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Ireland At The 1968 Summer Paralympics
Ireland was one of twenty-eight nations to send a delegation to compete at the 1968 Summer Paralympics in Tel Aviv, Israel from November 4 to 13, 1968. The team finished nineteenth in the medal table and won a total of nine medals; four silver and five bronze. Seven Irish athletes competed at the Games, five men and two women. Rosaleen Gallagher won a medal in four different sports; archery, athletics, swimming and table tennis. 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. Each Paralympic sport then has its own classifications, dependent on the specific p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paralympics Ireland
Paralympics Ireland (formerly known as the Paralympic Council of Ireland) is the National Paralympic Committee in Republic of Ireland, Ireland for the Paralympic Games movement. It is a non-profit organisation that selects teams, and raises funds to send Irish competitors to Paralympic events organised by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). History The organisation was established the Paralympic Council of Ireland in 1987, as a Coordination Committee for the 1988 Summer Paralympics. They rebranded with a new logo in 2005. The organisation rebranded again in 2011 with a new logo and a name change to Paralympics Ireland. They launched a new tagline, Inspiring Beyond Belief. Paralympics Ireland coordinates Ireland at the Paralympics and Ireland at the World Championships. See also *Olympic Federation of Ireland References External links Official website National Paralympic Committees, Ireland Ireland at the Paralympics Sports governing bodies in Ireland, Pa 198 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Multiple Sclerosis
Multiple (cerebral) sclerosis (MS), also known as encephalomyelitis disseminata or disseminated sclerosis, is the most common demyelinating disease, in which the insulating covers of nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord are damaged. This damage disrupts the ability of parts of the nervous system to transmit signals, resulting in a range of signs and symptoms, including physical, mental, and sometimes psychiatric problems. Specific symptoms can include double vision, blindness in one eye, muscle weakness, and trouble with sensation or coordination. MS takes several forms, with new symptoms either occurring in isolated attacks (relapsing forms) or building up over time (progressive forms). In the relapsing forms of MS, between attacks, symptoms may disappear completely, although some permanent neurological problems often remain, especially as the disease advances. While the cause is unclear, the underlying mechanism is thought to be either destruction by the immune system ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nations At The 1968 Summer Paralympics
A nation is a community of people formed on the basis of a combination of shared features such as language, history, ethnicity, culture and/or society. A nation is thus the collective identity of a group of people understood as defined by those features. Some nations are equated with ethnic groups (see ethnic nationalism) and some are equated with affiliation to a social and political constitution (see civic nationalism and multiculturalism). A nation is generally more overtly political than an ethnic group. A nation has also been defined as a cultural-political community that has become conscious of its autonomy, unity and particular interests. The consensus among scholars is that nations are socially constructed and historically contingent. Throughout history, people have had an attachment to their kin group and traditions, territorial authorities and their homeland, but nationalism – the belief that state and nation should align as a nation state – did not become a promin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ireland At The 1968 Summer Olympics
Ireland competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Mexico. 31 competitors, 25 men and 6 women, took part in 32 events in 7 sports. They did not win any medals. Athletics Boxing Cycling Three cyclists represented Ireland in 1968. ; Individual road race * Peter Doyle * Morris Foster * Liam Horner Equestrian Fencing Four fencers, all men, represented Ireland in 1968. ; Men's foil * Michael Ryan * John Bouchier-Hayes * Fionbarr Farrell ; Men's team foil * Fionbarr Farrell, John Bouchier-Hayes, Michael Ryan, Colm O'Brien ; Men's épée * Colm O'Brien * Michael Ryan ; Men's team épée * John Bouchier-Hayes, Fionbarr Farrell, Michael Ryan, Colm O'Brien ; Men's sabre * Colm O'Brien * John Bouchier-Hayes * Fionbarr Farrell ; Men's team sabre * Colm O'Brien, Fionbarr Farrell, Michael Ryan, John Bouchier-Hayes Shooting Three shooters, all men, represented Ireland in 1968. ;Trap * Dermot Kelly ; Skeet * Gerry Brady * Arthur McMahon Swimming Refer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Snooker At The 1968 Summer Paralympics ...
