Refugee Paralympic Team

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Refugee Paralympic Team at the Paralympics
Flag of the International Paralympic Committee
IPC code	RPT
NPC	Refugee Paralympic Team
Medals	Gold 0 Silver 0 Bronze 2 Total 2
Summer appearances
2020 2024
Other related appearances
Individual Paralympic Athletes (2016)

The Refugee Paralympic Team is a group made up of independent Paralympic participants who are refugees. The team competes using the Paralympic flag and Paralympic anthem, and marches first during the Opening Ceremony.

Alongside the debut of the Refugee Olympic Team at the 2016 Summer Olympics, a team of refugee para-athletes first competed at the 2016 Summer Paralympics as Independent Paralympic Athletes. The Refugee Paralympic Team was formally named starting with the 2020 Summer Paralympics.

Zakia Khudadadi became the first person to win an Olympic medal for the Refugee Paralympic Team, winning a bronze medal in the women's –47 kg para taekwondo event at the 2024 Summer Paralympics.^[1]

Medalists

Medal	Name	Games	Sport	Event
Bronze	Zakia Khudadadi	2024 Paris	Para taekwando	Women's –47 kg
Bronze	Guillaume Junior Atangana	2024 Paris	Athletics	Men's 400 m T11

Participations

2016 Summer Paralympics

The team was announced on August 5, 2016, by the International Paralympic Committee.^[2] Participants were nominated for the team by National Paralympic Committees who were aware of qualified sportspeople. The International Paralympic Committee stepped in to assist with getting athletes ready by doing a number of things, including insuring that athletes were classified.^[2]

Athlete	Country of origin	Host NPC	Sport	Event
Shahrad Nasajpour	Iran	USA	Para athletics	Men's Discus F37
Ibrahim Al Hussein	Syria	Greece	Para swimming	Men's 50m freestyle S9 Men's 100m freestyle S9

2020 Summer Paralympics

Athlete	Country of Origin	Host NPC	Sport	Event
Shahrad Nasajpour	Iran	United States	Para athletics	Men's Discus F37
Alia Issa	Syria	Greece	Para athletics	Women's Club throw F32
Anas Al Khalifa	Syria	Germany	Para canoe	Men's Va'a Single 200m - KL2 Men's Va'a Single 200m - VL2
Abbas Karimi	Afghanistan	United States	Para swimming	Men's 50m backstroke S5 Men's 50m backstroke S5
Ibrahim Al Hussein	Syria	Greece	Para swimming	Men's 50m freestyle S9 Men's 100m breaststroke SB8
Parfait Hakizimana	Burundi	Rwanda	Para taekwondo	Men's K44 -61 kg

2024 Summer Paralympics

Athlete	Country of Origin	Host NPC	Sport	Event
Guillaume Junior Atangana	Cameroon	Great Britain	Para athletics
Salman Abbariki	Iran	Germany	Para athletics
Sayed Amir Hossein Pour	Iran	Germany	Para table tennis
Hadi Hassanzada	Afghanistan	Austria	Para taekwando
Zakia Khudadadi	Afghanistan	France	Para taekwando	Women's –47 kg
Hadi Darvish	Iran	Germany	Paralympic powerlifting	Men's –80 kg
Ibrahim Al Hussein	Syria	Greece	Paratriathlon
Amelio Castro Grueso	Colombia	Italy	Wheelchair fencing

References

^ "Zakia Khudadadi: Paralympics bronze medal 'sends message for all refugees in world'". BBC Sport. 2024-08-30. Retrieved 2024-08-31.
^ ^a ^b "Refugees to compete in dedicated team at Rio 2016 Paralympics". International Paralympic Committee. International Paralympic Committee. August 5, 2016. Retrieved August 7, 2016.

v t e Nations that have competed at the Paralympic Games
Africa	Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Comoros Congo Democratic Republic of the Congo Djibouti Egypt Eritrea Ethiopia Gabon The Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Ivory Coast Kenya Lesotho Liberia Libya Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Morocco Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Rwanda São Tomé and Príncipe Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa Sudan Tanzania Togo Tunisia Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe
Americas	Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Aruba Bahamas Barbados Bermuda Brazil Canada Chile Colombia Costa Rica Cuba Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Grenada Guatemala Guyana Haiti Honduras Jamaica Mexico Nicaragua Panama Paraguay Peru Puerto Rico Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Suriname Trinidad and Tobago United States Uruguay Venezuela Virgin Islands
Asia	Afghanistan Bahrain Bangladesh Bhutan Brunei Cambodia China East Timor Hong Kong India Indonesia Iran Iraq Japan Jordan Kazakhstan Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Lebanon Macau Malaysia Maldives Mongolia Myanmar Nepal North Korea Oman Pakistan Palestine Philippines Qatar Saudi Arabia Singapore South Korea Sri Lanka Syria Chinese Taipei Tajikistan Thailand Turkmenistan United Arab Emirates Uzbekistan Vietnam Yemen
Europe	Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Faroe Islands Finland France Georgia Germany Great Britain Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Israel¹ Italy Kosovo Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Malta Moldova Montenegro Netherlands North Macedonia Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russia San Marino Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine
Oceania	Australia Winter Fiji Kiribati New Zealand Papua New Guinea Samoa Solomon Islands Tonga Vanuatu
Other	Independent Paralympic Participants Individual Paralympic Athletes Neutral Paralympic Athletes Refugee Paralympic Team RPC Unified Team
Historical	Czechoslovakia East Germany Rhodesia Serbia and Montenegro Soviet Union Yugoslavia
¹ Israel has been a member of the European Paralympic Committee (EOC) since 1994.

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