The first games featured 400.

Paralympic games was first organised. The very first paralympic games featured 400. Whilst the first official paralympic games were held in rome in 1960, the paralympic movement started much earlier in 1948 when a german neuroscientist called sir ludwig. The host organising committees for the first time ensured that the paralympic athletes competed in.

The paralympics developed after sir ludwig guttmann organized a sports competition for british world war ii veterans with spinal cord injuries in england in 1948. In 1994 the ipc organised their first paralympic games, the lillehammer 1994 winter paralympics in norway. The first paralympic winter games were organised in 1976 when a total of 250 alpine skiers from 14 nations fought for medals in örnsköldsvik in sweden.

The stoke mandeville games later. The parallel olympics there have been several milestones in the paralympic movement. Be notified when an answer is posted.

The first person who is a great athlete to be part of this was german american gymnast george eyser in 1904, that person had one artificial leg. It took another eight years until the very first paralympic games were officially held in rome in 1960. The first major highlight in the development of the paralympic games was in 1960.

The first paralympic games were held in rome, italy in 1960 and featured 400 athletes from 23 countries. In 1976 örnsköldsvik, sweden staged the first paralympic winter games. In 1988, the paralympic and olympic games were both held in seoul, korea.

It was when the first paralympic games, similar to as we know it, began. Since the 1988 summer games in seoul and the 1992 winter games in albertville, the paralympic games have been held using the same venues as the olympic games. The first official paralympic games was held in rome, italy, in 1960, and since that time the paralympic games have continued to grow in size and stature.