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| year = 1972
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| location = [[Heidelberg]]
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'''[[The Bahamas]]''' made its [[Paralympic Games]] début at the '''[[1972 Summer Paralympics]]''' in [[Heidelberg]], [[West Germany]]. The country's delegation consisted in a single athlete, [[John Sands (athlete)|John Sands]]. Sands competed in one event: the men's 60m wheelchair sprint, in category 1B. He completed his race in 34.8s, which placed him 22nd overall in the heats, and did not enable him to advance to the final. The event was ultimately won by [[West Germany at the 1972 Summer Paralympics|West German]] athlete Baumgartner <small>(full name not recorded)</small>, in 19s.<ref>[http://www.paralympic.org/Sport/Results/search.html?npc=BAH&gender=all&medal=all&sport=all&games=1972PG Bahamas at the 1972 Summer Paralympics], [[International Paralympic Committee]]</ref>
==Athletics ==
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!rowspan="2"|Athlete
!rowspan="2"|Events
!colspan="2"|Heat
!colspan="2"|Final
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!Result
!Rank
!Result
!Rank
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|rowspan="3"|[[John Sands (athlete)|John Sands]]
|[[Athletics at the 1972 Summer Paralympics - Men's 60 metres wheelchair 1B|Men's 60 metres wheelchair 1B]]
|align="center"| 34.8s
|align="center"| 22
|align="center" colspan="2"| Did not advance
|-
|}
==See also==
* [[Bahamas at the 1972 Summer Olympics]]
==References==
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