announced it would hold its own Games for wheelchair athletes in Stoke Mandeville from 22 July-1 August. At the Paralympic Movement’s birthplace 1,100 Para athletes from 41 countries competed for ...

Mandeville is one half of the mascot team consisting of Wenlock and Mandeville that were created for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Formed from the last steel girder of the Olympic ...

Despite it not being called the Paralympics, the event that started the movement was the Stoke Mandeville Games in 1948 - the same day that the London Olympics began. It was organised by Ludwig ...

Don't worry, check out our guide to the Paralympics: go from novice to know-it-all and impress your friends! A fellow called Dr Guttmann of Stoke Mandeville Hospital encouraged veterans of WW2 ...

In 1960, for the first time, the International Stoke Mandeville Games were held in Rome, Italy, alongside the Olympic Games. These games are now recognized as the first Paralympic Games.

16 comprised mainly of photos and documents from Stoke Mandeville and the early Games, and memorabilia that Guttmann brought back from the second Paralympics, in Tokyo. Meanwhile, a life-size ...

In 1960, the first edition of the Stoke Mandeville Games to take place overseas was held in Rome, one week after the Olympics. This event was retrospectively renamed as the first Paralympic Games ...

The Games in Stoke Mandeville were held after events in ... For the first time ever, a wheelchair marathon was held at the Paralympics. Though the 1984 Games were a success organisers agreed ...