The first paralympic games were held in rome, italy in 1960 and featured 400 athletes from 23.

Who started the paralympics. The australian team parades around the acqua acetosa ground in rome on sept. Sports for athletes with an. Paralympic games, major international sports competition for athletes with disabilities.

18, 1960, during the opening ceremony for the paralympic games. New zealand was not one of the countries involved in the inaugural paralympic. Opening ceremony of the rome 1960 paralympic games.

18, 1960, during the opening ceremony for the. Since the summer games of seoul, korea in 1988 and the. Born in 1899 in upper silesia, the jewish neurologist was forced to flee national socialist germany in 1939 after having been dismissed as head.

An irish team has represented ireland at the. 18, 1960, during the opening. Ludwig guttmann, the doctor who invented the paralympics.

The very first paralympic games held in rome in 1960 featured 400 athletes from 23 countries. In fact they started right here in the uk,. Then in 1960, guttmann managed to convince organizers of the rome olympics to allow 400 wheelchair.

First founded as an archery contest for 16 disabled veterans, the games now rival the olympics as an athletic. Here's a brief history of the games. How the paralympic movement evolved into a major sporting event.