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IWAS

A selection of images from the International Wheelchair and Amputees Sports Federation archive

The International Wheelchair & Amputee Sport Federation (IWAS) was created from the merger in 2005 of the International Stoke Mandeville Wheelchair Sports Federation (ISMWSF, previously ISMGF - the International Stoke Mandeville Games Federation) and the International Sports Organisation for the Disabled (ISOD). It has underpinned the Paralympic movement since its inception in 1952 as the ISMGF. Today IWAS is an international sports organization that governs sports for athletes with a disability.Its offices and archive are still at the Stoke Mandeville Olympic Lodge.

IWAS Collections

The collection of photographs and documents includes the minutes of the ISMGF and many collections of informal photographs of guttmann and his staff at international games and events in the 1960s and 1970s. A selection of images is displayed below.

Contacts

For more information about IWAS go to

http://www.iwasf.com/iwasf/index.cfm/about-iwas/history/

There is currently limited access to the IWAS collections; please contact IWAS by going to

http://www.iwasf.com/iwasf/index.cfm/contact/

This gallery was added on 23/03/2011.

Comments about this page

I am very excited about finding this website as I am beginning to research for material relative to my early days at Stoke; July 1955-Dec 1955; June 1956-Oct 1956; also three months in 1964. I was a patient in Ward 2 (1955); Ward 3X (1956); and Ward 5 (1964). Patients I knew very well were: Harry Hill (Ward 2) Superior archer; Bert Aldwinckle (ditto); Pamela Russell (women's ward ?) beautiful woman; whatever happened to her? My physio was Miss Sheila Robinson, a wonderful caring person; Scottish. She was tall, which was a great thing for a young lad 6ft tall ! Am I likely to find info about these people?

By ALAN G CLARK
On 29/08/2012

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