International Sports Federation for Persons with an Intellectual Disability
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| Founded | 1986 |
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| Focus | Sport, Disability |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Members
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c. 10000 |
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Key people
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President — Amaury Russo (Brazil) Executive Director — Nick Parr (UK) |
| Slogan | For Para-Athletes with an Intellectual Disability |
| Website | inas |
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Formerly called
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INAS-FID, INAS-FMH |
| Member of International Paralympic Committee | |
President — Amaury Russo (Brazil)
INAS (International Sports Federation for Persons with Intellectual Disability; originally called INAS-FMH and later INAS-FID) was established in 1986 by professionals in the Netherlands who were involved in sport and wanted to promote the participation of athletes with mental handicap in elite sport. In other hand , the International Federation for Intellectual Impairment Sport that Promoting sport worldwide for athletes with an Intellectual Disability, Autism and Down's Syndrome.
The founding meeting of the first Executive Committee took place in January 1986 and the organisation became a member of the ICC – the International Coordinating Committee – the organisation that later became the International Paralympic Committee.
Inas’ original membership was just 14 nations which has steadily grown into nearly 60 nations today.
In 1989, the 1st World Games for Athletes with an Intellectual Disability were held in Harnosand, Sweden and in 1992, immediately after the Barcelona Paralympic Games, the first Paralympic Games for ‘Persons with mental handicap’ were held in Madrid.
In 1994, INAS-FMH became INAS-FID – the ‘International Sports Federation for Persons with Intellectual Disability’ and in 1996, for the first time, a small programme of events for athletes with an intellectual disability were included in the Paralympic Games in Atlanta.
A larger programme including Athletics, Swimming and Basketball was included in the Sydney Paralympic Games in 2000, but it soon emerged that a small number of athletes had cheated the system of determining eligibility, resulting in the suspension of events — a suspension that was to remain in place until 2009.
Despite exclusion from the Paralympic Games, the Inas sport programme continued to grow considerably to incorporate more than 10 sports whilst its membership grew to cover all 5 continents.
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