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Competition for wheelchair athletes
The day of the Opening Ceremony of the London 1948 Olympic Games, Dr. Guttmann organised the first competition for wheelchair athletes which he named the Stoke Mandeville Games, a milestone in Paralympics history -
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Paralympic Games
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Stoke Mandeville Games
Dutch ex-servicemen joined the Movement and the International Stoke Mandeville Games were founded. -
First Paralympic Games
The Stoke Mandeville Games later became the Paralympic Games which first took place in Rome, Italy in 1960 featuring 400 athletes from 23 countries -
Creation of the International Sport Organization for Disabled
An International Working Group on Sport for the Disabled was set up to study the problems of sport for persons with an impairment. It resulted in the creation, in 1964, of the International Sport Organisation for the Disabled (IOSD) who offered opportunities for those athletes who could not affiliate to the International Stoke Mandeville Games: -
International Paralympic Committee
The International Paralympic Committee was founded as an international non-profit organisation in Dusseldorf, Germany to act as the global governing body of the Paralympic Movement.
