 Proteas: The official 2004 Summer Paralympics mascot The 2004 Summer Paralympics were held in Athens, Greece, from September 17 to September 28. The twelfth Paralympic Games, an estimated 4,000 athletes took part in the Athens programme, with ages ranging from 11 to 66. Paralympic events had already taken place during the 2004 Summer Olympics as demonstration sports - women's 800 m and men's 1500 m wheelchair races. These races were open to able-bodied people and were without disability classification - as such, they did not form part of the official Paralympic programme. See Wheelchair racing at the 2004 Summer Olympics for more details. Image File history File links Athens_2004_logo2. ...
Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1058x1377, 217 KB) Summary This soft toy is Proteas, the official Athens 2004 Paralympics mascot. ...
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Silver 2004 The Paralympic Games are an elite multi-sport event for athletes with a disability. ...
Wheelchair racing at the 2004 Summer Olympics featured as a demonstration sport at the Athens Olympic Stadium on August 22, 2004. ...
Athletes with learning difficulties were excluded from the games due to the difficulties in testing for and classifying these disabilities. The exclusion was introduced after the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney, the first games with events exclusively for people with learning difficulties, after it was found that the majority of the Spanish basketball team were not disabled. The International Paralympic Committee stated that the exclusion would continue until there are sufficient tests for the disabilities and a way to measure the effect they have on a sport. Exhibition matches for these categories were featured in the Games in basketball and table tennis, and the Special Olympics remains the major sporting event specifically designed for athletes with learning difficulties. The term learning disability is used to refer to socio-biological conditions that affect a persons communicative capacities and potential to learn. ...
See also: 2000 Summer Olympics External links Sydney 2000 Paralympic Games - archived websites in PANDORA Categories: Summer Paralympic Games | Australian sport | 2000 in sports ...
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The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) is an international non-profit organisation of elite sports for athletes with disabilities. ...
An exhibition game is a sporting event in which there is no gain or loss from whether the competitors are victorious are not in any competition. ...
Wang Liqin winning a forehand drive against Jörg Rosskopf. ...
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Medal count and country performance ranking Image File history File links Beschreibung: Silbermedalie Paralympics 2004 Ursprung: Selbst fotografiert von Steschke am 18. ...
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This is the full table of the medal count of the 2004 Summer Paralympics. ...
Opening ceremony
 From the Paralympics opening ceremony The opening ceremony for the 2004 Summer Paralympics took place on September 17, 2004. The show started with children passing on knowledge and raising their lights to the sky. This was a reference to Hippocrates, who transferred knowledge to the children. A 26 meters tall olive tree (with more than 195,000 leaves) symbolising life stood in the middle of the arena. The opening ceremony also featured a performance with human drama, with light and with music, in an allegory about obstacles and limits. The Parade of Delegations was accompanied by the music of French composers Yves Stepping and Jean Christophe. The music told the legend of Hephaestos, god of fire and son of Zeus and Hera. An athlete from Turkmenistan propelled himself around the stadium by doing somersaults. Greece, the home team, received a strong cheer. After that, fireworks erupted at the stadium. There were 150 local support staff involved and 400 volunteers. The children were from ages 8 to 17, coming from Australia, France, Spain, Greece and Germany. The Games were officially declared opened by Greek president Costis Stephanopoulos and Phil Craven, the president of the International Paralympic Committee. They were accompanied by the head of the organizing committee Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki, who told the athletes and the audience: "The Olympic flame illuminates athletes. Many of you will leave Athens with medals, but all of you will leave as champions." Phil Craven quoted Democritus in his speech: "Two thousand years ago, Democritus said 'To win oneself is the first and best of all victories.' This holds true for all athletes, but especially for Paralympians. Recognising and cultivating your unique abilities and mastering challenges - you set standards and give expression for many people, young and old, around the world." The Olympic flame was lit by Greek athlete Georgios Toptsis. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2589x1533, 3126 KB) Licensing File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): 2004 Summer Paralympics ...
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Binomial name Olea europaea L. 19th century illustration The Olive (Olea europaea) is a species of small tree in the family Oleaceae, native to coastal areas of the eastern Mediterranean region, from Syria and the maritime parts of Asia Minor and northern Iran at the south end of the Caspian...
An allegory (from Greek αλλος, allos, other, and αγοÏευειν, agoreuein, to speak in public) is a figurative mode of representation conveying a meaning other than and in addition to the literal. ...
Hephaestus, Greek god of forging, riding an ass; Greek drinking cup (skyphos) made in the 5th century B.C. Hephaestus (World Book «hih FEHS tuhs») (Greek: Ἡφαιστος Hêphaistos) is the Greek god whose approximate Roman equivalent is Vulcan; he is the god of blacksmiths, craftsmen, artisans, sculptors, metals and metallurgy...
