Spanish Paralympic Committee (, CPE) is a Spanish non-profit sport organisation founded in 1995, that oversees five national disability sport federations. The organisation has a Secretary General and a President. Since 2005, they have been supported by Plan ADO. In 2000, the CPE was involved in a cheating scandal at the

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History

The CPE was created in 1995 in response to the success of Spanish competitors at the

1992 Summer Paralympics The 1992 Summer Paralympics (; ) were the ninth Paralympic Games to be held. They were held in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. In addition, the 1992 Paralympic Games for Persons with mental handicap were held immediately after the regular Paralymp ...

. Organización Nacional de Ciegos Españoles (ONCE) assisted in setting up the CPE. In 1998, the Spanish government changed the laws, which impacted the status of the CPE to recognise it as equal to that of the

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. At the same time, the organisation was received legal status, "declaración de utilidad pública", as being useful to the general public.

Governance and funding

The organisation is a non-profit, and is set up and taxed in the same manner as the Spanish Olympic Committee. Income by the CPE are not subject 40% tax levied by the national government on admission fees for organisations except in the cases of sporting events. The CPE includes the five Spanish disability sport federations, which represent over 13,000 sportspeople, to host and govern disability sport on the local level around the country. They are the Federación Española de Deportes para Ciegos (FEDC), Federación Española de Deportes de Personas con Discapacidad Física (FEDDF), Federación Española de Deportes para Discapacitados Intelectuales (FEDDI), Federación Española de Deportes para Sordos (FEDS) and Federación Española de Deportes de Paralíticos Cerebrales (FEDPC). Since 2005, as a result of Plan ADO, the CPE received additional institutional and financial support from companies and businesses in sponsoring athletes, events, federations and teams. Between 2005 and 2008, including in Plan ADO brought in an additional 17.5 million

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to support preparations for the Spanish Paralympic team delegations at the 2006 Winter Paralympics,

2008 Summer Paralympics The 2008 Summer Paralympic Games (), the 13th Summer Paralympic Games, took place in Beijing, China, from September 6 to 17, 2008. As with the 2008 Summer Olympics, equestrian events were held in Hong Kong and sailing events in Qingdao. It was ...

and

2010 Winter Paralympics The 2010 Winter Paralympics (), or the tenth Paralympic Winter Games, were held in Vancouver and Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, from March 12 to 21, 2010. The opening ceremony took place in BC Place Stadium in Vancouver and the Closing ...

. The funds directly benefited 390 competitors and 135 technical support personnel like coaches. The CPE manages the allocation of the Plan ADO funding to athletes and others. In 2013, CPE Secretary General Miguel Segarra accompanied the Madrid 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Bid Delegation to Bonn to submit the city's bid for the Games.

Board members

Past members of the board include Fernando Vicente Martin, who was the Committee's Vice President in the late 1990s. The President was in 2008 and 2009 Miguel Carballeda. Miguel Segarra was the Committee's Secretary General in 2008 and 2009, a role he continued to hold in 2013.

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is the Honorary President of the Spanish Paralympic Committee. In this role she has led the Spanish delegation at the

Scandal

Following the

, Fernando Vicente Martin was expelled from the board of the Committee because they found him to be one of the biggest participants in fraudulent activities involving the Spanish delegation at the Games, following an investigation initiated in November 2000 at the behest of 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 ...

. The Committee found that 10 of the 12 members of the Spanish intellectually disabled basketball team did not meet the standards for such players. The Committee also ordered members of the ID basketball team to return the gold medal they won at the 2000 Games.

References

External links

Official website
{{Authority control National Paralympic Committees

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