Achievements of athletes with special needs
Algeria, as well as the whole world, celebrate December 3 each year which coincides with the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. A day that was proclaimed by the United Nations with the aim of raising awareness of issues related to this sensitive category of people.
In our country, this category benefits from great attention from the State, which ensures that it has the material and financial means to properly integrate it on a socio-professional level and thus enable it to truly and effectively contribute to the evolution of national development.
Achievements of athletes with specific needs (Disabled sports):
The credit for the appearance of disabled sports goes to the British doctor and professor “Ludwig Gutmann,” who organized the first sports tournament for disabled people on July 22, 1948.
The category of people with specific needs emerged in several areas which it integrated silently and with great merit, however the sports area was one of the most important of these areas.
Our national team of people with special needs was, each time it participated in a tournament, the ambassador who represented our country tremendously, through its participation in sports competitions, particularly international competitions where it managed to collect 81 medals including: 24 gold, 31 silver, and 26 bronze medals, distributed in chronological order as follows:
- Atlanta 1996: our disabled sports team won 2 gold medals, 1 silver and 4 bronze;
- Sidney 2000: 2 gold medals, 2 silver and 1 bronze medal;
- Athens 2004: 6 gold medals and 6 bronze medals were won;
- Beijing 2008: 3 gold medals, 6 silver and 6 bronze medals;
- London 2012: 3 gold medals, 8 silver and 7 bronze medals;
- Rio De Janeiro 2016: 4 gold medals, 10 silver and 2 bronze medals;
- Tokyo 2020: 4 gold medals and 4 silver medals.
In our country, this category benefits from great attention from the State, which ensures that it has the material and financial means to properly integrate it on a socio-professional level and thus enable it to truly and effectively contribute to the evolution of national development.
Achievements of athletes with specific needs (Disabled sports):
The credit for the appearance of disabled sports goes to the British doctor and professor “Ludwig Gutmann,” who organized the first sports tournament for disabled people on July 22, 1948.
The category of people with specific needs emerged in several areas which it integrated silently and with great merit, however the sports area was one of the most important of these areas.
Our national team of people with special needs was, each time it participated in a tournament, the ambassador who represented our country tremendously, through its participation in sports competitions, particularly international competitions where it managed to collect 81 medals including: 24 gold, 31 silver, and 26 bronze medals, distributed in chronological order as follows:
- Atlanta 1996: our disabled sports team won 2 gold medals, 1 silver and 4 bronze;
- Sidney 2000: 2 gold medals, 2 silver and 1 bronze medal;
- Athens 2004: 6 gold medals and 6 bronze medals were won;
- Beijing 2008: 3 gold medals, 6 silver and 6 bronze medals;
- London 2012: 3 gold medals, 8 silver and 7 bronze medals;
- Rio De Janeiro 2016: 4 gold medals, 10 silver and 2 bronze medals;
- Tokyo 2020: 4 gold medals and 4 silver medals.