Deadline for London 2012 Paralympic tickets
As applications for London 2012 Paralympic tickets close organisers say demand is “like nothing ever seen before”.
Track cycling, swimming and the final rounds of wheelchair rugby and wheelchair tennis are some of the sessions that have already sold out.
It is the first time in Paralympic history, sessions across several sports are oversubscribed a year out.
Ticket sales for the London 2012 Paralympics closed at 6pm on Monday.
London 2012 chairman Lord Coe expects there will have been “applications for hundreds of thousands of tickets – a fantastic achievement a year out from the Paralympic Games”.
Tickets for the opening and closing ceremonies at the lowest price of £20.12 are also oversubscribed.
The application system, which opened on 9 September, is not first-come-first-served and over-subscribed sessions will be decided by a ballot.
Organisers are keen for the Games between 29 August to 9 September 2012 to be a sell-out.
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Three-quarters of the total two million tickets available before the Games are priced at £20 or under, and half at £10 or under.
To have such interest and hunger in the Games really is unprecedented. Sir Philip Craven
Payment will be taken by 31 October and applicants will find out if they have been successful by 18 November.
Only a Visa debit, credit and prepaid card could be used to buy tickets at the official London 2012 website.
Remaining tickets are set to go on sale from this winter.
More than 4,200 athletes, with a variety of disabilities, from 150 nations will take part in 20 sports.
Star names such as South African sprinter Oscar Pistorius plus British swimmer Ellie Simmonds and wheelchair racer David Weir are big draws.
International Paralympic Committee president Sir Philip Craven said: “To have such interest and hunger in the Games really is unprecedented.”
He described the demand for tickets as “like nothing ever seen before in the history of the Paralympic Games”.
