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The 2012 Summer Paralympics, branded as the London 2012 Paralympic Games, were an international multi-sport parasports event held from 29 August to 9 September 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. They were the 14th Summer Paralympic Games as organised by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC).

They were the first Summer Paralympics to be hosted by London, and the first hosted solely by Great Britain; the English village of Stoke Mandeville co-hosted the 1984 Games with Long Island, New York after its original host, the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, withdrew due to financial issues. In 1948, the village hosted the Stoke Mandeville Games—the first organised sporting event for athletes with disabilities, and a precursor to the modern Paralympic Games—to coincide with the opening of the 1948 Olympics in London.

Organisers expected the Games to be the first Paralympics to achieve mass-market appeal, fuelled by continued enthusiasm over Great Britain's performance during the Olympics, awareness of England's role in the history of the Paralympics, South African sprinter Oscar Pistorius (who had become the first double amputee to compete in the Summer Olympics alongside non-disabled athletes), and increasing media coverage and promotion of Paralympic sport (including a major advertising campaign by the Games' British broadcaster Channel 4). The Games ultimately met these expectations, breaking records for ticket sales, heightening the profile of the Paralympics in relation to the Olympics, and prompting IPC president Philip Craven to declare them the "greatest Paralympic Games ever."

A total of 503 events in 20 sports were held during the Games; events for athletes with intellectual disabilities (ID) returned to the Paralympic programme after being suspended following the 2000 Summer Paralympics, The Games were contested by a record 4,302 athletes representing 164 National Paralympic Committees, with 14 countries making their Paralympic debut. For the third Summer Paralympics in a row, China won the most medals overall, with a total of 231 (95 of them being gold), followed by Russia and Great Britain.

Venues[]

Venues Location Events
Olympic Stadium Greater London Opening/closing ceremonies, Athletics
London Aquatics Centre Swimming
Basketball Arena Wheelchair rugby, wheelchair basketball
Eton Manor Wheelchair tennis
Copper Box Arena Goalball
Velodrome Cycling (track)
Riverbank Arena Football 7-a-side, football 5-a-side
ExCeL London Boccia, judo, powerlifting, table tennis, volleyball (sitting), wheelchair fencing
Greenwich Park Equestrian
The O2 Arena
(North Greenwich Arena)
Wheelchair basketball
Royal Artillery Barracks Archery, shooting
Marathon Course Athletics (marathon)
Brands Hatch Swanley, Kent Cycling (road)
Dorney Lake Dorney, Buckinghamshire Rowing
Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy Isle of Portland, Dorset Sailing

Broadcasting[]

Country TV Rights Holders
Australia ABC1, ABC2
Brazil Rede Globo, SporTV
Canada Canada's Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium (TSN, RDS, CTV, Sportsnet One, TSN2, RDS2, AMI-tv)
China CCTV
Colombia Señal Colombia
Denmark DR HD
Europe European Broadcasting Union
Finland Yle
France France Ô, TV8 Mont-Blanc
Germany ARD, ZDF
Greece NET
Ireland Setanta Sports, RTÉ Two
Italy Sky Italia, RAI
Japan NHK
New Zealand Sky Sport, Prime
Norway NRK1, NRK2
Russia VGTRK
Singapore MediaCorp
South Africa SuperSport, SABC2
South Korea KBS
Spain Teledeporte, TVE HD
Sweden SVT1, SVT2, SVT24, SVT Play
Thailand Television Pool of Thailand (Channel 3, Channel 5, BBTV Channel 7, Modernine TV)
Turkey TRT
United Kingdom Channel 4, More4, Freesat, Sky, Virgin TV, BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra
United States NBC Sports Network, NBC
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