"My father would have been honoured and thrilled to know that the legacy of the London 2012 Games would include a polyclinic that bore his name and served a community that had its roots in the wonderful Olympic and Paralympic Games of 2012," said Dr Guttmann's daughter, Eva Loeffler, who served as mayor of the Paralympic A thletes' Village this summer.
A bust of Dr Guttmann, which was on show in the Olympic Park for the duration of the Games, will now be sent to the International Paralympic Committee headquarters in Bonn and then be a fixture of every Paralympic Games in future.
"It's very exciting how the whole Ludwig Guttmann story has come out over the Games," said Mike McKenzie, chairman of the Poppa Guttmann Trust.
