Train4Family

Inclusive start of New Stars athletics tournament

16.05.2024

On May 16, 2024, the "New Stars" athletics tournament was held at the "Vasil Levski" National Sports Academy. The tournament was organized at an extremely high level by the KLASA sports club and the director of the tournament – Assoc. prof. Plamen Nyagin. The 46th edition of the international tournament included in its program a 100 and 200-meter inclusive start, as well as shot put, in which 53 athletes with intellectual disabilities took part.

The inclusion of integrated starts in sporting events with proven traditions is extremely important support for people with disabilities and their full integration and the example of the organizers of the New Stars tournament has become a sustainable successful practice in the last few years.

Competitors were divided into several series, competing under the slogan #Train4Family – Bulgarian sports development association initiative, supported by the Erasmus+ programmе of the European Union, which promotes the sustainable inclusion of people with intellectual and/or physical disabilities in sporting activities at local, national and international level. Athletes from SC APAS Sandanski, SC BG and sports for all, ParaKids, SC Adapted Sports, SC APA Faeton, SC AS Faer, Sport, SEN, Sambo for development, CSEN “Stefan Vasilev” Svilengrad, SC United sports for all, SC Wonders, SC APA Pobeda, APA Nadezhda, SC AS Kyustendil, SC AS Varna, SC Sredets APA took part in the international sports competition.