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Mildred Italia Benítez Sanabria

Mildred Italia Benitez Sanabria, Special Olympics Latin America.
Special Olympics Latin America

Yeruult Batbayar

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Special Olympics East Asia
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South Sudan

Athletes playing basketball on a court.
Special Olympics South Sudan provides empowerment, acceptance and joy. But for every Special Olympics athlete, there are many people with intellectual disabilities we haven’t reached yet.

It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle of transformation takes place.

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.
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Hong Kong

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Special Olympics is a global organization that athletes with intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968, the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.

It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle of transformation takes place.

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.
Sport Partnerships

International Powerlifting Federation

The partnership between Special Olympics International (SOI) and the International Powerlifting Federation (IPF) was formed in 2011 when SOI and IPF officials convened at the Special Olympics World Summer Games in Athens, Greece to discuss common interests. Out of this meeting evolved an understanding of common goals and a Memorandum of Understanding which allowed for Special Olympics athlete involvement in IPF competition. Since then, Special Olympics athletes have competed in a Special Olympics division in two IPF championships—the 2012 IPF World Championships in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico and the 2013 IPF World Masters Championships in Orlando, Florida. Plans are in place to have continued Special Olympics participation in future IPF events.
In the News

BBC Features Special Olympics Roller-skating Champion in ‘India Sportswoman of the Year’ series

Close up profile of Priyanka Dewan
BBC Features Special Olympics Roller-skating Champion in ‘India Sportswoman of the Year’ series.
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Special Olympics Belgium Receives Grand Effie Award 2021

Two football athletes hugging and jumping on the field in celebration.
Special Olympics Belgium receives Grand Effie Award 2021 for Road to Sustained Success project.
Community Impact

Singer Montell Jordan is Excited to Watch Reaction of His Announcement Video

Montell Jordan watching a video of him announcing athlete, Aziza making it to USA Games 2022
Champion Ambassador Montell Jordan watches Special Olympics New York athlete Aziza react to his video announcing her participation in the Special Olympics USA Games 2022 in a previous recording.
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Now Open: Media Registration for Unified Volleyball World Cup Poland 2025

Special Olympics Volleyball player spikes the ball over the net while facing Bharat in the quarter finals of Unified Volleyball on June 23rd, 2023 in Berlin, Germany at the Special Olympics World Games.
We’re excited to announce that media registration for the Unified Volleyball World Cup Poland 2025 is officially open! Members of the press and media professionals are invited to apply for accreditation to cover this global event.

Kellie Simmons

Kellie Simmons, 2023 Global Athlete Congress Participant
Special Olympics Trinidad and Tobago
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