France at the 1968 Summer Paralympics
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France competed at the 1968 Summer Paralympics
in Tel Aviv
, Israel
from November 4 to 13, 1968. The team finished fifth in the medal table and won a total of thirty-two medals; thirteen gold, ten silver and nine bronze. The French team contained fifty-five athletes; forty-one men and fourteen women.
with a new world record score of 730 points.
1968 Summer Paralympics
The 1968 Summer Paralympics were the third Paralympic Games to be held. Organised under the guidance of the International Stoke Mandeville Games Federation , they were known as the 17th International Stoke Mandeville Games at the time...
in Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv , officially Tel Aviv-Yafo , is the second most populous city in Israel, with a population of 404,400 on a land area of . The city is located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline in west-central Israel. It is the largest and most populous city in the metropolitan area of Gush Dan, with...
, Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
from November 4 to 13, 1968. The team finished fifth in the medal table and won a total of thirty-two medals; thirteen gold, ten silver and nine bronze. The French team contained fifty-five athletes; forty-one men and fourteen women.
Archery
Twelve French archers, ten men and two women, competed at the Games winning seven medals; two gold, one silver and four bronze. In the men's St. Nicholas round event for paraplegics France won two medals; Nadal won silver and Guesnon bronze, the gold medal was won by Arballo of United StatesUnited States at the 1968 Summer Paralympics
The United States competed at the 1968 Summer Paralympics in Tel Aviv, Israel from November 4 to 13, 1968. The team finished first out of the twenty-eight competing nations in the medal table and won ninety-nine medals: thirty-three gold, twenty-seven silver and thirty-nine bronze...
with a new world record score of 730 points.