2004 Summer Paralympics

XII Paralympic Games

Host city	Athens, Greece
Motto	Great Athletes. Great Performances. (Greek: Μεγάλοι Αθλητές. Μεγάλες Επιδόσεις.)
Nations	136
Athletes	3,806
Events	517 in 19 sports
Opening	17 September
Closing	28 September
Opened by	President Konstantinos Stephanopoulos
Cauldron	Georgios Toptsis
Stadium	Olympic Stadium
Summer ← Sydney 2000 Beijing 2008 → Winter ← Salt Lake City 2002 Turin 2006 → 2004 Summer Olympics

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The 2004 Summer Paralympics (Greek: Θερινοί Παραολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004), the 12th Summer Paralympic Games, were a major international multi-sport event for athletes with disabilities governed by the International Paralympic Committee, held in Athens, Greece from 17 to 28 September 2004. 3,808 athletes (2,643 Men and 1,165 Women) from 136 countries participated. During these games 304 World Records were broken with 448 Paralympic Games Records being broken across 19 different sports.^[1] 8,863 volunteers worked along the Organizing Committee.^{[2] [3]}

Four new events were introduced to the Paralympics in Athens; 5-a-side football for the blind, quads wheelchair tennis, and women's competitions in judo and sitting volleyball. Following a scandal at the 2000 Summer Paralympics, in which the Spanish intellectually-disabled basketball team was stripped of their gold medal after it was found that multiple players had not met the eligibility requirements, ID-class events were suspended.^[4][5]

It was also the last time that the old Paralympic symbol was used. The new Paralympic symbol was introduced in 2006.