Ball used by the USA Wheelchair Rugby team at the 2008 Beijing Paralympics
date: label: date made
content: 2008
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Ball used by the USA Wheelchair Rugby team at the 2008 Beijing Paralympics when they won the gold medal by beating Australia. The first Paralympic Games were held in Rome in 1960, a week after the Summer Olympics. This tradition of holding the games for athletes with disabilities after the Olympics continues today. These first games were for wheelchair users only, but in 1976 athletes with other disabilities were welcomed. In that same year adaptive athletes from the Winter Olympics were also embraced. The 1996 games in Atlanta marked a turning point as the first games to fully include the Paralympic athletes and events under the Team USA banner.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: web subject
content: Sports
label: name of sport
content: Wheelchair Rugby
label: level of sport
content: Amateur
label: level of sport
content: paralympics
label: web subject
content: Adaptive Sports
label: web subject
content: Disabilities
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
label: See more items in
content: Sports & Leisure
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2016.0063.01
label: accession number
content: 2016.0063
label: catalog number
content: 2016.0063.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: wheelchair rugby ball
label: Object Name
content: ball, adaptive sports, wheelchair rugby
label: Object Name
content: ball, adaptive sports
label: Object Name
content: ball, summer paralympics
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: leather composite (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 23 cm; 9 1/16 in