wheelchair fencing

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  • 1992 Olympics women's foil event
    In fencing: Wheelchair fencing

    One of fencing’s most recent developments is wheelchair fencing, which was introduced by German-born English neurosurgeon Sir Ludwig Guttmann at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Aylesbury, England. Fencing was one of many sports therapies Guttmann introduced for World War II veterans who had suffered…

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