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2012 Summer Paralympics
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2012 edition of the Summer Paralympics
The 2012 Summer Paralympics was an international sporting event held for athletes with physical and sensory disabilities, following the same year's Summer Olympics. It brought together thousands of competitors from around the world to compete in various adaptive sports, showcasing athletic achievement and advancing opportunities for people with disabilities in competitive athletics.
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Wikidata facts
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Followed by
- 2016 Summer Paralympics
- Follows
- 2008 Summer Paralympics
- Location
- London
- Sport
- parasport
- Official website
- www.paralympic.org/london-2012
- Image
- Paralympic flag (2010-2019).svg
- Participant
- Canada at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
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- mascot
- Wenlock and Mandeville
- edition number
- 14
- Commons category
- 2012 Summer Paralympics
- topic's main category
- Category:2012 Summer Paralympics
- start time
- 2012-08-29
- end time
- 2012-09-09
- point in time
- 2012-00-00
- topic has template
- Template:Events at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
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Encyclopedic overview
The 2012 Summer Paralympics, branded as the London 2012 Paralympic Games, were an international multi-sport parasports event held from 29 August to 9 September 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. They were the 14th Summer Paralympic Games as organised by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC).
These Games were the first Summer Paralympics to be hosted by London and the first to be hosted solely by Great Britain. The English village of Stoke Mandeville had previously co-hosted the 1984 Games with Long Island, New York, after the original host—the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign—withdrew due to financial difficulties. In 1948, the village hosted the Stoke Mandeville Games—the first organised sporting event for athletes with disabilities, and a precursor to the modern Paralympic Games—to coincide with the opening of the 1948 Olympics in London.
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