London 2012 Paralympic athletes: the full list of competitors and disciplines

More than 4,000 athletes from 164 teams will compete over the next ten days at the 2012 Paralympics. We have compiled a list of every one of them, including their name, team, sex and the sport in which they are participating. Data from the Games' official media portal show that a total of 4,269 competitors will take part, competing across 22 disciplines. 113 athletes are participating in two disciplines, including 108 cyclists competing in both road and track events. {"dataSourceUrl":"//docs.google.com/a/guardian.co.uk/spreadsheet/tq?key=0AjI0Eo6IUSaHdFR2Nll6dzk0WHpma002b0xibjc2TFE&transpose=0&headers=1&range=A1%3AB22&gid=7&pub=1","options":{"titleTextStyle":{"bold":true,"color":"#000","fontSize":"14"},"vAxes":{"0":{"useFormatFromData":true,"textStyle":{"color":"#222","fontSize":"10"}},"1":{"useFormatFromData":true}},"series":{"0":{"color":"#38761d"}},"title":"Overall participation in each discipline","booleanRole":"certainty","animation":{"duration":0},"legend":"none","hAxis":{"title":"Number of competitors","useFormatFromData":true,"viewWindowMode":"pretty","gridlines":{"count":"7"},"viewWindow":{}},"isStacked":false,"width":460,"height":400},"state":{},"chartType":"BarChart","chartName":"Chart1"} Athletics accounts for more competitors than any other discipline, with 1124 athletes set to take part. Swimming is second, with 599, followed by table tennis on 275. Five-a-side football and sailing have 79 competitors each, while equestrianism have the fewest competitors, with 78. 69 countries will only be represented in one discipline, although many of these are one-person teams. {"dataSourceUrl":"//docs.google.com/a/guardian.co.uk/spreadsheet/tq?key=0AjI0Eo6IUSaHdFR2Nll6dzk0WHpma002b0xibjc2TFE&transpose=0&headers=1&range=J11%3AK16&gid=4&pub=1","options":{"vAxes":[{"title":"Number of competitors","useFormatFromData":true,"minValue":0,"viewWindowMode":"pretty","viewWindow":{"min":0,"max":null},"gridlines":{"count":"8"},"maxValue":null},{"useFormatFromData":true,"viewWindowMode":"pretty","viewWindow":{}}],"titleTextStyle":{"bold":true,"color":"#000","fontSize":"14"},"series":{"0":{"color":"#93c47d"}},"booleanRole":"certainty","title":"Sizes of five largest teams where all athletes compete in the same discipline","animation":{"duration":0},"legend":"none","hAxis":{"useFormatFromData":true,"viewWindowMode":"pretty","viewWindow":{}},"isStacked":false,"width":460,"height":276},"state":{},"chartType":"ColumnChart","chartName":"Chart2"} The largest team where all competitors will take part in the same sport is Tunisia, where all 31 members compete in athletics. Kenya is the second largest, with 13, again all from athletics. {"dataSourceUrl":"//docs.google.com/a/guardian.co.uk/spreadsheet/tq?key=0AjI0Eo6IUSaHdFR2Nll6dzk0WHpma002b0xibjc2TFE&transpose=0&headers=1&range=J1%3AK9&gid=4&pub=1","options":{"vAxes":[{"title":"Average number of competitors per discipline","useFormatFromData":true,"minValue":0,"viewWindowMode":"pretty","viewWindow":{"min":0,"max":null},"gridlines":{"count":"6"},"maxValue":null},{"useFormatFromData":true,"viewWindowMode":"pretty","viewWindow":{}}],"titleTextStyle":{"bold":true,"color":"#000","fontSize":"14"},"series":{"0":{"color":"#6aa84f"}},"booleanRole":"certainty","title":"Average number of competitors per discipline, where countries are represented in 17 or more disciplines","animation":{"duration":0},"legend":"none","hAxis":{"useFormatFromData":true,"viewWindowMode":"pretty","viewWindow":{}},"isStacked":false,"width":460,"height":276},"state":{},"chartType":"ColumnChart","chartName":"Chart2"} Eight countries are each represented in 17 or more of the 22 disciplines, with athletes from either ParalympicsGB or the US competing in every one. Of these eight teams, Japan has the lowest average number of team members per discipline - 7.39) - while Great Britain has the highest, with 13.36. {"dataSourceUrl":"//docs.google.com/a/guardian.co.uk/spreadsheet/tq?key=0AjI0Eo6IUSaHdFR2Nll6dzk0WHpma002b0xibjc2TFE&transpose=0&headers=1&range=J18%3AK24&gid=4&pub=1","options":{"titleTextStyle":{"bold":true,"color":"#000","fontSize":"14"},"vAxes":[{"useFormatFromData":true,"title":"Number of competitors","minValue":0,"viewWindowMode":"pretty","gridlines":{"count":"6"},"viewWindow":{"min":0,"max":null},"maxValue":null},{"useFormatFromData":true,"viewWindowMode":"pretty","viewWindow":{}}],"series":{"0":{"color":"#b6d7a8"}},"title":"Average number of competitors per discipline where team is represented in ten or more disciplines","booleanRole":"certainty","animation":{"duration":0},"legend":"none","hAxis":{"useFormatFromData":true,"viewWindowMode":"pretty","viewWindow":{}},"isStacked":false,"width":460,"height":276},"state":{},"chartType":"ColumnChart","chartName":"Chart2"} Out of all countries represented in 10 or more disciplines, Norway has the lowest average number of competitors, with its 22 team members spread across 10 sports. Austria has the second lowest, with an average of 3.1 team members per discipline, followed by Finland (3.5), Belgium (4) and Ireland (4.1). Ireland is the only one of these teams represented in more than ten disciplines - its competitors are participating in 12. Data summary Use our dynamic table to explore the full list of Olympic athletes - use a filter to sort and search the list Download the data • DATA: download the full spreadsheet NEW! Buy our book • Facts are Sacred: the power of data (on Kindle) More open data Data journalism and data visualisations from the Guardian World government data • Search the world's government data with our gateway Development and aid data • Search the world's global development data with our gateway Can you do something with this data? • Flickr Please post your visualisations and mash-ups on our Flickr group • Contact us at [email protected] • Get the A-Z of data • More at the Datastore directory • Follow us on Twitter • Like us on Facebook