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Stoke Mandeville : King of the straight – 100 m 1A-6: Robert George Courtney (27 April 1959 – 28 January 2016) was a champion New Zealand Paralympian. [1] Early life
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Charlene Todman, Bunty Brooks and Pat Kingsford at a NSW Society for Crippled Children event in May 1953. Todman was the first Australian to compete in the Stoke Mandeville Games, competing in archery at the 1951 edition as a member of the Stoke Mandeville team while rehabilitating at the Stoke Mandeville Hospital.
Stoke Mandeville is a village and civil parish in the Vale of Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, England. It is located three miles (5 km) from Aylesbury and 3.4 miles (5.5 km) from the market town of Wendover. Although a separate civil parish, the village falls within the Aylesbury Urban Area.
Wolf competed at a total of nine Paralympics for Israel, his first games in Stoke Mandeville/New York in 1984 were his most successful as he picked up gold in the discus and shot put and silver in the javelin and pentathlon missing out on gold to Sweden's Raymond Clark in both events.
Sir Ludwig Guttmann CBE FRS [1] (3 July 1899 – 18 March 1980) was a German-British [2] neurologist who established the Stoke Mandeville Games, the sporting event for people with disabilities (PWD) that evolved in England into the Paralympic Games.
On March 22, 1969, Abebe was paralysed due to a car accident. He regained some upper-body mobility, but he never walked again. While he was receiving medical treatment in England, Abebe competed in archery and table tennis at the 1970 Stoke Mandeville Games in London. Those games were an early predecessor of the Paralympic Games.
Yoyogi National Gymnasium hosted the closing ceremony of the Games. [1]The 13th International Stoke Mandeville Games, later known as the 1964 Summer Paralympics, was an international multi-sport event held in Tokyo, Japan, from November 3 to 12, 1964, in which paraplegic and tetraplegic athletes competed against one another.