The event, known as Global ID Sports Week, is due to take place between June 25 and July 1 next year and follows the success of the Global ID Sport Day which held in June this year.

Activities will take place across the world, with the aim of raising awareness of sport for athletes with an intellectual disability, as well as celebrating and promoting it.

It will be timed to coincide with the 2016 Inas European Athletics Championships scheduled to take place in Turkey's capital Ankara between June 28 and July 3.

Nick Parr, executive director of Inas, said: "After the success of the event last year with activities across all five regions, this year’s event is set to be bigger and better.

"With events planned across a whole week, it gives greater flexibility for nations and partners to host more events across the world, recognising and promoting opportunities for a group of people that are all too often marginalised and excluded from sport.”

Seventy-seven Inas member nations supported Global ID Sport Day with various events, including Portugal which hosted an international indoor rowing competition.

The United States used the day to announce their squad for the Inas Global Games in Ecuador, while Brazil staged a futsal tournament in São Paulo.

Further announcements about what will take place during the week will be made in the lead up to the event.


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