The Special Olympics swimming team of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) achieved outstanding results last weekend in Skopje at the Regional Swimming Meeting, within the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Regional Cooperation of North Macedonia, Albania, Kosovo, and BiH.
The national team consisted of Edna Sunjic, Harun Tanovic, Harun Abdagic, Rasim Bajric, and Alan Dzebo, under the leadership of coaches Samir Halilovic and Elvis Bekan, and the director of the Special Olympics BiH Kada Delic Selimovic.
Exceptional results were achieved and four gold, four silver, and two bronze medals were won. Harun Abdagic won three gold medals, Alan Dzebo won one gold medal.
Harun Tanovic won one silver and one bronze medal, Edna Sunjic won two silver medals, and Rasim Bajric won one silver and one bronze medal.
The Special Olympics teams of BiH, North Macedonia, Kosovo,and Albania took part in this competition.
“It is a great pleasure that we also showed at this competition that the Special Olympics BiH team truly lives up to its slogan ‘We should all not just talk about inclusion. We all need to live inclusion.‘ Our swimmers magnificently defended the colors of their homeland in Skopje and proved once again that the spirit of sportsmanship is the best way to overcome obstacles and that even people with disabilities are great sports ambassadors of their country,” said Kada Delic Selimovic, director of the Special Olympics of BiH.
The competition was held under the auspices of the Italian Embassy in BiH, the UN Peacebuilding Fund, and the UNFPA in BiH.
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