| Colombia at the Paralympic Games | |
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| IPC code | COL |
| NPC | Colombian Paralympic Committee |
| Website | www |
| Medals Ranked 59th |
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| Summer appearances | |
Colombia made itsParalympic Games début at the1976 Summer Paralympics inToronto, with competitors taking part intrack and field, table tennis andwheelchair basketball. The country has participated in every subsequent edition of theSummer Paralympic Games, except1984, but has never entered theWinter Paralympic Games.[1][2]
Colombians have won a total of seventy five medals: thirteen gold, twenty two silver and forty bronze, inswimming,athletics,cycling,powerlifting andboccia.[3]
Pedro Mejía won the country's first medals when he took a gold and a bronze in swimming in1980. 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 the2008 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 athleteQi 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.[4]
The2020 Summer Paralympics represented the best performance by the Colombian committee, with a total amount of 24 medals won.
| 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 | 17 | 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 | 39 | 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 | 74 | 7 | 7 | 14 | 28 | 19 |
| Total | 13 | 22 | 40 | 75 | 59 | |
| 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 | − | |
| Sport | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Athletics | 8 | 7 | 21 | 36 |
 Swimming | 4 | 14 | 9 | 27 |
 Boccia | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
 Cycling | 0 | 0 | 7 | 7 |
 Powerlifting | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Totals (5 entries) | 13 | 22 | 40 | 75 |
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