Statue of Zeus Phidias created the 12-m (40-ft) tall statue of Zeus at Olympia about 435 BC. The statue was perhaps the most famous sculpture in ancient Greece, imagined here in a 16th-century engraving. ...
In the Olympian pantheon of classical Greek Mythology, Hêra (IPA pronunciation: ; Greek or ) was the wife and sister of Zeus. ...
Kostantinos Stefanopoulos Konstantinos Stephanopoulos was born in Patras on 15 August 1926. ...
Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki (born Gianna Daskalaki on December 12, 1955 in Heraklion, Crete) is a Greek politician and business woman. ...
Hendrick ter Brugghen, Democritus Laughing (1629) Democritus (Greek: ΔημόκÏιτος) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher (born at Abdera in Thrace around 450 BC; died in about 370 BC). ...
The Olympic Flame at the Athens 2004 Summer Olympics The Olympic Flame, Olympic Fire, Olympic Torch, Olympic Light, Olympic Eye, and Olympic Sun is a symbol of the Olympic Games. ...
Closing ceremony The closing ceremony for the 2004 Summer Paralympics took place on September 28, 2004. The traditional cultural display was removed from the ceremony as a mark of respect for the deaths of 37 teenagers and 4 teachers from Farkadona, travelling to Athens, whose bus collided with a lorry near the town of Kamena Vourla. Silver 2004 The Paralympic Games are an official equivalent of the Olympics for athletes with physical disabilities. ...
September 28 is the 271st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (272nd in leap years). ...
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- "The Athens Olympics Organising Committee (ATHOC) has decided to cancel the closing ceremony of the 12th Paralympics as initially planned and scheduled because of the tragic accident that cost the life of pupils. The artistic and entertainment part of the ceremony will not take place." (official statement)
Flags were flown at half mast and a minute's silence was observed. In contrast with the formal nature of the opening ceremony, the athletes entered the stadium for the final time as a collective. The flag of the IPC was then officially handed over to the 2008 hosts, Beijing. A procession of young people then made their way to join the athletes in the centre of the stadium carrying paper lanterns, before the Paralympic flame was extinguished, the final moment of the Paralympic Games. Beijing (Chinese: 北京; Pinyin: Běijīng; ; IPA: ), a city in northern China (formerly spelled in English as Peking or Peiking), is the capital of the Peoples Republic of China (PRC). ...
Sports featured in the 2004 Summer Paralympics The 2004 Summer Paralympics included 19 sports. New events featured in the Games were five-a-side blind football, women's wheelchair volleyball, and quads wheelchair tennis.
Results for individual events can be found on the relevant page.
Archery at the 2004 Summer Paralympics is taking place at the Olympic Baseball Centre in Athens. ...
Athletics at the 2004 Summer Paralympics is being competed in five ranges of disabilities: Blind athletes or visually impaired, classes 11-13. ...
Boccia at the 2004 Summer Paralympics took place in the Ano Liossia Olympic Hall in Athens. ...
Boccia is a competitive sport, similar to bowls (but closer to bocce as the balls are not biased), but designed to be played by people with disabilities _ specifically, cerebral palsy and other locomotor disabilities (those which affect motor skills). ...
Cycling at the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, consists of 2 main events: the track cycling and the road cycling. ...
Equestrian at the 2004 Summer Paralympics at the Markopoulo Olympic Equestrian Centre was competed in the dressage discipline only. ...
5-a-side Football at the 2004 Summer Paralympics takes place at the Olympic Hockey Centre in Athens. ...
7-a-side Football at the 2004 Summer Paralympics took place at the Olympic Hockey Centre in Athens. ...
There are two types of football in the Paralympic Games, one is seven-a-side and the other is five-a-side. ...
Goalball at the 2004 Summer Paralympics took place at the Sports Pavilion of the Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Sports Complex. ...
Goalball is a team sport designed for blind athletes. ...
Judo in the 2004 Summer Paralympics was competed by blind or vision-impaired judokas. ...
Judo in the Paralympic Games is only very slightly different form normal Judo. ...
Powerlifting at the 2004 Summer Paralympics did not have disability categories. ...
Sailing at the 2004 Summer Paralympics took place at the Agios Kosmas Olympic Sailing Centre from September 18-23. ...
Shooting in the 2004 Summer Paralympics at the Markopoulo Olympic Shooting Centre was contested into two main classes: Class SH 1 - Pistol and rifle competitors who dont require a shooting stand. ...
Swimming at the 2004 Summer Paralympics, in the Olympic Aquatic Centre was being competed in freestyle, backstroke and butterfly (classes Sn), the breaststroke (classes SBn) and individual medley (classes SMn). ...
Table Tennis at the 2004 Summer Paralympics was staged at the Galatsi Olympic Hall September 18-27. ...
Table Tennis in the Paralympics follow the rules set by the International Table Tennis Federation although there are slight modifications for wheelchair athletes. ...
