HBLF Wheelchair Basketball Competition
HBLF WHEELCHAIR BASKETBALL COMPETITION 2016
The Hungarian Business Leaders Forum (HBLF) will hold its 14th Wheelchair Basketball Competition for its members and other interested parties. The venue of the event is the Kocsis Sándor Sports Hall. It will take place on October 1, 2016, Saturday, beginning at 9. a.m.
Date: October 1, 2016, Saturday
Veune: Kocsis Sándor Sportközpont (Budapest, X. ker. Bihari út 23.)
With the help of this charity competition, we would like to increase the popularity and improve the financial situation of wheelchair basketball in Hungary. The match beside its fundamental aim of providing an excellent opportunity for the employees to get to know each other better and see how life in a wheelchair is.
Join your company and set up the team based on the following points!
- We invite teams of four or more people to take part
- The entry fee is 95 000 HUF per team; this will be donated fully to the Return Foundation
- To ensure equal chances both women and men are welcome in the teams
- Participating teams play the game in a special wheelchair, on a standard basketball court
- Experienced wheelchair basketball players help the teams.
We hope you will find the cause worthy of support, the idea interesting and the entry fee fair. If at least four members of your staff or their friends wish to try this sport and would enjoy meeting with representatives of other companies and wheelchair basketball players with disabilities, please fill the registration form on our website until 23rd September:
We provide dates for practicing!
- Prior to the event, we provide dates for practicing: September 21 and 28, 19-20 p.m.
- If you do wish to play before the event, please contact László Farkas (30/971-55-84, farkas_laszlo@t-online.hu)
Cannot send a team?
Companies that cannot send a team are encouraged to support the sport of people with disabilities by paying the entry fee if they wish to do so. The entry fee will be donated in full to the Return Foundation, who will use it for covering the costs of a new professional sport-wheelchair. Such a specialized wheelchair costs about HUF 700-800 000.
Further information about the sport can be found at the www.iwbf.org
