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The 1984 International Games for the Disabled, commonly known as the 1984 Summer Paralympics, were the seventh Paralympic Games to be held. There were two separate competitions: one in Stoke Mandeville, England, United Kingdom for wheelchair athletes with spinal cord injuries and the other at the Mitchel Athletic Complex and Hofstra University on Long Island, New York, United States for ...
The 2024 Paralympics was the seventeenth Games to be held, a quadrennial competition open to athletes with physical and intellectual disabilities. The games were held in Paris, France from 28 August to 8 September 2024. There were 549 medal events. Mauritius, Nepal and the Refugee Paralympic Team won their first Paralympic medals.
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.
PARIS − A determined United States wheelchair rugby team advanced to the gold-medal game at the 2024 Paralympics after defeating rival Great Britain 50-43 Sunday in the semifinals.
As more than 4,400 athletes gather in Paris for the 2024 Paralympic Games, the first medals are starting to be awarded.The Games kicked off on Aug. 28, and will run through Sept. 8.. The first ...
Organizers of the Paris Paralympics are promising that the 2024 Games will be the most-watched in Paralympic history, with all sports being broadcast for the first time.
The Games were held in Paris, France, from 28 August to 8 September 2024, and featured 549 medal events across 22 sports. These games marked the first time Paris hosted the Summer Paralympics and the second time France hosted the Paralympic Games, following the 1992 Winter Paralympics in Tignes and Albertville.
Summer Paralympics Games Athlete Sport 1960 Rome: Not documented: 1964 Tokyo: 1968 Tel-Aviv: 1972 Heidelberg: 1976 Toronto: 1980 Arnhem: 1984 New York 1984 Stoke Mandeville: 1988 Seoul: 1992 Barcelona: 1996 Atlanta: 2000 Sydney: Mike Dempsey: Table tennis: 2004 Athens: Kevin Szott: Judo: 2008 Beijing: Jennifer Armbruster: Goalball: 2012 London ...