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The purpose of this study is to attract attention the relationship between Rehabilititation-Hancicapted Sport and Paralympic Games, and also to put forward the progress of Paralympic Games and the formation of it in our country from 1948 to 2010. Handicapted sport involves the sport of handicapted’s and the sport of rehabilitation of potentially handicapted, the activities that is examined as hobby, participation the competition and every kind of sport activities. Rehabilitation sport is a part of handicapted sport and makes rehabilitation reach the medical, professional and psycho-social goals with the other therapy methods. The aim the rehabilitation sport is to perform positive developments at motor, psychological, medical and social fields of handicapted people. From the ancient times; therapy, activity, handicapted sport and gymnastics were all used for the rehabilitative goals. Medical therapies (medical rehabilitation) have been always used primarily for the development of handicapted sport during the history. The scientists such as Erasistratos (B.C 305-250), Galen (A.C 129-199) and İbn-i Sina (A.C 980)have mentioned that exercise should be considered with the improving affects of medical gymnastics. S. Ludwig Guttman established a rehabilitation office in a military hospital for paralyzed people and took the advantage of rehabilitative affects of wheelchair sport in England in 1944. The development of wheelchair sport started with technic exercises such as cannon ball, javelin and disc. Guttman founded the Paralympic Games by organizing the first Stoke Mandeville Wheelchair Sport Games as reconciling wheelchair sport with the Olympic philofophy. International Paralympic Committee (IPC) was established in Düsseldorf in Germany on 22th September 1989 and moved to its stable adress Adenaueralle 212-214, 53113 BONN a year later. 162 National Paralympic Committees that includes Turkish National Paralympic Committee and four International Sport Federation (Cerebral Palsy International Sport and Recreation Association - CPISRA, Internatonal Blind Sport Federation – IBSA, International Sports Federations for Persons with Intellectual Disability- INAS-FID, International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports Federation – IWAS) are the members of IPC (International Paralympic Committee). Paralympic Games started with 400 athletes from 23 countries in Roma in 1960, and reached 4000 athletes from 145 countries at Beijing Olympics. 16 years later from the Summer Games, Winter Paralympic Games that started with 250 athletes from 13 countries, is expected to reach 503 athletes from 44 countries at 2010 Canada Games. Handicapted Sport, so Paralympic Sport branchs includes Rehabilitation Sport. The countries that are popular at Handicapted Sport attach imprtance to Rehabilitation Sport also, and encourage it. National Paralympic Committee that is being organized in our country shold attach importance to Rehabilitation Sport and should encourage it, and also should organize programmes to educate qualified staff member by cooperating with universities.