The IWAS World Games, 2011, Sharjah, U.A.E
- Athletics - Information of Draft Schedule (24/11/2011)of Competition, Entries by Event (21/11/2011) and Entries by Countries are now available. Please advise IWAS if there are any errors with the entries of your nation (these will be regularly updated)
- CPISRA Race Running
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Powerlifting - Schedule of Classification and Medical Forms are now available. Please advise IWAS if there are any errors with the entries of your nation (these will be regularly updated)
- Table Tennis
- Shooting - Draft Programme and classifcation Schedule and Medical forms are now available
- Swimming - Information of Draft Entries by Event (21/11/2011) and Schedule of Day 4 Competition. Please advise IWAS if there are any errors with the entry of your nation (these wil be regularly updates)
- Amputee Football
The event will take place from the 1st December to the 10th December 2011 and the entry forms were sent to the Nations on the 15th May and made available on the IWAS website from the 16th.
Following the return of the first entries from interested member nations, the second package has been made available early July, with a deadline to return the forms to IWAS HQ by 31st July 2011.
Al Thiqah Club for the Disabled extend their support to hosting the General Assembly along with the Games, providing what looks to be an exciting occasion in the beautiful emirate of Sharjah. The General Assembly will be held on the 3rd December 2011 to coincide with Games that will run from the 1st – 10th December and will be held at the same location, allowing delegates from all Member Nations to witness some competition.
IWAS World Games
Currently IWAS maintains a 2 yearly World Games program, which is taken to various nations in the world. The IWAS World Games encapsulates our motto of Unity, Friendship and Sportsmanship and demonstrates the values long held by the Federation to educate, train and provide competitive opportunities to sportsmen and women with a physical disability world-wide. We should add to this motto and these values, an inherent and transparent pathway for athletes to follow in their planning towards a successful future in the Paralympic movement.
All IWAS World Games are individually tailored to the individual LOCs objectives and resources and can include all or a selection of the traditional Games sports (Archery, Athletics, Power-lifting, Shooting, Swimming, Table Tennis, Wheelchair Fencing, Wheelchair Rugby, Table Tennis and Volleyball) all of which are established Paralympic Games program sports. We also have a desire to promote the hand-cycling element of the Para-sport of Cycling as well as develop internationally amputee football so that it can join its counterparts within CP Football and Blind Football on the Paralympic Games program.
In pre-Paralympic Games years, eg 2007, 2011, 2015 etc, the IWAS World Games programme is particularly important to the Paralympic movement, ensuring a Games environment that will provide qualification opportunity in a wide range of sports. This is of great benefit to the nations in their continuing endeavor to identify and enter events whereby they can send their teams into a multi-sport situation which is economically more viable to them, especially if the IWAS Games are happening within the region holding the subsequent Paralympic Games.