Volleyball at the 2004 Summer Paralympics was staged at the Helliniko Fencing Hall from September 21-27. ...
Wheelchair Basketball at the 2004 Summer Paralympics was staged in the Olympic Indoor Hall from September 18-28. ...
Wheelchair Fencing at the 2004 Summer Paralympics was competed in Category A and B - briefly summarised, category A contestants have good sitting balance and normal fencing arm, Category B are somewhat impaired in either of these [1]. The events were held at the Helliniko Fencing Hall. ...
Wheelchair Rugby at the 2004 Summer Paralympics is being staged at the Helliniko Indoor Arena from September 19-25. ...
Wheelchair rugby refers to adaptation of the sports of rugby union and rugby league for wheelchair users. ...
Wheelchair Tennis at the 2004 Summer Paralympics was staged at the Olympic Tennis Centre from September 19-26. ...
A wheelchair tennis player serving. ...
Nations Athletes from 136 nations competed in the Athens Paralympics.
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Silver 2004 The Paralympic Games are an official equivalent of the Olympics for athletes with physical disabilities. ...
The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) is an international non-profit organisation of elite sports for athletes with disabilities. ...
The 2004 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, were held in Athens, Greece, over a period of 17 days from August 13 to August 29, 2004. ...
External links - 25 things you never knew about the Paralympics (BBC website). Also links to information about 20 athletes from Team GB.
International
Paralympic Games | | Summer Paralympics 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016 The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) is an international non-profit organisation of elite sports for athletes with disabilities. ...
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See also: 1960 Summer Olympics The 1960 Summer Paralympic Games were the first Paralympics. ...
See also: 1964 Summer Olympics The 1964 Summer Paralympics were the 2nd Paralympic Games to be held. ...
See also: 1968 Summer Olympics The 1968 Summer Paralympics were the third Paralympic Games to be held. ...
See also: 1972 Summer Olympics The 1972 Summer Paralympics were the fourth Paralympic Games to be held. ...
See also: 1976 Summer Olympics The 1976 Summer Paralympics were the fifth Paralympic Games to be held. ...
See also: 1980 Summer Olympics The 1980 Summer Paralympics were the sixth Paralympic Games to be held. ...
See also: 1984 Summer Olympics The 1984 Summer Paralympics were the seventh Paralympic Games to be held. ...
See also: 1988 Summer Olympics The 1988 Summer Paralympics were the first Paralympics in 24 years that were held concurrently with the Olympics. ...
See also: 1992 Summer Olympics The 1992 Summer Paralympics were the ninth Paralympic Games to be held. ...
See also: 1996 Summer Olympics The 1996 Paralympic Games in Atlanta, USA were the first Paralympics to get mass media sponsorship. ...
See also: 2000 Summer Olympics External links Sydney 2000 Paralympic Games - archived websites in PANDORA Categories: Summer Paralympic Games | Australian sport | 2000 in sports ...
See also: 2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Paralympic Games, the thirteenth Paralympics, will be held in Beijing, China from September 6 - 17, 2008. ...
The 2012 Summer Paralympic Games will be the fourteenth Paralympics. ...
See also: 2016 Summer Olympics The 2016 Summer Paralympic Games will be the fifteenth Paralympics. ...
| | Winter Paralympics 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014 Silver 2004 The Paralympic Games are an official equivalent of the Olympics for athletes with physical disabilities. ...
See also: 1976 Winter Olympics The 1976 Winter Paralympic Games were the first winter Paralympics. ...
See also: 1980 Winter Olympics The 1980 Winter Paralympic Games were the second winter Paralympics and they were held in Geilo, Norway. ...
See also: 1984 Winter Olympics The 1984 Winter Paralympic Games were the third winter Paralympics and they were held in Innsbruck, Austria. ...
See also: 1988 Winter Olympics The 1988 Winter Paralympic Games were the fourth winter Paralympics and they were held in Innsbruck, Austria. ...
See also: 1992 Winter Olympics The 1992 Winter Paralympics were the first winter Paralympics to be held concurrently with the Olympics. ...
See also: 1994 Winter Olympics Categories: 1994 in sports | Norway | Winter Paralympic Games ...
See also: 1998 Winter Olympics The Seventh Winter Paralympics were held alongside the Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan. ...
See also: 2002 Winter Olympics The 2002 Olympic Winter Games, including the 2002 Winter Paralympics, were held in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. ...
The 2006 Winter Paralympic Games, the ninth winter Paralympics, took place in Turin, Italy from 10 to 19 March, 2006. ...
See also: 2010 Winter Olympics The 2010 Winter Paralympics will be held in the area surrounding Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, including the towns of Burnaby and Whistler. ...
The 2014 Winter Paralympics will take place in the same city as the 2014 Winter Olympics. ...
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