Americas Paralympic Committee

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Americas Paralympic Committee
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TypeSports federation
HeadquartersMar Del Plata, Argentina
Membership
33 National Paralympic Committees
Official language
Spanish, English, Portuguese, French
President
Colombia Julio César Ávil
Websitehttp://www.americasparalympic.org/

Americas Paralympic Committee (acronym: APC; Spanish: Comité Paralímpico de Américas ; Portuguese: Comitê Paralímpico das Américas ; Catalan: Comitè Paralímpic de les Amèriques ; Esperanto: Komitato Paralimpika de la Amerikoj ; French: Comité Paralympique des Amériques) is an international IPC regional committee[1] which represents the current 33 National Paralympic Committees of the North American and South American continents.[2] It is affiliated to/with the International Paralympic Committee and its affiliated bodies.

APC is the body that organizes and oversees the Parapan American Games held every four years in the year before the Summer Paralympics.

Member countries[]

In the following table, the year in which the NPC was recognized by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) is also given if it is different from the year in which the NPC was created.

Nation Code National Paralympic Committee Created Ref.
 Antigua and Barbuda ANT [3]
 Argentina ARG Argentine Paralympic Committee 2004 [3]
 Aruba ARU [3]
 Barbados BAR [3]
 Bermuda BER [3]
 Brazil BRA Brazilian Paralympic Committee 1995 [3]
 Canada CAN Canadian Paralympic Committee 1981 [3]
 Chile CHI [3]
 Colombia COL Colombian Paralympic Committee 2001 [3]
 Costa Rica CRC [3]
 Cuba CUB [3]
 Dominican Republic DOM [3]
 Ecuador ECU [3]
 El Salvador ESA [3]
 Grenada GRN [3]
 Guatemala GUA [3]
 Guyana GUY [3]
 Haiti HAI [3]
 Honduras HON [3]
 Jamaica JAM [3]
 Mexico MEX [3]
 Nicaragua NCA [3]
 Panama PAN [3]
 Paraguay PAR 2018 [3]
 Peru PER [3]
 Puerto Rico PUR [3]
 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines VIN [3]
 Suriname SUR [3]
 Trinidad and Tobago TRI 2009 [3][4]
 United States USA United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee 2001 [3]
 Uruguay URU Uruguayan Paralympic Committee [3]
 Venezuela VEN [3]
 United States Virgin Islands ISV [3]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ IPC Style Guide Archived 2010-06-19 at the Wayback Machine, International Paralympic Committee (IPC)
  2. ^ "Americas Paralympic Committee - About us". Retrieved September 5, 2015.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag National Paralympic Committees (NPCs), International Paralympic Committee (IPC)
  4. ^ Paralympic boost for T&T Archived 2010-12-03 at the Wayback Machine, trinidadexpress.com, December 1, 2010

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