January 1, 1970

Sport also played an important role after the Second World War and, under Ludwig Guttman’s care, paralysed patients at the Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Aylesbury were using sport as part of a pioneering rehabilitation method. In 1948 a wheelchair archery competition was held on the lawns of that hospital and, in this humble way, the Paralympic Games were born.

Fifty years later, in 1988, the outstanding Paralympian Tanni Grey (later Tanni Grey-Thompson) would win her first Paralympic medal at the Seoul Games, going on to win sixteen medals in total (eleven golds, four silver and one bronze). She was a Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellow in 1993 and you can find out more about how the Fellowship helped her learn about coach education to encourage children reach their potential in sport here.