Zambia

Zambia

Zambia , officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. The neighbouring countries are the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Tanzania to the north-east, Malawi to the east, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia to the south, and Angola to the west....

made its Paralympic Games

Paralympic Games

The Paralympic Games are a major international multi-sport event where athletes with a physical disability compete; this includes athletes with mobility disabilities, amputations, blindness, and Cerebral Palsy. There are Winter and Summer Paralympic Games, which are held immediately following their...

 début at the 1996 Summer Paralympics

1996 Summer Paralympics

The 1996 Paralympic Games in Atlanta, USA were held from 16 August to 25 August. It was the first Paralympics to get mass media sponsorship, and had a budget of USD $81 million....

in Atlanta, United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

. The country's delegation consisted in a single competitor, wheelchair athlete Lango Sinkamba

Lango Sinkamba

Lango Sinkamba, born in 1968 or 1969, is a Zambian former athlete who specialised in the wheelchair marathon. As a wheelchair athlete, he represented Zambia on two occasions at the Paralympic Games, and was his country's first Paralympian...

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Athletics

Sinkamba had been due to compete in three events, but ultimately withdrew from two of them and focused all his efforts on the marathon. He completed it, but finished 56th and last, over half an hour behind Ecuador's Angel Quevedo in 55th - and more than an hour and a half behind Franz Nietlispach

Franz Nietlispach

Franz Nietlispach is a Swiss wheelchair athlete, handcyclist, and politician.He has competed in every Summer Paralympic Games from 1976 to 2008, winning a total of fourteen gold, six silver, and two bronze medals. All of these medals were for athletics, except for one bronze earned in handcycling...

 of Switzerland, who took gold and set a Paralympic record with a time of 1:29:44.

Name	Sport	Event	Score	Rank
Lango Sinkamba Lango Sinkamba Lango Sinkamba, born in 1968 or 1969, is a Zambian former athlete who specialised in the wheelchair marathon. As a wheelchair athlete, he represented Zambia on two occasions at the Paralympic Games, and was his country's first Paralympian...	Athletics Athletics at the 1996 Summer Paralympics Athletics at the 1996 Summer Paralympics consisted of 210 events, 155 for men and 55 for women.-Medal table:- Men's events :- Women's events :- References :...	Men's 1,500m T52-53	scheduled to run in heat 2, but did not start	DNS
Lango Sinkamba	Athletics	Men's 800m T53	scheduled to run in heat 1, but did not start	DNS
Lango Sinkamba	Athletics	Men's Marathon T52-53	3:09:17	56th (last of those who completed the race)