Slovakia at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
| Slovakia at the 2016 Summer Paralympics |
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| IPC code | SVK | ||||||||
| NPC | Slovak Paralympic Committee | ||||||||
| Website | www |
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| in Rio de Janeiro | |||||||||
| Competitors | 29 in 10 sports | ||||||||
| Flag bearer | Ján Riapoš | ||||||||
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Medals Ranked 25th |
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 Czechoslovakia (1972–1992) |
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Slovakia competed at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 7 to 18 September 2016.
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.
Slovakia qualified one archer for the Rio Games following their performance at the 2015 World Archery Para Championships. Marcel Pavlik entered the competition seeded third, and only needed one match to book his place in Rio. He did this by defeating China's Chen Boping. He ended 5th in his Men's individual compound open event. Peter Kinik has also qualified for the Men's individual compound W1 event where he won the bronze medal on 16 September 2016
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