Morocco at the Paralympics


Morocco made its Paralympic Games début at the 1988 Summer Paralympics in Seoul. It was represented by an all-male team, with five competitors in athletics, three in swimming, and a wheelchair basketball team. Abdeljalal Biare won a bronze medal in the 400m freestyle in swimming - Morocco's sole medal of the 1988 Games.
Morocco has participated in every edition of the Summer Paralympics since then, albeit never in the Winter Paralympics. Moroccans have won a total of eleven gold medals, seven silver and eight bronze. Mustapha El Aouzari won gold in the men's 1,500m in athletics in 2004, in the T11 category for totally blind runners. The same year, Abdellah Ez Zine won gold in the men's 800m. In 2008, Sanaa Benhama was Morocco's first female Paralympic champion, and the country's most successful Paralympian to date, when she won three gold medals in the 100m, 200m and 400m sprints, in the T13 category for partially sighted athletes. Abdelillah Mame won the country's other gold medal of the Games, in the men's 800m.
Morocco took part in the 2012 Summer Paralympics, with the Royal Moroccan Federation of Sports for Disabled using Bedford as the UK base for its Paralympians.

Medal tables

Medals by Summer Games

Medals by Summer sport

Athletes with most medals

The Moroccan athlete who won the most medals in the history of the Paralympic Games, is the Paralympian athlete Sanaa Benhama.
AthleteSportGamesTotal
Sanaa BenhamaAthletics20083003
Najat El GaraaAthletics2008–20121023
Azeddine NouiriAthletics2012–20162002
Mustapha El AouzariAthletics20041102
El Amin ChentoufAthletics2012–20161102
Abdelillah MameAthletics–20122008–20121012
Mohamed AmguounAthletics2012–20161012
Laila El GaraaAthletics2004–20080112
Mahdi AfriAthletics20160112
Abdellah Ez ZineAthletics20041001
Abdelghani GtaibAthletics20040101
Youssef BenibrahimAthletics20080101
Mohamed DifAthletics20040101
Abdeljalal BiareSwimming19880011
Mohamed LahnaTriathlon20160011