Madagascar Madagascar (; mg, Madagasikara, ), officially the Republic of Madagascar ( mg, Repoblikan'i Madagasikara, links=no, ; french: République de Madagascar), is an island country in the Indian Ocean, approximately off the coast of East Africa ...

made its Paralympic Games début at the

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in Sydney. They were represented by vision impaired runner Aina Onja, who finished third in his men's T11 100m heat and failed to qualify for the next round.

Team

Madagascar competed in its first Paralympic Games in Sydney. It sent a single athlete, blind runner Aina Onja, to compete in

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.Madagascar at the 2000 Summer Paralympics
International Paralympic Committee The country then missed the 2004 Games in Athens.

Results

Agboessi ran in the first heat of his event, against Julio Requena of Spain and Edouard Agboessi of Benin, with Cuba's Jorge Jay Masso being a non-starter. Onja's time of 13.98 was the slowest of all the heats, ending his participation in the Games.

References

External links

International Paralympic Committee
Nations at the 2000 Summer Paralympics

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Team

Results

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