Month: January 2017

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41st Fife Sports Festival for Disabled People

Entry forms are now available for the 41st Annual Sports Festival organised by Disability Sport Fife and supported by the Fife Sports and Leisure Trust and Fife Council. The Festival runs from Friday 3rd March through to Thursday 23rd March and is open to participants with a physical, sensory or learning disability of all ages and levels of ability.

Enquiries concerning the Festival should be directed to Norma Buchanan, Administrator, Disability Sport Fife, Michael Woods Sports Centre, Viewfield, Glenrothes KY6 2RD or Richard Brickley, President, DSF at the DSF office.

Tel: 03451 55 55 55  Ext 444989
Email: norma.buchanan@fife.gov.uk

Entry forms are available from the DSF Office or at DSF on line (week beginning 9th January) www.fifeleisure.org.uk (find us on the health programmes drop down menu).

Entry fee per Championships event £2.00.

CLOSING DATE FOR ENTRIES: Friday 10 FEBRUARY 2017

Friday 3 March 2017 – Swimming
Michael Woods Sports and Leisure Centre, Glenrothes – 10.15 – 15.30 hrs
Fife Championships for disabled swimmers

Monday 6 March 2017 – Archery
Venue to be confirmed – 18.30 hrs
Fife Indoor Championships for disabled archers

Thursday 9 March 2017 – Football 5s (mixed) and Unihoc 6s (Women)
Michael Woods Sports and Leisure Centre, Glenrothes – 10.30 – 14.30 hrs
Fife Football & Unihoc Championships for players with a learning disability

Wednesday 15 March 2017 – Badminton
Kirkcaldy Leisure Centre – 10.30 – 15.00 hrs
Fife Badminton Championships for disabled players

Thursday 16 March 2017 – Basketball and Netball
Michael Woods Sports and Leisure Centre, Glenrothes – 10.30 – 12.00 hrs
Fife Netball (Women) & Basketball (Men) Festival for players with a learning disability (no entry form required, just turn up on the day – all participants must pay the standard weekly fee for the FSLT multi-activity session)

Monday 20 March 2017 – Table Tennis and Boccia
Michael Woods Centre, Glenrothes – 19.00-21.00 hrs
Fife Table Tennis and Boccia Championships for disabled players

Thursday 23 March 2017 – Tug-O-War
Michael Woods Centre, Glenrothes – 10.30 – 12.00 hrs
Fife Tug-O-War Festival for athletes with a learning disability

Richard Brickley MBE
President, Disability Sport Fife

New Year’s Honours for Top Scots

Scottish Disability Sport (SDS) wishes to congratulate the Scottish Paralympic athletes and volunteers who have been named on the 2017 New Year’s Honours list.

There was recognition for Scotland’s gold medallist’s competing as part of ParalympicsGB at the 2016 Summer Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro with Jo Butterfield, Libby Clegg, Karen Darke and Gordon Reid all being awarded MBE’s (Members of the Order of the British Empire).

In January 2016 Gordon Reid won his first ever wheelchair tennis grand slam singles title at the Australian Open, followed closely with his second grand slam victory in the inaugural singles Championships at Wimbledon. At the 2016 Summer Paralympics, Gordon won the gold medal for the Men’s Wheelchair Singles, beating fellow Briton Alfie Hewitt in straight sets, 6-2 6-1. Gordon receives his MBE for services to Wheelchair Tennis.

Commonwealth Games champion, Libby Clegg,  was reclassified as a T11 athlete due to her deteriorating eye condition in 2016, requiring her to wear a blindfold whilst racing. Alongside guide Chris Clarke she won the T11 100m title and 200m title in Rio. Libby receives her MBE for services to athletics and charity.

Jo Butterfield travelled to Rio as the reigning World and European champion in the F51 Club Throw. At the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships in Doha she took the gold with a throw of 21.44 to set a championship record. In Rio, she set a new world record to win gold in the F51 Club Throw and was awarded her MBE for services to Field Athletics.

The fourth Scottish Paralympian to be recognised was hand cyclist, Karen Darke who won the gold medal in the Women’s H1-3 Time Trial at the Rio Games in a time of 33:44:93 Karen receives her MBE for services to Sport particularly Cycling and Triathlon.

Also recognised in the 2017 New Year’s Honours were Dr Margo Whiteford, Chair of Spina Bifida Hydrocephalus Scotland who was awarded a CBE (Commanders of the Order of the British Empire) for services to Healthcare and charity and Michael Cavanagh former Chair of Commonwealth Games Scotland for services to Sport and the Commonwealth Games Movement.

Congratulations once again from all at SDS on these well-deserved recognitions.