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| Founded | 1986 |
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| Type | Not-for-profit organisation for intellectual disability |
| Focus | Sport, disability |
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Area served | Worldwide |
Members | c. 500,000 |
Key people | President – Marc Truffaut (France) Executive Director – Nick Parr (UK) |
| Website | https://www.virtus.sport/ |
Formerly called | INAS-FID, INAS-FMH |
| Member of International Paralympic Committee | |
Virtus Sport (formerly INAS or INAS Sport) (International Sports Federation for Persons with Intellectual Disability; originally called INAS-FMH, later INAS-FID, INAS and now as Virtus Sport) is a federation which was established in 1986 by professionals in the Netherlands who were involved in sport and wanted to promote the participation of athletes with mental handicap in elite sports (intellectual impairment).
The organisation uses the brand name Virtus to promote sport worldwide for athletes with intellectual disability, autism and Down syndrome.[1]
It provides competition opportunities for elite athletes with an intellectual disability in Paralympic and non-Paralympic sports and is different from Special Olympics, which provides non-elite opportunities worldwide.
- ^ "High performance sport for athletes with an intellectual impairment". inas.org. Archived from the original on 10 September 2012. Retrieved 31 January 2018.