Rhodesia competed at the 1964 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo. It was one of two African countries to take part, the other being South Africa. It sent six...

1980. Southern Rhodesia sent 29 competitors, including a field hockey team, to the 1964 Summer Games, which was its last Olympic appearance under the Rhodesian...

shooter represented Rhodesia in 1960. Trap Bill Gulliver Rhodesia at the 1960 Summer Paralympics "Zimbabwe at the 1960 Rome Summer Games". Sports Reference...

competed at the Games under the name Rhodesia in 1928, 1960 and 1964. The 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi marked Zimbabwe's first participation at the Winter...

participating. The country was, however, allowed to compete at the 1964 Summer Paralympics, also held in Tokyo, its Paralympic Games debut. The 1964 Games were...

Rhodesia competed at the inaugural Summer Paralympic Games in 1960 in Rome. It was the only African country to take part. Rhodesia sent two competitors...

Athletes from Northern Rhodesia and Southern Rhodesia competed under the Rhodesia name while representing the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. Athletes...

as Northern Rhodesia (NRH) during those Games. ^ ZIM: Prior to Zimbabwe's independence in 1980, Southern Rhodesia participated as Rhodesia (RHO) in 1928...

New Zealand first sent an independent team to the Olympics in 1920. Before this, at the 1908 and 1912 Summer Olympics, New Zealand and Australian athletes...

as Southern Rhodesia and Rhodesia in the colonial era. The Zimbabwe Olympic Committee (ZOC) stood with five athletes at the Olympiad, which was the second-smallest...

participated at the Olympic Games in 1920, after missing the previous five Summer editions. The country has sent athletes to compete in every Summer Olympic...

still receive medals at Beijing 2022". 2 March 2022. "IPC publish Neutral Paralympic Athletes regulations for the Paris 2024 Paralympics". "World Games 2022:...

and Nyasaland. Southern Rhodesia and Northern Rhodesia federated with Nyasaland in 1953 as Rhodesia and Nyasaland, which dissolved at the end of 1963 and...

Games in 1964; it is also the largest city ever to have hosted, having grown considerably since 1964. The other countries to have hosted the Summer Olympics...

in the "Parallel Olympics", which ran in parallel with the Summer Olympics and came to be known as the first Paralympics. Since then, the Paralympics have...

The all-time medal table for all Olympic Games from 1896 to 2024, including Summer Olympic Games, Winter Olympic Games, and a combined total of both, is...

The United Kingdom has been represented at every modern Olympic Games. By end of the 2024 Summer Olympics, it is third in the all-time Summer Olympic...

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participates in the Paralympic Games. Malaysia has competed at the Commonwealth Games since 1950 as Malaya, and 1966 as Malaysia, and the games were hosted...

Elizabeth, who opened the Montreal Summer Olympics in 1976, also opened the 2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympics in London, making her the first head of state...

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November 17, 1964, p1 "African Leader, Aides Freed from Rhodesia Prison", Chicago Tribune, November 17, 1964, p2 Paul M. McGarr, The Cold War in South...

breaking time. Charl Bouwer, the paralympic swimmer from South Africa who won gold in the 50m freestyle at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, was born in...

medallist in the 1938 British Empire Games Julie Rogers (born 1998), participant in the 2012 Summer Paralympics and the 2016 Summer Paralympics Charles Blake...

adult citizens. Southern Rhodesian white women won the vote in 1919 and Ethel Tawse Jollie (1875–1950) was elected to the Southern Rhodesia legislature 1920–1928...

Kuwait. 1965 – Southern Rhodesia's Prime Minister Ian Smith unilaterally declares the colony independent as the unrecognised state of Rhodesia. 1965 – United...

War phase of the Nicaraguan Revolution begins. The 1979 oil crisis becomes the second one since 1973. April 18: Independence of Rhodesia, which becomes...

Clifford Dupont, English-Rhodesian lawyer and politician, 1st President of Rhodesia (b. 1905) 1980 – José Iturbi, Spanish pianist and conductor (b. 1895) 1981...

In 1963, the university helped in the establishment of the faculty of medicine at the University of Rhodesia, now the University of Zimbabwe (UZ). UZ is...