Snooker at the 1968 Summer Paralympics consisted of a men's event. It was held at the Hayarkon Scouts Club, Tel Aviv from 5 to 12 November 1968. There were eight competitors, from six countries: two each from Italy and Great Britain, and one each from Australia, Austria, the Republic of Ireland and Rhodesia. Michael Shelton won the gold medal, as he had in 1964. Medal summary References {{Paralympic Games Snooker 1968 Summer Paralympics events 1968 Paralympics The Paralympic Games or Paralympics, also known as the ''Games of the Paralympiad'', is a periodic series of international multisport events involving athletes with a range of physical disabilities, including impaired muscle power and impaired ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Gibson (table Tennis)
James or Jimmy Gibson may refer to: Science and academia *James J. Gibson (1904–1979), American psychologist * James B. Gibson (astronomer), American astronomer who discovered 2309 Mr. Spock * James Gibson (philosopher), 20th-century British philosophy professor *James Glen Sivewright Gibson (1861–1951), British architect Politics and the law *Sir James Gibson, 1st Baronet (1849–1912), British Member of Parliament for Edinburgh East 1909–1912 * James Gibson (bishop) (1881–1952), Anglican bishop in Canada * James Gibson (Irish politician), 19th century UK MP for Belfast *James Gibson (judge) (1902–1992), New York judge *James Gibson (Missouri politician) (1849–1918), American lawyer, judge and politician * James Gibson (New York state senator) (1816–1897), New York lawyer and politician * James Alexander Gibson (1912–2003), Canadian academic, federal bureaucrat and private secretary to prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie King * James B. Gibson (born 1949), Nevada ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Breaststroke
Breaststroke is a swimming style in which the swimmer is on their chest and the torso does not rotate. It is the most popular recreational style due to the swimmer's head being out of the water a large portion of the time, and that it can be swum comfortably at slow speeds. In most swimming classes, beginners learn either the breaststroke or the freestyle (front crawl) first. However, at the competitive level, swimming breaststroke at speed requires endurance and strength comparable to other strokes. Some people refer to breaststroke as the "frog" stroke, as the arms and legs move somewhat like a frog swimming in the water. The stroke itself is the slowest of any competitive strokes and is thought to be the oldest of all swimming strokes. Speed and ergonomics Breaststroke is the slowest of the four official styles in competitive swimming. The fastest breaststrokers can swim about 1.70 meters (~5.6 feet) per second. It is sometimes the hardest to teach to rising swimmers aft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Shelton
Michael Shelton is a British sportsman who competed at the Summer Paralympic Games five times between 1960 and 1976 in snooker and other sports. He won six Paralympic medals, four gold, a silver and a bronze. He also won gold at the 1974 Commonwealth Paraplegic Games. Shelton was from Newstead, Nottinghamshire and had been a miner at Newstead Colliery. His back was injured in 1958 by a roof fall, and he was paralysed from the waist down. In 1969 he married Iris Turner, who had been a nursing sister on his ward when he was in hospital. He played for the Lodge Moor Hospital paraplegic snooker team, which in 1974 was refused entry to the Sheffield and District Works Sports Association league, on the basis that they would gain unfair advantage from playing all of their fixtures at their home venue, apparently failing to acknowledge that the team would be unable to play at other venues with stairs or limited space around the tables. The team was subsequently given the chance to par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aroldo Ruschioni
Aroldo Ruschioni (born 1932) was an Italian paralympic multi-sport athlete who won six medals at the Summer Paralympics. See also * Italy at the 1960 Summer Paralympics * Italy at the 1968 Summer Paralympics Italy competed at the 1968 Summer Paralympics in Tel Aviv, Israel. The team finished seventh in the medal table and won a total of 39 medals; 12 gold, 10 silver and 17 bronze. Medalists Team Thirty-eight Italian athletes competed at the ... * Italy at the 1972 Summer Paralympics References External links * Aroldo Ruschioni at Memoria paralimpica 1932 births Living people Paralympic snooker players for Italy Paralympic swimmers for Italy Paralympic table tennis players for Italy Paralympic wheelchair fencers for Italy Paralympic gold medalists for Italy Paralympic silver medalists for Italy Paralympic bronze medalists for Italy Paralympic medalists in snooker Paralympic medalists in swimming Paralympic medalists in table tennis Paralympic meda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Britain At The 1968 Summer Paralympics
Great Britain was one of twenty-eight nations to send athletes to the 1968 Summer Paralympics in Tel Aviv, Israel from November 4 to 13, 1968. The team finished second in the medal table and won sixty-nine medals: twenty-nine gold, twenty silver and twenty bronze. Athletes from the whole United Kingdom, including Northern Ireland, were able to compete for the team. Seventy-five British athletes took part in the Games; fifty-one men and twenty-four women. 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. Each Paralympic sport then has its own classifications, depe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Gibson (snooker Player)
James or Jimmy Gibson may refer to: Science and academia *James J. Gibson (1904–1979), American psychologist * James B. Gibson (astronomer), American astronomer who discovered 2309 Mr. Spock *James Glen Sivewright Gibson (1861–1951), British architect Politics and the law *Sir James Gibson, 1st Baronet (1849–1912), British Member of Parliament for Edinburgh East 1909–1912 * James Gibson (bishop) (1881–1952), Anglican bishop in Canada * James Gibson (Irish politician), 19th century UK MP for Belfast *James Gibson (judge) (1902–1992), New York judge * James Gibson (Missouri politician) (1849–1918), American lawyer, judge and politician * James Gibson (New York state senator) (1816–1897), New York lawyer and politician * James Alexander Gibson (1912–2003), Canadian academic, federal bureaucrat and private secretary to prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie King * James B. Gibson (born 1949), Nevada politician *James K. Gibson (1812–1879), Virginia congressman *Jame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Snooker
Snooker (pronounced , ) is a cue sports, cue sport played on a Billiard table#Snooker and English billiards tables, rectangular table covered with a green cloth called baize, with six Billiard table#Pockets 2, pockets, one at each corner and one in the middle of each long side. First played by British Army officers stationed in India in the second half of the 19th century, the game is played with twenty-two balls, comprising a , fifteen red balls, and six other balls—a yellow, green, brown, blue, pink, and black—collectively called the colours. Using a cue stick, the individual players or teams take turns to strike the white to other balls in a predefined sequence, accumulating points for each successful pot and for each time the opposing player or team commits a . An individual of snooker is won by the player who has scored the most points. A snooker ends when a player reaches a predetermined number of frames. Snooker gained its identity in 1875 when army officer Nevil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
