Colombia at the Paralympics
IPC code	COL
NPC	Colombian Paralympic Committee
Website	www.comiteparalimpicocolombiano.org
Medals	Gold 6 Silver 15 Bronze 26 Total 47
Summer appearances
1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016 2020 2024

Colombia made its Paralympic Games début at the 1976 Summer Paralympics in Toronto, with competitors taking part in track and field, table tennis and wheelchair basketball. The country has participated in every subsequent edition of the Summer Paralympics, except 1984, but has never entered the Winter Paralympics.^[1][2]

Colombians have won a total of forty seven medals at the Paralympic Games: six gold, fifteen silver and twenty six bronze. Pedro Mejía won the country's first medals when he took a gold and a bronze in swimming in 1980. His winning time of 1:27.88 in the final of the 100m breaststroke, D category, set a new world record. Colombia had to wait 28 years for its next two medals, which both came in the 2008 Games. Elkin Serna ran the men's marathon in 2:31:16 in the T12 category for athletes with severe visual disability, finishing less than a minute behind Chinese athlete Qi Shun's world record time of 2:30:32, and took silver. Moisés Fuentes won bronze in the men's 100m breaststroke in the SB4 category.^[3] 2020 Summer Paralympics represented the best performance by the Colombian committee in the history of the Summer Paralympics, with a total amount of 24 medals won.

Medals

Medals by Summer Games[edit] Games Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Total Rank 1960 Rome Did Not Participate 1964 Tokyo 1968 Tel Aviv 1972 Heidelberg 1976 Toronto 11 0 0 0 0 – 1980 Arnhem 11 1 0 1 2 31 1984 Stoke Mandeville/New York Did Not Participate 1988 Seoul 16 0 0 0 0 – 1992 Barcelona 6 0 0 0 0 – 1996 Atlanta 2 0 0 0 0 – 2000 Sydney 3 0 0 0 0 – 2004 Athens 5 0 0 0 0 – 2008 Beijing 12 0 1 1 2 60 2012 London 37 0 2 0 2 61 2016 Rio de Janeiro 39 2 5 10 17 37 2020 Tokyo 61 3 7 14 24 37 2024 Paris Future Event Total 6 15 26 47 60 Medals by Winter Games[edit] Games Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Total Rank Örnsköldsvik 1976 Did Not Participate Geilo 1980 Innsbruck 1984 Innsbruck 1988 Albertville 1992 Lillehammer 1994 Nagano 1998 Salt Lake City 2002 Turin 2006 Vancouver 2010 Sochi 2014 Pyeongchang 2018 Beijing 2022 Total 0 0 0 0 − Medals by Summer Sport[edit] Sport Gold Silver Bronze Total Swimming 4 9 8 21 Athletics 2 6 12 20 Cycling 0 0 5 5 Powerlifting 0 0 1 1 Totals (4 entries) 6 15 26 47 List of Medalists[edit] Medal Name Games Sport Event  Gold Pedro Mejía 1980 Arnhem Swimming Men's 100 m Breaststroke D  Bronze Pedro Mejía 1980 Arnhem Swimming Men's 100 m Backstroke C-D  Silver Elkin Serna 2008 Beijing Athletics Men's Marathon T12  Bronze Moisés Fuentes García 2008 Beijing Swimming Men's 100 m Breaststroke SB4  Silver Elkin Serna 2012 London Athletics Men's Marathon T12  Silver Moisés Fuentes García 2012 London Swimming Men's 100 m Breaststroke SB4  Gold Carlos Serrano Zárate 2016 Rio de Janeiro Swimming Men's 100 m Breaststroke SB7  Gold Mauricio Valencia 2016 Rio de Janeiro Athletics Men's Javelin throw F34  Silver Carlos Serrano Zárate 2016 Rio de Janeiro Swimming Men's 100 m Freestyle S7  Silver Nelson Crispin 2016 Rio de Janeiro Swimming Men's 50 m Freestyle S6  Silver Luis Lucumí Villegas 2016 Rio de Janeiro Athletics Men's Javelin throw F38  Silver Nelson Crispin 2016 Rio de Janeiro Swimming Men's 100 m Freestyle S6  Silver Nelson Crispin 2016 Rio de Janeiro Swimming Men's 100 m Breaststroke SB6  Bronze Martha Liliana Hernandez 2016 Rio de Janeiro Athletics Women's 100 m T36  Bronze Women's Relay Team Marcela González Sonia Luna Rodríguez Yesenia Restrepo Muñoz Maritza Arango Buitrago 2016 Rio de Janeiro Athletics Women's 4 × 100 m T11-T13  Bronze Carlos Serrano Zárate 2016 Rio de Janeiro Swimming Men's 50 m Freestyle S7  Bronze Néstor Javier Ayala 2016 Rio de Janeiro Cycling Men's Road race T1–2  Bronze Mauricio Valencia 2016 Rio de Janeiro Athletics Men's Shot put F34  Bronze Diego Germán Dueñas 2016 Rio de Janeiro Cycling Men's Individual pursuit C4  Bronze Weiner Díaz Mosquera 2016 Rio de Janeiro Athletics Men's 400 m T38  Bronze Moisés Fuentes García 2016 Rio de Janeiro Swimming Men's 100 m Breaststroke SB4  Bronze Edwin Matiz Ruíz 2016 Rio de Janeiro Cycling Men's Individual pursuit C5  Bronze Maritza Arango Buitrago 2016 Rio de Janeiro Athletics Women's 1500 m T11  Gold Nelson Crispin 2020 Tokyo Swimming Men's 200 m individual medley SM6  Gold José Gregorio Lemos Rivas 2020 Tokyo Athletics Men's javelin throw F38  Silver Mayerli Buitrago Ariza 2020 Tokyo Athletics Women's shot put F41  Silver Nelson Crispin 2020 Tokyo Swimming Men's 100 metre breaststroke SB6  Silver Darian Faisury Jimenez Sanchez 2020 Tokyo Athletics Women's 100 metres  Silver Moises Fuentes Garcia 2020 Tokyo Swimming Men's 100 metre breaststroke SB4  Silver Carlos Serrano Zárate 2020 Tokyo Swimming Men's 50 metre freestyle S7  Bronze Luis Fernando Lucumí Villegas 2020 Tokyo Athletics Men's javelin throw F38  Bronze Diego Germán Dueñas 2020 Tokyo Cycling Men's individual pursuit C4  Bronze Carlos Serrano Zarate 2020 Tokyo Swimming Men's 200 metre individual medley SM7  Bronze Angie Lizeth Pabon Mamian 2020 Tokyo Athletics Women's 400 metres T11  Bronze Fabio Torres 2020 Tokyo Powerlifting Men's 97 kg  Bronze Jean Carlos Mina Aponza 2020 Tokyo Athletics Men's 100 metres T13  Bronze Nelson Crispin Corzo 2020 Tokyo Swimming Men's 50 metre butterfly S12  Bronze Yesenia Maria Restrepo Muñoz 2020 Tokyo Athletics Women's discus throw F11 See also[edit] Colombia at the Olympics Colombia at the Youth Olympics Colombia at the Pan American Games References[edit] ^ Colombia at the Paralympics, International Paralympic Committee ^ "IPC Historical Results Archive". ^ Colombia at the Paralympics, International Paralympic Committee External links[edit] Media related to Colombia at the Paralympic Games at Wikimedia Commons