Fair Play for Deaf Athletes - 15 November 2023
Today UK Deaf Sport launch our campaign calling on the government to end the discrimination against elite deaf athletes.
Did you know that the Government fund and support Olympic and Paralympic athletes but don’t support our own DeaflympicsGB Team?
Today we launch our campaign in Parliament to End Deaf Sport Discrimination and call upon Government to Fund DeaflympicsGB.
Elite deaf athletes from across sport will share their incredible stories and how lack of funding has affected them.
Oliver Pritchard - Deaf Triathlete
Current 2023 European Triathlon AG Sprint Champion Oliver Pritchard calls for fair funding for deaf athletes.
Also, Men’s 5000m bronze medallist at the European Deaf Athletics Championships in Poland 2023.
A DeaflympicsGB 2025 Athletics hopeful.
Join us and support our campaign for Fair Play for Deaf Athletes - www.ukdeafsport.org.uk/fairplayfordeafathletes
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