Spanish Federation of Sports for the Deaf

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Federación Española de Deportes para Sordos
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Spanish Federation of Sports for the Deaf (Spanish: Federación Española de Deportes para Sordos (FEDS)) is the national governing body for deaf sports in Spain. Based in Madrid and created in 1993, they are one of five disability sport organizations that are members of the Spanish Paralympic Committee. None of its members have ever competed at the Paralympic Games.

Governance

FEDS is one of five disability sport organizations that belongs to the Spanish Paralympic Committee which has the goal of hosting and governing disability sport on the local level around the country.[1][2] While it is a private non-organization, by law it has a public interest.[3][4] They are based in Madrid.[3] As of November 2013, Santiago Poveda García became the President of the organization.[5]

The organization is composed of regional sport federations[6] including the Catalan Federation for the Deaf[7] Andalusian Federation of Sports for the Deaf.[8] Deaf Sports Federation of the Principality of Asturias, Disabled Federation of Castilla-León, Galician Federation of Sports for the Deaf, Madrid Federation of Sports for the Deaf and FESA Division of the Deaf Valencia.[9] Each autonomous region of Spain is allowed to have its own regional deaf sport organization belonging to FEDS. The presidents of these federations make up the general assembly for FEDS.[6]

The organization is a member of the Spanish National Anti-Doping Commission.[3] They are affiliated with International Committee of Sports for the Deaf (CISS), the International Committee of Deaf Chess (ICSC), the European Deaf Sports Organization (EDSO), the Spanish Olympic Committee (COE) and the Spanish Paralympic Committee (CPE).[3] While connected to the Spanish Paralympic Committee, FEDS has never had its athletes represented at the Paralympic Games.[10] Through the Spanish Paralympic Committee, one of their sponsors is Renfe Operadora.[11]

Sports the organization supports include athletics, basketball, cycling, tennis, table tennis, football, futsal, 7-a-side football and pétanque.[8] For competition purposes in events organized by FEDS, sportspeople must have hearing loss of at least 55 decibels.[6]

History

The Spanish Committee of Silent Sports was created in 1949.[12] Marcos Anavi Benavideste was the group's first president, a position he would stay in for ten years.[13] As a result of the increase in participation and interest in the disability during the late 1960s, then president of the Spanish Olympic Committee Juan Antonio Samaranch charged Guillermo Cabezas to create the Spanish Sports Federation for the Physically Disabled. While originally created only for people with physical disabilities, it soon became a catchall organization representing multiple disability types including people with hearing impairments.[8][14] 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 including this one,[15][16] which was created in May 1993.[4][17]

The organization amended its statues in September 1993,[6] October 1999,[9] October 2009[4] and July 2013.[3]

In 1999, sports the organization supported included chess, athletics, basketball, cycling, football, futsal, petanque, tennis and table tennis.[9]

In the first half of 1999, they received a grant from Ministry of Education and Culture (Spanish: Ministerio de Educación y Cultura) for 9,221,000 ₧ and another for 500,000 ₧.[18] In the first half of 2000, they received a grant from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports (Spanish: Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte) for 1,800,000 ₧.[19] In the second half of 2001, they received a grant from Ministry of Education, Culture and Sportfor 5,000,000 ₧.[20] In the fourth quarter of 2011, they received funding from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport (Spanish: Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte).[21]

References

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External links

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