Abhinav Bindra Mariyappan Thangavelu

Gold Medalist Gold Medalist

Men’s 10m Air Rifle Men’s High Jump
Olympics 2008 Paralympic 2016
 Paralympics

The Untold Stories

 Agenda
Agenda

1 About Paralympics Games

2 Hero’s of Paralympic - India

3 Values of Paralympic

4 Olympics vs Paralympics ( India & World )

5 Challenges faced by Paralympics

6 Life Story of Deepa Malik and Others

7 Addressing the issue

 About Paralymics

From London’1948 to South Korea’2018

• The Paralymics Games is a major international multi – sport event involving
athletes with a range of disabilities;
• Paralympics has grown from a small gathering of British World War II
veterans in 1948 to Rio in 2016 covering over 100 years;
• All Paralympic Games are governed by the International Paralympic
committee (IPC);
• There are Winter and summer Paralympic games, which are held almost
immediately following the respective Olympic Games;

• The Paralympics has grown from 400 athletes with a disability from 23 countries in
1960 to thousands of competitors from over 100 countries at the 2016 Summer
Olympics;
• The allowable disabilities are impaired muscle power, impaired passive range of
movement, limb deficiency, leg length difference, short
stature, hypertonia, ataxia, athetosis, vision impairment and intellectual impairment.
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Meet the Paralympians - the real life heroes of Rio’2016

Mariyappan Thangavelu
Men’s High Jump - Gold Medalist

Devendra Jhajharia
Men’s Javelin Throw - Gold Medalist

Deepak Malik
Women’s Shot Put - Silver Medalist

Varun Singh Bhati

Men’s high Jump - Bronze Medalist

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 Values of
Paralympics

The core Paralympic values are at the heart of the Paralympic Movement

Inspiration
Acting as role models to
empower and excite others
to participate in sports
Courage
Showcase into world what
can be achieved when para
athletes push their bodies to
absolute limits

Equality Determination
Strength of character to
To break down social barriers produce sporty
of discrimination for persons performances that regularly
with an impairment redefine boundaries of
. possibility
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 Olympics vs
Paralympics

OLYMPICS * PARALYMPICS *
COUNTRY GOLD SILVER BRONZE TOTAL COUNTRY GOLD SILVER BRONZE TOTAL
USA 1127 907 794 2828 USA 847 778 742 2367
Russia 726 593 591 1910 Great Britain 628 597 598 1823
Germany 578 589 587 1754 Germany 624 612 571 1807
Great Britain 274 299 310 883 Canada 444 376 402 1222
France 248 276 316 840 France 380 399 380 1159
List of Top 5 nations leading in Olympics List of Top 5 nations leading in Paralympics

GOLD SILVER BRONZE TOTAL GOLD SILVER BRONZE TOTAL

9 7 12 28 4 4 4 12
Total medal achieved - INDIA Total medal achieved - INDIA

• India first participated at the Olympics games in • India first participated at the Paralympics games in
1900 winning two medals, both silver in athletics; 1968 and won its first medal (gold) in 1972;
• In the recent Rio Olympics’2016 nearly 117 • In the recent Rio Olympics’2016 nearly 19
participants participates and bagged 2 medals participants participates and bagged 4 medals

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* Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India_at_the_Paralympics
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 World Paralympics
vs India

* Country
Paralympic Games
Medal
 Algeria 73
 Azerbaijan 37
 Colombia 23
 Croatia 21
 Cuba 82
 Estonia 20
 India 12
All these countries perform better than India when it comes to
gender equality, particularly with respect to female labour force  Lithuania 33
participation rate (LFPR) and educational attainment.  Morocco 27
 Rhodesia 54
 Serbia  16
 Turkey 23
 Uzbekistan 32
 Venezuela 16
 Yugoslavia 71
 Zimbabwe 17

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* Source: https://www.livemint.com/Opinion/wjD6mommpQXvG95v5UcUbN/What-it-takes-for-a-country-to-do-well-at-Olympics.html
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 Reality

‘An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He

must run with hope on his heart and dreams in his
head’

An athlete thinks of winning a game but a para athlete

thinks - Who will push my wheelchair?

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 Challenges faced by
Paralympics

• Not enough funds, • No advertisement, promotion or

Infrastructure and any campaign offered by
necessary equipment to government;
support special athlete; • Corrupt bureaucrats across sports
• Very few training centres committee;
available and those • Tickets and merchandise sell is
available has no LackPropaganda
of Facilities negligible;
Recognistion
standards;
• There are very few sports
events for differently abled
people in India

• Less Media Coverage;

• Less Information available to society;
• Paralympic athletes are deprived from
popularity;

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Life story of
Deepa Malik

• Started her sports journey at the age of 36 and became the first
women to win award for India in Paralympic event;
• In the year of 1999 she was diagnosed with lower body
Paralysis and her medical records has cases of repetitive
tumours. A series of major surgeries resulted in cutting of spinal
cord;
• She still continued her fitness training even after paralysis for
almost 20 years;
• In 2006 she travelled alone and represented India for the first
time;
• Post which she went to a hydro therapy rehab training and after
that created a world record by crossing the entire Yamuna river
by swimming in paralysis state;
• Later after realizing her arm strength, she decided to go for
games like shot put and javelin throw in international events and
represented India in Paralympics;
• Till today she has achieved 23 international medals at the
age of 49;

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 Other Warriors…

 Devendra Jhajharia  Varun Singh Bhati

 Naresh Kumar Sharma

 Ankur Dhama  Suyash Jadhav

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 Addressing the
Issue

Para - Athletes are governed by a range of normative frameworks affecting preparation and
1 participation in games and associated events, the committee and coach to take complete
ownership of handing such issue;

2 Medical models often support a conception of biostatistical normality that derogates persons
with disabilities, yet in elite sports abnormalities in structure and function can be highly valued;

Governing bodies need to more critically and coherently spell out their ethical vision for
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Paralympic sports, which should guide athletes and rehabilitation professionals to behave in
ways that would command the general public’s admiration;

4 Females in para-sport, as well as how female athletes with impairment deal with public health
implications, injuries and illnesses can be handled by assigning doctors;

As the international significance of Paralympic sport increases, so do the financial

5 rewards and prestige associated with winning Paralympic medals.

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Thank you
Team Sprint Squad
Mukul Pandey Deepti Shelar
Shubham Patil Manushi Shah
Tushar Pandagre