parasport brochure
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Paralympic athletes are raising the bar of
human potential to new heights. They provide an
example of overcoming challenges in life against
all odds and also of the determined strength of
the soul, the courage and resolve of character, the
unfaltering will to reach victory, and incredible
physical abilities beyond one’s wildest expecta-
tions.
Founder oF the PArASPort FoundAtion
Oleg Boyko
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PreSident
Pavel Rozhkov
Chairman & First Vice President of the Executive
Committee of the Russian Paralympic Committee,
Member of Board of the IWAS, Honored Сoach of
Russia, D.Sc. in Economics, Professor
the executive BoArd
Oleg Smolin
Vice President of the Russian Paralympic
Committee, Deputy of the State Duma of the
Russian Federation
Michail Terentyev
Paralympic Champion, Member of the Executive
Committee of the Russian Paralympic Committee,
Deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation
Rima Batalova
Thirteen fold Paralympics Champion, Vice
President of the Russian Paralympic Committee,
Deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation
Oleg Boyko
Founder of the PARASPORT Foundation, Head of
the Paralympic Movement Development Committee
of the Russian Paralympic Committee, President of
Finstar Investment Holding
Victor Khotochkin
Emeritus Vice President of the Russian Olympic
Committee, Vice President of the Russian Boxing
Federation
Avtandil Baramidze
Chief Couch of the Russian Cerebral Palsy Football
Team
Anatoly Tzarik
Vice President of the Russian Paralympic
Committee, Paralympic Sports Coach
Huynh Thanh Tuyen
Chairwoman of PARASPORT Foundation in Asia-
Pacific
Lev Seleznev
President of the Russian Sport Federation for the
Athletes with Physical Disabilities, Member of the
Executive Committee of the Russian Paralympic
Committee, Honored Worker of Physical Culture of
Russia
Igor Medvedev
President of the Russian Blind Football Federation,
Member of the Board of the Russian Paralympic
Committee
Andrey Lozhechnikov
Paralympic Cerebral Palsy Football Champion,
Honored Master of Sports of Russia
the FoundAtion GovernAnce
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the PArAlymPic SPortS SuPPort
FoundAtion PArASPort
The Paralympic Sports Support Foundation PARASPORT is a non-profit charitable foundation organized to support development of Paralympic sports throughout the world. It serves as a long term source of financial assistance in physical rehabilitation, social adaptation for athletes and people with physical and sensory impairments, and promotes equal opportunities for all members of the modern community.
PARASPORT works in close partnership with the national Paralympic organizations. The PARASPORT foundation invites founding contributors to join us in our work. We are open to partnerships and cooperation to support the right of disabled people to full participation, equality, and development through the world of sports.
miSSion
the FoundAtion, Both in itS role AS a founding sponsor of the Paralympic Movement and through a variety of other fundraising initiatives:• supports paralympic athletes in their
participation in sports and social activities • provides financial support directly to promising
athletes• stimulates public policy discussion and
promotes sports among disabled individuals and groups
• helps to enact measures to advance the state of paralympic sports.
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In 2010 the foundation establishes special grants for
Russian athletes – participants of the Vancouver Winter
Paralympics of 2010. The money is distributed among
those sportsmen who did not receive Paralympic
medals but were among the top ten finalists in the
Paralympics competitions.
PARASPORT provides financing support for the
Russian Paralympic Team since its launch. The
foundation granted financial aid for Russian team`s
participation in the XI Winter Paralympics in Sochi,
Russia, in 2014, the London 2012 Paralympic Games,
the X Winter Paralympics 2010 in Vancouver, Canada,
the Beijing Summer Paralympic Games in 2008, and
the IX Winter Paralympics in Turin, Italy.
ActivitieS And SPonSorShiP ProGrAmmeS
PArASPort StriveS to Provide sufficient fund-ing and charitable programs to paralympic athletes through active cooperation with the National Para-lympic Committees. Today the foundation works to develop charitable programs in three major fields.
PArAlymPic teAmS SPonSorShiP
throuGh our FundrAiSinG efforts and donations to the national Paralympic teams, PARASPORT has provided substantial financial assistance for the countries` athletes and sports facilities.
trAininG
PArASPort SPonSorS trAininG of individual ath-letes with disabilities, assists in construction of new sports facilities and methodology development. The foundation also helps to create new jobs for disabled sportsmen. This aid is provided mostly upon request and recommendation from the Na-tional Paralympic Committees and other paralym-pic institutions.
The foundation provided financial and organiza-
tional support to the Ukrainian Paralympic Team in
arranging its training and participation in the Beijing
Summer Paralympic Games in September 2008.
In November 2013 the meeting of the Russian Sports
Minister Vitaly Mutko, Vladimir Lukin, President of
the Russian Paralympic Committee, and Pavel Rozhkov,
Chairman of the Executive Committee, First Vice-
President of the Russian Paralympic Committee, with
the candidates to the national team for the XI Para-
lympic Winter Games of 2014 in Sochi was held at the
Novogorsk Training Center.
Since 2015 PARASPORT Foundation Vietnam
has provided financial assistance to Vietnamese
Paralympic athletes nationwide.
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PArAlymPic movement develoPment The foundation is deeply committed to issues and events pertaining to athletes with disabilities throughout the world. The assistance is realized by financing and arranging official events and educational programs to strengthen cooperation between Paralympic institutions, Russian and in-ternational Paralympic organizations, athletes, and society at large. PARASPORT works in Asia-Pacific through its Vietnam branch - Parasport Founda-tion Vietnam, opened in February 2015.
