Asian Paralympic Committee


The Asian Paralympic Committee is an organization based in United Arab Emirates. It has 44 National Paralympic Committees of the Asian continent as members. It organizes the Asian Para Games and is affiliated to the International Paralympic Committee.

History

The Asian Paralympic Committee was formed on 30 October 2002 in Busan, South Korea as the Asian Paralympic Council, following a motion presented by NPC Malaysia at the 1999 IPC General Assembly. It consisted originally of three sub-regions which are East Asia, South Asia and South-East Asia. In April 2004, in order to align with the structure followed by the International Olympic Committee, the International Paralympic Committee decided that the Central Asia and West Asia sub-regions fall under the Council’s responsibility. An agreement was signed on 16 May 2004 to merge the Asian Paralympic Council and the FESPIC Federation. The organisation was only known by its present name by 28 November 2006 when the merger came into effect.

Administration

APC Presidents

Executive board

Following is the APC Executive Board for the term 2019 – 2023.

APC Committees

Tournaments organized

In the following table, the year in which the NPC was recognized by the International Paralympic Committee is also given if it is different from the year in which the NPC was created.
Nation/RegionCodeNational Paralympic CommitteeCreatedRef.
AFGAfghanistan Paralympic Committee
BRNBahrain Disabled Sports Federation-Bahrain Paralympic Committee
BANNational Paralympic Committee of BangladeshInactive
BHUBhutan Paralympic Committee2017
BRUParalympic Council of Brunei Darussalam
CAMNational Paralympic Committee of Cambodia
CHNNational Paralympic Committee of China
TPEChinese Taipei Paralympic Committee
TLSComité Paralimpico Nacional de Timor-Leste
HKGHong Kong Paralympic Committee & Sports Association for the Physically Disabled
INDParalympic Committee of India1992
INANational Paralympic Committee of Indonesia1962
IRII. R. Iran National Paralympic Committee2001
IRQIraqi National Paralympic Committee
JPNJapan Paralympic Committee1999
JORJordan Paralympic Committee
KAZNational Paralympic Committee of Kazakhstan
KORKorean Paralympic Committee2006
KUWKuwait Paralympic Committee
KGZNational Paralympic Federation of the Kyrgyz Republic
LAOLao Paralympic Committee
LIBLebanese Paralympic Committee
MACAssociação Recreativa dos Deficientes de Macau
MASMalaysian Paralympic Council1989
MGLMongolian Paralympic Committee
MYANational Paralympic Committee of Myanmar
NEPNational Paralympic Committee Nepal
PRKParalympic Committee of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea
OMAOman Paralympic Committee
PAKNational Paralympic Committee of Pakistan1998
PLEPalestinian Paralympic Committee2010
PHIParalympic Committee of the Philippines1997
QATQatar Paralympic Committee
KSAParalympic Committee of Saudi Arabia
SGPSingapore National Paralympic Council2008
SRINational Federation of Sports for the Disabled
SYRSyrian Paralympic Committee
TJKTajik Paralimpic Committee
THAParalympic Committee of Thailand1985
TKMNational Paralympic Committee of Turkmenistan
UAEUAE Paralympic Committee
UZBUzbekistan National Paralympic Association
VIEVietnam Paralympic Association
YEMYemen Paralympic Association2015