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The fifteenth Paralympics and will take place between 29 August and 9 September 2012 in London, United Kingdom.
Even though 2012 will be London's third Olympic Games, it will be the first Paralympic Games to be staged there, as the event was created after the last time the city hosted in 1948.
(Bold links are to Geni profiles, others to Internet web pages)
The London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) is responsible for preparing and staging the London 2012 Games.
See the full Committee list at London 2012 Olympic Games page.
Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson (Born 26 Jul 1969, Cardiff, Wales), is considered to be one of the most successful disabled athletes in the UK and has competed in events over a wide range of distances. During her career, she has won a total of 16 Paralympic medals, including 11 golds, held over 30 world records, and won the London Marathon six times between 1997 and 2002.
Paralympic representatives
Ade Adepitan (born 27 March 1973 Maryland, Lagos, Nigeria)
29th August 2012 - 8.30 pm
"The Opening Ceremony is a celebration showcasing the best of the Host Nation. It also features a parade of all competing nations and the highly anticipated entrance of the Paralympic Flame, which ignites the Cauldron and signals the start of the Games.
The London 2012 Paralympic Games Opening Ceremony will include more than 3,000 adult volunteers, a children volunteer cast of over 100, and 100-plus professionals. In a groundbreaking, inclusive staging, the Ceremony will showcase the excellence of deaf and disabled artists and will open with a fly past by Aerobility, a British charity that trains disabled people to become pilots."
He is the Artistic Director of Greenwich+Docklands Festivals, an organisation with a national and international reputation. He has broken new ground in outdoor performance and is at the forefront of the development of a new body of outdoor work by deaf and disabled artists.
She is Artistic Director of Graeae, the UK’s flagship disabled-led theatre company. Her career has spanned 20 years' working with Deaf and disabled artists, and in 2009 she was awarded an MBE for services to disability arts.
Margaret Maughan lit the Paralympic flame at the 2012 Paralympic opening ceremony.
9th September 2012
"The Closing Ceremony celebrates the achievements of athletes at the London 2012 Paralympic Games, and includes a Handover from one Host City to the next. In 2012, London will hand over to Rio de Janeiro for the 2016 Paralympic Games. The Closing Ceremony also features the extinguishing of the Paralympic Flame, signalling the end of the Games".
List of multiple Paralympic gold medalists
The various events and results are listed on separate pages:
Women's Events and Results
Men's Events and Results
- Arnold Boldt - Canada born 16 9 1957 Osler High jumper
- Natalie du Toit RSA swimmer born 29 Jan 1984
- Jiri Jezek Cycling - born 16 10 1974 Prague
- Chantal Petitclerc Canada Wheelchair athlete born 15 12 1969 Quebec
- Louise Sauvage - Australian paralympic athlete bor 18 9 1973 Perth
- Esther Vergeer Netherlands born 18 7 1981 Woerden - Wheelchair tennis
- Trischa Zorn USA Paralympic swimmer. born 1 Jun 1964 Orange County - mother's maiden name Smith
- Ronald Arthur Stein "Ron" (USA)
- Gary Leslie Hooper MBE (AUS)
- Margaret Maughan (GBR) Archery
- Frank Ponta (AUS)
- Daphne Hilton née Ceeney (AUS) 1960, 1964 & 1968
- Susan Cunliffe-Lister, Dowager Countess of Swinton, DSG, DL, Baroness Masham of Ilton Gold and Silver medalist Swimming,1960
In 1984 the games were held in two separate locations, Stoke Mandeville, United Kingdom (wheelchair athletes with spinal cord injuries) and in the Mitchel Athletic Complex and Hofstra University in Long Island, New York, United States of America (wheelchair and ambulatory athletes with cerebral palsy, amputees, and les autres (the others) conditions as well as blind and visually impaired athletes)
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