The historic games grew from the famous stoke mandeville games and marked the next evolution of what the games would become in.

Paralympic games rome 1960. Skip to main content back to paralympic.org. This category should be empty. At the time, it was the 9th international stoke mandeville games, which are now.

Official website of the paralympic movement. Masham reunited with rome 1960 paralympic gold medal. Starting today, 18 september, the opening day of that historic first edition of the paralympic games, different activities promoted by the italian paralympic committee will take.

The 1960 summer paralympics medal table is a list of national paralympic committees (npcs) ranked by the number of gold medals won by their athletes during the 1960 summer. The only disability that was included in the rome 1960 paralympics was spinal cord injury. Hosts italy topped the first ever paralympic medal table ahead of great britain and west germany.

Rome 1960 paralympic summer games 7.2k views 1 year ago barbara wagner & robert paul 1960 olympics bob paul 5.2k views 5 years ago juegos olimpicos roma 1960 braian aguilar. While the stoke mandeville games were held in 1948, it was the. Rome 1960 paralympic summer games.

Rome 1960 was the first ever paralympic games. On this day, 60 years ago, the cauldron was lit in rome, italy, to mark the first paralympic games in history. One of great britain’s first ever paralympic medallists was presented with an exact replica of the gold medal she lost.