2000 Summer Paralympics

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XI Paralympic Games

Host city	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Motto	Performance, Power and Pride
Nations	120
Athletes	3,881 (2,891 on foot, 990 on wheelchairs)
Events	551 in 18 sports
Opening	18 October
Closing	29 October
Opened by	Governor-General Sir William Deane
Cauldron	Louise Sauvage
Stadium	Stadium Australia
Summer ← Atlanta 1996 Athens 2004 → Winter ← Nagano 1998 Salt Lake 2002 → 2000 Summer Olympics

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The 2000 Summer Paralympic Games or the XI Summer Paralympics were held in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, between 18 and 29 October. The Sydney Paralympics was the last time that the Summer Paralympics were organized by two different Organizing Committees. In this edition, a record 3,801 athletes from 120 National Paralympic Committees participated in 551 events in 18 sports, and until the 2006 Commonwealth Games held in Melbourne, it was the second largest sporting event ever until that date held in Australia and the Southern Hemisphere. Sydney was the eighth city to host the Olympics and the Paralympics on same venues at the same year, and the first since Barcelona 1992 that they were organized in complete conjunction with the Olympics. They were also the first Paralympic Games outside the Northern Hemisphere and also in Oceania.^[1]