Explore: Physically Handicapped Athletes

teams at the events. The organisation was founded in 1992 as the Physically Handicapped Sports Federation of India but was renamed to be inclusive. In 1992

for their elderly parents, which might have included parents who were physically or mentally impaired. According to Aristotle, people who failed to do

President's Committee on Employment of the Physically Handicapped (1955). Performance: The Story of the Handicapped. p. 12. "Mrs. Woods: Whiz in a Wheelchair"

each athlete equally, indifferent of fame or nationality. Announced tests: The athletes know when they are tested. Unannounced tests: Athletes don't

is that athletes of all ability levels are encouraged to participate. Competitions are structured so that athletes compete with other athletes of similar

non-disabled athletes. In response to the announcement, Pistorius said: "My focus throughout this appeal has been to ensure that disabled athletes be given

South Africa at the Paralympics, International Paralympic Committee The Tokyo Games For The Physically Handicapped - Paralympic Tokyo 1964 (Japanese)

Cameroonian Sports Federation for the Physically Disabled (FECASDEP) (French: Fédération Camerounaise de Sports pour Déficients Physiques) is the national

Committee on Employment of the Physically Handicapped was renamed the President's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped, reflecting increased interest

Empire Medal (BEM) in the 1985 New Year Honours "for services to the physically handicapped." In 2005, she was inducted into the Tasmanian Sporting Hall of