South Africa took part in the 1976 Summer Paralympics in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The country was represented by 39 athletes, twenty-nine male and ten female.Participation Numbers Toronto 1976 Paralympic Games IPC 12 June 2011 South Africans competed in archery, athletics, dartchery, lawn bowls, swimming, table tennis and wheelchair basketball.Results: South Africa at the 1976 Summer Paralympics, IPC They won twenty six medals in total: six golds, nine silvers and eleven bronze, finishing 19th on the medal table.Medal Standings Toronto 1976 Paralympic Games IPC 12 June 2011
These were South Africa's last Paralympics for sixteen years due to South Africa's policy of apartheid. The Netherlands, as hosts of the 1980 Games and ironically its former colonial master, declared South Africa's further participation "undesirable"."'The Netherlands against Apartheid' - 1970s", International Institute of Social HistorySouth Africa at the Paralympics, International Paralympic Committee South Africa was subsequently absent from the Paralympic Games until 1992.South Africa at the Paralympics, International Paralympic Committee
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