Taking 330 articles on sports research of disabled people published in core journals from 2002 to 2021 included by CNKI as research samples, this paper makes statistical analysis of the documents, and analyzes the authors, institutions and key words with the help of CiteSpace software to explore the development context, research hotspot and frontier of sports research of disabled people in China. The results show that the research on sports for the disabled in China can be divided into three stages: the foundation period, the prosperity period and the stability period; A relatively stable academic cooperation network has been formed among research authors and institutions; The research hotspots in this field in China are: sports management for the disabled, competitive sports for the disabled, sports education for the disabled and mass sports for the disabled; The research frontier in this field in China is the sports participation of the disabled.