:''Should not be confused with''
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-west ...
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
2000 Summer Paralympics
The 2000 Summer Paralympic Games or the XI Summer Paralympics were held in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, between 18 and 29 October. The Sydney Paralympics was last time that the Summer Paralympics which were organized by two different ...
in
Sydney, but they competed officially as Individual Paralympic Athletes, rather than as representatives of an NPC.
[Individual Paralympic Athletes at the Paralympics](_blank)
International Paralympic Committee
There were two "individual Paralympians" from East Timor:
Alcino Pereira in the men's 5,000m race (T38 category) in
track and field
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; and
Mateus Lukas Mateus may refer to:
* Mateus (wine), a brand of wine produced in Portugal
* Mateus (Vila Real), a civil parish in Portugal
**Mateus Palace, a palace in the above civil parish
* Mateus (name), Portuguese given name and surname
* Jorge & Mateus, mus ...
in
powerlifting
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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
International Paralympic Committee
Results
See also
* East Timor at the Paralympics
East Timor first sent competitors to the Paralympic Games for the 2000 Summer Games in Sydney. The country at that time was not yet recognised as a sovereign state, and its athletes participated as " Individual Paralympic Athletes". There were on ...
* Individual Olympic Athletes at the 2000 Summer Olympics
* Individual Paralympic Athletes at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
The Independent Paralympic Athletes Team, a team consisting of refugee and asylee Paralympic athletes, competed at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 7 September to 18 September 2016. Its creation was announced on 5 August ...
References
Nations at the 2000 Summer Paralympics
2000
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Paralympics
Independent Paralympians at the Paralympic Games
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