1992 Barcelona Paralympics
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| Host city | Barcelona and Madrid, Spain | ||
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| Motto | Sport Without Limits Spanish: Deporte Sin Límites Catalan: Esport Sense Límits |
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| Nations participating | 82 (BCN) 75 (MAD) |
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| Athletes participating | 3020 (BCN) 1600 (MAD) |
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| Events | 487 in 15 sports (BCN) 68 in 5 sports (MAD) |
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| Opening ceremony | September 3 (BCN) September 15 (MAD) |
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| Closing ceremony | September 14 (BCN) September 22 (MAD) |
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| Officially opened by | Queen Sofía of Spain | ||
| Paralympic torch |
Antonio Rebollo (BCN) Coral Bistuer (MAD) |
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| Paralympic stadium |
Estadi Olímpic de Montjuïc (BCN) Palacio de Deportes de la Comunidad de Madrid (MAD) |
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The 1992 Summer Paralympics (Spanish: Juegos Paralímpicos de Verano de 1992; Catalan: Jocs Paralímpics d'estiu de 1992) were the ninth Paralympic Games to be held. They were held in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. In addition, the 1992 Paralympic Games for Persons with mental handicap were held immediately after the regular Paralympics in the Spanish capital, Madrid.
The games consisted of 560 events spread over fifteen sports. Powerlifting and weightlifting were considered to be a single sport. Wheelchair tennis, a demonstration sport at the 1988 Summer Paralympics, was contested as an official medal sport for the first time.
In total 11 venues were used at the 1992 Summer Olympics and one new one was used at the Games in Barcelona.
In the north of the city,the Horta-Guinardó District,hosted three sports:
A total of 1710 medals were awarded during the 1992 games: 555 gold, 557 silver, and 594 bronze. The United States topped the medal count with more gold medals, more silver medals, and more medals overall than any other nation. Germany took the most bronze medals, with 59. The Madrid medals are counted too and added in the table In the table below, the ranking sorts by the number of gold medals earned by a nation (in this context a nation is an entity represented by a National Paralympic Committee).
Host country (Spain)
One hundred three delegations participated at the 1992 Summer Paralympics.
South Africa returned to the Paralympics for the first time since being declared "undesirable" due to its policy of apartheid in 1980. Twenty-one countries did not send a delegation to Barcelona,but sent one to Madrid; they were: Aruba, Bolivia, Côte d'Ivoire, Curaçao, El Salvador, Fiji, Ghana, Guatemala, Honduras, Jordan, Lebanon, Malta, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Philippines, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Suriname and Zimbabwe.
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