Pollock Swimming
 Silver Soulek Swimming
 Silver Vincent Swimming
 Silver Wheelchair basketball
 Bronze Cornett Archery
 Bronze Geissinger
Kelderhouse
Klemens		 Archery
 Bronze Klemens Archery
 Bronze Moore Archery
 Bronze Webb Archery
 Bronze Arballo Athletics
 Bronze Bindley Athletics
 Bronze Cameron Athletics
 Bronze Chrysler Athletics
 Bronze Cornett Athletics
 Bronze Cornett Athletics
 Bronze Cornett Athletics
 Bronze Dunn Athletics
 Bronze Feltes Athletics
 Bronze Rosalie Hixson Athletics
 Bronze Rosalie Hixson Athletics
 Bronze Kirn Athletics
 Bronze Kirn Athletics
 Bronze Athletics
 Bronze Athletics
 Bronze Ed Owen Athletics
 Bronze Rosalie Hixson Lawn bowls
 Bronze Lionetti Lawn bowls
 Bronze C. Sandglass
Vincent		 Lawn bowls
 Bronze Swimming
 Bronze Branum Swimming
 Bronze Cornett Swimming
 Bronze Dunn Swimming
 Bronze Fiorello Swimming
 Bronze Stratman Swimming
 Bronze Vincent Swimming
 Bronze Vincent Swimming
 Bronze Crase
Donaldson		 Table tennis
 Bronze Gorman
Moore		 Table tennis
 Bronze McNichol Table tennis
 Bronze Moore Table tennis
 Bronze Jensen Weightlifting
 Bronze Rossini Weightlifting
 Bronze Wheelchair basketball

Dartchery[]

Main article: Dartchery at the 1968 Summer Paralympics

The only dartchery event at the Games was the mixed pairs event which took a knockout format. The United States was represented by Geissinger and Kelderhouse; the pair beat athletes from Jamaica, Italy and Australia to set up a semi-final meeting with Tanaka and Matsumoto of . The Americans won the match and went on to defeat a second Australian pair in the final round to win the gold medal.[10]

Wheelchair basketball[]

Main article: Wheelchair basketball at the 1968 Summer Paralympics

America entered teams in both the men's and women's wheelchair basketball events and won medals in each. The women's event took the form of a single pool stage with medals awarded to the top three teams. The USA team won two matches and lost two matches, scoring 31 points and conceding 30, to finish in third place and take the bronze medal.[11] The men's event featured a pool stage followed by a knockout competition. The USA men beat Great Britain and the Switzerland and Germany to advance to the quarterfinals. They then beat Argentina and Great Britain again to reach the gold medal match. Facing the hosts Israel, USA lost 47–37 and had to settle for the silver medals.[12]

See also[]

Notes[]

  1. ^ Data is taken from the International Paralympic Committee website and is based on information contained/sourced in the original hardcopy final results publications. Some information from earlier Paralympic Games (i.e. 1960 – 1984) is incomplete and is missing first names of some athletes

References[]

  1. ^ "Paralympic Games History – Summer". Australian Paralympic Committee. Archived from the original on 5 June 2011. Retrieved 13 May 2011.
  2. ^ "Medal Standings Tel Aviv 1968 Paralympic Games". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 28 April 2011.
  3. ^ "Participation Numbers Tel Aviv 1968 Paralympic Games". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 17 May 2011.
  4. ^ "Tel Aviv 1968". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 28 April 2011.
  5. ^ "Ed Owen". Paralympic.org. International Paralympic Committee.
  6. ^ "Paralympics categories explained". ABC. 3 September 2008. Retrieved 17 May 2011.
  7. ^ "Making sense of the categories". BBC Sport. 6 October 2000. Retrieved 18 May 2011.
  8. ^ "A-Z of Paralympic classification". BBC Sport. 28 August 2008. Retrieved 18 May 2011.
  9. ^ United States at the Paralympics on paralympic.org
  10. ^ "Results Tel Aviv 1968 Paralympic Games Dartchery Mixed Pairs open". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 17 May 2011.
  11. ^ "Results Tel Aviv 1968 Paralympic Games Wheelchair Basketball Women". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 18 May 2011.
  12. ^ "Results Tel Aviv 1968 Paralympic Games Wheelchair Basketball Men". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 18 May 2011.
Retrieved from ""