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Paralympic Games

LC control no.n 78064382
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Meeting name headingParalympic Games
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Variant(s)Paralympics
Changaeja Ollimpʻik
Jogos Paraolímipicos
Olympiad for the Physically Disabled
Olympics for Paraplegics
Paraolimpíada
Summer Paralympic Games
Games of the Paralympiad
Beginning date1960
Field of activitySports Sports for people with disabilities
Special noteSee also related access points for individual instances of this event which include specific information about the number, date, or place of the individual event
Found inMaking history at London 2012, 2012: t.p. (Paralympic Games)
Henriod, L. Special Olympics ... 1979 (subj.) t.p. (Paralympics) CIP galleys (the Olympiad for the Physically Disabled, or the Paralympics; the Olympics for Paraplegics are held every 4th year, since 1960, in the same year and usually in the same country as the regular Olympics)
Sŏul Changaeja Ollimpʻik chʻongnam, 1989: t.p. (Changaeja Ollimpʻik; Paralympics; 8th, held in Seoul)
Greening the Games, c2000: p. 1 (Sydney 2000 Olympic and Paralympic Games; Paralympics) p. 5 (Sydney 2000 Paralympics)
Ronchi, M. Paraolímpicos, 2005: p. 7 (Jogos Paraolímpicos; Paraolimpíada; 1960, Rome; 1972, Heidelberg, Germany; 1976, Toronto, Canada; Athens 2004)
Wikipedia, Nov. 26, 2012 (the Summer Paralympic Games or the Games of the Paralympiad, are an international multi-sport event, where athletes with physical disabilities compete)
Equivalent(s)Jeux paralympiques
National bib agency no.1002E5885E
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