The Summer Paralympics, also known as the Games of the Paralympiad, are an international multi-sport event where athletes with physical disabilities compete. This includes athletes with mobility disabilities, amputations, blindness, and cerebral palsy. The Paralympic Games are held every four years, organized by the International Paralympic Committee. Medals are awarded in every event, with gold medals for first place, silver for second and bronze for third, a tradition that the Olympic Games started in 1904.
Summer Paralympic Games
A wheelchair basketball game at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
The Swedish goalball team at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
A Paralympian in the women's butterfly at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
The Paralympic Games or Paralympics, also known as the Games of the Paralympiad, is a periodic series of international multisport events involving athletes with a range of disabilities. There are Winter and Summer Paralympic Games, which since the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, are held almost immediately following the respective Olympic Games. All Paralympic Games are governed by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC).
Sir Ludwig Guttmann
IPC headquarters in Bonn
Opening ceremony of the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens
A medal ceremony during the 2010 Winter Paralympics