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The
World Wheelchair Games
formally known as
Stoke Mandeville Wheelchair Games
or
Stoke Mandeville Games
, which gave birth to the
Paralympics
is an annual event held in
Stoke Mandeville[?]
(except in the year when the
Summer Paralympics[?]
are held and in
1999
when held in
New Zealand
). The Games started in
1948
by Sir
Ludwig Guttmann[?]
who organized a sporting competition involving
World War II
veterans with
spinal cord injury[?]
in
1952
the
Netherlands
joined in the games creating the first international games for the disabled.
List of the Games
1948 Stoke Mandeville Games[?]
1949 Stoke Mandeville Games[?]
1950 Stoke Mandeville Games[?]
1951 Stoke Mandeville Games[?]
1952 Stoke Mandeville Games[?]
1953 Stoke Mandeville Games[?]
1954 Stoke Mandeville Games[?]
1955 Stoke Mandeville Games[?]
1956 Stoke Mandeville Games[?]
1957 Stoke Mandeville Games[?]
1958 Stoke Mandeville Games[?]
1959 Stoke Mandeville Games[?]
1961 Stoke Mandeville Games[?]
1962 Stoke Mandeville Games[?]
1963 Stoke Mandeville Games[?]
1965 Stoke Mandeville Games[?]
1966 Stoke Mandeville Games[?]
1967 Stoke Mandeville Games[?]
1969 Stoke Mandeville Games[?]
1970 Stoke Mandeville Games[?]
1971 Stoke Mandeville Games[?]
1973 Stoke Mandeville Games[?]
1974 Stoke Mandeville Games[?]
1975 Stoke Mandeville Games[?]
1977 Stoke Mandeville Games[?]
1978 Stoke Mandeville Games[?]
1979 Stoke Mandeville Games[?]
1981 Stoke Mandeville Games[?]
1982 Stoke Mandeville Games[?]
1983 Stoke Mandeville Games[?]
1985 Stoke Mandeville Games[?]
1986 Stoke Mandeville Games[?]
1987 Stoke Mandeville Games[?]
1989 Stoke Mandeville Games[?]
1990 Stoke Mandeville Games[?]
1991 Stoke Mandeville Games[?]
1993 Stoke Mandeville Games[?]
1994 Stoke Mandeville Games[?]
1995 Stoke Mandeville Games[?]
1997 World Wheelchair Games[?]
1998 World Wheelchair Games[?]
1999 World Wheelchair Games[?]
2001 World Wheelchair Games[?]
2002 World Wheelchair Games[?]
2003 World Wheelchair Games[?]
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