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International Paralympic Committee
A non-profit and international sports organization for athletes with disabilities
International Paralympic Committee
(English: International Paralympic Committee)
International Paralympic Committee
IPC is a non-profit and international sports organization for athletes with disabilities, established on September 22, 1989
W.GERMANY
Bonn. Since 2000, the Committee has had a cooperation agreement with the International Olympic Committee (IOC), which requires cities that have won the right to host the Olympic Games to also host the Paralympic Games.
- Chinese name
- International Paralympic Committee
- Foreign name
- International Paralympic Committee
- Member association
- 161
- Current chairman
- Andrew Parsons
- Establishment time
- The year 1989
Chinese character: International Paralympic Committee
Chinese Pinyin: Guoji Canjiren Aolinpike Weiyuanhui
English: International Paralympic Committee
French: Comite International Paralympique
German: Internationalen Paralympischen Komitees
Spanish: Comite Paralimpico Internacional
Portuguese
: Comite Paraolimpico Internacional
Russian: М е ж д н а р о д н о f о П а р а л и м п и й с seem о f о К о м и т е т а
Greek: διεθνος Παραολυ πιακής πιτροπής
Arabic: Bamu Bamu Bamu Bamu Bamu Bamu Bamu Bamu Bamu Bamu bamu bamu bamu
Japanese: International パラリンピック Committee
Korean
: 국제 장애인 올림픽위원회
English abbreviation: IPC
Paralympic Games were first held in Rome in 1960 and were only for the physically disabled, especially those with spinal injuries. In 1976, when the 5th Paralympic Games were held in Toronto, Canada, blind people and amputees began to participate. People began to feel the need to set up a disability
International sports organization
.
Cerebral Palsy International Sports and Recreation Association
(CP-ISRA),
International Blind Sports Association
The International Paralympic Committee was created in 1989 by IBSA, the International Stoke Mandeville Wheelchair Sports Federation (ISMGF, later ISMWSF), the International Sports Organization for the Disabled (ISOD), the International Committee for Sports for the Deaf (CISS) and the International Sports Association for the Mentally Handicapped (INAS-FMH). There are 161 member associations.
The International Coordinating Committee for Disabled Sports (ICC) was established on March 11, 1982
Cerebral Palsy International Sports and Recreation Association
(CP-ISRA),
International Blind Sports Association
(IBSA), the International Stoke Mandeville Wheelchair Sports Federation (ISMGF, later ISMWSF) and the International Sports Organization for the Disabled (ISOD), and in 1986 the International Committee for Sports for the Deaf (CISS) and the International Sports Association for the Mentally Handicapped (INAS-FMH) were added. It is a loosely agreed organization in which the heads of the six participating organizations take turns as president on a six-month rotation cycle. internationally
Sports for the disabled
With the active support of the Foundation (IFSD), these six organizations created the International Paralympic Committee in 1989. There are 161 member associations.
In November 2022, the International Paralympic Committee suspended the membership of the Russian Paralympic Committee.
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The mandate of the International Paralympic Committee is to form an organization that represents athletes with disabilities internationally, awarding
Paralympic Games
The right to host, supervise and assist the Games, assist and supervise the official inclusion in the world and regional competitions of sports recognized by the Paralympic Council, coordinate the international and regional competition schedules of athletes with disabilities, and respect the sporting technical needs of various groups of persons with disabilities, will
Sports for the disabled
Integrating into international sport while maintaining its identity; To engage with the International Olympic Committee and other international sports organizations, to support and encourage educational and rehabilitation programmes and promotion activities that contribute to the achievement of their objectives, to combat any discrimination in sports for persons with disabilities on political, religious, economic, ability, gender or social grounds, and to expand opportunities for persons with disabilities to participate in sports and improve their performance.
The highest authority of the organization is the Congress, which needs to be held at least once every two years, and a member association can send six representatives to the meeting, whose vote depends on the number of disabled people in the association, and a maximum of six votes. Each of the six founding organizations has six votes. The Executive Committee consists of officers (Chairman, two Vice-Chairmen, Secretary General, Treasurer, Medical Officer, Technical Officer, three members), six regional representatives, one athlete representative, and one representative from each of the six founding organizations.
The organization has a sports Technology department, Sports Science and Medicine Department, finance and marketing committee,
Athletes' committee
, Development Committee, Legal Committee and Regional Committee. The current chairman is
Andrew Parsons
.
The chairman since 1989 was Canadian Robert Stedward, who served as the founding chairman until 2001 and established the Canadian Disability Sports Fund in Canada.
British disabled athlete before 2001
Philip Craven
He was elected President for a second term until 2017.
In September 2017, from Brazil
Andrew Parsons
Elected third President of the International Paralympic Committee at the 18th IPC General Assembly in ABU Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. He has served as president of the Brazilian Paralympic Sports Federation and an executive member of the International Paralympic Committee.
