Football 7-a-side has been contested at every
Summer Paralympics between 1984 and 2016. At the
1984 Summer Paralympics
The 1984 International Games for the Disabled, canonically the 1984 Summer Paralympics were the seventh Paralympic Games to be held. There were two separate competitions: one in Stoke Mandeville, England, United Kingdom for wheelchair athletes ...
, two events were held—one for men with wheelchairs and one for men standing. Every Summer Paralympics since then has consisted of only a standing men's team event; women have never competed.
Football 7-a-side was dropped from the
2020 Summer Paralympics; the IPC rejected a bid for it to be reinstated at the
2024 Summer Paralympics, citing insufficient development in the sport among women.
Men's wheelchair medalists
Men's PC medalists
Medal table
Participating nations
- : denotes nation that did not take part in that year.
X : denotes nation that did not advance into the final rounds.
See also
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Football 5-a-side at the Summer Paralympics
Football 5-a-side has been contested at the Summer Paralympics since 2004. The competition has consisted of a single event, men's team; women have never competed. Football 5-a-side is an adaptation of football for athletes with visual impairments ...
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Football at the Summer Olympics
References
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Football 7
Football 7
Football at the Summer Paralympics