1924 Summer Deaflympics
first international silent game french premier jeux silencieux internationaux first international game deaf french premier jeux internationaux pour le sourds referred retroactively summer deaflympics french sourdlympiques dété de inaugural edition deaflympics game held paris france august equivalent olympic game deaf athlete organised initiative deaf frenchman eugène rubensalcais game cofounded comité international de sport de sourds deaf sporting leader rubensalcais previously founded france first sport federation deaf mute game first game ever athlete disability preceding world wheelchair amputee game became paralympic game include event deaf athlete first silent game held two week end summer olympics also paris game deaf modelled olympic game nine country including six official national federation already existence sent athlete compete seven sport athletics road cycling diving football shooting swimming tennis demonstration event also held gymnastics counting gymnastics total event held specifically france belgium great britain latvia netherlands poland already sport federation deaf italy romania hungary sent one athlete despite federation yet male athlete one female athlete hendrika nicoline van der heyden netherlands competed alone backstroke event woman swimming completing set world record walkover least two competitor men thirty event three competitor one host country france dominated winning sixteen seventeen event athletics sole exception javelin throw belgian nicolas françois came first ahead frenchman raymond code frenchman émile van den torren event overall coming first metre metre metre athletics france also swept three gold medal cycling gold medal shooting one two gold tennis football competition contrast six swimming event much open france none six gold medal shared netherlands italy united kingdom competing great britain british also one tennis event men double game deemed success second edition held four year later amsterdam athlete ten nation – including time fourteen woman amsterdam also held olympic game year game first regular series international game deaf established second oldest international multisport event world olympic game seventeen track field event held exclusively men absence female competitor sixteen gold medal france one belgium world record set every event athlete seven country france belgium great britain netherlands poland latvia romania took part three event held road cycling men metre sprint frenchman paul lambert men individual time trial frenchman théodore saliou men individual road race frenchman paul boussin record set total six athlete took part four france two belgium single event held diving men springboard two british one dutch diver competed british diver ge rimmer recorded winner specific performance competition host country great britain finishing second belgium third detail recorded name player single event men army rifle metre seven participant four france three great britain frenchman rené bapt point comfortable lead five event men one woman italian roberto de marchi men freestyle world record time freestyle also world record dutchwoman hendrika nicoline van der heyden lone competitor womens backstroke set world record time men equivalent event compatriot wj brinkman whose time recorded brinkman also breaststroke world record british team men × freestyle relay world record time swimmer competed four country italy netherlands great britain france pierre rincheval france men single double went owen bevan maxwell h hyslop great britain great britain france belgium three nation competing number parenthesis indicates number athlete hungary listed sent single athlete alexander de szalay appear listed event european country took part remained case fourth game london united state became first noneuropean country compete belgium france great britain hungary italy latvia netherlands poland romania france dominated game home ground italy lone representative swimmer roberto de marchi gold event took part placing country fourth medal table belgium gold medallist nicolas françois javelin prevented host country making clean sweep seventeen gold medal track field poland sole medal silver × relay athletics bronze medal silver overall although bronze medal awarded pole vault two bronze awarded two tennis event host nation france