The World Sambo Super Cup is set to become the first-ever International Sambo Federation (FIAS) tournament

to feature competitions for blind and visually impaired athletes.

seven weight categories in each of the men's, women's and combat sambo tournaments while an SVI-1 class

for blind athletes and SVI-2 for competitors with other visual impairments will be made up of five weight

classes each.Blind sambo administrators are ultimately targetting Paralympic inclusion, and this first

international even is seen as a major milestone on that journey.The World Sambo Super Cup is included

contribute to their overall ranking for 2022.The FIAS regulations for the tournament state that athletes

President of the Russian Olympic Committee Stanislav Pozdnyakov says he is optimistic about the sport

of sambo featuring on the Olympic programme in the future.

International Sambo Federation (FIAS) towards the target of sambo receiving Olympic inclusion."

Nevertheless, the level of work of the International SAMBO Federation inspires optimism."

addition of the first FIAS tournament for the blind and visually impaired to the calendar.This is due

to be held as part of the World Sambo Super Cup, an event dedicated to the founders of the sport, set

to be a venue where sambists from around the world can train and prepare for competitions.

Roman Novikov, chairman of the International Sambo Federation (FIAS) Commission for Athletes and Disabilities

, has spoken of his desire to organise a junior international competition for blind and visually impaired

Novikov was speaking during a visit to a correctional boarding school for blind and visually impaired

Games of Martial Arts in Sambo for the Blind and Visually Impaired but added that he would like to stage

blind sambo competition.The Russian capital was awarded the hosting rights at this month’s FIAS Congress

the algorithm for passing the classification while specialised helmets for blind sambo were demonstrated.Summing

an additional incentive for the further development of sambo in Uzbekistan.

International Sambo Federation (FIAS) President Vasily Shestakov hopes sambo can feature as an "exhibition

" sport at the Paris 2024 Olympics with a view to securing a permanent place on the programme for the

Sport Committee for sambo to play some part at Paris 2024.Shestakov then hopes to push the case for

could be admitted into the Olympics for Los Angeles 2028."

We hope that it would be possible for sambo to be on the programme for the Olympics."

in the programme for the Olympic Games."

We hope to organise an international event for blind and partiality sighted sambists in 2022 and we are

Next year’s World Sambo Super Cup in Moscow is set to act as the "starting point" in the International

Sambo Federation (FIAS) Commission for Athletes with Disabilities' ambition to push for Paralympic inclusion

for the FIAS when it stages the first-ever international blind sambo competition.Moscow was awarded

the FIAS Commission for Athletes with Disabilities, said the World Sambo Super Cup will be a significant

It will be the first time in the history that we have organised the international event for blind sambo

and 2023 an Asian Sambo Championships for blind sambo."

, and Russian Sambo Championships for blind and visually impaired athletes have been held annually since

Saint Petersburg hosted the fourth edition of the Blind and Visually Impaired Russian Sambo Championships

battling not only for national titles but also places in the Russian team for the inaugural international

Federation (FIAS) has targeted a place at the Paralympic Games for the blind version of the sport and

signed an agreement aimed at boosting visually impaired fighters in June.This was penned with the Sambo

for the Blind charitable foundation, which has been influential in promoting the discipline.FIAS President

both the European and All-Russian Sambo Federations.

A record four continents are to host International Sambo Federation (FIAS) Sambo World Cups in 2022,

2022 calendar including adding combat sambo into the programme of the World Youth and Junior Championships

Sports Sambo among women" has been added as a discipline for the World Masters Championship too.World

the first International Sambo Tournament for the Blind and Visually Impaired as part of the World Super

Sambo Championship.He thanked President of the Cyprus Sambo Federation Marios Andreou for hosting the

11 on the eve of the World Sambo Championships in Tashkent in Uzbekistan.

