The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, competing as Great Britain, participated in the inaugural Paralympic Games in 1960 in Rome. The 1960 Paralympics, now considered to have been the first Paralympic Games, were initially known as the ninth Stoke Mandeville Games, Games for athletes with disabilities founded in Great Britain in 1948."2012 – The Paralympics come home", BBC, July 4, 2008
Great Britain fielded the second largest delegation at the 1960 Games (after Italy's), with 31 competitors (18 men and 13 women) in archery, athletics, snooker, swimming, table tennis and wheelchair basketball. It also fielded by far the greatest number of female athletes (13), whereas all other countries fielded four or less (with the exception of Austria, which sent seven). All British competitors won medals in every event they entered, putting Great Britain second on the medal table with 20 gold, 15 silver and 20 bronze. Britain's first ever Paralympic gold medal was won by Margaret Maughan, in archery.Great Britain at the 1960 Summer Paralympics, International Paralympic CommitteeNPCs at the 1960 Summer Paralympics, International Paralympic Committee
Medalists Medal Name Sport Event Margaret Maughan Archery Women's Columbia round open Dick Thompson Athletics Men's club throw A Dick Thompson Athletics Men's javelin throw A Dick Thompson Athletics Men's javelin throw B Dick Thompson Athletics Men's precision javelin throw A Cliff Keaton Snooker Men's paraplegics open Leo Halford Swimming Men's 25m crawl incomplete class 1 Fred Crowder Swimming Men's 25m backstroke complete class 2 Leo Halford Swimming Men's 25m backstroke incomplete class 1 Barbara Anderson Swimming Women's 25m crawl incomplete class 1 Pauline Foulds Swimming Women's 50m crawl complete class 4 Barbara Anderson Swimming Women's 25m backstroke complete class 1 Masson Swimming Women's 25m backstroke incomplete class 2 Pauline Foulds Swimming Women's 50m backstroke complete class 4 Margaret Maughan Swimming Women's 50m backstroke complete class 5 Susan Masham Swimming Women's 25m breaststroke complete class 2 Barbara Anderson Swimming Women's 25m breaststroke incomplete class 1 Tommy Taylor Table tennis Men's singles A M. Beck Tommy Taylor Table tennis Men's doubles A Barbara Anderson Table tennis Women's singles A Cliff Bradley Archery Men's FITA round open Cliff Bradley Archery Men's Windsor round open Kathleen Comley Archery Women's FITA round open Robin Irvine Archery Women's Windsor round open Michael Shelton Snooker Men's paraplegics open Stanley Miles Swimming Men's 25m crawl complete class 1 Godfrey Williams Swimming Men's 50m crawl incomplete class 3 Stanley Miles Swimming Men's 25m backstroke complete class 1 Leo Halford Swimming Men's 25m backstroke incomplete class 2 Peter Stanton Swimming Men's 50m backstroke complete class 4 Leo Halford Swimming Men's 25m breaststroke incomplete class 1 and 2 Susan Masham Swimming Women's 25m backstroke complete class 2 Edwards Swimming Women's 50m breaststroke incomplete class 4 Edwards Gubbin Table tennis Women's doubles C Men's team class Anames: Wheelchair basketball Men's class A tournament Carl Hepple Archery Men's Columbia round open Tony Potter Archery Men's FITA round open Diana Gubbin Archery Women's Columbia round open Robin Irvine Archery Women's FITA round open Kathleen Comley Archery Women's Windsor round open Russ Scott Athletics Men's club throw C Carl Hepple Athletics Men's javelin throw C Dick Thompson Athletics Men's shot put A Russ Scott Athletics Men's pentathlon open Arthur Brindle Swimming Men's 50m backstroke incomplete class 4 Stanley Miles Swimming Men's 25m breaststroke complete class 1 Janet Laughton Swimming Women's 50m backstroke complete class 3 Janet Laughton Swimming Women's 50m breaststroke complete class 3 Waller Swimming Women's 50m backstroke incomplete class 3 M. Beck Table tennis Men's singles A Ronnie Foster Table tennis Men's doubles B Philips George Swindlehurst Table tennis Men's doubles C Gubbin Table tennis Women's singles C Froggart Susan Masham Table tennis Women's doubles B Men's team class B Wheelchair basketball Men's class B
Medals by sport Medals by sportSportTotalSwimming118524Athletics4048Table Tennis3159Archery14510Snooker1102Wheelchair Basketball0112Total20152055
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Great Britain at the 1960 Summer Olympics