* History of * Sports for the * Disabled...
The history of sport for people with disabilities (PPD) began in the town of Aylesbury, England. At the request of the British government, the neurologist Ludwig Guttmann, who had fled the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany, created the National Center for Spinal Cord Injuries at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, to treat men and women wounded in the English army in World War II.
Although already promote sports activities for disabled people, especially in England, the United States and Germany was in 1948 that this concept was an official with the achievement of Stoke Mandeville Games.
Alex Zanardi- wins * New * York * Marathon - 2011 by (Bernardo Bercht) - and Carlos Roberto