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Paralympic athletes are raising the bar of
human potential to new heights. They provide an
example of overcoming challenges in life against
all odds and also of the determined strength of
the soul, the courage and resolve of character, the
unfaltering will to reach victory, and incredible
physical abilities beyond one’s wildest expectations.
Founder of the PARASPORT foundation
Oleg Boyko
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The Foundation
Governance
President
Victor Khotochkin
Pavel Rozhkov
Emeritus Vice President of the Russian Olympic
Chairman & First Vice President of the Executive
Committee, Vice President of the Russian Boxing
Committee of the Russian Paralympic Committee,
Federation
Member of Board of the IWAS, Honored Сoach of
Avtandil Baramidze
Russia, D.Sc. in Economics, Professor
Chief Couch of the Russian Cerebral Palsy Football
Team
The Executive Board
Oleg Smolin
Vice
President
of
the
Russian
Paralympic
Anatoly Tzarik
Committee, Deputy of the State Duma of the
Vice
Russian Federation
Committee, Paralympic Sports Coach
Michail Terentyev
Huynh Thanh Tuyen
Paralympic Champion, Member of the Executive
Chairwoman of PARASPORT Foundation in Asia-
Committee of the Russian Paralympic Committee,
Pacific
President
of
the
Russian
Paralympic
Deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation
Lev Seleznev
Rima Batalova
Thirteen
fold
President of the Russian Sport Federation for the
Paralympics
Champion,
Vice
Athletes with Physical Disabilities, Member of the
President of the Russian Paralympic Committee,
Executive Committee of the Russian Paralympic
Deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation
Committee, Honored Worker of Physical Culture of
Russia
Oleg Boyko
Founder of the PARASPORT Foundation, Head of
Igor Medvedev
the Paralympic Movement Development Committee
President of the Russian Blind Football Federation,
of the Russian Paralympic Committee, President of
Member of the Board of the Russian Paralympic
Finstar Investment Holding
Committee
Andrey Lozhechnikov
Paralympic Cerebral Palsy Football Champion,
Honored Master of Sports of Russia
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The Paralympic Sports Support
Foundation PARASPORT
The Paralympic Sports Support Foundation
PARASPORT is a non-profit charitable foundation
organized to support development of Paralympic
sports throughout the world. It serves as a long
term source of financial assistance in physical
rehabilitation, social adaptation for athletes and
people with physical and sensory impairments, and
promotes equal opportunities for all members of
the modern community.
PARASPORT works in close partnership with the
national Paralympic organizations.
The PARASPORT foundation invites founding
contributors to join us in our work. We are open to
partnerships and cooperation to support the right
of disabled people to full participation, equality,
and development through the world of sports.
Mission
The foundation, both in its role as a founding
sponsor of the Paralympic Movement and through
a variety of other fundraising initiatives:
• supports paralympic athletes in their
participation in sports and social activities
• provides financial support directly to promising
athletes
• stimulates public policy discussion and
promotes sports among disabled individuals
and groups
• helps to enact measures to advance the state of
paralympic sports.
Activities and
Sponsorship Programmes
PARASPORT strives to provide sufficient funding and charitable programs to paralympic athletes
through active cooperation with the National Paralympic Committees. Today the foundation works to
develop charitable programs in three major fields.
In November 2013 the meeting of the Russian Sports
Minister Vitaly Mutko, Vladimir Lukin, President of
the Russian Paralympic Committee, and Pavel Rozhkov,
Chairman of the Executive Committee, First VicePresident of the Russian Paralympic Committee, with
Paralympic Teams Sponsorship
the candidates to the national team for the XI Para-
Through our fundraising efforts and donations to
the national Paralympic teams, PARASPORT has
provided substantial financial assistance for the
countries` athletes and sports facilities.
lympic Winter Games of 2014 in Sochi was held at the
Training
PARASPORT sponsors training of individual athletes with disabilities, assists in construction of new
sports facilities and methodology development.
The foundation also helps to create new jobs for
disabled sportsmen. This aid is provided mostly
upon request and recommendation from the National Paralympic Committees and other paralympic institutions.
Since
2015
PARASPORT
Foundation
Vietnam
has provided financial assistance to Vietnamese
Paralympic athletes nationwide.
PARASPORT provides financing support for the
Russian Paralympic Team since its launch. The
foundation granted financial aid for Russian team`s
participation in the XI Winter Paralympics in Sochi,
Russia, in 2014, the London 2012 Paralympic Games,
the X Winter Paralympics 2010 in Vancouver, Canada,
the Beijing Summer Paralympic Games in 2008, and the IX Winter Paralympics in Turin, Italy.
In 2010 the foundation establishes special grants for
Russian athletes – participants of the Vancouver Winter
Paralympics of 2010. The money is distributed among
those sportsmen who did not receive Paralympic
medals but were among the top ten finalists in the
Paralympics competitions.
Novogorsk Training Center.
The foundation provided financial and organizational support to the Ukrainian Paralympic Team in
arranging its training and participation in the Beijing
Summer Paralympic Games in September 2008.
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Activities and
Sponsorship Programmes
Paralympic Movement Development
The foundation is deeply committed to issues
and events pertaining to athletes with disabilities
throughout the world. The assistance is realized
by financing and arranging official events and
educational programs to strengthen cooperation
between Paralympic institutions, Russian and international Paralympic organizations, athletes, and
society at large. PARASPORT works in Asia-Pacific
through its Vietnam branch - Parasport Foundation Vietnam, opened in February 2015.
