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In June 2012, a life-sized cast-bronze statue of Guttmann was unveiled at Stoke Mandeville Stadium as part of the run-up to the London 2012 Summer Paralympics and Olympic Games. After the Games, it was moved to its permanent home at the National Spinal Injuries Centre. [28]
IPC agreement with the ICC so that it remained responsible for the Paralympic Games until after the 1992 Barcelona Paralympic Games/ [9] 1992: 3–14 September - Barcelona Summer Paralympics - 3001 athletes from 33 countries: [4] 431 events in 16 sports Wheelchair tennis was a medal sport for the first time.
The Paralympic Games or Paralympics is a periodic series of international multisport events involving athletes with a range of disabilities.There are Winter and Summer Paralympic Games, which since the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, have been held shortly after the corresponding Olympic Games.
It is the international governing body for the Paralympic sport of wheelchair fencing, as well as power hockey and Para dance sport. It also organizes the World Abilitysport Games , an event for Paralympic sports held outside of Summer Paralympic years.
Anne Ebbs (née Sinnott; 1940 – 24 February 2024) was an Irish Paralympic table tennis medallist. Outside of her table tennis career, Ebbs founded the Paralympic Council of Ireland in 1987 and was the organization's secretary general until 2008. Ebbs was awarded the Paralympic Order in 2010.
Maughan was selected as part of Britain's delegation to the Ninth Stoke Mandeville Games, later known as the First Summer Paralympic Games, held in Rome in 1960. [1] Maughan competed in only one archery event, the Women's Columbia round open. Scoring 484 points, she won Britain's first ever Paralympic gold medal. Because of disorganisation in ...
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This was the origin of the Stoke Mandeville Games, from which evolved both the IWAS World Games and the Paralympic Games. The first official Paralympic Games, which were simultaneously the 9th International Stoke Mandeville Games ('international' having been added when Dutch service personnel first took part in the Games in 1952), were held in ...