Trinidad and Tobago at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

Every participant at the Paralympics has their disability grouped into one of five disability categories; amputation, the condition may be congenital or sustained through injury or illness; cerebral palsy; wheelchair athletes, there is often overlap between this and other categories; visual impairment, including blindness; Les autres, any physical disability that does not fall strictly under one of the other categories, for example dwarfism or multiple sclerosis.^[1][2] Each Paralympic sport then has its own classifications, dependent upon the specific physical demands of competition. Events are given a code, made of numbers and letters, describing the type of event and classification of the athletes competing. Some sports, such as athletics, divide athletes by both the category and severity of their disabilities, other sports, for example swimming, group competitors from different categories together, the only separation being based on the severity of the disability.^[3]

The following table lists Trinidad and Tobago's delegation per sport and gender.

The following competitors from Trinidad and Tobago won medals at the games. In the by discipline sections below, medalists' names are bolded.

Medal Name Sport Event Date  Gold Akeem Stewart Athletics Men's Javelin F42-44 9 September  Silver Akeem Stewart Athletics Men's Discus F43-44 16 September  Bronze Nyoshia Cain Athletics Women's 100 m T43-44 17 September

Medals by sport Sport Total Athletics 1 1 1 3 Total 1 1 1 3 Medals by day Day Total September 9 1 0 0 1 September 16 0 1 0 1 September 17 0 0 1 1 Total 1 1 1 3

Men's Field

Athlete	Event	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	Result	Rank
Akeem Stewart	Discus F43-44	56.03	61.70	60.83	60.82	60.53	61.72	61.72
	Javelin F42-44	57.23	56.64	56.84	53.94	55.77	57.32	57.32 WR

Women's Track

Athlete	Events	Heat		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Nyoshia Cain	100 m T43-44	13.32	2 Q	13.10
	200 m T43-44	Disqualified		did not advance