Cape Verde Cape Verde or Cabo Verde, officially the Republic of Cabo Verde, is an island country and archipelagic state of West Africa in the central Atlantic Ocean, consisting of ten volcanic islands with a combined land area of about . These islands ...

made its

Paralympic Games The Paralympic Games or Paralympics is a periodic series of international multisport events involving athletes with a range of disability, disabilities. There are Winter Paralympic Games, Winter and Summer Paralympic Games, which since the 1988 ...

début at the

2004 Summer Paralympics The 2004 Summer Paralympics (), the 12th Summer Paralympic Games, were a major international multi-sport event for athletes with disabilities governed by the International Paralympic Committee, held in Athens, Greece, from 17 to 28 September ...

Athens Athens ( ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Greece, largest city of Greece. A significant coastal urban area in the Mediterranean, Athens is also the capital of the Attica (region), Attica region and is the southe ...

, with two competitors in track and field, and one in powerlifting. The country sent a single athlete ( Artimiza Sequeira) to the 2008 Games, to compete in the women's shot put, discus and javelin. In Rio de Janeiro 2016, sprinter

Gracelino Barbosa Gracelino Tavares Barbosa (born 1 February 1985) is a Cape Verdean Paralympic athlete who competes in the T20 category. Barbosa represented his home country at the 2016 Summer Paralympics, where he won the bronze medal in the 400 meters race, s ...

won Cape Verde's first Paralympic medal, a bronze in the Men's 400m T20. Cape Verde has never taken part in the

Winter Paralympics The Winter Paralympic Games is an international multi-sport event where athletes with physical disabilities compete in snow and ice sports. The event includes athletes with mobility impairments, amputations, blindness, and cerebral palsy. The ...

Medal tables

Medals by Summer Games

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