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made its

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début at the

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. It was represented by an all-male team, with five competitors in athletics, three in swimming, and a

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team. Abdeljalal Biare won a bronze medal in the 400m freestyle (category 4) in swimming - Morocco's sole medal of the 1988 Games. Morocco has participated in every edition of the

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since then, albeit never in the

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. Moroccans have won a total of eleven gold medals (all since 2004), seven silver and eight bronze.

Mustapha El Aouzari Mustapha El Aouzari is a paralympic athlete from Morocco competing mainly in category T11 middle and long-distance events. In the 2004 Summer Paralympics The 2004 Summer Paralympics (), the 12th Summer Paralympic Games, were a major ...

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 Abdellah Ez Zine is a paralympic athlete from Morocco competing mainly in category T52 sprint and middle-distance events. Abdellah competed in the 200m and 400m in the 2004 Summer Paralympics The 2004 Summer Paralympics (), the 12th S ...

won gold in the men's 800m (T52 category). In 2008,

Sanaa Benhama Sanaa Benhama (born 9 June 1982) is a Paralympic athlete from Morocco competing mainly in category T13 sprint events. She has competed at two Summer Paralympics, most notably at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, China where she won three g ...

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.

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won the country's other gold medal of the Games, in the men's 800m (T13). Morocco took part in the

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, with the

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using

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as the UK base for its Paralympians.

Medals

Medals by Summer Games

Medals by Summer sport

List of medalists

Athletes with most medals

The Moroccan athlete who won the most medals in the history of the

is the Paralympian athlete

El Amin Chentouf El Amin Chentouf, (Arabic: الأمين شنتوف) (born 9 June 1981) is a Moroccan para-athlete running in T12 distance races. He has represented his country at three Summer Paralympics winning gold medals at each competition. Outside the Par ...

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