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The Paralympics is a major international multi-sport event involving athletes with a range of disabilities, including impaired muscle power, impaired passive range of movement, limb deficiency, leg length difference, short stature, hypertonia, ataxia, athetosis, vision impairment and intellectual impairment. ...................


The first Paralympic Games were held in Rome, Italy in 1960 and featured 400 athletes from 23 countries. .

On 29 July 1948, 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 .
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ORIGIN OF PARA OLYMPICS

The Origins of the Paralympic Games. The concept for the Paralympic Games goes back to the 1940s when an English neurosurgeon named Dr. Ludwig Guttmann, who opened a spinal injuries center at the Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Great Britain, began using recreation and sport as a catalyst for rehabilitation therapy.

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