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.
Day-3 of the OA Games was another successful day with many records broken and winners being crowned in Basketball and Table Tennis final matches. SWIMMING Swimmers heated up the Sleeman Swimming […]
Medal tally for new nations and debutants opened yesterday On Day-1 of the Athletics competition at the 2022 Virtus OA Games taking place at the Queensland Sport & Athletics Centre, many […]
What a successful start for the host nation at the 2022 Virtus OA Games today at both the Road Cycling competition at RACQ Mobility Centre and in Rowing at the Queensland State […]
The 2022 Virtus Oceania-Asia Games were declared open today at King George Square, Brisbane by Robyn Smith OAM, CEO of Sport Inclusion Australia, Virtus Vice President and IPC Governing Board Member […]
Tension building up in the city of Brisbane as the first Virtus Oceania Asia Games 2022 is just three days away. Apart from being the inaugural games for the OA […]
Cognitive issues are one of the major effects of intellectual impairment. Hélène Parmentier, sister and coach of the Belgian Paralympic S-14 swimmer Aymeric Parmentier shared some of those issues Aymeric […]
Neel Yadav is the youngest cyclist from Asia to win the first-ever medal in Cycling for India at the 2019 INAS Global Games, Brisbane in cycling in the 20KM Men’s […]
Intellectual impairment is an invisible disability which makes it difficult for people to understand the problems people who are affected by it have in their daily life. Imagine spending hours […]
The first-ever Paralympic day was held in Paris on 8th October. The Paris 2024 Organising Committee hosted the day at the Place de la Bastille. An estimate of 40,000 people gathered […]
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 […]
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Virtus is the brand name of the International Sports 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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