in Southern Ontario. Within the Toronto area, a small consortium of local cable companies (including Trillium Cable and Rogers Cable) carried the games on channel 10 after CTV and Global TV declined to carry them. Sports At the 1976 games, amputees and visually impaired athletes competed for the first time; previous editions of the Paralympic Games had included only wheelchair athletes. Within the sport of athletics, new wheelchair racing distances of 200 m, 400 m, 800 m and 1500 m were added. Shooting and goalball, both previously demonstration events, were included as official medal sports. Archery Athletics Dartchery Goalball Lawn bowls Shooting Snooker Swimming Table tennis Volleyball Weightlifting Wheelchair basketball Wheelchair fencing Medal table The top 10 NPCs by number of gold medals are listed below. The host nation, Canada, is highlighted. Participating delegations Forty-one delegations took part in the Toronto Paralympics. Burma, Colombia, Ecuador, Greece, Guatemala, Indonesia and Luxembourg made their first appearances. South Africa was competing at the Paralympics for the fourth time. Although banned from the Olympic Games due to its policy of apartheid, it was not banned from the Paralympics until 1980, and Canada, as host country, did not object to its participation. These were, however, to be its last Paralympics before the dismantling of apartheid; The Netherlands, as hosts of the 1980 Games, declared South Africa's further participation "undesirable". See also Canada at the Paralympics World Paralympiads in Canada 1976 Summer Paralympics – Toronto 2010 Winter Paralympics – Vancouver—Whistler 1976 Winter Paralympics 1976 Summer Olympics References Paralympic Paralympics, 1976 Paralympics Multi-sport events in Canada Paralympic Games Summer Paralympic Games Paralympic Games August 1976 sports events in Canada International sports competitions in Toronto