Belgian Paralympic Committee

Belgian Paralympic Committee
National Paralympic Committee
Country Belgium
CodeBEL
Created1960
Continental
association		EPC
HeadquartersBrussels, Belgium
PresidentAnne Van Neste d'Ieteren [nl] [1]
Secretary GeneralMarc Vergauwen[1]
Websitewww.paralympic.be

The Belgian Paralympic Committee (BPC) is the umbrella organization in Belgium of organized sport for people with a disability. It acts as the Belgian National Paralympic Committee, making it the official Belgian representative to the European Paralympic Committee (EPC) and the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). The Belgian Paralympic Committee has two members, a Flemish league (Parantee-Psylos) and a French-speaking league for disabled sports (Ligue Handisport Francophone (LHF)).[2]

In collaboration with the Belgian Olympic Committee (BOIC), Belgian athletes participate in world and European championships and every four years in the Paralympic Games, the Olympic Games for athletes with a visual or motor disability. Since the first Paralympic Games in 1960,[3] Belgium has been sending a delegation to every Summer Games.

The BPC's tasks:

  • promotion of the sport for people with disabilities
  • provide support to Parantee and LHF
  • working for a status for top sports athletes
  • drawing up selection criteria
  • coordination of national and international competitions
  • preparation and organization of participation in international competitions
  • coordination of the sports calendar
  • participation in the activities of the international federations

History

Since 1952, professors Pierre Houssa and Albert Tricot of the Center for Traumatology and Readaptation at the Brugmann Hospital in Brussels have been using sport as a means of readaptation with the support of Victor Boin, the then chairman of the BOIC. Pierre Houssa had picked up the idea that year when visiting a British institution in Stoke Mandeville. Two years later, in 1954, some of their patients took part in an international meeting in Stoke Mandeville. A similar meeting was organized in Brussels in 1958.

The Belgian Sports Federation for the Disabled (BSVG/FSBH) was founded in 1960, with Victor Boin as its first president, and Pierre Houssa as one of its vice-presidents.[4] In 1977 it was decided to split the BSVG/FSBH into a Dutch-speaking league, the Vlaamse Liga Gehandicaptensport (VLG) and the French-speaking FSBAP-WB. These two associations became members of the BSVG/FSBH. The BSVG/FSBH itself only retains an overarching function for the organization of competitive sport.

In 2001, the BSVG/FSBH became the BPC.[4] The FSBAP-WB adopted the name LHF in 2005,[4] and VLG the name Parantee in 2012. In 2017, Parantee merged with another Flemish organisation for impaired, Psylos, to become Parantee-Psylos.[5]

Until 2003, the secretariat was housed in the Brugmann hospital, in 2003 a new easily accessible building was opened on the Heysel plain, opposite the BOIC building.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Wie is wie" [Who is who] (in Dutch). Belgian Paralympic Committee. 18 April 2016. Retrieved 2 May 2020.
  2. ^ "Wie zijn we" [Who are we] (in Dutch). Belgian Paralympic Committee. 21 February 2016. Retrieved 2 May 2020.
  3. ^ "Rome 1960 - Participation Numbers". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 2 May 2020.
  4. ^ a b c "L'histoire de la LHF" [The history of the LHF] (in French). LHF. Retrieved 2 May 2020.
  5. ^ "Parantee-Psylos kiest meer dan ooit 'non-stop voor G-sport'" [Parantee-Psylos chooses more than ever "non-stop for G-sports"] (in Dutch). Parantee-Psylos. 11 September 2019. Retrieved 2 May 2020.

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