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/ Release from Bowls New Zealand / / Bowls NZ has informed the IBD (International Bowls for the Disabled) that we will not be hosting the IBD World Championships in November 2020. We have made this decision to give the IBD community certainty during these troubled times; an acknowledgement too, that we were unlikely to see many participant entries by the May deadline, due to uncertain international travel conditions. / / IBD endorses the decision of the Bowls New Zealand and it was made after careful consideration with the health and safety of everyone involved remaining our top priority. / / It is anticipated that these championships will be conducted in 2021. /


International Bowls for the Disabled has its origins in the family of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC), one of the largest sporting organisations in the world and the peak international body governing sport for athletes with a disability.

Formerly a sport on the programme of the Paralympic Games, bowls was excluded from this high profile world event in 1996. There were two reasons for this; we had insufficient nations participating in the sport and it was not a sport on the calendar of the Summer Olympic Games. Although included in the EAD sports at the Manchester Commonwealth Games in 2002 bowlers with a disability have also been excluded from this major competition.

Faced with an uncertain future, the member nations of IPC Bowls at the Sports Assembly in Australia in 2002 voted unanimously to form a new international federation, become independent and create their own boundaries within which they could control their destiny. A draft constitution for the new federation was formally adopted at the Sports Assembly held in Malaysia in 2004 and International Bowls for the Disabled (IBD) was incorporated in Australia in 2005.

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