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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.

11 OFFICIAL SPORTS: Athletics Aquatics Basketball and Unified Basketball Bocce Football and Unified Football Gymnastics (Rhythmic) Powerlifting Tennis Volleyball and Unified Volleyball Floor Hockey Open Water Swimming

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Av Ricardo Palma 781, Miraflores Lima, Peru
+511 242-8175 / +511 445 4209 / +511 99755 0249
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Luis Angel Carhuaz: Pride and joy of his parents

When Luis was one year old, his parents saw a group of Special Olympics Peru athletes on TV, showing the medals they had won in a competition.

 

Posted 399 weeks ago

Peru will represent Latin America in the “Youth Summit”

Nicole Balta, from Colegio San Silvestre in Peru, was the young leader chosen to represent Latin America in the next “Youth Summit” during Special Olympics World Winter Games, Austria 2017.

 

Posted 399 weeks ago

María del Milagro Landa: Freedom through sports

"I feel I've changed a lot. I am a more confident person now. Before I did not like it when people, particularly children, gave me a curious look.

 

Posted 399 weeks ago

Peruvian motorsports’ most successful pilot

This was the message from Veronica Peyon, driver of TC-2000, to Special Olympics athletes. She offered an interview to the athlete leader Branko Stojakovic Astorne, age 38.

 

Posted 399 weeks ago

Feeling Respected for the First Time

Branko Stojakovic Astorne penned a blog about his experience speaking to a post-graduate class at the Universidad Científica del Sur in Peru.

 

Posted 399 weeks ago

Closing the Loop in Peru: 40 athletes Connected to Dental Care

Seventeen dental students from Universidad de San Martin de Porres were on hand at the Lima Metropolitan Games to provide oral health exams for 40 Special Olympics Peru athletes.

 

Posted 399 weeks ago

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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.

11 OFFICIAL SPORTS: Athletics Aquatics Basketball and Unified Basketball Bocce Football and Unified Football Gymnastics (Rhythmic) Powerlifting Tennis Volleyball and Unified Volleyball Floor Hockey Open Water Swimming

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