The Stoke Mandeville Games
The 1st Games Dr Guttmann Evolution
The 1st Games
On July 29, 1948, the day of the Opening Ceremony of the London 1948 Olympic Games, a competition for wheelchair athletes took place at Stoke Mandeville. 16 patients (14 men and two women) from Stoke Mandeville [...] took part in an archery tournament.
The competition became an annual event which was named the Stoke Mandeville Games.
https://abilitytoday.com/what-were-the-stoke-mandeville-games-celebrating-70-years-since-the-first-paralympics-bt-com/
Dr Ludwig Guttman was a respected Jewish neurosurgeon who [was forced to escape] Germany in 1939 to escape Nazi persecution. Five years later, he was asked by the British government to open a Spinal Injuries Unit* at Stoke Mandeville, intended to treat soldiers and civilians injured during the war.[...] Guttmann promoted sport as a means of physical and mental rehabilitation. The first sport played by patients was a hybrid form of wheelchair polo and hockey.[...]
Dr Ludwig Guttmann
*unité spécialisée dans les lésions de la colonne vertébrale
https://abilitytoday.com/what-were-the-stoke-mandeville-games-celebrating-70-years-since-the-first-paralympics-bt-com/
Evolution of the games
More teams and sports were added as years went by; in 1949 six teams competed and ‘wheelchair netball’ – which later became wheelchair basketball – was introduced. The event became international in 1952, [by 1952 more than 130 competitors participated in the games. In 1956, Guttmann received an award from the International Olympic Commitee.] In 1960 the Stoke Mandeville Games were held in Rome, which had hosted the Olympic Games several weeks earlier. The event, featuring more than 400 athletes from 23 countries, became known as the first Paralympic Games. The Paralympics[...]became a quadrennial event, staged in the same year as the Olympics.
https://abilitytoday.com/what-were-the-stoke-mandeville-games-celebrating-70-years-since-the-first-paralympics-bt-com/
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ludwig-Guttmann
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The Stoke Mandeville Games
The 1st Games Dr Guttmann Evolution
The 1st Games
On July 29, 1948, the day of the Opening Ceremony of the London 1948 Olympic Games, a competition for wheelchair athletes took place at Stoke Mandeville. 16 patients (14 men and two women) from Stoke Mandeville [...] took part in an archery tournament. The competition became an annual event which was named the Stoke Mandeville Games.
https://abilitytoday.com/what-were-the-stoke-mandeville-games-celebrating-70-years-since-the-first-paralympics-bt-com/
Dr Ludwig Guttman was a respected Jewish neurosurgeon who [was forced to escape] Germany in 1939 to escape Nazi persecution. Five years later, he was asked by the British government to open a Spinal Injuries Unit* at Stoke Mandeville, intended to treat soldiers and civilians injured during the war.[...] Guttmann promoted sport as a means of physical and mental rehabilitation. The first sport played by patients was a hybrid form of wheelchair polo and hockey.[...]
Dr Ludwig Guttmann
*unité spécialisée dans les lésions de la colonne vertébrale
https://abilitytoday.com/what-were-the-stoke-mandeville-games-celebrating-70-years-since-the-first-paralympics-bt-com/
Evolution of the games
More teams and sports were added as years went by; in 1949 six teams competed and ‘wheelchair netball’ – which later became wheelchair basketball – was introduced. The event became international in 1952, [by 1952 more than 130 competitors participated in the games. In 1956, Guttmann received an award from the International Olympic Commitee.] In 1960 the Stoke Mandeville Games were held in Rome, which had hosted the Olympic Games several weeks earlier. The event, featuring more than 400 athletes from 23 countries, became known as the first Paralympic Games. The Paralympics[...]became a quadrennial event, staged in the same year as the Olympics.
https://abilitytoday.com/what-were-the-stoke-mandeville-games-celebrating-70-years-since-the-first-paralympics-bt-com/
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ludwig-Guttmann