In the Nizhny Novgorod Sports Palace "District" 17 september 2017 of the year the competitions of the Open Cup of the Nizhny Novgorod region in boccia among children and athletes with the defeat of the musculoskeletal system.
The fight was conducted by more than a hundred athletes with disabilities from the Nizhny Novgorod region (Nizhny Novgorod, Dzerzhinsk, Brown, Volga region, Gorodets), as well as guests from Chuvashia, Vladimir and Ivanovo regions.
Boccia - Paralympic sport, It provides the possibility of participating athletes with the most severe disabilities. Each athlete showed accuracy, concentration and concentration. Some first discovered this fascinating sport..
The aim of the competition - to attract public attention to the rich potential of people with disabilities, the diversity of their interests, and the problems, which they face in life, achieving good results.
Competitions became possible thanks to the support of the Ministry of Sports of the Nizhny Novgorod Region, Department of Sport and Youth Policy of the city of Nizhny Novgorod. The invaluable help was provided by the guys from the Center for City Volunteers. Prizes and gifts provided by sponsors indifferent.
Competitions of this kind - a real test for the personnel of sports facilities, on which they are held. Many thanks to the management of FOC "Zarechye", to all employees for their assistance, attention to athletes with special needs.
Participants showed determination, the will to win, inexhaustible supply of vital energy.
In the project's boundaries “Center for Independent Living” using the RF President grant for the development of civil society, granted by the presidential grants
