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Paralympic Committee of Thailand

National Paralympic Committee

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ18386588 ↗
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The Paralympic Committee of Thailand (PCT, Thai: คณะกรรมการพาราลิมปิกแห่งประเทศไทย) is the national Paralympic committee in Thailand for the Paralympic Games movement, based in Bangkok, Thailand. It is a non-profit organisation that selects teams and raises funds to send Thailand competitors to Paralympic events organised by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC), Asian Para Games events organised by the Asian Paralympic Committee (APC) and ASEAN Para Games events organised by the ASEAN Para Sports Federation (APSF).

The council was established on June 11, 1985, and is recognized by International Paralympic Committee (IPC) and Asian Paralympic Committee (APC). The association is headquartered in Pathum Wan, Bangkok. The current head of the federation is Gen. Prawit Wongsuwan.

Governance

Executive Board

National governing body members

Sports Association for the Disabled of Thailand

The Sports Association for the Disabled of Thailand (SADT, Thai: สมาคมกีฬาคนพิการแห่งประเทศไทย) is the national governing body for Disabled sports . It is accredited by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) (the global sports body for people with a disability) and the Paralympic Committee of Thailand (PCT), and is recognized by National Olympic Committee of Thailand (NOCT). It was founded on 11 June 1985.

The association is headquartered in Pathum Wan, Bangkok.

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

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This entry incorporates text from “Paralympic Committee of Thailand” 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.