Paralympic Games
Paralympic Games are major international multi-sport events wherein athletes with physical disability compete( including those athletes with mobility disabilities, amputations, blindness, and Cerebral Palsy). There are Winter and Summer Paralympic Games which are held immediately following their respective Olympic Games. All Paralympic Games are governed by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC).
The first Games were called the 1948 International Wheelchair Games, and were intended to coincide with the 1948 Olympics-the first organized athletic event for disabled athletes which took place on the day of the opening of the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom. Dr. Ludwig Guttmann of Stoke Mandeville Hospital hosted a sports competition for British World War II veteran patients with spinal cord injuries. Four years later, competitors from the Netherlands joined the games and an international movement was born. Olympic style games for athletes with a disability were organized for the first time in Rome in 1960, now called Paralympics.
The Paralympic Games have always been held in the same year as the Olympic Games. Since the Seoul 1988 Paralympic Games and the Albertville 1992 Winter Paralympic Games they have also taken place at the same venues as the Olympics. On 19 June 2001, an agreement was signed between the IOC and the IPC securing this practice for the future.
"Every Paralympic
contestants are a great
inspirations and model to
many of us. Let's be
inspired!"
DELHI PARA SPORTS ASSOCIATION affiliated State of Paralymic Committee of India(PCI) conduct state meets every year. In such meets DELHI PARA SPORTS ASSOCIATION short list the best Athletes. When ever PCI announces its annual National Championships these PCI affiliated State / UT units and Sports/disability wise associations will send entries out of the short listed players selected in their meets through the respective affiliated State Units only. PCI will look into such lists and again short list the best players for competing in the National Championships.
DELHI PARA SPORTS ASSOCIATION affiliated State of Paralymic Committee of India(PCI) conduct state meets every year. In such meets DELHI PARA SPORTS ASSOCIATION short list the best Athletes. When ever PCI announces its annual National Championships these PCI affiliated State / UT units and Sports/disability wise associations will send entries out of the short listed players selected in their meets through the respective affiliated State Units only. PCI will look into such lists and again short list the best players for competing in the National Championships.