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Sir Ludwig Guttmann
The story begin in 1948, in a british military hospital by a german neurologist : Sir Ludwig Guttmann. He search to speed up th recovery of his patients, who are all former veterans. -
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Rome
This edition of Olympics games receive the first edition of the Paralympics games, they are 400 athlete in 8 sports. -
Boccia
Boccia is a sport of strategy, a real game of chess where you try to always be one step ahead. We play one ball to prepare for the next one. This game is part pétanque (balls and a goal), curling (placement game) and chess (strategy and preparation of shots). He was include for the first time in 1984 in New-York -
The Paralympics motto
The paralympics motto "Spirit in motion", is created in 1984 is diffuse for the first time on the paralympics games of Los Angeles. -
Trischa Zorn
She was born in 1964 and she is the woman and the athlete with the most records. She is a swimer .In total, she won 50 Paralympic medals: 41 gold, 9 silver and 5 bronze. -
London
They are 3 disciplines that they were created for paralympic athletes, with a mental handicap. They are athletics, swimming, and ping-pong. -
Jason Smyth
At the Paralympics games in London in 2012, became the most faster paralympic athlete at all time on the 100 meters in 10sec 46. He was born in 1987, and he is an Irish sportman. -
The most practiced sport
In 2017, the most iconic and practised sport is the wheeling basketball with more than 100 000 athlete in the world. -
Mc Keever and Schonfelder
McKeever a Canadian athlete, won the middle distance event, equaling the record of former German skier Gerd Schönfelder, who with 16 gold medals was until now the most successful Paralympic athlete in history. -
Creation of the paralympic games symbol
Originally creat in 2003, he was modified in 2019, he was became like we know him with any "agitos", they are three, one is red, an other blue and green. Each “agito” symbolizes movement by together forming a figure resembling a crescent. -
Tokyo
At the paralympics games of Tokyo in 2020, 21 titles are for persons with mental handicap on the 539 to be won. -
Trials
During the competition we will be able to see many sports like wheelchair basketball, boccia, blind football, wheelchair fencing, goalball, para athletics, para rowing, para badminton, para canoeing, para road cycling, para track cycling, para horse riding, para powerlifting, para judo, para swimming, para taekwondo , para table tennis, para archery, para sports shooting, but not yet surk. In all of them we had only three paralympics sports: Boccia, Goalball, and wheelchair basketball. -
Wich handicap
The Paralympic Games are a multi-sport competition, similar to the Olympic Games, but reserved for athletes with disabilities. The disabilities represented are physical (amputation, paraplegia, quadriplegia, etc.), mental, or people suffering from visual impairment, but not yet deafness. The Paralympic Games take place every four years, alternating summer/winter like the Olympic Games. -
Serious challenge
The goal of this competition is to promote a more inclusive sporting practice for persons with an handicap. Access for all, accessibility and visibility, here are the three issues of these games!!
This has helped improve standards across all sports. By showing the power of the human spirit and what can be achieved by testing the body's limits, Paralympic sport challenges stereotypes surrounding disability. Paralympic athletes are ambassadors of change. -
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Paris
In 2024, for the first time of his story, Paris receive the Paralympics games. During two weeks, the city will vibrate alongside the 4,400 athletes, competing in 549 events. Competition sites, Paralympic sport, accessibility, paraathletes supported by the city of Paris.