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Paralympics
Throwing a javelin from a wheelchair is not easy - even for a member of the British Olympic team . That's Cullen making a practice throw , watched by Tucker , who was in the last Olympic Games . Why this form of handicap? The Melbourne competitors were taking part in a match against paralysed patients of the Stoke Mandeville Hospital at Aylesbury and threw from wheelchairs in order to compete o…
Creator
- TopFoto
- TopFoto
Subject
- Olympic Games Olympics
- Paraplegic
- Wheelchair
- 50s 50's 1950's 1950s fifties
Type of item
- Photography, Professional Photography
Creator
- TopFoto
- TopFoto
Subject
- Olympic Games Olympics
- Paraplegic
- Wheelchair
- 50s 50's 1950's 1950s fifties
Type of item
- Photography, Professional Photography
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Place-Time
- 01/01/1956
Places
- United Kingdom England
Identifier
- https://www.topfoto.co.uk/Europeana/EuropeanKaleidoscope/1200px/1306789.jpg
- https://www.topfoto.co.uk/Europeana/EuropeanKaleidoscope/1200px/1306789.jpg
Language
- English
- eng
Is part of
- Europeana XX: Century of Change
Providing country
- United Kingdom
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2020-03-27T10:38:53.055Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2022-03-01T18:27:49.540Z