Spanish Federation of Sportspeople with Intellectual Disabilities
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Spanish Federation of Sportspeople with the Intellectually Disabilities (Spanish: Federación Española de Deportes para Discapacitados Intelectuales (FEDDI)) is one of five disability sport organizations that deals with sport on the national level. It focuses on intellectual disabilities, one of two in the country to do so nationally. It has a high performance focus.
FEDDI, based in Madrid, is one of five disability sport organizations that belongs to the Spanish Paralympic Committee. They have a goal of hosting and governing disability sport on the local level around the country. While a private organization, by law it serves a public interest. Part of the work FEDDI does involves improving social inclusion and acceptance of sportspeople with intellectual disabilities by their peers. Another part of their work is supporting high performance sport at the Paralympic Games, world championships and European championships.
The organization is one of two in the country that support sportspeople with intellectual disabilities. The other is the Special Olympics. FEDDI focuses more on providing competitive sporting opportunities. Members of FEDDI are eligible for some events on the Paralympic program while members of the Special Olympics are not.
FEDDI is composed of regional sport federations including the Andalusian Federation of Sports for the Intellectually Disabled.
The Federation is governed by an executive committee, a general assembly and a president. The President is elected to a four-year post in Winter Paralympic years, with recognized autonomous federations, sports clubs, coaches and athletes eligible to vote in a secret ballot. The President has the role of appointing three vice-presidents, one for economic issues related to the organization, one for sports and one for organization management. In 2013, the President was Antonio Carlos Gomez Oliveros.
Sports FEDDI supports include athletics, basketball, cycling, winter sports, swimming, tennis, table tennis, sport shooting, volleyball, equestrian, gymnastics, futsal, chess, badminton, boccia, handball and soccer. Every year, FEDDI organizes 14 sporting championships in 10 sports with over 4,000 sportspeople competing on one of the three competitive levels found in Spanish sport.
There are two major funding bodies for FEDDI, ONCE and the Consejo Superior de Deportes. Through the Spanish Paralympic Committee, one of their sponsors is Renfe Operadora.
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