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The company RTS Decaux Kazakhstan congratulates Kazakh team Special Olympics with victories at the Special Olympics World Summer Games!
Since 2004 the company "RTS Decaux" has been cooperating with the NGO Special Olympics Kazakhstan. Special Olympics is the world's largest year-round program of sports training and competition for people with intellectual disabilities, founded in 1968 by the Kennedy family (USA). More than one million people in 170 countries train in 26 summer and winter Olympic sports at the local, national and international levels. In Kazakhstan, Special Olympics not only conducts trainings, tournaments and other sports activities for children and adults in Kazakhstan, but also organizes the participation of athletes in international competitions.

For many years, RTS Deco has been involved in supporting this program not only financially, but also physically as volunteers. In 2015, the team of Special Olympics of Kazakhstan successfully performed at the World Summer special Olympics, which took place in Los Angeles (USA) from July 21 to August 03, 2015.

The team of Kazakhstan was represented by 68 athletes in 15 sports (out of 25 at the Games), from all regions of the Republic. More gold medals - 5 were won by the athletes acting on rollers (Pavlodar), then powerlifting – 2 gold (Astana) and tennis 2 gold (Kokshetau), gymnastics 2 gold (Karaganda region).
The national team from the branch of Special Olympics in Almaty was represented by 6 athletes, 5 partners and 3 coaches in 5 sports. A valuable employee of the technical Department of the company "RTS Deco" Koshaev Kuanysh not only participated in this trip as a volunteer, but also in the team with his partner, athlete Seidagazievym Rinat, they took the third place in bowling.

Published in Инновации