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).
The International Paralympic Committee is an international non-profit organisation and the global governing body for the Paralympic Movement. The IPC organizes the Paralympic Games and functions as the international federation for nine sports. Founded on 22 September 1989 in Düsseldorf,West Germany,its mission is to "enable Paralympic athletes to achieve sporting excellence and inspire and excite the world". Furthermore,the IPC wants to promote the Paralympic values and to create sport opportunities for all persons with a disability,from beginner to elite level.
The 2004 Summer Paralympics,the 12th Summer Paralympic Games,were a major international multi-sport event for athletes with disabilities governed by the International Paralympic Committee,held in Athens,Greece from 17 to 28 September 2004. 3,808 athletes from 136 countries participated. During these games 304 World Records were broken with 448 Paralympic Games Records being broken across 19 different sports. 8,863 volunteers worked along the Organizing Committee.
Wheelchair basketball is a style of basketball played using a sports wheelchair. The International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF) is the governing body for this sport. It is recognized by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) as the sole competent authority in wheelchair basketball worldwide. FIBA has recognized IWBF under Article 53 of its General Statutes.
The World Anti-Doping Agency is a foundation initiated by the International Olympic Committee based in Canada to promote,coordinate,and monitor the fight against drugs in sports. The agency's key activities include scientific research,education,development of anti-doping capacities,and monitoring of the World Anti-Doping Code,whose provisions are enforced by the UNESCO International Convention Against Doping in Sport. The aims of the Council of Europe Anti-Doping Convention and the United States Anti-Doping Agency are also closely aligned with those of WADA.
The 2014 Winter Paralympics,the 11th Paralympic Winter Games,and also more generally known as the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games,were an international multi-sport event for athletes with disabilities governed by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC),held in Sochi,Russia,from 7 to 16 March 2014. 45 National Paralympic Committees (NPCs) participated in the Games,which marked the first time Russia ever hosted the Paralympics. The Games featured 72 medal events in five sports,and saw the debut of snowboarding at the Winter Paralympics.
The International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF) is the international governing body for the sport of Wheelchair Basketball. IWBF is recognized by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) as the sole competent authority in wheelchair basketball worldwide. International Basketball Federation has recognized IWBF under Article 53 of its General Statutes.
The IWBF World Wheelchair Basketball Championship is an international wheelchair basketball competition contested by the men's and the women's national teams of the members of the International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF),the sport's global governing body.
The 2016 Summer Paralympics,the 15th Summer Paralympic Games,were a major international multi-sport event for athletes with disabilities governed by the International Paralympic Committee,held in Rio de Janeiro,Brazil,from 7 to 18 September 2016. The Games marked the first time a Latin American and South American city hosted the event,the second Southern Hemisphere city and nation,the first one being the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney,and also the first time a Lusophone (Portuguese-speaking) country hosted the event. These Games saw the introduction of two new sports to the Paralympic program:canoeing and the paratriathlon.
Cheating at the Paralympic Games has caused scandals that have significantly changed the way in which the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) manages the events.
The Winter Paralympic Gamesis an international multi-sport event where athletes with physical disabilities compete in snow and ice sports. The event includes athletes with mobility impairments,amputations,blindness,and cerebral palsy. The Winter Paralympic Games are held every four years directly following the Winter Olympic Games and hosted in the same city. The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) oversees the Games. Medals are awarded in each event:with gold for first place,silver for second,and bronze for third,following the tradition that the Olympic Games began in 1904.
The Russian Paralympic Committee is the National Paralympic Committee representing Russia.
Russia has competed at the Paralympic Games as different teams in its history. The nation competed as part of the Soviet Union at the 1988 Summer and Winter Games,while after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991,Russia competed as part of the Unified Team in 1992. The nation competed for a first time as Russia at the 1994 Winter Paralympics,and after that participated in every summer and winter edition up until the 2014 Winter Paralympics.
1 point player is a disability sport classification for wheelchair basketball. It is for people who have significant loss of trunk control.
The 2024 Summer Paralympics,also known as the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games,and commonly known as Paris 2024,is an upcoming international multi-sport parasports event governed by the International Paralympic Committee,to be held in Paris,France,from 28 August to 8 September 2024. These games mark the first time Paris will host the Paralympics in its history and the second time that France will host the Paralympic Games,as Tignes and Albertville joint hosted the 1992 Winter Paralympics. The final decision was made by the IOC on 13 September 2017,at their annual session in Lima,Peru.
Russia was originally scheduled to compete during the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro,Brazil,in what would have been its sixth consecutive appearance at the Summer Paralympics as an independent nation. Russia had qualified athletes in ten sports.
The opening ceremony of the 2016 Summer Paralympics took place on the evening of 7 September 2016 at the MaracanãStadium,Rio de Janeiro,starting at 18:30 BRT.
Athletes have competed as Independent Paralympians at the Paralympic Games for various reasons,including political transition,international sanctions,suspensions of National Paralympic Committees and compassion.
Systematic doping of Russian athletes has resulted in 48 Olympic medals stripped from Russia,four times the number of the next highest,and more than 30% of the global total. Russia has the most competitors who have been caught doping at the Olympic Games in the world,with more than 150.
Russian athletes competed in the 2020 Summer Paralympics under the acronym of the Russian Paralympic Committee (RPC),using a flag depicting a one-off emblem representing the committee.
