Peru at the
Paralympics
IPC codePER
NPCNational Paralympic Committee Peru
Medals
Gold
4
Silver
1
Bronze
4
Total
9
Summer appearances

Peru made its Paralympic Games début at the 1972 Summer Paralympics in Heidelberg, with a single representative to compete in swimming. It sent two competitors to the 1976 Summer Paralympics, then was absent for two decades, before returning in 1996 with a three-man delegation. It has participated in every subsequent edition of the Summer Paralympics, but has never taken part in the Winter Paralympics.[1]

Peruvians have won a total of eight Paralympic medals: three gold, one silver and four bronze. The country's first medals came in 1976, when Teresa Chiappo won gold in the women's singles (category D) in table tennis, and bronze in the women's javelin (category D). J. Gonzales took bronze in the men's 100m backstroke, category 5.

Also in swimming, Jaime Eulert won Peru's only medal of the 1996 Games: a gold in the men's 50m freestyle S3, with a world record time of 51.95s. He won another gold in the same event in 2000, breaking his own world record and setting a new one in 49.03s; to that, he added a silver medal in the 50m backstroke. He medalled again in both those events in 2004, taking two bronze. In 2008, Eulert was a non-starter in the backstroke, and was disqualified in the freestyle. No other member of Peru's three-man delegation that year won a medal, and the country thus finished the Games without a medal for the first time since 1972.[2]

Medal tally

Event Gold Silver Bronze Total Ranking
1972 Summer Paralympics0000-
1976 Summer Paralympics102329
1980 - 1992did not compete
1996 Summer Paralympics100150
2000 Summer Paralympics110247
2004 Summer Paralympics002271
2008 Summer Paralympics0000-
2012 Summer Paralympics0000-
2016 Summer Paralympics0000-
2020 Summer Paralympics100159
Total414978

Medalists

Medal Name Games Sport Event
 GoldTeresa ChiappoCanada 1976 TorontoTable tennisWomen's singles D
 BronzeTeresa ChiappoCanada 1976 TorontoAthleticsWomen's javelin throw D
 BronzeJosé GonzálezCanada 1976 TorontoSwimmingMen's 100m backstroke 5
 GoldJaime EulertUnited States 1996 AtlantaSwimmingMen's 50m freestyle S3
 GoldJaime EulertAustralia 2000 SydneySwimmingMen's 50m freestyle S3
 SilverJaime EulertAustralia 2000 SydneySwimmingMen's 50m backstroke S3
 BronzeJaime EulertGreece 2004 AthensSwimmingMen's 50m freestyle S3
 BronzeJaime EulertGreece 2004 AthensSwimmingMen's 50m backstroke S3
 GoldLeonor EspinozaJapan 2020 TokyoTaekwondoWomen's 49 kg

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References

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