About Deaf Sport

SADSF
• Established in 1974
Membership criteria
- Caters for all Deaf athletes, irrespective of extend of hearing loss
- Internationally, 55 decibels in a better ear needed to qualify
- First Deaflympics participation – Sofia 1993
Affiliated to:
- SASCOC
- Confederation of Africa Deaf Sports (CADS)
- International Committee of Sports for the Deaf (ICSD)
Structure
- Provincial Deaf Sport Federations
- District Deaf Sport Federations
- Single-coded clubs
- Constituted Codes with own committees
- Non-constituted codes with convenors
- Schools sport
Codes
- Soccer - constituted
- Netball - constituted
- Cricket - constituted
- Golf - constituted
- Squash - constituted
- Athletics – not constituted
- Volleyball – not constituted
- Table Tennis – not constituted
- Cycling – not constituted
- Basketball – under development
National Competitions
- National Deaf Development Games
- National Championships (single-coded)
Funders
- SRSA annual grant
- National Lotteries Commission (NLC)
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