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e most successful Hungarian Paralympic
performance to date in New York. e Sport
with Us children competition movement is born
(and is ongoing to this day), which mobilises
200–300 disabled children every year.
1984
1986
Commissioned by the International Sports
Federation of the Disabled and supported by the
National Federation of Associations of Persons
with Physical Disabilities, the MTSB organises
September 1997
e Hungarian Paralympic Committee is
a world championship for the disabled in sitting
volleyball in Pécs, Hungary, for the very first time.
established. Dr. Ambrus Galántai serves as its
first president.
2004
e Sports Act of 2004 extends the
performance, allowance and reward system for
Olympians to Paralympians.
2016
At its public general meeting on 12 December
2016, in line with the 2016 amendment of the
Sports Act, the Hungarian Paralympic
Committee (MPB) amends its statutes and
becomes a public body. e current President
of the Hungarian Paralympic
Committee is László Szabó.
1998
e Deputy State Secretariat for disability sports of the Ministry of Youth and Sports
Affairs is established, under the direction of
three-time Paralympic champion and Olympic
bronze medallist fencer Pál Szekeres
as Deputy Secretary of State.
2017
e Hungarian National Assembly unanimously
adopted the five-party initiative of the
Committee on Cultural Affairs at its meeting
in 12 December 2017. A national day was
appointed for Hungarian sports, parasports and
school sports and, aer approving the proposed
amendments, Hungarian deaf sports.
MAGYAR
PARASPORT
február 22. NAPJA
Hungarian Parasport Day will be celebrated
every year on 22 February. is date is
symbolic, because on this day in 1970, the
Olivér Halassy Sports Club of the
Disabled was established in the “Mozgásjavító”
Elementary School and Student’s Residence.
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