Coaching staff

As Paralympic sport has grown into a professional industry, patients undergoing rehabilitation through sports have evolved into athletes and medical support staff have been joined by professional sports coaches.

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Tignes-Albertville 1992 Paralympic Winter Games

This was the first winter Paralympics to be celebrated concurrently with the Olympics, hosted in the same city or region. Although these were publicised as the Tignes-Albertville Paralympic Winter Games the events all took place in Tignes.
Nagano 1998 Paralympic Winter Games

In addition to being the first Paralympic Winter Games held outside Europe they were only the second Games to be hosted by the same city as the Olympic Winter Games.
Atlanta 1996 Paralympic Summer Games

Atlanta, awarded the right to host the 1996 Paralympic Summer Games in September 1990, saw the first corporate sponsorship programme, marketing the Games as a commercially viable event. Twenty-six sponsors at Worldwide, Official Sponsor and Official Supplier levels covered over two thirds of the cost of the Games.
Lillehammer 1994 Paralympic Winter Games

The Lillehammer Games of 1994 were held only two years after the 1992 Tignes-Albertville Games as the scheduling was changed so that the Winter Games took place two years after the Summer Paralympic and Olympic Games.