Stoke Mandeville Games

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The Stoke Mandeville Games were pioneering post-war sports competitions for athletes with disabilities that laid the foundation for what became the modern Paralympic Games.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf disability sport competition
multi-sport event
associatedWith National Spinal Injuries Centre
Stoke Mandeville Stadium
country United Kingdom
evolvedInto Stoke Mandeville Games self-linksurface differs
surface form: International Stoke Mandeville Games

Paralympic Games
fieldOfWork adaptive sports
physical rehabilitation
sports medicine
founder Ludwig Guttmann
frequency annual
genre parasport
hasCategory archery competitions
multi-sport events for disabled athletes
wheelchair sports
hasEffect laid the foundation for the Paralympic Games
hasInfluenced policies on sport and disability worldwide
hasLegacy integration of disabled athletes into international sport
hasMotto rehabilitation through sport
hasParticipantType civilians with spinal injuries
military veterans
historicalPeriod post–World War II era
inception 1948
inspired development of national disability sport organizations
language English
location Aylesbury
Buckinghamshire
Stoke Mandeville Hospital
notableFor being one of the first organized sports events for wheelchair athletes
coinciding with the opening of the 1948 London Olympic Games
pioneering classification systems for disability sport
organizedInParallelWith Summer Olympics 1948
surface form: 1948 Summer Olympics
participant athletes with spinal cord injuries
wheelchair athletes
precededBy rehabilitation programs for injured soldiers at Stoke Mandeville Hospital
predecessorOf Paralympic Games
purpose promotion of sport for people with disabilities
rehabilitation of injured war veterans
recognizedBy International Paralympic Committee
significantEvent first held on 29 July 1948
sport archery
wheelchair sports
startTime 1948
targetAudience people with disabilities

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Paralympic Games precededBy Stoke Mandeville Games
Paralympic Games originatedFrom Stoke Mandeville Games
Paralympic movement historicalRoot Stoke Mandeville Games
1984 Winter Paralympics governingBodyAtTheTime Stoke Mandeville Games
this entity surface form: International Stoke Mandeville Games Federation
Stoke Mandeville Games evolvedInto Stoke Mandeville Games self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: International Stoke Mandeville Games
Ludwig Guttmann founded Stoke Mandeville Games
Mandeville namedAfter Stoke Mandeville Games