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| Host city | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
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| Countries visited | Great Britain, Brazil |
| Start date | September 1, 2016 |
| End date | September 7, 2016 |
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| 2016 Summer Paralympics |
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The 2016 Summer Paralympics Torch Relay was a 7-day event leading up to the 2016 Summer Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. It began on September 1, 2016, in Brasilia and concluded at the Games' opening ceremony on September 7. The Paralympic torch relay began with five individual flames being relayed to a city in each of the five regions of Brazil. These flames, as well as a sixth flame lit in Stoke Mandeville, Great Britain, were united to form a single Paralympic flame, which was relayed through Rio on 6 and 7 September 2016 en route to its lighting at the Maracanã during the opening ceremony.[1][2][3]
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- ^ "International Paralympic Committee Annual Report 2016" (PDF). Paralympic.org. Retrieved 11 January 2019.