Cerebral Palsy Games

The Cerebral Palsy Games (or CP Games) are a multi-sport competition for athletes with a disability, which under the former name of the International Stoke Mandeville Games were the forerunner of the Paralympic Games. The competition has been formerly known as the International Cerebral Palsy Games or the Stoke Mandeville Games. Since the 1990s the Games have been organized by Cerebral Palsy International Sports and Recreation Association (CPISRA), so they called also CPISRA World Games.

Cerebral Palsy Games

Abbreviation	CP Games
First event	1972
Website	http://www.cpsport.org/news/cpisra-world-games/

History

The Games were originally held in 1976 by neurologist Sir Ludwig Guttmann, who organized a sporting competition involving World War II veterans with spinal cord injuries at the Stoke Mandeville Hospital rehabilitation facility in Aylesbury, England, taking place concurrently with the first post-war Summer Olympics in London. In 1952, the Netherlands joined in the event, creating the first international sports competition for disabled people. In 1960, the Ninth Stoke Mandeville Games were held in Rome, Italy, following that year's Olympic Games. These are considered to be the first Paralympic Games.^[1][2] The 2012 Paralympic mascot Mandeville was named after Stoke Mandeville Hospital.^[3]

While the Paralympic Games evolved to include athletes from all disability groups, the Stoke Mandeville games continued to be organized as a multi-sport event for wheelchair athletes. Games were held annually in Aylesbury under the direction of the International Stoke Mandeville Games Federation (ISMGF), which became the International Stoke Mandeville Wheelchair Sports Federation (ISMWSF).

In 2023 International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports Federation (IWAS) and Cerebral Palsy International Sports and Recreation Association (CPISRA) mergered into World Abilitysport.^[4] The first edition World Abilitysport Games was Nakhon Ratchasima 2023 in Thailand.

Games

No.	Year	Games	Host City	Opening Ceremony	Closing Ceremony	Ref.
1	1972	1. International Cerebral Palsy Games	London
2	1974	2. International Cerebral Palsy Games	London
3	1976	3. International Cerebral Palsy Games	Montrodat
3	1978	4. International Cerebral Palsy Games	Edinburgh	July		[5][6]
4	1980	5. International Cerebral Palsy Games	Herentals			[5]
5	1982	6. International Cerebral Palsy Games	Greve			[5]
6	1986	7. International Cerebral Palsy Games	Gits
7	1989	Robin Hood CP World Games	Nottingham			[5]
8	1993	Robin Hood CP World Games	Nottingham			[5][7]
9	1997	Robin Hood CP World Games	Delden	8 May	12 May	[5][8]
10	2001	CPISRA World Games Robin Hood CP World Games	Nottingham	19 July	29 July	[5][9][10][11][12]
11	2005	CPISRA World Championships	New London	27 June	11 July	[5][13][14][15]
12	2015	CPISRA World Games	Nottingham	6 August	16 August	[16]
13	2018	CPISRA World Games	Sant Cugat del Vallès			[17]

Results

2015

  *   Host nation (England)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	England (ENG)*	85	52	19	156
2	Scotland (SCO)	29	13	11	53
3	Australia (AUS)	22	7	3	32
4	Ireland (IRE)	18	3	4	25
5	Austria (AUT)	11	17	6	34
6	Denmark (DEN)	10	2	0	12
7	Sweden (SWE)	6	7	4	17
8	Portugal (POR)	3	6	3	12
9	Hungary (HUN)	3	1	0	4
10	Russia (RUS)	1	0	0	1
11	Brazil (BRA)	0	2	1	3
12	Japan (JPN)	0	0	0	0
	Netherlands (NED)	0	0	0	0
Totals (13 entries)		188	110	51	349

• CPISRA World Games Nottingham 2015

2018

Over 600 participants from 30 countries in 5 sports:^[18]

Sports

1. Athletics
2. Boccia
3. CP Football
4. Swimming
5. Wheelchair Slalom

Results

• http://cpisra.org/new-site/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/para-athletics-thursday.pdf
• http://cpisra.org/new-site/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/para-athletics-friday.pdf
• http://cpisra.org/new-site/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/para-athletics-saturday.pdf
• http://cpisra.org/new-site/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/boccia-pools-individual.pdf
• http://cpisra.org/new-site/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/boccia-pairs-teams.pdf
• http://cpisra.org/new-site/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/boccia-final-classification.pdf
• http://cpisra.org/new-site/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/cp-football-results.pdf
• http://cpisra.org/new-site/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/IFCPF-Female-CP-Football-Match-Report.pdf
• http://cpisra.org/new-site/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/para-swimming-session1.pdf
• http://cpisra.org/new-site/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/para-swimming-session2.pdf
• http://cpisra.org/new-site/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/para-swimming-session3.pdf
• http://cpisra.org/new-site/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/wheelchair-slalom-erasmus.pdf
• http://cpisra.org/new-site/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/wheelchair-slalom-official.pdf

2023

TBD.

See also

• Cerebral Palsy International Sports and Recreation Association
• International Federation of Cerebral Palsy Football
• CP football
• IWAS World Games