The Asian Paralympic Committee (

acronym An acronym is a type of abbreviation consisting of a phrase whose only pronounced elements are the initial letters or initial sounds of words inside that phrase. Acronyms are often spelled with the initial Letter (alphabet), letter of each wor ...

: APC) is an organization based in

United Arab Emirates The United Arab Emirates (UAE), or simply the Emirates, is a country in West Asia, in the Middle East, at the eastern end of the Arabian Peninsula. It is a Federal monarchy, federal elective monarchy made up of Emirates of the United Arab E ...

. It has 45

National Paralympic Committee A National Paralympic Committee (NPC) is a national constituent of the worldwide Paralympic movement. Subject to the controls of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC), NPCs are responsible for organizing their people's participation in the ...

s of the Asian continent as members. It organizes the

Asian Para Games The Asian Para Games, also known as Para Asiad, is a multi-sport event regulated by the Asian Paralympic Committee that's held every four years after every Asian Games for athletes with physical disabilities. Both events had adopted the strat ...

and is affiliated to the

International Paralympic Committee The International Paralympic Committee (IPC; ) is an international non-profit organisation and the global governing body for the Paralympic Movement. The IPC organizes the Paralympic Games and functions as the international federation for nin ...

History

The Asian Paralympic Committee was formed on 30 October 2002 during the 2002 FESPIC Games in Busan, South Korea as the Asian Paralympic Council, following a motion presented by NPC Malaysia at the 1999 IPC General Assembly. It consisted originally of three sub-regions which are East Asia, South Asia and Southeast Asia. In April 2004, in order to align with the structure followed by the International Olympic Committee, the International Paralympic Committee decided that the Central Asia and West Asia sub-regions fall under the council's responsibility. An agreement was signed on 16 May 2004 to merge the Asian Paralympic Council and the FESPIC Federation. The organisation was only known by its present name by 28 November 2006 when the merger came into effect.

Member countries

In the following table, the year in which the NPC was recognized by the

(IPC) is also given if it is different from the year in which the NPC was created.

Regions

Source: 45 in 5 regions: # East (8) # Center (6) # West (12) # South (8) # South East (11)

Events

* Asian Youth Para Games Related: * West Asian Para Games *

ASEAN Para Games The ASEAN Para Games is a biennial Paralympic sports, multi-sport event held after every Southeast Asian Games involving disabled athletes from the current 11 Southeast Asia countries. Participating athletes have a variety of disabilities rangi ...

* FESPIC Games * FESPIC Youth Games

APC General Assembly (GA)

APC Executive Board Meeting (EBM)

APC Recognized Sports

27 Sports in 1 January 2024. # Para Archery - Asian Archery Federation (AAF) #

Para Athletics Para-athletics is the sport of athletics practiced by people with a disability as a disabled sports, parasport. The list of athletics events, athletics events within the parasport are mostly the same as those available to able-bodied people, w ...

- World Para Athletics (WPA) # Para Badminton - Badminton Asia Confederation (BAC) #

Boccia Boccia ( ) is a precision ball sport, similar to bocce, and related to bowls and pétanque. The name "boccia" is derived from the Latin word for "boss" – '. The sport is contested at local, national and international levels, by athletes w ...

- Boccia International Sports Federation (BISFed) #

Wheelchair Basketball Wheelchair basketball is a style of basketball played using a sports wheelchair. The International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF) is the governing body for this sport. It is recognized by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) as ...

- International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF) #

Tenpin Bowling Tenpin bowling is a type of bowling in which a bowler bowling form, rolls a bowling ball down a wood or synthetic lane toward ten pins positioned Tetractys, evenly in four rows in an equilateral triangle. The goal is to knock down all ten Bowlin ...

- Asian Bowling Federation (ABF) # Para Canoeing - Asian Canoe Confederation (ACC) #

Chess Chess is a board game for two players. It is an abstract strategy game that involves Perfect information, no hidden information and no elements of game of chance, chance. It is played on a square chessboard, board consisting of 64 squares arran ...

- Asian Chess Federation (ACF) # Para Cycling - Asian Cycling Confederation (ACC) # Wheelchair Dance Sport - Dance Sport Asia (DSA) # Blind Football -

International Blind Sports Federation The International Blind Sports Federation () is a non-profit organisation founded 1981 in Paris, France. It was formerly known as the International Blind Sports Association. IBSA's mission is to promote the full integration of blind and parti ...

(IBSA) #

CP Football Cerebral Palsy Football, also called ''7-a-side football'' or formerly ''Paralympic Football'', is an adaptation of association football for sportsperson, athletes with cerebral palsy and other neurological disorders, including stroke and trauma ...

