Bulgaria’s Special Olympics Delegation Wins 4 Bronze, 4 Silver, 2 Gold Medals at

The Special Olympics Bulgaria national delegation took four
bronze, four silver, and two gold medals at the Special Olympics
World Summer Games Berlin 2023, Special Olympics Bulgaria said
Sunday in a press release, Azernews reports, citing BTA.

The Bulgarian delegation took silver for the unified basketball
team 5×5, two silver and one bronze medal in parkour, one silver
for field hockey, one gold medal in powerlifting, a bronze in
English Equestrian, gold and bronze in swimming, and bronze in
badminton.

The Special Olympics World Summer Games Berlin 2023, taking
place between June 17 and 25, is the largest inclusive sporting
event, with more than 7,000 athletes with intellectual disabilities
and their non-disabled partners participating in 26 sports and 2
demonstration sports from 190 national delegations. 20,000
volunteers are participating in the Games, which are a “celebration
of colours” aimed at showing the world the power of inclusion,
equality, kindness, and compassion.

The Special Olympics Bulgaria national delegation consists of 40
athletes with intellectual disabilities and their partners without
intellectual disabilities in 9 sports – athletics (2 men and 2
women), bocce (1 man and 1 woman), badminton (1 man and 1 woman),
equestrian (2 men and 2 women), swimming (2 men and 2 women),
powerlifting (2 men), tennis (1 man and 1 woman) and for the first
time participation of a combined basketball team (6 athletes with
intellectual disabilities and 4 partners without intellectual
disabilities) and field hockey (6 men and 4 women). The delegation
is the largest since the beginning of the programme in Bulgaria and
for the first time with participation in team sports.

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