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• A
Hungarian
team
first
participated
in
the
• In spring, we organised two qualification com-
World Transplant Games in Innsbruck in 1987.
petitions to qualify athletes for that year’s inter-
Since then, transplant sports in Hungary have
national competitions. In autumn, the Hungar-
undergone massive development.
ian championships will be held for each sport.
• e Federation offers opportunities to practice
• e
World
Transplant
Games
are
organised
and train with professional coaches in 8 sports:
biannually in odd-numbered years. European
table tennis, athletics, bowling, darts, pétan-
championships and other continental games,
que, tennis, badminton and swimming.
as well as the World Winter Games, are held in
the years in between.
SHOWER OF MEDALS AND WORLD RECORDS AT THE 24TH WORLD
TRANSPLANT GAMES
Hungarian contestants of various
age
groups
competed
in
elev-
en sports, and altogether won 18
gold, 24 silver and 18 bronze medals.
At the World Games in Perth, with
the participation of 45 countries,
19 kidney, 7 liver, 3 bone marrow
and
3
heart
transplant
athletes
competed in eleven sports (table
tennis,
athletics,
bowling,
darts,
cycling, pétanque, tennis, badminton, swimming, virtual triathlon).
e most successful sports were
swimming, athletics, table tennis
and
bowling,
but
a
gold
medal
was also won in pétanque.
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