Thailand at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
| Thailand at the 2016 Summer Paralympics |
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| IPC code | THA | ||||||||
| NPC | Paralympic Committee of Thailand | ||||||||
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| Competitors | 45 in 10 sports | ||||||||
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Medals Ranked 23rd |
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Thailand competed at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 7 September 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.
Thailand qualified one archer for the Rio Games following their performance at the 2015 World Archery Para Championships. Wasana Khuthawisap earned the spot after making the round of sixteen in the recurve women’s open event.
Thailand qualified for the 2016 Summer Paralympics in this sport at the Hong Kong hosted 2015 BISFed Asia and Oceania Boccia Team and Pairs Championships in the BC1/BC2 Team event. They claimed gold ahead of silver medalist South Korea and bronze medalists Japan. They were the only team in round robin play that won every game, with China, Japan and South Korea all winning 3 games and losing 2 games. Their placing was based point difference. The team included Pattaya Tadtong, Witsanu Huadpradit, Watcharaphon Vongsa, and Worawut Saengampa. They entered the qualifying event as the top seeded team in Asia, ranked third in the world. China was the next highest ranked at ninth in the world, and were the second seed in this category.
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