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Wheelchair tennis at the Summer Paralympics
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| sport | wheelchair tennis |
| image | Wheelchair tennis pictogram (Paralympics).svg |
| size | 150 |
| menevents | 2 |
| womenevents | 2 |
| mixedevents | 2 |
Wheelchair tennis was first contested at the Summer Paralympics as a demonstration sport in 1988, with two events being held (men's and women's singles). It became an official medal-awarding sport in 1992 and has been competed at every Summer Paralympics since then. Four events were held from 1992 to 2000, with quad events (mixed gender) in both singles and doubles added in 2004.
Summary
Events
Six events are contested at each Paralympic. Only men's and women's singles were held at the 1988 Paralympics, when it was a demonstration sport. These were joined by men's and women's doubles events four years later when the sport turned an official event. In 2004, two new events were added with quadriplegia (as such they are also known as "quad" events) and unlike the other events they are open. Until the 2024 Games, only two women competed in the event, the Dutch Monique de Beer and the Canadian Sarah Hunter, both competed in 2004 and 2008, but the Dutch is still the only woman to win a medal at the Paralympics, a bronze in the doubles event in 2004.
Current events
- Men's singles
- Men's doubles
- Women's singles
- Women's doubles
- Quad singles (Open)
- Quad doubles (Open)
Historical medal table
Updated af the 2024 Summer Paralympics
Medalists
Medal winners for every Summer Games since 1988 are as follows:
Men's singles
| 2024 Paris | Tokito Oda | Alfie Hewett | Gustavo Fernández |
|---|
Women's singles
| 2024 Paris | Yui Kamiji | Diede de Groot | Aniek van Koot |
|---|
Quad singles
| 2024 Paris | Niels Vink | Sam Schröder | Guy Sasson |
|---|
Men's doubles
| 2024 Paris | GBR |
|---|---|
| Alfie Hewett | |
| Gordon Reid | JPN |
| Takuya Miki | |
| Tokito Oda | ESP |
| Daniel Caverzaschi | |
| Martín de la Puente |
Women's doubles
| 2024 Paris | JPN |
|---|---|
| Yui Kamiji | |
| Manami Tanaka | NED |
| Diede de Groot | |
| Aniek van Koot | CHN |
| Guo Luoyao | |
| Wang Ziying |
Quad doubles
| 2024 Paris | NED |
|---|---|
| Sam Schröder | |
| Niels Vink | GBR |
| Andy Lapthorne | |
| Gregory Slade | RSA |
| Donald Ramphadi | |
| Lucas Sithole |
Nations
References
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