Sir Ludwig Guttmann Birth Anniversary: Here Are 5 Interesting Facts About The Founder of Paralympic Movement

Professor Ludwig Guttmann was honoured today by Google to commemorate his 122nd birthday. In honour of Guttmann's birthday, here are five fascinating facts.

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03 Jul 2021, 6:51 am

Today, Google honoured Sir Ludwig Guttmann with a doodle created by Ashanti Fortson, a guest artist from Baltimore. Guttmann, widely known as the "Father of Paralympic Events," was represented in the centre of the image, looking pleasant as doodles of paralympic games swirled around him.

Google Doodle Honours Sir Ludwig Guttmann. The doodle was created to honour the 122nd birthday of the man known affectionately as "Poppa."

On July 3, 1899, in Tost, Germany, a Jewish, German-British neurologist's history is deeply linked with the Nazi movement in Germany. That's only one amazing anecdote regarding the Paralympic Movement's founder. In honour of Guttmann's birthday, here are five fascinating facts about him:

1. Professor Ludwig was passionately committed in his studies on spinal cord injuries after getting his M.D. in 1924, and he performed multiple neurosurgeries. By his early thirties, his dedication to this profession had elevated him to the status of one of Germany's greatest neurosurgeons.

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2. In 1933, as a Jew of Jewish origin, he was barred from performing surgery in Germany during the height of Nazism.

3. He escaped Germany and found shelter in England in 1939, when the Germans began gathering up Jews for death camps.

. In England, Guttmann resumed and refined his paraplegia studies. As the director of Stoke Mandeville Hospital's National Spinal Injuries Center, he pioneered new techniques to the field, which began to show promising results in 1944. He founded the "Olympics for the Disabled," which featured activities such as archery competitions that exhibited strength despite disability.

5. Sir Ludwig Guttmann established a sport called Wheelchair Fencing competition at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, the birthplace of the Paralympic Games, following World War II.

Today, paralympic athletes' abilities and achievements know no bounds because to Guttmann's dedication and diligence in the service of paraplegics. The Paralympic Games are still an extremely popular event in England, attracting thousands of athletes and supporters.

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