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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.

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