ActivitieS And SPonSorShiP ProGrAmmeS
The President of the IPC Sir Phillip Craven and the Founder of the PARASPORT
Oleg Boyko.
In May 2015 PARASPORT convened the official visit
of Vietnam Paralympic Association headed by its
President Pham Van Tuan to Russia.
At the meetings the Governing Boards of Russian
Paralympic Committee, Vietnam Paralympic
Association and PARASPORT discussed issues
of mutual cooperation for the development of the
Paralympic Movement, exchange of experience on
the organization of training activities of national
teams of Russia and Vietnam.
The sides signed tripartite Memorandum of Russian-
Vietnamese cooperation enlargement for Paralympic
sport development.
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An official meeting between the Governing Boards of Russian Paralympic Committee, Vietnam Paralympic Associa-
tion and PARASPORT Foundation
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PARASPORT is the general partner of the IWAS
World Games, which are held on 26 September-3
October 2015 in Sochi. The IWAS World Games
brings together over 800 participants from 35
countries. Competitions are held in six sports –
athletics, swimming, table tennis, archery, taekwondo,
and armrestling.
PARASPORT makes a large contribution to support
the Vietnamese National ParaGames in August 2015.
Nationwide games with more than 1000 participants,
including athletes, coaches, audience and guests are
held in the Sports Center of Dong Nai, Vietnam.
WORLD GAMES
ActivitieS And SPonSorShiP ProGrAmmeS
PAPASPORT sponsors and organizes IX General
Assembly meeting of the European Paralympic
Committee in Moscow, Russia, on the 23rd and 24th
of September 2011.
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PARASPORT co-organized the meeting of Sir Phil-lip Craven, President of the International Paralympic Committee, with the heads and representatives of the National Paralympic Committees of the CIS coun-tries, Eastern Europe and the Baltic states.The session took place at the Novogorsk Training Center, Moscow region, in November 2013. The issues of paralympic movement development worldwide, co-operation and the strengthening of cooperation be-tween the IPC and National Paralympic Committees were discussed.
The first visit of Sir Phillip Craven to Moscow was
arranged by PARASPORT foundation in 2007.
In April 2015 PARASPORT Foundation Vietnam
organized a Wheelchair Granting in Tien Giang for
disabled students who has good achievement in their
life. Moreover, they also had a chance to meet and
share with famous Paralympic athletes of Viet Nam
about overcoming the difficulties.
This is believed to be a very fruitful inspiration of
encouraging new generation of para sport’s industry.
AwArdS ceremonieS
PARASPORT sponsors award ceremonies for outstanding achievements in paralympic sports in order to promote paralympic activities among government, institutions, the media, and the general public and to increase the public’s awareness and engagement in the Paralympic Movement.
ActivitieS And SPonSorShiP ProGrAmmeS
Since 2007 the foundation has sponsored and
organized national award ceremony “Back to Life”.
The awards are given in 10 categories to outstanding
athletes, coaches, and physicians of the National
Paralympic Team, who achieve successful results at
the Winter and Summer Paralympic Games, and
other international competitions.
Valentina MatviyenkoChairman of the Federation Council of the
Russian Federation“Back to Life” ceremony, 2014
In 2008 the foundation sponsors and organizes an
Ambassador reception at the Beijing Paralympics.
The event serves as a meeting point for representatives
of fifteen National Paralympic Committees, the
Games organizers, and the International Paralympic
Committee.
Philip Craven, President of the International Paralympic Com-mittee, Vitaly Mutko, Minister of Sport of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Kozak, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Lukin, President of the Russian Paralympic Committee.
Sergey NaryshkinChairman of the State Duma
of the Russian Federation“Back to Life” ceremony, 2010
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In support of XI Winter Paralympic Games in Sochi
PARASPORT organizes a reception in honor of the
Russian champions and medalists.
During the ХI Paralympic Winter Games in 2014
PARASPORT foundation sponsors Russian talk show
“Heroes of Our Time”. The objective of the program is to provide good and
positive examples of helping people find themselves,
and to promote qualities like determination, optimism,
and willpower, which can help to bring about success
no matter the hardships faced. The show was launched
on Russia’s leading business channel RBC TV.
In December 2014 Parasport Foundation participates
in the opening ceremony of the Paralympic Sports
House – first ever in the history of Russian Paralympic
Movement. The Award Ceremony «Back to Life» takes
place in the new Russian Paralympic Committee head-
quarters as part of celebrations.
ActivitieS And SPonSorShiP ProGrAmmeS
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SPeciAl eventS
PARASPORT gives financial and organization-
al assistance to unique events and projects in-
tended to make a breakthrough in the minds of
society and break stereotypes, to change public
opinion about people with disabilities.
In December 2011 PARASPORT hosts a reception
dedicated to the Russian Paralympic Committee’s
15th anniversary. The event gathers great Russian
Paralympic champions, coaches and athletes, found-
ers and pioneers of the Paralympic Movement in the
country.
ActivitieS And SPonSorShiP ProGrAmmeS
Since 2011 the foundation has organized master
classes for students of a boarding school for children
with disabilities in Moscow. Famous Russian Paralym-
pic athletes come to share their skills in wheelchair
basketball, para-table tennis, wheelchair fencing,
wheelchair dance, boccia and arm wrestling, and etc.
In 2011 PARASPORT publishes the first children’s
book about Paralympic Movement in Russia and
the world, named «Paralympic Sports. Courage and
overcoming». The new edition was published in 2014.
Pavel Rozhkov, Vitaly Mutko, Alexey Kulakovsky
Vladimir Lukin, Xavier Gonzalez
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