He retired the same year.įollow HT Tech for the latest tech news and reviews, also keep up with us The German-born British neurologist, Sir Ludwig Guttmann, founder of the Paralympic movement, has been celebrated in a Google’s Doodle celebrates on what would have been his 122nd birthday on 3. It became known as the first Paralympic Games.įor his immense achievements, Ludwig Guttmann received numerous awards and accolades during his career and he was knighted by Britain's Queen Elizabeth II in 1966. The Stoke Mandeville Games, in 1960, went global when as many as 400 athletes with disabilities participated in the event held in Rome. Guttman's efforts kept bringing the world's attention to his games.
This later transformed into the Paralympic Games. This came to be known as the "Stoke Mandeville Games" and it ensured that in the future, disability did not prevent participation in sports for anyone. However, the event that actually kick-started, what then went on to become, the Paralympic Movement was an archery competition for wheelchair-bound users that he organised in 1948 as the head of the spinal injuries unit at Stoke Mandeville Hospital. While he went on to garner much fame in his adopted country, Guttman had already acquired a name for himself as one of the top neurosurgeons back in Germany too. He was appointed as the head of the National Spinal Injuries Centre at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Aylesbury in 1944. He was lucky as he and his family managed to escape in 1939 even as World War II loomed. It was during the Nazi era, when the Jewish community was facing persecution at the hands of Adolf Hitler led Germany, that Guttman was forced to flee to England, which then became his home. Sir Ludwig Guttmann CBE FRS (3 July 1899 18 March 1980) was a German-British neurologist who established the Stoke Mandeville Games, the sporting event.
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