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Australia competed at the 1984 Summer Paralympics that were held in two locations - Stoke Mandeville, United Kingdom (wheelchair athletes with spinal cord injuries) and in the Mitchel Athletic Complex and Hofstra University in Long Island, New York, United States of America (wheelchair and ambulatory athletes with cerebral palsy, amputees, and "Les Autres" (the others) conditions as well as blind and visually impaired athletes). Four months before the beginning of the 1984 summer Paralympics, the University of Illinois terminating their contract to hold the Games.〔Brittain,''From Stoke Mandeville to Stratford''〕 Australia won 154 medals - 49 gold, 54 silver and 51 bronze medals. Australia competed in 9 sports and won medals in 6 sports. Australia finished 8th on the gold medal table and 7th on the total medal table.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.paralympic.org/Athletes/Results )〕 Notable Australian performances were: *In Stoke Mandeville (Spinal and Cord Injury athletes) : * *Australia’s female shooters : Libby Kosmala won four gold medal, creating world record on each occasion, and Barbara Caspers matched her effort also winning four gold medals * * Alan Dufty won two of each gold, silver and bronze medals on the track * * Roy Fowler won two gold medals in the singles and doubles lawn bowls * * A host of other athletes won individual gold medals including Allan Chadwick, Julie Dowling, Terry Giddy, Eric Magennis (with Roy Fowler), Michael Nugent, Jan Randles, Wayne Ryding and Peter Trotter.〔“Australian results at the 1976 Paralympics” (http://www.paralympic.org/Results). ‘’International Paralympic Committee Results Database’’. Retrieved 18 July 2013.〕 * In New York: * * The Amputee athletes were the most successful: * * In the pool, coaching provided by Peter Carroll: Helena Brunner won 5 gold medals, Gary Gudgeon won 4, Greg Hammond won 3 and Rosemary Eames won 2. * * In the track, Brett Holcombe won 3 gold medals * Blind and Vision Impaired athletes also benefited from a national organisation to organize competitions and raise funds. * * They performed well in track and field with Mark Davies winning two gold medals, Margaret Murphy winning a silver and bronze, and both Warren Lawton and Prue-Anne Reynalds securing bronze medals. * * Blind and Vision Impaired swimmers excelled. Medallist included Mary-Anne Wallace (gold, silver and two bronze), Kingsley Bugarin (3 silver and a bronze), Craig Blackburn (3 silver), Therese Donovan (3 silver and a bronze), and Mary-Anne Wallace (silver and two bronze medals). * For the first time 4 Cerebral Palsy athletes and a “Les Autres” athlete attended the Paralympics : * * Robert Walden won four gold medals in the pool * * Terry Biggs won a gold medal in table tennis * * Lyn Coleman won a silver medal on the track * * The first Australia’s “Les Autres” athlete, Malcolm Chalmers won a gold, silver and two bronze medals in swimming.〔 == Preparation == The 1984 Summer Paralympics has become known as "The last minute games". These Games were originally intended to be hosted by the University of Illinois but financial problems caused the university to pull out of hosting them three months before they were set to begin, "...without doubt resulting in a setback to the disability sports movement". On short notice, Long Island and Stoke Mandeville took up the task of hosting the Games.〔 The NWAA felt that by hosting separate games, there would be more freedom for each disability group and more services could be provided to athletes. With 1500 athletes and officials arriving from 41 different countries it was the 35 years experience of hosting national and international games that allowed the games to be put together so quickly and efficiently. The sports stadium had been built in 1969 and ten years later the Olympic village had also been built to ensure disabled athletes always had Olympic facilities when others were closed.〔 However, a number of small problems arose throughout the initial planning phases for the games. The seating plan needed to allow the 300-seat stadium to sit 40 different countries. Organisers claimed that there were a number of minor diplomatic problems such as the Egyptian representative Admiral Latif and organisers not knowing how many of his wives and extended family were expected to come.〔 Furthermore, the flag the USA had provided was considerably larger than all the other nations' flags and organisers had to purchase larger flags for all other countries so the size difference wouldn’t show.〔 With such a large number of people arriving, 43 nations worth of athletes and officials were never going to fit into the existing Olympic village. Alternate arrangements had to made with the Japanese team sleeping in Mandeville School, the Israeli team sleeping at a local agriculture college, the American team sleeping at RAF Halton camp and hospital beds and Thame and High Wacombe also used as accommodation.〔 Smaller national teams stayed in the homes of locals with trainers and coaches camping in the backyard.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Australia at the 1984 Summer Paralympics」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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