Algeria made its

Paralympic Games 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 impaire ...

début at the

1992 Summer Paralympics )( es, Deporte Sin Límites) , nations = 82 (BCN)75 (MAD) , athletes = 3,020 (BCN)1,600 (MAD) , opened_by = Queen Sofía , opening = 3 September (BCN)15 September (MAD) , closing = 14 September (BCN)22 September (MAD) , even ...

in Barcelona, sending two competitors in athletics, and a goalball team. The country has taken part in every edition of the

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since then, but has never participated in the

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. Algerians have won a total of 38 medals at the Paralympic Games, of which 15 gold, 7 silver and 16 bronze. Mohamed Allek won Algeria's first two gold medals at the 1996 Games, in the men's 100m and 200m sprints, T36 category. He won three more gold medals, also in sprinting, in

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. In

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, his only medal was a bronze, while five other Algerian athletes won a total of seven gold medals:

Karim Betina Karim Betina is a Paralympian athlete from Algeria competing mainly in category F32 shot put and club throw events. Karim is a two time Paralympic champion in the F32 shot put, winning the gold medal in both Athens, Greece in 2004 ...

in the men's shot put (F32); Sofia Djelal in the women's discus and javelin (F56-58); Nadia Medjemedj in the women's shot put (F56-58); Samir Nouioua in the men's 1,500m and 5,000m in athletics (T46); and

Messaoud Nine Messaoud Bellemou ( ar, مسعود بلمو) is an Algerian musician and one of the most influential performers of modern raï music. He is considered by some people like one of the fathers of Modern Raï Music. Messaoud began his career playing ...

in judo (men's up to 90 kg). In

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, Karim Betina again took a gold in the shot put, as did

Kamel Kardjena Kamel Kardjena (born May 26, 1981) is a Paralympic athlete from Algeria. He has cerebral palsy and competes in seated throwing events in the F33 classification. He competed in the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, China, where he ...

, while

Sid Ali Lamri Sid Ali Lamri ( ar, سيد علي العمري; born February 3, 1991 in Sétif) is an Algerian football player who plays for Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1 club USM Khenchela. He plays primarily as a central midfielder. Club career Born in Sé ...

and Messaoud Nine took a gold medal each in judo.

Medals

Medals by Summer Games

Medals by Winter Games

Medals by Summer Sport

Medals by Winter Sport

By detail

* ''There is one man competitor who participate in Athletics and Goalball, so number of men competitors is 26 not 27.

Athletes with most medals

The Algerian athlete who won the most medals in the history of the

, is the Paralympian athlete Samir Nouioua. Notes: in Khaki the athletes still in activity.

List of medalists

World and Paralympic records set at the Summer Paralympics

Athletics

References

External links

Algerian National Paralympic Committee
- ''Official website of the Paralympic Movement''

- ''Algerian Olympic Committee official website'' {{National sports teams of Algeria