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Colombian Paralympic Committee

National Paralympic Committee

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 17, 2025
Entity authorityQ47153801 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Colombian Paralympic Committee Spanish: Comité Paralímpico Colombiano is a private, non-profit organization representing the Colombian Paralympic athletes in the International Paralympic Committee (IPC), the Parapan American Games, and the South American Para Games. It is the governing body of the Colombian Paralympic sport; it represents 15 member sports organizations.

Mission

The Colombian Paralympic Committee is the entity that promotes the formulation and implementation of the public policy of sport recreation, and sports rehabilitation within the Colombian Paralympic System. In addition, it coordinates and executes the different programs of the Paralympic and Deaflympic sports in the Colombian territory in conjunction with its national federations and competent international entities.

This organizational structure defines a dimension in the aspect of the projections in its organizational processes, established in its programmatic vision.

Objectives

General Objective

Achieve the strengthening and consolidation of the Colombian Paralympic Committee, making visible the disability situation in the national and international sports, recreation, and leisure time of people with disabilities.

Specific Objectives

Position the Colombian Paralympic Committee as the governing body for the sport of people with disabilities in all national and international instances.

Consolidate the internal management structures of the Colombian Paralympic Committee with an effective approach.

Build the policies and guidelines to ensure the proper functioning of the National Paralympic System in harmony with the International System.

To create conditions for the development of Paralympic and Deaflympic sports practices in Colombia.

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“Colombian Paralympic Committee” enters the record as national Paralympic Committee. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Colombian, Paralympic and Committee can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Colombian Paralympic Committee” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.