Sports
Competitors were divided into five disability-specific categories: amputee, cerebal palsy, visually impaired, wheelchair, and les autres (athletes with physical disabilities that had not been eligible to compete in previous Games). The wheelchair category was for those competitors who used a wheelchair due to a spinal cord disability. However some athletes in the amputee and cerebral palsy categories also competed in wheelchairs. Within the sport of athletics, a wheelchair marathon event was held for the first time. The Trails for the first wheelchair event to be held at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games was held in conjunction with the New York Games. However, despite the long and established history of using "paralympic" terminology, in the United States the US Olympic Committee prohibited the Games organizers from using the term. The seventeen contested sports are listed below, along with the disability categories which competed in each.
- Archery - Cerebral palsy, wheelchair, and les autres
- Athletics - All
- Boccia - Cerebal palsy
- Cycling - Cerebal palsy
- Equestrian - Cerebal palsy
- Football 7-a-side - Cerebal palsy
- Goalball - Visually impaired
- Lawn bowls - Amputee and wheelchair
- Lifting - Amputee, cerebal palsy, wheelchair, and les autres
- Powerlifting
- Weightlifting
- Shooting - Amputee, cerebal palsy, wheelchair, and les autres
- Snooker - Wheelchair
- Swimming - All
- Table tennis - Amputee, cerebal palsy, wheelchair, and les autres
- Volleyball - Amputee and les autres
- Wheelchair basketball - Wheelchair and les autres
- Wheelchair fencing - Wheelchair
- Wrestling - Visually impaired
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