The International Sambo Federation (FIAS) has targeted a place at the Paralympic Games after signing

FIAS penned the cooperation deal with the Sambo for the Blind charitable foundation, with both parties

now pledging to promote the sport.It is the latest step FIAS has taken into blind sambo, with the organisation

We are interested in promoting sambo for blind and visually impaired athletes and are happy to support

I see a new powerful impetus for joint development, since FIAS and the Sambo for the Blind Charitable

Foundation pursue one common goal - the entry of sambo for the blind and visually impaired athletes

The International Sambo Federation (FIAS) is considering holding an international tournament for blind

athletes for the first time in 2022.

the promotion of sambo for visually impaired athletes at global level.Sergey Eliseev, the vice-president

to discuss the promotion of blind sambo internationally ©FIAS"We have all the regulatory framework for

organising an official international sambo start for the blind and visually impaired," said Novikov.

It is important to note that nothing needs to be re-equipped for the wrestling of blind and visually

 "Competitions among the blind and visually impaired are held on the same mats as those of sighted

Roman Novikov of Russia has been appointed President of the Sambo for the Blind Charitable Foundation

for the Blind and in other projects related to the development of sambo for the blind and visually impaired

I hope that in the future, donors will pay due attention to the Sambo for the Blind Foundation, which

will allow us to more dynamically develop sambo for the blind and visually impaired already at the international

Roman Novikov believes the foundation will help the development of blind sambo ©FIASBlind sambo development

Sambo Championships for blind and visually impaired athletes have been held annually since 2017.At the

Roman Novikov, a member of the International Sambo Federation (FIAS) Commission for Athletes with Disabilities

, deems 2020 a productive year for blind sambo off the back of international rules being approved by

the FIAS.

Two documents, International Sambo Rules for the Blind and Visually Impaired and International Sambo

Classification Rules for the Blind and Visually Impaired, were examined by the FIAS Technical Commission

SAMBO competitions among the blind and visually impaired," Novikov said"As soon as the epidemiological

, specialised helmets for blind sambists who will compete in the SVI-1 class were finalised."

officially recognised the discipline, and the Russian Sambo Championships for blind and visually impaired

Russian coach Olga Berdysheva hopes her coaching of blind sambo can help support children in society,

Berdysheva told the International Sambo Federation (FIAS) that she became a blind sambo coach after being

offered a teaching position at a boarding school for the blind and visually impaired in Bashkiria.Berdysheva

are winners of the sambo championships of the Republic of Bashkortostan among the blind and visually

is also sambo discipline among the blind and visually impaired."

Youth and Junior Sambo Championships among the blind and visually impaired."

The International Sambo Federation (FIAS) Executive Committee has approved rules and classification rules

for sambo for the blind and athletes with visual impairments.

of Sambo for the Blind and Visually Impaired - have now been published as a result."

This is a turning point in the development of sambo for the blind - new horizons are now open for athletes

Sambo classification rules for the blind and visually impaired have been developed within the framework

of Sambo for the Blind' by the project group and members of the FIAS Commission for Athletes with Disabilities

Rules for blind sambo have been published on the FIAS website ©FIASThe classification system uses the

The International Sambo Federation (FIAS) has confirmed Moscow will host the 2021 World Sambo Championships

and voted for Ashgabat to stage the 2022 edition.

to stage the World Sambo Championships in Turkmenistan's capital Ashgabat because of the coronavirus

crisis.Novi Sad was already scheduled to host the World Youth and Junior Sambo Championships, with the

to the rules for sport sambo, combat sambo and weight categories in the masters age group.Changes were

also made to "International Sambo Rules for the Blind and Visually Impaired", "Sambo Classification

Rules for the Blind and Visually Impaired" and "regulations on FIAS referees".Russia was awarded the

A series of videos have been released featuring blind and visually impaired sambists training at home

during the coronavirus pandemic.

As well as continuing their training, blind and visually impaired sambists have also participated in

physical fitness during the lockdown.Members of the FIAS Sambo Demonstration Group for the Blind and

always important for an active sambo fighter to maintain physical fitness."

Also featured is Nikita Linik, a totally blind sambo and judo fighter."

fighter from Georgia and Suidumkan Kabulova of Kyrgyzstan, a visually impaired wrestler in both sambo