Croatia
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competed at the
2008 Summer Paralympics
The 2008 Summer Paralympic Games (), the 13th Summer Paralympic Games, took place in Beijing, China from September 6 to 17, 2008. As with the 2008 Summer Olympics, equestrian events were held in Hong Kong and sailing events in Qingdao. It was ...
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Beijing ( ; ; ), alternatively romanized as Peking ( ), is the capital of the People's Republic of China. It is the center of power and development of the country. Beijing is the world's most populous national capital city, with over 21 ...
. The country's delegation consisted of 25 competitors.
Croatian competitors took part in
table tennis
Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ...
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"9 Nations preparing for the Paralympics in Lasko"
official website of the International Paralympic Table Tennis Federation athletics
Athletics may refer to:
Sports
* Sport of athletics, a collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking
** Track and field, a sub-category of the above sport
* Athletics (physical culture), competiti ...
, equestrian
The word equestrian is a reference to equestrianism, or horseback riding, derived from Latin ' and ', "horse".
Horseback riding (or Riding in British English)
Examples of this are:
* Equestrian sports
*Equestrian order, one of the upper classes i ...
, and swimming
Swimming is the self-propulsion of a person through water, or other liquid, usually for recreation, sport, exercise, or survival. Locomotion is achieved through coordinated movement of the limbs and the body to achieve hydrodynamic thrust that r ...
.
Medalists
Athletics
;Men
;Track events
;Field events
;Women
;Field events
Cycling
;Men
Equestrian
;Mixed
Shooting
;Men, mixed
Swimming
;Men
;Women
Table tennis
;Men's singles preliminaries (class 6)
;Men's singles preliminaries (class 4–5)
See also
*2008 Summer Paralympics
The 2008 Summer Paralympic Games (), the 13th Summer Paralympic Games, took place in Beijing, China from September 6 to 17, 2008. As with the 2008 Summer Olympics, equestrian events were held in Hong Kong and sailing events in Qingdao. It was ...
*Croatia at the Paralympics
Croatia, following its independence, made its Paralympic Games début at the 1992 Summer Paralympics in Barcelona, sending three competitors in swimming, two in shooting and one in track and field. The latter, Milka Milinković, won Croatia's firs ...
*Croatia at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Croatia competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, People's Republic of China.
Medalists
Athletics
;Men
;Track & road events
;Field events
;Women
;Track & road events
* Vanja Perišić of Croatia was later disqualified for faili ...
References
External links
Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games Official Site
International Paralympic Committee
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Nations at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
2008
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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 ...