Marrakech to host IPC athletics event for disabled
2007-04-27
More than 140 athletes will take part in the 6th International Athletics Meeting for the Disabled, which will take place Saturday (April 28th) in Marrakech. The meeting is organized by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC), the Moroccan Association "Ennasser", the Arab Union of Handicapped and the Royal Moroccan Federation of Sports for the Disabled. Morocco will be represented by 19 athletes, France with 35 athletes, Algeria with 28, Tunisia with 10, the UAE with 22 and Spain with 12. The best-performing athletes will qualify for the Beijing 2008 Paralympics, joining those who already qualified at the IPC Athletics World Championships held last September in the Netherlands.
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