Among all the moments in the history of mankind that have proven to be milestones in the growth of humanity, the moment when the decision to commence the first Paralympics, holds a very special place. Dr. Ludwig Guttmann was the founder of Paralympics. In 1944, at the request of the British Government, Dr. Ludwig Guttmann opened a spinal injuries centre at the Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Great Britain, and in time, rehabilitation sport evolved to recreational sport and then to competitive sport.
Who started Paralympic Games?
Who started Paralympic Games?
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It’s one of the major international multiple sports events which is organized for sportsperson who are having physical disabilities. These disabilities include impaired muscle power (e.g. paraplegia and quadriplegia, muscular dystrophy, post-polio syndrome, spina bifida), an impaired passive range of movement, limb deficiency (e.g. amputation or dysmelia), leg length difference, short stature, hypertonia, ataxia, athetosis, vision impairment and intellectual impairment.
The Paralympics games are been governed by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). It started with a small gathering of veterans of World War II in the year 1948 by Dr. Ludwig Guttmann of Stoke Mandeville Hospital, and after few years it became a global level sports events.
The Paralympic games which held in 1960 were having 400 participants with disabilities with 23 countries and the in the recent Paralympic there were more than 1000 disabled athletes from around 100 countries. Paralympic games are been organized in parallel with Olympic games.