Morocco made its Paralympic Games début at the 1988 Summer Paralympics in Seoul. It was represented by an all-male team, with five competitors in athletics, three in swimming, and a wheelchair basketball team. Abdeljalal Biare won a bronze medal in the 400m freestyle (category 4) in swimming - Morocco's sole medal of the 1988 Games.[1][2]
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| NPC | Royal Moroccan Federation of Sports for Disabled |
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Morocco has participated in every edition of the Summer Paralympics since then, albeit never in the Winter Paralympics. Moroccans have won a total of eleven gold medals (all since 2004), seven silver and eight bronze. Mustapha El Aouzari won gold in the men's 1,500m in athletics in 2004, in the T11 category for totally blind runners. The same year, Abdellah Ez Zine won gold in the men's 800m (T52 category). In 2008, Sanaa Benhama was Morocco's first female Paralympic champion, and the country's most successful Paralympian to date, when she won three gold medals in the 100m, 200m and 400m sprints, in the T13 category for partially sighted athletes. Abdelillah Mame won the country's other gold medal of the Games, in the men's 800m (T13).[3]
Morocco took part in the 2012 Summer Paralympics, with the Royal Moroccan Federation of Sports for Disabled using Bedford as the UK base for its Paralympians.[4]
Medals
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Medals by Summer Gamesedit
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List of medalists
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Athletes with most medals
editThe Moroccan athlete who won the most medals in the history of the Paralympic Games is the Paralympian athlete El Amin Chentouf.
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| El Amin Chentouf | Athletics | 2012–2024 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Sanaa Benhama | Athletics | 2008 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Azeddine Nouiri | Athletics | 2012–2024 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| Mohamed Amguoun | Athletics | 2012–2020 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Najat El Garaa | Athletics | 2008–2012 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| Mustapha El Aouzari | Athletics | 2004 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Abdelillah Mame | Athletics | 2008–2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Laila El Garaa | Athletics | 2004–2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Mahdi Afri | Athletics | 2016 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Abdellah Ez Zine | Athletics | 2004 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Abdelghani Gtaib | Athletics | 2004 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Youssef Benibrahim | Athletics | 2008 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Mohamed Dif | Athletics | 2004 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Abdeljalal Biare | Swimming | 1988 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Mohamed Lahna | Triathlon | 2016 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
See also
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edit- ^ Morocco at the Paralympics, International Paralympic Committee
- ^ "Para Athletics (Formerly IPC Athletics) News & Events". Tokyo 2020 Paralympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 2021-08-27. Retrieved 2021-08-27.
- ^ Morocco at the Paralympics, International Paralympic Committee
- ^ "On Your Marks! Bedford Borough to host teams from around the world ahead of London 2012". Archived from the original on 2012-07-14. Retrieved 2012-08-06.