Who Started The Paralympics. While the deaflympics paved the way for international disability sporting events, the origins of the paralympics lie in world war 2. 100,000 attended the opening ceremonies, which featured skydivers, thousands.

The story of the paralympic games began in 1948 at a military hospital to the north of london. The legendary sir ludwig guttmann is credited as the man responsible for founding the paralympic games and the paralympic movement as a whole.