Winter Paralympic Games
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International multi-sport event for disabled athletes
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- Paralympic Games
- Sport
- winter sport
- Image
- 2010ParalympicsUnitedStatesVsJapanIceSledgeHockey.jpg
- Organizer
- International Paralympic Committee
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- season starts
- March
- topic's main category
- Category:Winter Paralympic Games
- inception
- 1976-00-00
- event interval
- 4
- Commons category
- Winter Paralympics
- opposite of
- Summer Paralympic Games
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Encyclopedic overview
The Paralympic Winter Games are an international multi-sport event featuring winter Para athletes with physical and vision impairments who are representing their National Paralympic Committee (NPC) to compete in snow and ice Para sports.
The Paralympic Winter Games are held every four years a matter of days following the conclusion of the Winter Olympic Games and (since 1992) hosted in the same city.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Winter Paralympic Games” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.