Timor-Leste Timor-Leste, also known as East Timor, officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, is a country in Southeast Asia. It comprises the eastern half of the island of Timor, the coastal exclave of Oecusse in the island's northwest, and ...

first sent competitors to the

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for the 2000 Summer Games in

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. The country at that time administered by the United Nations, and its athletes participated as " Individual Paralympic Athletes". There were only two: Alcino Pereira in track & field, in the men's 5,000m race (T38 category); and Mateus Lukas in men's

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, in the up to 48 kg category. Pereira failed to complete his race, while Lukas lifted 105 kg, finishing 13th and last of the athletes who successfully lifted a weight in his category. Formally recognised in 2002, Timor-Leste participated in the

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, but not in the Paralympics that same year. Timor-Leste, as such, made its Paralympic Games début at the

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, with a single representative ( Lily Costa Silva) in

. Competing in the women's up to 52 kg category, Costa Silva failed to successfully lift a weight, and did not record a mark. Timor-Leste has never taken part in the

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