Spain was one of twenty-eight nations that competed at the
1968 Summer Paralympics
The 1968 Summer Paralympics ( he, המשחקים הפאראלימפיים בקיץ 1968) were the third Paralympic Games to be held. Organised under the guidance of the International Stoke Mandeville Games Federation (ISMGF), they were known as th ...
in
Tel Aviv
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,
Israel
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from November 4 to 13, 1968.
The team finished twenty-first in the
medal table
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Olympics and Paralympics. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) does not officially recognize a ranking of participating countries at the Olympic ...
and won four medals: three silver and one bronze, all in swimming events.
The Spanish team contained eleven athletes; nine men and two women.
Archery
Three Spanish men competed in archery, none won a medal in the sport.
The best result was achieved by Bellon in the St. Nicholas round event for paraplegics.
Athletics
Spain entered four men into athletics events; no medals were won.
[ The best placed Spanish athlete was Llorens in the men's precision javelin; he finished the qualification round in eleventh position but did not advance to the final round.
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Dartchery
The only dartchery event at the Games was the mixed pairs event which took a knockout format. The Spanish pair of Llorens and Lorente defeated a team from Ireland
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in the first round but was eliminated by British pair Robertson and Todd in the second round.
Swimming
Four Spanish swimmers competed at the Games, two men and two women. All of Spain's medals were won in swimming events.[ Riu won silver medals in both the women's 50 m freestyle class 3 complete and 50 m ]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 s ...
class 3 complete, finishing behind Forder of Great Britain
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in both events.[
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Table tennis
Two athletes played 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 ...
for Spain at the Games. Bellon entered the men's singles B event for Spain and also teamed up with Llorens in the men's doubles C event but failed to advance beyond the second round in either.[
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See also
* Spain at the 1968 Summer Olympics
Notes
References
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Nations at the 1968 Summer Paralympics
1968
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Paralympics
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