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Joan Scruton MBE (1918 - November 1, 2007) was an organizing member of the International Stoke Mandeville Games from 1952 to 1968, which became the Paralympic Games in 1960. . Apart from the games, Scruton was secretary general at the International Stoke Mandeville Games Federation from 1975 to 19
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.
Savile set up two charities, the Jimmy Savile Stoke Mandeville Hospital Trust in 1981, and the Leeds-based Jimmy Savile Charitable Trust in 1984. [73] During the sexual abuse scandal in October 2012 the charities announced that they would distribute their funds, of £1.7 million and £3.7 million respectively, among other charities and then ...
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 Games; Maura Strange This page was last edited on 4 August 2019, at 18:02 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
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.
She was the only lady to compete in the netball tournament of the second Stoke Mandeville Games in 1949 under her maiden name of Margaret Webb. [2] From 1960 to 1976 she competed in the Summer Paralympics in many sports, including archery, athletics, dartchery, lawn bowls and swimming. She represented Rhodesia in her first two Paralympics and ...
The Best of Men is a 2012 period drama television film, which dramatizes the pioneering work of Dr Ludwig Guttmann with paraplegic patients at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, which led to the foundation of the Paralympic Games. It stars Eddie Marsan and Rob Brydon, and aired on BBC Two.