The

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made its Paralympic Games debut at the

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and has been fielding athletes up to the

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. Its athletes has won two bronze medals;

Adeline Dumapong Adeline Dumapong-Ancheta (born December 13, 1973) is a Filipina Paralympic powerlifter. She became the first Filipina to win a Paralympic medal ever when she won bronze at the 2000 Summer Paralympics. Early life and education Adeline Dumapong w ...

in powerlifting (2000), and

Josephine Medina Josephine Rebeta Medina (March 20, 1970 – September 2, 2021) was a Filipino table tennis player. Medina represented the Philippines at the 2012 and 2016 Summer Paralympics. Early career Medina was influenced to take up table tennis as a sport ...

in table tennis (2016). The country has never won a Paralympic gold medal. The Philippines, being a tropical nation, has never competed in the Winter Paralympics.

History

The

made their Paralympic Games debut at the

, with three men competing in athletics and one in swimming. It returned for the 2000 Games in Sydney, with a male athlete in the javelin event and a female

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. Dumapong won her country's first Paralympic medal when she took the bronze medal in the Up to 82.5 kg event, lifting 110 kg. In the 2004 Athens edition, the Philippines were represented by two powerlifters. In the

2008 Beijing Paralympics The 2008 Summer Paralympic Games (), the 13th Summer Paralympic Games, took place in Beijing, China from September 6 to 17, 2008. As with the 2008 Summer Olympics, equestrian events were held in Hong Kong and sailing events in Qingdao. It was f ...

, Dumapong was due to compete, but was a non-starter in her event. The country's other representatives were in Paralympic Sailing, in the Mixed Two Person SKUD18 keelboat event who likewise finished last. The much better funded Philippine Olympic athletes had likewise failed to win any medals in the 2008 Summer Olympics. The 2012 London Paralympic Games saw 9 Filipino athletes competing in four sports. The Philippine Paralympic team was the biggest Philippine delegation since the 1988 Paralympics in South Korea. Just like the Filipino athletes who competed in the 2012 Summer Olympics, no medals were won by the 9 para athletes. However,

's table tennis game ranked 4th overall in Paralympic Table Tennis standings and was the best finish for the Philippines. In the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Paralympic Games, the Philippines snared its second Paralympic medal, ending the country's 16-year medal drought. Medina bagged bronze medal at the women's single

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after defeating

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. Starting in 2017, Paralympic athletes winning medals at the Paralympic games will be entitled to government incentives through the Philippines Sports Commission per R.A. 10699.

Sports competed

* Athletics (1988, 2000, 2012–2020) * Powerlifting (2000, 2004–2016) * Sailing (2008) * Swimming (1988, 2012–2020) * Table Tennis (2012–2016) * Taekwondo (2020)

History

Sports competed

Medal table

Medals by Summer Games

List of medalists

See also

Notes

References