The general Libyan federation for the people with special needs’ sports (Libyan Paralympic Committee) was founded in 1981. It is one of the sport unions that worked with its limited sources and continued with the efforts of the people who work and rotated in it during a different period. From the
start, this union is doing its duty with loyalty and perfectness to make the people with different disabilities play sport and merging them in the sport activities that suit their disabilities. They all carry out the general federation’s programs during the year in emphasizing the importance of the sport and its advantage for these people. The sub-unions are:
1. Sub-union / Tripoli
2. Sub-union / Misratah
3. Sub-union / Benghazi
4. Sub-union / Surt and Jdabya
5. Sub-union / Ghadamis and Naloot
6. Sub-union / west area
7. Sub-union / The Green mountain
8. Sub-union / Al-Battnan
9. Sub-union / Tarhona and Emssalata
10. Sub-union / Sabha
The sport teams are made through the social institutions and the disabled centers and clubs in many different sport fields. These social institutions and disabled centers and clubs brought out many excellent athletes and had presented Libya in many international sport events and gained the medals and advanced places. By the cooperation between the social insurance foundation and the peoples Committee of the general authority for the social insurance foundation and the Libyan Olympics Committee, it is possible to support this sport which needs the cooperation of these parts, so the general federation can carry out its sport programs for the people with different disabilities and the sports that suite them, as well as the specialty of these sports and its needs from the sport equipments, materials, else. The general federation organizes competitions and tournament according the international federations sports for each disability by itself. The disabled categories in Libyan Paralympic Committee:
· Blend
· Motor disability
· The deaf
· Mental disability
The submitted sports of Libyan Paralympic Committee:
1. Athletics
2. Basketball
3. Goalball
4. Power lifting
5. Football
6. Futsal
7. Table tennis
8. Sitting volleyball
9. Chess
10. Swimming
The regional and international participations:
1. World championship for the motor disabled in England (1990)
2. peace games in Morocco (1991)
3. the first African tournament for disabled in Egypt (1991)
4. Arabic African championship in Tunisia (1995)
5. Maghreb championship for wheelchair basketball in Morocco (1995)
6. Arabic African championship for disabled in Egypt (1995)
7. The Olympics games in Atlanta America
8. Arabic African championship for Athletics in Tunisia (1997)
9. Maghreb championship for wheelchair basketball in Algeria (1997)
10. African championship for wheelchair basketball in Egypt (1998)
11. The Olympic Games in Sydney (2000)
12. African championship for football for the deaf in Egypt (2001)
13. Arabic African championship football goal for the Blind in Algeria (2001)
14. Arabic championship in Egypt (2007)
15. the Beijing Olympic Games (2008)
The address of the Libyan Paralympics Committee (Tripoli- Al-Jamhorya Street)
Website: http://www.paralympic.ly/
Email: [email protected]
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Telephone: 00218213636879
Fax: 00218213637169
