When.com Web Search

  1. Ads

    related to: popular spanish physical activity for adults with disabilities

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Disabled sports in Spain - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disabled_sports_in_Spain

    Blind sport began in the 1930s. Sport for people with physical disabilities began in the 1950s, and was primarily rehabilitative. The first major organization for disabled sports was created in 1968 at the direction of then president of the Spanish Olympic Committee Juan Antonio Samaranch. Spain competed at its first Paralympic Games that same ...

  3. Spanish Sports Federation for Persons with Physical Disabilities

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Sports_Federation...

    While originally created only for people with physical disabilities, it soon became a catchall organization representing multiple disability types. [7] 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 ...

  4. Disability in Spain - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disability_in_Spain

    Blind sport began in the 1930s. Sport for people with physical disabilities began in the 1950s, and was primarily rehabilitative. The first major organization for disabled sports was created in 1968 at the direction of then president of the Spanish Olympic Committee Juan Antonio Samaranch. Spain competed at its first Paralympic Games that same ...

  5. Parasports - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasports

    Parasports are sports played by people with a disability, including physical and intellectual disabilities. [1] Some parasports are forms of adapted physical activities from existing non-disabled sports, while others have been specifically created for persons with a disability and do not have a non-disabled equivalent.

  6. Adaptive Standing Tennis - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_Standing_Tennis

    Adaptive Standing Tennis is a form of tennis for individuals with a disability that play tennis standing, or ambulatory as opposed to playing in a wheelchair. Adaptive Standing Tennis is a form of tennis for individuals with physical disability who play the sport of tennis standing, or ambulatory as opposed to their counterparts who play wheelchair tennis, playing tennis in a wheelchair.

  7. La Alianza Hispana - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Alianza_Hispana

    Adult Day Time Program. Helps disabled adults with social stressors, dealing with cognitive impairment, and fitness classes based on their physical health. [12] Familias Saludables (Healthy Families) Helps promote parental education, proper nutrition for school for children, and physical activities for the family as a unit. [12]

  8. Spain at the 1992 Summer Paralympics - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain_at_the_1992_Summer...

    When Spain played the United States on the second day of competition, 12,500 people were in attendance. Organizers had to turn away 4,000 people who had wanted to attend. [ 12 ] Philip Craven , future President of the International Paralympic Committee , played his first Paralympic Games wheelchair basketball at these games when he scored 30 ...

  9. Category:Spanish people with disabilities - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Spanish_people...

    This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Spanish people. It includes Spanish people that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Disabled people from Spain .