Argentina sent a team to compete at the 1972 Summer Paralympics in Heidelberg, West Germany.

[2] Athletes at the Paralympics in 1972 were all afflicted by spinal cord injuries and required the use of a wheelchair.,[3] although people who were hard of sight could compete in the demonstration event.

This is in contrast to later Paralympics that include events for participants that fit into any of five different disability categories; amputation, either congenital or sustained through injury or illness; cerebral palsy; wheelchair athletes; 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.

[7] Argentina entered nineteen of its twenty one competitors, ten male and nine female.

[9] Benedetti, Cristina, Ferrari, Richetti and di Paolo won medals in this event.