IWAS World Games
The International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports World Games - short IWAS World Games - the biggest international sporting event in disabled sports. Your predecessor - as well as the Paralympic Games - took from 1948 to 1995 under the name International Stoke Mandeville Games held in 1997 under the name World Wheelchair Games and from 2003 World Wheelchair and Amputee Games. Born earlier every year, they take place in two annual basis since 2008.
The idea
The IWAS World Games are under the motto of unity, friendship and sportsmanship. The discharged in pre-Olympic years competitions now serve at the same time qualifying for the Paralympics - held in the country in the upcoming Olympic and Paralympic Games - the people aware of the Paralympic movement and the concerns of disabled sports.
History
As the founder of the true German -British neurologist Sir Ludwig Guttmann, the London- organized parallel to the Summer Olympic Games 1948 sports competitions for disabled veterans in the he directed rehabilitation clinic in Stoke Mandeville, United Kingdom. 1952 was also attended by disabled athletes from the Netherlands - the first step to international sporting event was complete. The 9th Stoke Mandeville Games were first held at the venue of this year took place in Rome Summer Olympics. You will be counted afterwards as the first Paralympic Games.
While over the years in the Paralympic Games are increasingly more disability groups were included, the Stoke Mandeville Games were still a sporting event for wheelchair users. Venue organized by the International Stoke Mandeville Wheelchair Sports Federation ( ISMWSF ) competitions for many years remained Stoke Mandeville.
2003, the Stoke Mandeville Games were held together with competitions in the International Sports Organization for the Disabled ( ISO) for the first time. The event was held in Christchurch New Zealand. In 2004, the ISMWSF and ISO merged to International Wheel Chair and Amputee Sports Federation ( IWAS ). The first common games for the physically disabled of various kinds found in 2005 under the name of IWAS World Wheelchair and Amputee Sports World Games in Rio de Janeiro instead.
In addition, the IWAS World Junior Championships Junior Games For several years, will be held. In July 2012, was the site of Olomouc in the Czech Republic.
Sports
1948 initially limited to archery for paraplegics, the range of sports over the years on athletics, weightlifting, shooting, swimming, table tennis, wheelchair racing, wheelchair rugby and wheelchair volleyball or Amputee cycling and Amputee football as well as competition classes for the visually impaired advanced. The competitions will be held in different handicap groups according to international regulations.