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Independent Paralympic Participants Independent Paralympic participants were athletes from the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia at the 1992 Summer Paralympics in Barcelona. Athletes from the parts of Yugoslavia still terming themselves "Yugoslavia" had competed as "independent Olympi ...

, ''the name given to Yugoslavian athletes at the 1992 Summer Paralympics'' In 2000,

East Timor East Timor (), also known as Timor-Leste (), officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, is an island country in Southeast Asia. It comprises the eastern half of the island of Timor, the exclave of Oecusse on the island's north-weste ...

was administered by the United Nations, and did not have a recognised

National Paralympic Committee A National Paralympic Committee (NPC) is a national constituent of the worldwide Paralympic movement. Subject to the controls of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC), NPCs are responsible for organizing their people's participation in the ...

. Two East Timor athletes to take part in the

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, but they competed officially as Individual Paralympic Athletes, rather than as representatives of an NPC.Individual Paralympic Athletes at the Paralympics

International Paralympic Committee The International Paralympic Committee (IPC; german: Internationales Paralympisches Komitee) is an international non-profit organisation and the global governing body for the Paralympic Movement. The IPC organizes the Paralympic Games and fun ...

There were two "individual Paralympians" from East Timor: Alcino Pereira in the men's 5,000m race (T38 category) in

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; and

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, in the men's up to 48 kg category. Pereira failed to complete his race, while Lukas lifted 105 kg, finishing 13th and last of the athletes who successfully lifted a weight in his category. Following East Timor's recognition, the country made its official Paralympic début in 2008.East Timor at the Paralympics
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Nations at the 2000 Summer Paralympics

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Independent Paralympians at the Paralympic Games {{2000-Paralympics-stub

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