The event includes athletes with mobility.

Paralympic games year. In 1976 the first winter games in paralympics history were held in sweden, and as with the summer games, have taken place every four years, and include a paralympics opening. Paralympic games on the bbc. The first paralympic games in rome in 1960 featured 400 athletes from 23 countries.

These events marked the second major highlight in the. Follow on radio 5 live and on the bbc sport website. From the 1948 stoke mandeville games for the disabled, in the united kingdom organised by dr ludwig.

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 very first paralympic games.

Ludwig guttmann organised the first stoke mandeville games for disabled athletes in 1948, a forerunner of the paralympic games. The parallel olympics there have been several milestones in the paralympic movement. For years, the games have given her the chance to compete at.

Since then, the paralympics have been held once every four years. Remembering barcelona 1992, a pivotal paralympic games, 30 years on. The games are now the 2nd biggest sporting event in the world.

Historically, in 1976, the first winter games in paralympics were held in sweden, and just like the summer. In the same year, the first ever paralympics winter games took place in sweden. We spoke to dave maccalman, team captain, and evan clulee, a paralympic debutante, to hear what it.