- International Federation of Cerebral Palsy Football (IFCPF) # Go -

International Go Federation The International Go Federation (IGF) is an international organization that connects the various national Go federations around the world. Role The role of the IGF is to promote the sport of Go throughout the world, promote amicable relations ...

(IGF) #

Goalball Goalball is a team sport designed specifically for athletes with a visual impairment, vision impairment. Participants compete in teams of three, and try to throw a ball with bells embedded inside it into the opponents' goal. The ball is throw ...

(IBSA) # Paralympic judo -

(IBSA) #

Lawn Bowls Bowls, also known as lawn bowls or lawn bowling, is a sport in which players try to roll their ball (called a bowl) closest to a smaller ball (known as a "jack" or sometimes a "kitty"). The bowls are shaped (biased), so that they follow a curve ...

- World Bowls (WB) # Para Powerlifting - World Para Powerlifting (WPPO) #

Rowing Rowing is the act of propelling a human-powered watercraft using the sweeping motions of oars to displace water and generate reactional propulsion. Rowing is functionally similar to paddling, but rowing requires oars to be mechanically a ...

World Rowing Federation World Rowing, also known as the World Rowing Federation (officially FISA; ), is the international governing body for rowing. Its current president is Jean-Christophe Rolland who succeeded Denis Oswald at a ceremony held in Lucerne in July 2014 ...

(FISA) # Para Sailing -

World Sailing World Sailing is the international sports governing body for sailing (sport), sailing; it is recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). History The creation of the International Yac ...

(WS) # Para Shooting -

(IPC) #

Para Swimming Para swimming is an adaptation of the sport of swimming (sport), swimming for athletes with disability, disabilities. Para swimmers compete at the Swimming at the Summer Paralympics, Summer Paralympic Games and at other sports competitions through ...

(IPC) #

Para Table Tennis Para table tennis is a parasports which follows the rules set by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). The usual table tennis rules are in effect with slight modifications for wheelchair athletes. Athletes from disability groups can ...

International Table Tennis Federation The International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) is the Sport governing body, governing body for all national table tennis associations that use ITTF-approved sponge table tennis rackets. The role of the ITTF includes overseeing rules and regula ...

(ITTF) #

Sitting Volleyball Sitting volleyball is a form of volleyball for athletes with a disability organized by World ParaVolley. As opposed to standing volleyball, sitting volleyball players must sit on the floor to play. History Sitting volleyball was invented in t ...

- World ParaVolley (WPV) # Wheelchair Fencing - International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports Federation (IWAS) #

Wheelchair Rugby Wheelchair rugby (originally murderball, and known as quad rugby in the United States) is a team sport for Disabled sport, athletes with a disability. It is practiced in over twenty-five countries around the world and is a summer Paralympic spor ...

- World Wheelchair Rugby (IWRF) #

Wheelchair Tennis Wheelchair tennis is one of the forms of tennis Adaptive sport, adapted for wheelchair users. The size of the court, net height and rackets are the same, but there are two major differences from pedestrian tennis: athletes use specially designe ...

International Tennis Federation The International Tennis Federation (ITF) is the governing body of world tennis, wheelchair tennis, and beach tennis. It was founded in 1913 as the International Lawn Tennis Federation by twelve national tennis associations. there are 211 nat ...

(ITF) #

Para Taekwondo Para taekwondo is an adaptation of taekwondo for disabled sportspeople. The sport's main governing body is World Taekwondo (WT). New disciplines such as ''kyorugi'' and ''poomsae'', both martial arts forms, have been developed for para-athletes. ...

Asian Taekwondo Union The Asian Taekwondo Union or WT Asia is the official governing body for Taekwondo in Asia as a regional organisation of World Taekwondo. References External links * World Taekwondo Taekwondo Taekwondo (; ; ) is a Korean martial a ...

(ATU)

Events Summary

* Asian Summer Para Games (2010–2022) (4) 1,791 Events * Asian Youth Para Games (2009–2021) (4) 904 Events * Total : 8 Games (2009–2022): 2,695 Events

Medals (2009–2023)

# Asian Summer Para Games (2010–2022) (4 Edition) 1,791 Events # Asian Youth Para Games (2009–2021) (4 Edition) 904 Events

Administration

APC Presidents

Executive board

Following is the APC Executive Board for the term 2019 – 2023.

Committees

Tournaments organized

* Asian Youth Para Games

Affiliated event

References

External links

Asian Paralympic Committee - official website
{{Regional Organizations of National Paralympic Committees Paralympic Committees *Asian Paralympic Committee Sports organizations established in 2006 2006 establishments in Asia