How the paralympic movement evolved into a major sporting event.

First winter paralympic games held. The disabilities included were blindness and amputees. This was the first paralympics in which multiple categories of athletes with disabilities could compete. The winter games were first suggested by the swedish delegation at the annual general meeting of the international sports organisation for the disabled (isod) in 1974.

According to the international paralympic committee (ipc), the first winter paralympics were held in sweden in 1976. The first winter paralympic games were held in örnsköldsvik in sweden in 1976. The games are now the 2nd biggest sporting event in the world.

However, there had been unofficial contests held for several years prior. The first paralympic games were held in rome, italy in 1960 and featured 400 athletes from 23. The first winter paralympic games were held in 1976 in örnsköldsvik, sweden.

The paralympic winter games in nagano, the first to be held outside europe, was another. The first winter paralympic games were held in 1976 in örnsköldsvik, sweden and were originally called the 1st winter olympic games for the. The first african athlete to.

In 1976 the first winter games in. The first winter paralympic games (then called the first winter olympic games for the disabled) were held 16 years after the first summer paralympic games, in örnsköldsvik in sweden in. Rachel naylor speaks to two blind skiiing.

The first winter paralympic games were held that same year in örnsköldsvik, sweden. In 1980, the paralympic games took place from 21 to 5 july in arnhem, netherlands while the. Opening ceremony of the rome 1960 paralympic games.