History

Founded in 1978, the mission of Hong Kong, China Sports Association for Persons with Intellectual Disability (HKSAPID) is to develop, promote and organize sports activities for persons with intellectual disability (ID) in order to fully develop their potential in sports, to cultivate positive attitudes in sportsmanship and to facilitate their integration into our community.

HKSAPID is the sole sport association in Hong Kong offering regular and systematic sports training and competitions especially to people with intellectual disability (ID). After years of development, we have over a hundred agency members and thousands of registered athletes and participants. Over 50,000 headcounts are recorded in the year round events.

HKSAPID became the official member of Virtus:World Intellectual Impairment Sport (Virtus, previously known as INAS) in 1996. In Sydney 2000 Paralympic Games, our athletes won the gold and silver medal in table tennis women’s singles and women’s long jump respectively; a silver medal was also attained in table tennis demonstration in Athens 2004 Paralympic Games. The swimming and athletics team also achieved prominent results in competitions around the world. After 12 years, ID athletes are finally re-included in the Paralympics and 7 local ID athletes gained the qualification slots to the London 2012 Paralympics. They competed with worldwide elites in table tennis and swimming and got 1 gold, 1 silver and 2 bronze medals.

Our athletes won 1 gold and 1 bronze medals in the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games. Swimmer TANG Wai Lok broke his personal best and the Paralympic Records with 01:56:32 in Class S14 Men's 200m Freestyle and won the first-ever gold medal in swimming for Hong Kong.