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2010 Winter Paralympics
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multi-parasport event in Vancouver and Whistler, Canada
Key facts
- Location
- Vancouver , Canada
- Motto
- With Glowing Hearts , ( French : Des plus brillants exploits )
- Events
- 64 in 5 sports
- Opening
- 12 March 2010
- Closing
- 21 March 2010
- Opened by
- Governor General Michaëlle Jean
- Closed by
- IPC President Philip Craven
- Cauldron
- Zachary Beaumont
- Stadium
- BC Place Stadium
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Vancouver 2010
Sports, athletes, medals and ceremonies of the Vancouver 2010 Paralympic Winter Games
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Wikidata facts
- Country
- Canada
- Followed by
- 2014 Winter Paralympics
- Follows
- 2006 Winter Paralympics
- Location
- Vancouver
- Sport
- parasport
- Official website
- www.paralympic.org/vancouver-2010
- Image
- Paralympic flag (2010-2019).svg
Show 5 more facts
- start time
- 2010-03-12
- end time
- 2010-03-21
- Commons category
- 2010 Winter Paralympics
- topic's main category
- Category:2010 Winter Paralympics
- point in time
- 2010-03-00
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Encyclopedic overview
The 2010 Winter Paralympics (French: Jeux paralympiques d'hiver de 2010), or the tenth Paralympic Winter Games, were held in Vancouver and Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, from March 12 to 21, 2010. The opening ceremony took place in BC Place Stadium in Vancouver and the closing ceremony in Whistler Medals Plaza.
This was the first time Canada hosted the Winter Paralympic Games and second time it hosted the Paralympics – the first was the 1976 Summer Paralympics in Toronto.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “2010 Winter Paralympics” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.