British Paralympic Association
National Paralympic Committee
Country Great Britain
CodeGBR
Created1989[1]
Continental
Association		EPC
PresidentNick Webborn, CBE[2]
Websiteparalympics.org.uk
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The British Paralympic Association (BPA) is the National Paralympic Committee for Great Britain (GBR), and is responsible for the United Kingdom's participation in the Paralympic Games.

The BPA select, prepare, enter, fund and manage the Great Britain and Northern Ireland team at the Paralympic Games. This team is known as ParalympicsGB.

Structure

Arms

Coat of arms of British Paralympic Association
Notes
[3]
Adopted
27 April 2016
Crest
On a Helm with a Wreath Argent, Gules and Azure: Within a Coronet comprising a Rim set with six Batons erect Or between Roundels alternately of Silver Gold and Bronze proper a Lion statant guardant Gules crowned with a Laurel Wreath the dexter forepaw raised and holding a Torch enflamed Or.
Escutcheon
Quarterly Gules and Azure two Leeks in pale that in base reversed and conjoined at the fess point to two Thistles in fess two Roses in bend and two Flax Flowers in bend sinister all with heads outwards and slipped and leaved Or the whole enfiling four Links of Chain interlaced in a square Argent.
Supporters
On either side a Lion guardant that on the dexter Azure that on the sinister Gules each crowned with a Laurel Wreath and holding in the exterior forepaw a Torch enflamed Or both upon a Compartment comprising a Grassy Mount Vert.
Motto
IUNCTI IN UNO

See also

References

  1. ^ "BPA History". British Paralympic Association. Archived from the original on 9 June 2011.
  2. ^ "Great Britain". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 13 March 2022.
  3. ^ "'The Team GB coat of arms'". Archived from the original on 19 July 2022. Retrieved 28 October 2022.

External links


European Paralympic Committee (EPC)
Sports governing bodies in the United Kingdom
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