Athletes
This athlete is an American Paralympic swimmer from Baltimore, Maryland, who competes in the S8, SB7 and SM8 category events. In total this athlete has won 23 Paralympic medals, 13 being gold medals
Who is Jessica Long?
This sport first originated in the Netherlands during the 1950s, it was a combination of volleyball and the German Sitzball sport
What is sitting volleyball?
What year did the Paralympics start?
What is 1960?
This restaurant has a tradition of serving athletes free food at the Paralympics
What is McDonalds?
This athlete is a three-time American World Paratriathlon Champion and Paralympic Gold Medalist
Who is Allysa Seely?
This game was a Paralympic sport where contestants use a lightweight sledge and propel themselves using two poles
What is ice sledge racing?
The Paralympics started in this country
What is Italy?
The Paralympics are the ____ largest sporting event in the world
What is the third largest?
This athlete is a Polish table tennis player. Born without a right hand and forearm, this athlete participates in competitions for able-bodied athletes as well as in competitions for athletes with disabilities
Who is Natalia Dorota Partyka?
The Swedish adopted the traditional Italian game from “bocce” into this game for disabled athletes. The 1984 Paralympics in New York saw the introduction of this sport, making it only the second Paralympic-specific sport
What is boccia?
The doctor who invented the Paralympics
Who is Ludwig Guttmann?
True or False: As of 2016, the Summer Paralympics included 22 sports and 526 medal events, and the Winter Paralympics include 5 sports and disciplines and about 72 events
This athlete is an American T44 Paralympic sprint runner who won the 100 m event at the 2011 and 2015 Parapan American Games
Who is Jarryd Wallace?
This sport is one of the many wheelchair games that was founded during the 1970s after World War 2, to help get veterans exercising and building confidence again. The sport featured in the 1988 Seoul Paralympic Games as a demonstration sport, four years later during 1992 in Barcelona, it was a medal sport
What is wheelchair tennis?
In 1989, this committee was founded as an international non-profit organization in Dusseldorf, Germany, to act as the global governing body of the Paralympic Movement
What is the International Paralympic Committee?
This event is for individuals with intellectual disabilities, whereas the Paralympics is generally for athletes with any disability, including physical, and only at an elite level
What is the Special Olympics?
This athlete is a British road and track racing cyclist and former swimmer. The athlete is a multiple gold medal winner at the Paralympic Games and six times British national track champion. Her total of fourteen gold medals makes her the most successful female British Paralympian of all time
Who is Sarah Storey?
Sir Ludwig Guttmann of Stoke Mandeville Hospital was the first to introduce it, with the goal of encouraging physical strength and self-respect amongst injured soldiers. It was during 1960 at the first Paralympic Games in Rome, where this game made its debut, alongside only 7 other sports
What is wheelchair fencing?
The first event of the Paralympics at Stoke Mandeville in London
What is archery?
The Paralympics used to be solely open to this group of people
Who are war veterans?