The Cerebral Palsy Games (or CP Games) are a multi-sport competition for athletes with a disability, which under the former name of the International Stoke Mandeville Games were the forerunner of the

Paralympic Games The Paralympic Games or Paralympics is a periodic series of international multisport events involving athletes with a range of disability, disabilities. There are Winter Paralympic Games, Winter and Summer Paralympic Games, which since the 1988 ...

. The competition has been formerly known as the International Cerebral Palsy Games or the Stoke Mandeville Games. Since the 1990s the Games have been organized by Cerebral Palsy International Sports and Recreation Association (CPISRA), so they called also CPISRA World Games.

History

The Games were originally held in 1976 by neurologist Sir

Ludwig Guttmann Sir Ludwig Guttmann (3 July 1899 – 18 March 1980) was a German-British neurologist who established the Stoke Mandeville Games, the sporting event for people with disabilities (PWD) that evolved in England into the Paralympic Games. A Jewish ...

, who organized a sporting competition involving

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veterans with

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at the

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rehabilitation facility in

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, England, taking place concurrently with the first post-war

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in London. In 1952, the Netherlands joined in the event, creating the first international sports competition for disabled people. In 1960, the Ninth Stoke Mandeville Games were held in Rome, Italy, following that year's

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. These are considered to be the first

. The 2012 Paralympic mascot Mandeville was named after Stoke Mandeville Hospital. While the

evolved to include athletes from all disability groups, the Stoke Mandeville games continued to be organized as a multi-sport event for wheelchair athletes. Games were held annually in Aylesbury under the direction of the International Stoke Mandeville Games Federation (ISMGF), which became the

International Stoke Mandeville Wheelchair Sports Federation World Abilitysport (formerly the International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports Federation or IWAS) is an international sports organisation that governs sports for athletes with physical impairments. It is a registered charity with its headquarte ...

(ISMWSF). In 2023 International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports Federation (IWAS) and Cerebral Palsy International Sports and Recreation Association (CPISRA) mergered into World Abilitysport. The first edition World Abilitysport Games was Nakhon Ratchasima 2023 in Thailand.

Games

Results

2015

CPISRA World Games Nottingham 2015

2018

Over 600 participants from 30 countries in 5 sports:

Sports

# Athletics # Boccia # CP Football # Swimming # Wheelchair Slalom

Results

* http://cpisra.org/new-site/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/para-athletics-thursday.pdf * http://cpisra.org/new-site/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/para-athletics-friday.pdf * http://cpisra.org/new-site/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/para-athletics-saturday.pdf * http://cpisra.org/new-site/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/boccia-pools-individual.pdf * http://cpisra.org/new-site/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/boccia-pairs-teams.pdf * http://cpisra.org/new-site/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/boccia-final-classification.pdf * http://cpisra.org/new-site/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/cp-football-results.pdf * http://cpisra.org/new-site/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/IFCPF-Female-CP-Football-Match-Report.pdf * http://cpisra.org/new-site/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/para-swimming-session1.pdf * http://cpisra.org/new-site/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/para-swimming-session2.pdf * http://cpisra.org/new-site/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/para-swimming-session3.pdf * http://cpisra.org/new-site/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/wheelchair-slalom-erasmus.pdf * http://cpisra.org/new-site/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/wheelchair-slalom-official.pdf

2023

TBD.

References

External links

CPISRA World Games
from the Cerebral Palsy International Sports and Recreation Association (CPISRA) website
CPISRA World Games Nottingham
from the Cerebral Palsy Sport (cpsport) website {{DEFAULTSORT:Cerebral Palsy Games Disabled multi-sport events Recurring sporting events established in 1978 Cerebral palsy and other paralytic syndromes

History

Games

Results

2015

2018

Sports

Results

2023

See also

References

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