PARASPORT is the general partner of the IWAS
World Games, which are held on 26 September-3
October 2015 in Sochi. The IWAS World Games
brings together over 800 participants from 35
countries. Competitions are held in six sports –
athletics, swimming, table tennis, archery, taekwondo,
and armrestling. WORLD GAMES
PARASPORT makes a large contribution to support
the Vietnamese National ParaGames in August 2015.
Nationwide games with more than 1000 participants,
including athletes, coaches, audience and guests are
held in the Sports Center of Dong Nai, Vietnam.
In May 2015 PARASPORT convened the official visit
The President of the IPC Sir Phillip Craven and
the Founder of the PARASPORT
Oleg Boyko.
of Vietnam Paralympic Association headed by its
President Pham Van Tuan to Russia.
At the meetings the Governing Boards of Russian
Paralympic
Committee,
Association
and
Vietnam
Paralympic
PARASPORT discussed issues
of mutual cooperation for the development of the
Paralympic Movement, exchange of experience on
the organization of training activities of national
teams of Russia and Vietnam.
The sides signed tripartite Memorandum of RussianVietnamese cooperation enlargement for Paralympic
sport development.
An official meeting between the Governing Boards of Russian
Paralympic Committee, Vietnam Paralympic Association and PARASPORT Foundation
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Activities and
Sponsorship Programmes
In April 2015 PARASPORT Foundation Vietnam
organized a Wheelchair Granting in Tien Giang for
disabled students who has good achievement in their
life. Moreover, they also had a chance to meet and
share with famous Paralympic athletes of Viet Nam
about overcoming the difficulties.
This is believed to be a very fruitful inspiration of
encouraging new generation of para sport’s industry.
PARASPORT co-organized the meeting of Sir Phillip Craven, President of the International Paralympic
Committee, with the heads and representatives of the
National Paralympic Committees of the CIS countries, Eastern Europe and the Baltic states.
The session took place at the Novogorsk Training
Center, Moscow region, in November 2013. The issues
of paralympic movement development worldwide, cooperation and the strengthening of cooperation between the IPC and National Paralympic Committees
were discussed.
The first visit of Sir Phillip Craven to Moscow was
arranged by PARASPORT foundation in 2007.
PAPASPORT sponsors and organizes IX General
Assembly meeting of the European Paralympic
Committee in Moscow, Russia, on the 23rd and 24th
of September 2011.
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Activities and
Sponsorship Programmes
Awards Ceremonies
PARASPORT sponsors award ceremonies for
outstanding achievements in paralympic sports
in order to promote paralympic activities among
government, institutions, the media, and the general
public and to increase the public’s awareness and
engagement in the Paralympic Movement.
Valentina Matviyenko
Chairman of the Federation Council of the
Russian Federation
“Back to Life” ceremony, 2014
Since 2007 the foundation has sponsored and
organized national award ceremony “Back to Life”.
The awards are given in 10 categories to outstanding
athletes, coaches, and physicians of the National
Paralympic Team, who achieve successful results at
the Winter and Summer Paralympic Games, and
other international competitions.
Sergey Naryshkin
Chairman of the State Duma
of the Russian Federation
“Back to Life” ceremony, 2010
In 2008 the foundation sponsors and organizes an
Ambassador reception at the Beijing Paralympics.
The event serves as a meeting point for representatives
of fifteen National Paralympic Committees, the
Games organizers, and the International Paralympic
Committee.
Philip Craven, President of the International Paralympic Committee, Vitaly Mutko, Minister of Sport of the Russian Federation,
Dmitry Kozak, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation,
Vladimir Lukin, President of the Russian Paralympic Committee.
Activities and
Sponsorship Programmes
Special Events
PARASPORT gives financial and organizational assistance to unique events and projects intended to make a breakthrough in the minds of
society and break stereotypes, to change public
opinion about people with disabilities.
In support of XI Winter Paralympic Games in Sochi
PARASPORT organizes a reception in honor of the
Russian champions and medalists.
During the ХI Paralympic Winter Games in 2014
PARASPORT foundation sponsors Russian talk show
“Heroes of Our Time”.
The objective of the program is to provide good and
positive examples of helping people find themselves,
and to promote qualities like determination, optimism,
and willpower, which can help to bring about success
no matter the hardships faced. The show was launched
on Russia’s leading business channel RBC TV.
In December 2014 Parasport Foundation participates
in the opening ceremony of the Paralympic Sports
House – first ever in the history of Russian Paralympic
Movement. The Award Ceremony «Back to Life» takes
place in the new Russian Paralympic Committee headquarters as part of celebrations.
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Activities and
Sponsorship Programmes
In December 2011 PARASPORT hosts a reception
dedicated to the Russian Paralympic Committee’s
15th anniversary. The event gathers great Russian
Paralympic champions, coaches and athletes, founders and pioneers of the Paralympic Movement in the
country.
Pavel Rozhkov, Vitaly Mutko, Alexey Kulakovsky
Since 2011 the foundation has organized master
classes for students of a boarding school for children
with disabilities in Moscow. Famous Russian Paralym-
Vladimir Lukin, Xavier Gonzalez
pic athletes come to share their skills in wheelchair
basketball, para-table tennis, wheelchair fencing,
wheelchair dance, boccia and arm wrestling, and etc.
In 2011 PARASPORT publishes the first children’s
book about Paralympic Movement in Russia and
the world, named «Paralympic Sports. Courage and
overcoming». The new edition was published in 2014.