OUR LATEST NEWS.

On October 30th in the city of Miami, United States, TAFISA and PANAM Sports held their first meeting and workshop for the development of the Americas Alliance for Sport for All. This first step has brought the two organisations together around potential projects and cooperative actions that will be taken in the near future.

The Walktober Challenge is a national walking event taking place throughout the whole month of October in Australia.
This challenge has been held every October since 2000 by the Bluearth Foundation with the objective to encourage people to get out and walk more often.

The scientific conference “Cubamotricidad”, organised by the Cuban Institute of Sport, Physical Education and Recreation (INDER) and with the support of TAFISA was officially opened on Monday October 22, in the “Ciudad Deportiva” of Havana City, headquarters of INDER.  

A TAFISA delegation led by TAFISA President Prof. Dr. Ju-Ho Chang who was accompanied by SAKA (Sport for All Korea Association) Vice-President Ms Sujee Choi and TAFISA Project Manager Gaëtan Garcia, joined the 7th International Sports Forum "Russia - Country of Sports" held in Ulyanovsk, Russia on October 10-12.  The Forum is a major event in the sports field, attracting several thousands of participants from all over Russia and abroad.  

TAFISA is happy to announce that this year the TAFISA World Walking Day has been a massive success with tens of thousands of participants from all around the world.

Among the most successful events were the following staged in Egypt, India and Turks and Caicos Islands.  

The world’s first Global Active Cities were honoured at an awards ceremony as part of the opening celebrations for the Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires.

TAFISA attended the inaugural meeting of the Open Ended Working Group on Model Indicators on Sport and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).  This meeting took place on Thursday 13th September 2018 at the Commonwealth Secretariat Headquarters in London.

The Indigenous Games Festival will be held on September 23rd to 28th, 2018 at the Seshego stadium in Limpopo by SRSA (Sports and Recreation South Africa).  This festival has been held every year since its inception in 2003 with the objective to preserve and enrich the South African traditional culture for future generations. 

TAFISA was honoured to attend the 12th World Martial Arts Committee World Games which took place in Schwäbisch Gmünd from 29th August to 2nd September, 2018. The Games were the largest to date, with 1180 starts from 113 clubs representing 25 countries across 5 continents.  It was a fantastic event with the smiles on the participant’s faces clear to see!

For the sixth year in a row, Budapest Capital 4th District Újpest Municipality, Hungary, successfully ran the Giant Sandbox Sports and Community Programmes to bring play and Sport for All to the city centre.