23 results for tag: Table Tennis
(CANCELLED DUE TO COVID) 2021 Virtus Table Tennis World Championships (Thailand)
May 2021 Update: This event has been cancelled by Virtus and the event organizers due to ongoing coronavirus challenges.
The 2021 Virtus Table Tennis World Championships have been re-scheduled to take place from 24-30 September 2021 in Bangkok, Thailand. The event is open to athletes with Virtus International Level eligibility any of the three Virtus Competition Groups:
Virtus II1-Intellectual Disability/USATT & ITTF Class 11 (IQ of 75 or lower)
Virtus II2-Intellectual Disability with Significant Additional Impairment (including Tri21/Translocation Down Syndrome) and
Virtus II3 Athletes with autism who do not meet the IQ or Adaptive ...
(CANCELLED DUE TO COVID) AWL US Team Trip to Inaugural 2022 Virtus Americas Games (Brazil)
JUNE Update: Unfortunately, this event has been cancelled by the organizers in Brazil. The economic situation world-wide has made it impossible for many other nations in the America's region to send teams this year. We thank the Brazilian organizers for trying to host this event and hope that in the future it can be held there. In the mean time we encourage athletes to explore the opportunities at the upcoming 2023 Virtus Global Games in France for which planning is well underway by the French organizers.
The 2022 Virtus Americas Regional Games will be held in Sao Paulo, Brazil. This multi-sport event will take place at the Brazilian ...
France to host 2023 Virtus Global Games
The sixth edition of the Virtus Global Games will be held in Vichy, France from 4 to 10 June 2023.
Athletes Without Limits US Team Trip to 2023 Virtus Global Games (France)
From June 2-11, 2023 more than one thousand of the best athletes from around the world will compete in the quadrennial Virtus Global Games, hosted in Vichy, France for seven days of elite multi-sport competition.
The Games is the World Championships for athletes with an intellectual impairment in the following sports: Basketball, Cycling, Equestrian (new), Futsal, Judo (new), Karate (new), Rowing, Swimming, Table Tennis, Taekwondo, Tennis and Track & Field/Athletics, with additional demonstration events.
Athletes Without Limits looks forward to taking a US Team to what will be our 5th Global Games since becoming the US Member of Virtus in ...
AWL Update on Coronavirus (COVID-19)
A summary of Athletes Without Limits event cancellations and postponements in order to help prevent further spread of Novel Coronavirus (COVID 19) — with links to relevant updates and preventative measures.
Athletes selected by U.S. Paralympics to represent USA at 2019 Parapan American Games Lima
Congratulations to the six athletes with intellectual impairment who have qualified to represent Team USA at the upcoming 2019 Parapan American Games in Lima:
Swimming (S14):Leslie Cichocki, Garner Moss, Jonathan Pierce
Table Tennis (11): Raymond Sacco
Track & Field (T20): Brianna Clarke, Kaitlyn Bounds
Veteran Athletes Without Limits (AWL) swimmers Leslie Cichocki, a 2016 Rio U.S. Paralympics Team member, and Garner Moss will follow up the Para Pan Am Games with an October trip to Australia to lead AWL's US National Team at the the upcoming Inas Global Games World Championships in October. Jonathan Pierce has ...
Athletes Without Limits relocates National headquarters to Bend Oregon
The move was made in large part due to Bend's abundance of training opportunities and facilities, access to outdoor recreation, active lifestyle, and the community's ethos for volunteerism.
2016 Rio Paralympics Filled with “Firsts” for US Athletes with Intellectual Disability
The 2016 Rio Paralympic was filled with firsts for US para-athletes with intellectual disability. On the very same day of competition both Brianna Clark and Michael Brannigan became the first US athletes with intellectual disability to medal at the Parlympics. Clark handily won the Gold in the Women's 400m with a time of 57.79 and Brannigan took Gold in the men's 1500m with a time of 3:51.73. Tysheem Griffin was also selected to the team and competed in the men's 400m following strong medal performances at the 2015 Inas Global Games in Ecuador and 2016 US Paralympics Team Trials.
In swimming Leslie Cichocki became the first swimmer with ...
Brisbane to host 2019 INAS Global Games
For Immediate Release: 12th June 2015
Learn more on our Athlete Without Limits Global Games page.
INAS – the International Federation for sport for para-athletes with an intellectual disability – has selected Brisbane, Australia to host the 5th INAS Global Games in 2019.
The Games – a week long championship featuring nine sports – will attract more than 1000 of the world’s elite athletes with an intellectual disability. The opening ceremony will take place on 19th October 2019.
Sport Inclusion Australia (formerly AUSRAPID) is the INAS member organisation responsible for the delivery of the Games. ...
Global Games World Championships for Para-Athletes with Intellectual Disability Begins in Italy
Athletes Without Limits swimmer Leslie Cichocki takes 6th in women's 200 Backstroke; the highest world ranking by a US Paralympic S14 swimmer
September 29, Loano, Italy — The competition for the team of U.S. athletes at the 2011 INAS/IPC Global Games in Liguria Italy began today when swimmers Leslie Cichocki and Sarah Gilbert took to the water at Palasporte, the 50m outdoor competition pool in Loano, Italy.
Cichocki swam an aggressive morning program including the 50 freestyle where she set a personal best of 33.16 and placed 12th out of 26; the 200 IM; the 200 back where she advanced to the finals and set another personal best with a ...
