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25/06/2009
Dwarf Athletes Converge on Belfast
Some 16 years after it was first launched, Belfast is to host the World Dwarf Games.
It emerged this week that more than 200 athletes of restricted growth - from 15 countries - will take part in a range of sporting competitions at the fifth of these unique games.
It is being staged over a week from July 27 and will be held at the Mary Peters Track in south Belfast, the University of Ulster's Jordanstown campus and Larne Leisure Centre. Belfast Lord Mayor Naomi Long paid tribute to the Dwarf Athletic Association of Northern Ireland (DAANI) who had been successful in bringing the games to Belfast.
She said: "Through their hard work and dedication, DAANI gives people with restricted growth conditions the opportunity to get more involved in mainstream sports and outdoor activity."
Chief Executive of Sport Northern Ireland, Eamonn McCartan , added: "This promises to be an exciting and unique event, once again affording Belfast, and Northern Ireland as a whole, a valuable opportunity to showcase itself on the international stage as an ideal venue for world class sporting events."
The first World Dwarf Games was held in Chicago in 1993. They were then held in England in 1997, Canada in 2001 and France in 2005.
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It emerged this week that more than 200 athletes of restricted growth - from 15 countries - will take part in a range of sporting competitions at the fifth of these unique games.
It is being staged over a week from July 27 and will be held at the Mary Peters Track in south Belfast, the University of Ulster's Jordanstown campus and Larne Leisure Centre. Belfast Lord Mayor Naomi Long paid tribute to the Dwarf Athletic Association of Northern Ireland (DAANI) who had been successful in bringing the games to Belfast.
She said: "Through their hard work and dedication, DAANI gives people with restricted growth conditions the opportunity to get more involved in mainstream sports and outdoor activity."
Chief Executive of Sport Northern Ireland, Eamonn McCartan , added: "This promises to be an exciting and unique event, once again affording Belfast, and Northern Ireland as a whole, a valuable opportunity to showcase itself on the international stage as an ideal venue for world class sporting events."
The first World Dwarf Games was held in Chicago in 1993. They were then held in England in 1997, Canada in 2001 and France in 2005.
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