Spanish Sports Federation for Persons with Physical Disabilities
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Spanish Sports Federation for Persons with Physical Disabilities (Spanish: Federación Española de Deportes de Personas con Discapacidad Física (FEDDF)) is one of five disability sport organizations aligned with the Spanish Paralympic Committee that works towards support disability sport in Spain, and in this case specifically for people with physical disabilities.
FEDDF 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. The organization is composed of regional sport federations including the Catalan Federation for the Physically Disabled and Andalusian Federation of Sports for the Physically Disabled.
There are two major funding bodies for FEDDF, ONCE and the Consejo Superior de Deportes. Through the Spanish Paralympic Committee, one of their sponsors is Renfe Operadora.
In 1968, as a result of the increase in participation and interest in disability sport, then president of the Spanish Olympic Committee Juan Antonio Samaranch directed Guillermo Cabezas to create the Spanish Sports Federation for Persons with Physical Disabilities. While originally created only for people with physical disabilities, it soon became a catchall organization representing multiple disability types. In 1990, the General Law of Sports was passed, (Spanish: Ley General del Deporte) which led to changes in how sport was organized inside Spain. Eventually, changes in response to the law assisted in creating a landscape that resulted in the creation of several national Spanish disability sport organizations, removing responsibility of governance for other disability types from this organization. The organization was originally named Spanish Sports Federation for the Physically Disabled (Spanish: Federación Española de Deportes para Minusválidos Físicos). They officially changed to their current name in November 2007.
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