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Jamaica at the 1968 Summer Paralympics

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Data is taken from the International Paralympic Committee website and is based on information contained/sourced in the original hardcopy final results publications. Some information from earlier Paralympic Games (i.e. 1960 – 1984) is incomplete and is missing first names of some
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Seven of Jamaica's competitors took part in athletics. Two medals were won by Jamaican athletes, both gold and both in the precision javelin. Excell took the men's title, with a score of 74, and Baracatt the women's, with a score of 78.
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singles events and a pair in the women's doubles. All of the singles players were eliminated at the round of 16 stage. In the women's doubles C event Baracatt and Lewis reached the quarter-finals before losing to
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The only dartchery event at the Games was the mixed pairs event which took a knockout format. Two Jamaican pairs entered; Excell and Hall lost in the first round to the eventual gold medallists from the
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One athlete entered a weightlifting event for Jamaica. Hall won the bronze medal in the men's lightweight with a lift of 110 kg; the gold was won by Johnsen of
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and won a total of five medals; three gold, one silver and one bronze. Eleven athletes represented Jamaica at the Games; seven men and four women.
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took part in two men's class 2 complete classification events but failed to advance past the heats in either.
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competed in three men's class 4 incomplete classification events and achieved a best finish of fifth in the
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who placed fifth in the St. Nicholas round for paraplegic women; Lewis finished eleventh in the same event.
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Seven Jamaican archers competed at the Games, none won a medal. The best result was achieved by
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from November 4 to 13, 1968. The team finished fourteenth in the
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Jamaica made their Paralympic Games debut at these Games.
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Bryant and Barnard, who went on to win the gold medal.
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was one of twenty-eight nations that competed at the
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