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1059:"Results Tel Aviv 1968 Paralympic Games Archery Women's St. Nicholas Round paraplegic"
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Swedish pairs entered; Luks and Andersson lost in the first round to the
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division. He lifted 120 kg to win the silver medal. Gold was won by Dumont of
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1134:"Results Tel Aviv 1968 Paralympic Games Weightlifting Men's Featherweight"
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athletes, there is often overlap between this and other categories;
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November 4 to 13, 1968. The team finished seventeenth in the
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The
Paralympics groups athletes' disabilities into one of five
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959:"Medal Standings Tel Aviv 1968 Paralympic Games"
449:Men's 50 m breaststroke class 5 (cauda equina)
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857:, and did not advance to the quarterfinals.
819:Weightlifting at the 1968 Summer Paralympics
524:Men's 50 m backstroke class 5 (cauda equina)
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347:Women's St. Nicholas round paraplegic
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1092:. International Paralympic Committee
1090:"Athlete Search Results Sweden 1968"
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24:1968 Summer Paralympics
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839:Wheelchair basketball
243:disability categories
759:knockout tournament
399:Men's featherweight
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1295:South Korea
763:Australians
231:medal table
75:Ranked 17th
1422:Categories
894:References
796:backstroke
766:Roy Fowler
309: Gold
255:wheelchair
247:amputation
1402:Australia
1254:Argentina
1037:BBC Sport
1011:BBC Sport
747:Dartchery
540:Söderberg
440:Söderberg
338:Johansson
313:Lindström
282:Medalists
263:blindness
1233:Rhodesia
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1210:Tel Aviv
965:28 April
886:athletes
861:See also
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415:Rodaster
267:dwarfism
223:Tel Aviv
111:overview
63:Tel Aviv
39:IPC code
1395:Oceania
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1321:Denmark
1316:Belgium
1311:Austria
1264:Jamaica
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851:Belgium
827:in the
729:Archery
663:Archery
490:M. Eden
419:Archery
363:Nilsson
342:Archery
273:. Each
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1366:Norway
1346:Israel
1331:France
1304:Europe
1259:Canada
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