The Whang Youn Dai Achievement Award is named after South KoreanDr. Whang Youn Dai, who contracted polio at the age of three. She devoted her life to the development of paralympic sport in Korea and around the world. At the 1988 Paralympic Summer Games in Seoul, Korea, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) recognized her lifelong contributions to the Paralympic Movement and established the Whang Youn Dai Achievement Award (formerly the Whang Youn Dai Overcome Prize). Since then, this award has been presented at every Paralympic Games to one male and one female athlete who each "best exemplify the spirit of the Games and inspire and excite the world".[1]
Whang Youn Dai
According to the IPC, "the award is for someone who is fair, honest and is uncompromising in his or her values and prioritizes the promotion of the Paralympic Movement above personal recognition." Six finalists, three female and three male, are selected from participants at the Paralympic Games. Two winners are then selected as recipients of the prize and receive a gold medal at the closing ceremonies of the Games. South African sprint runner Oscar Pistorius was nominated for the award in 2012, but did not win.[2] The IPC decided that from the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, it will no longer be awarded in the closing ceremony for the Paralympics. Instead, it was replaced by the I'mPOSSIBLE Award, established by the Agitos Foundation and the International Paralympic Committee and supported by the Nippon Foundation Paralympic Support Centre.
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^"Whang Youn Dai Achievement Award - Summer 2000 Sydney". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 19 March 2014.
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The Whang Youn Dai Achievement Award is named after South Korean Dr Whang Youn Dai who contracted polio at the age of three She devoted her life to the development of paralympic sport in Korea and around the world At the 1988 Paralympic Summer Games in Seoul Korea the International Paralympic Committee IPC recognized her lifelong contributions to the Paralympic Movement and established the Whang Youn Dai Achievement Award formerly the Whang Youn Dai Overcome Prize Since then this award has been presented at every Paralympic Games to one male and one female athlete who each best exemplify the spirit of the Games and inspire and excite the world 1 Whang Youn DaiAccording to the IPC the award is for someone who is fair honest and is uncompromising in his or her values and prioritizes the promotion of the Paralympic Movement above personal recognition Six finalists three female and three male are selected from participants at the Paralympic Games Two winners are then selected as recipients of the prize and receive a gold medal at the closing ceremonies of the Games South African sprint runner Oscar Pistorius was nominated for the award in 2012 but did not win 2 The IPC decided that from the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics it will no longer be awarded in the closing ceremony for the Paralympics Instead it was replaced by the I mPOSSIBLE Award established by the Agitos Foundation and the International Paralympic Committee and supported by the Nippon Foundation Paralympic Support Centre Winners editYear Host Season Winner NPC Ref1988 Seoul Summer Anne Trotman nbsp Great Britain 3 Pier Morten nbsp Canada1992 Barcelona Summer Jacile Wolfgang nbsp United States 4 Gabriel Angel nbsp Chile1996 Atlanta Summer Beatriz Mendoza Rivero nbsp Spain 5 David Lega nbsp Sweden1998 Nagano Winter Kim Mi Jeong nbsp South Korea 6 Marcin Kos nbsp Poland2000 Sydney Summer Martina Willing nbsp Germany 7 Oumar B Kone nbsp Ivory Coast2002 Salt Lake City Winter Lauren Woolstencroft nbsp Canada 8 Axel Hecker nbsp Germany2004 Athens Summer Zanele Situ nbsp South Africa 9 Rainer Schmidt nbsp Germany2006 Torino Winter Olena Iurkovska nbsp Ukraine 10 Lonnie Hannah nbsp United States2008 Beijing Summer Natalie Du Toit nbsp South Africa 11 Said Gomez nbsp Panama2010 Vancouver Winter Colette Bourgonje nbsp Canada 12 Endo Takayuki nbsp Japan2012 London Summer Mary Nakhumicha Zakayo nbsp Kenya 1 Michael McKillop nbsp Ireland2014 Sochi Winter Bibian Mentel Spee nbsp Netherlands 13 Toby Kane nbsp Australia2016 Rio de Janeiro Summer Tatyana McFadden nbsp United States 14 Ibrahim Al Hussein nbsp Individual Paralympic Athletes2018 PyeongChang Winter Sini Pyy nbsp Finland 15 Adam Hall nbsp New ZealandReferences edit a b Duncan Mackay 9 September 2012 Pistorius overlooked for London 2012 fair play award as Ireland s McKillop chosen Inside the Games Archived from the original on 9 September 2012 Whang Youn Dai Achievement Award finalists named Retrieved 8 September 2012 Whang Youn Dai Achievement Award Summer 1988 Seoul International Paralympic Committee Retrieved 16 September 2012 Whang Youn Dai Achievement Award Summer 1992 Barcelona International Paralympic Committee Retrieved 19 March 2014 Whang Youn Dai Achievement Award Summer 1996 Atlanta International Paralympic Committee Retrieved 19 March 2014 Whang Youn Dai Achievement Award Winter 1998 Nagano International Paralympic Committee Retrieved 19 March 2014 Whang Youn Dai Achievement Award Summer 2000 Sydney International Paralympic Committee Retrieved 19 March 2014 Whang Youn Dai Achievement Award Winter 2002 Barcelona International Paralympic Committee Retrieved 19 March 2014 Whang Youn Dai Achievement Award Summer 2004 Athens International Paralympic Committee Retrieved 19 March 2014 Whang Youn Dai Achievement Award Winter 2006 Torino International Paralympic Committee Retrieved 19 March 2014 Winners of Whang Youn Dai Award 2008 International Paralympic Committee 16 September 2008 Retrieved 16 September 2012 Bourgonje and Takayuki to Receive Whang Youn Dai Achievement Award International Paralympic Committee 19 March 2010 Retrieved 16 September 2012 Paxinos Stathi 15 March 2014 Sochi Winter Paralympics Toby Kane becomes first Australian to win Games top award Sydney Morning Herald Retrieved 15 March 2014 Winners revealed for Whang Youn Dai Achievement Award paralympic org 15 September 2016 Retrieved 25 October 2016 Whang Youn Dai Award winners announced paralympic org 16 March 2018 Retrieved 17 March 2018 External links editOfficial Website Portal nbsp Sports nbsp This award related article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Whang Youn Dai Achievement Award amp oldid 1093291638, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
