Mousumi Mazumdar is the Marketing and Communications officer of Virtus: World Intellectual Impairment Sport. She first supported Virtus during her Masters degree in 2018 as an intern– attending the European Summer Games in Paris and has since attended numerous events including 2019 Global Games, Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games.
Understanding barriers and enablers towards physical activity is an essential first step to developing interventions and increasing activity levels of people with intellectual disabilities. Virtus Academy manager Dr. Debbie Van Biesen […]
Virtus, the international federation for sports for intellectual impairment is delighted to announce that Turkey will host a combined World and European Indoor Athletics Championship in 2023. The World Championships […]
It is well known that intellectual impairment affects people differently. For some people, it means they might struggle to remember things, but for others it can be a very different […]
Gabriel Bandeira is a Paralympic Champion from Brazil. Gabriel made his Paralympics debut at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games and won – 1 Gold medal in 100m butterfly (with Paralympic […]
The 2022 Virtus World Half Marathon concluded today in the beautiful city of Viseu in Portugal. The event was organised by Virtus member ANDDI- PORTUGAL. The tournament took place as a […]
The finals of the Women’s II1 Table Tennis match couldn’t have been more thrilling. At the Virtus European Summer Games, in Cracow Poland, 20-year-old Ebru Acer from Turkey defeated the […]
The Portuguese won the men’s II1 Handball final match today against Poland by 26-23. The Portuguese stayed undefeated for the fourth time in the past nine years. At the Virtus […]
Portugal took the championship title for the II1 men’s basketball match at the 2022 Virtus European Summer Games. Both the finalists, Portugal and France staged a heart-stopping match for the […]
Besides the temperature in the city of Cracow, what else is rising? The performance of Virtus athletes!! Three more World Records were broken today in the II1 swimming events (short […]
Tokyo 2020 Paralympian Pernilla Lindberg from Sweden claimed her second Virtus World Record at the European Summer Games 2022 (VESG 2022). Pernilla broke the Women’s II1 800m Freestyle with 9:22.52 […]
Virtus World Intellectual Impairment Sport, “Virtus” is the brand name of the International Federation for athletes with intellectual impairment and is a founding member of the International Paralympic Committee. Registered as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation in the UK (1173901)
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