Peru made its Paralympic Games début at the 1972 Summer Paralympics in Heidelberg, with a single representative to compete in swimming. It sent two competitors to the 1976 Summer Paralympics, then was absent for two decades, before returning in 1996 with a three-man delegation. It has participated in every subsequent edition of the Summer Paralympics, but has never taken part in the Winter Paralympics.Peru at the Paralympics, International Paralympic Committee

Peruvians have won a total of eight Paralympic medals: three gold, one silver and four bronze. The country's first medals came in 1976, when Teresa Chiappo won gold in the women's singles (category D) in table tennis, and bronze in the women's javelin (category D). J. Gonzales took bronze in the men's 100m backstroke, category 5.

Also in swimming, Jaime Eulert won Peru's only medal of the 1996 Games: a gold in the men's 50m freestyle S3, with a world record time of 51.95s. He won another gold in the same event in 2000, breaking his own world record and setting a new one in 49.03s; to that, he added a silver medal in the 50m backstroke. He medalled again in both those events in 2004, taking two bronze. In 2008, Eulert was a non-starter in the backstroke, and was disqualified in the freestyle. No other member of Peru's three-man delegation that year won a medal, and the country thus finished the Games without a medal for the first time since 1972.Peru at the Paralympics, International Paralympic Committee

Medal tally EventGoldSilverBronzeTotalRanking1972 Summer Paralympics 0 0 0 0 -1976 Summer Paralympics 1 0 2 3 291980 - 1992 did not compete1996 Summer Paralympics 1 0 0 1 502000 Summer Paralympics 1 1 0 2 472004 Summer Paralympics 0 0 2 2 712008 Summer Paralympics 0 0 0 0 -2012 Summer Paralympics 0 0 0 0 -2016 Summer Paralympics 0 0 0 0 -2020 Summer Paralympics 1 0 0 1 59Total 4 1 4 9 78

Medalists Medal Name Games Sport Event Teresa Chiappo 1976 Toronto Table tennis Women's singles D Teresa Chiappo 1976 Toronto Athletics Women's javelin throw D José González 1976 Toronto Swimming Men's 100m backstroke 5 Jaime Eulert 1996 Atlanta Swimming Men's 50m freestyle S3 Jaime Eulert 2000 Sydney Swimming Men's 50m freestyle S3 Jaime Eulert 2000 Sydney Swimming Men's 50m backstroke S3 Jaime Eulert 2004 Athens Swimming Men's 50m freestyle S3 Jaime Eulert 2004 Athens Swimming Men's 50m backstroke S3 Leonor Espinoza 2020 Tokyo Taekwondo Women's 49 kg

See also Peru at the Olympics

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