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 injurys. In 1952 the Netherlands joined in the games creating the first international games for the disabled.
The World Wheelchair and Amputee Games, formerly known as the StokeMandeville Wheelchair Games, the StokeMandevilleGames, and the World Wheelchair Games, are a multi-sport, multi-disability athletic competition for athletes with a disability.
The Games were originally held in 1948 by Sir Ludwig Guttmann, who organized a sporting competition involving World War II veterans with spinal cord injuries at the rehabilitation hospital in StokeMandeville, England.
While the ParalympicGames evolved to include athletes from all disability groups, the StokeMandevillegames continued to be organized as a multi-sport event for wheelchair athletes.
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