Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Sports Offered:
Alpine Skiing Aquatics Athletics Badminton Basketball Bocce Bowling Cycling Figure Skating Floor Hockey Football (Soccer) Gymnastics (Artistic) Handball Judo Power Lifting Roller Skating Short Track Speed Skating Snowshoeing Table Tennis
Rita and Agnes Hingyi are heading to the Special Olympics World Winter Games in Austria as champions: they won gold at the last World Games in PyeongChang, Korea. As Level V skaters, they are at the top of their game -- and planning to stay there.
The 3rd Special Olympics European Tennis Day took place March 8th across the region and dozens of events were organised to mark the day. In Hungary, more than -60 athletes took part in a star-studded event involving competition on three different tennis ability levels.
Two Special Olympics athletes have been included in the Hungarian Tennis Federation annual awards for the most successful players of 2015.
An invitational five-a-side Unified football tournament was the biggest football festival for Special Olympics Hungary this year.
Congratulations to Special Olympics Hungary who successfully organised a Family Health Forum at Nyíregyháza in October which was generously co-funded by the European Union.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Sports Offered:
Alpine Skiing Aquatics Athletics Badminton Basketball Bocce Bowling Cycling Figure Skating Floor Hockey Football (Soccer) Gymnastics (Artistic) Handball Judo Power Lifting Roller Skating Short Track Speed Skating Snowshoeing Table Tennis