Vanuatu is participating in the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, United Kingdom, from August 29 to September 9, 2012.
[1] The country initially hoped to send athletes to compete in wheelchair tennis and track and field.
[2] Ultimately, however, its delegation was to consist in only one athlete, Marcel Houssimoli, in three sprinting events.
He was the only T37 athlete in the race; his opponents, categorised T38, had a lower level of disability.
[10][11] He finished seventh and last in the final, improving his time to 1:07.61, fourteen seconds behind sixth-placed Marius Stander of South Africa.