Kenya at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
| Kenya at the 2016 Summer Paralympics |
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| IPC code | KEN | ||||||||
| NPC | Kenya National Paralympic Committee | ||||||||
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| Competitors | '24 in ' sports | ||||||||
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Medals Ranked 35th |
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Kenya competed at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 7 September to 18 September 2016.
The team's Chef de Mission was Maina Kamau. The Kenyan sportspeople delegation scheduled to compete was 24 strong, with 19 athletes and 5 guides.
There were allegations of corruption inside the Kenya National Paralympic Committee by the Nairobi News and Daily Nation in regards to the size and selection of people to go as part of the Kenyan delegation to Rio.
Kenya's Paralympic campaign had funding issues, which made it difficult for its sportspeople to attend world championship events as part of their Rio qualifying efforts. Overall issues with lack of funding led to questions by the country's NPC if the country could end up missing the 2016 Paralympics entirely because sportspeople cannot attend important qualifying events. If they missed the Games, it would be the first time the country missed them since they boycotted the 1976 Paralympics in Toronto.
The government had budgeted US$1.2 million/Sh130mn to send the team to Rio. Safaricom sponsored the team by providing Sh5mn to assist in costs to compete.
Kenya finished sixth among all African countries on the gold medal table. They won 3, along with 1 silver and 2 bronze medals to finish with 6 total medals.
Every participant at the Paralympics has their disability grouped into one of five disability categories; amputation, the condition may be congenital or sustained through injury or illness; cerebral palsy; wheelchair athletes, there is often overlap between this and other categories; visual impairment, including blindness; Les autres, any physical disability that does not fall strictly under one of the other categories, for example dwarfism or multiple sclerosis. Each Paralympic sport then has its own classifications, dependent upon the specific physical demands of competition. Events are given a code, made of numbers and letters, describing the type of event and classification of the athletes competing. Some sports, such as athletics, divide athletes by both the category and severity of their disabilities, other sports, for example swimming, group competitors from different categories together, the only separation being based on the severity of the disability.
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