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World Swimming Championships for People with Down Syndrome - Morelia (Mexico), 7/17 November 2014.

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Make a Dream Come True

World Swimming Championships for People with Down Syndrome - Morelia (Mexico), 7/17 November 2014.

World Swimming Championships for People with Down Syndrome - Morelia (Mexico), 7/17 November 2014.

World Swimming Championships for People with Down Syndrome - Morelia (Mexico), 7/17 November 2014.

World Swimming Championships for People with Down Syndrome - Morelia (Mexico), 7/17 November 2014.

Marco Borzacchini
Marco Borzacchini
Marco Borzacchini
Marco Borzacchini
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Rome, Italy
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Polo

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Sweatshirt

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Official FISDIR Suit

$230 USD
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FISDIR is the Italian Federation of Sports for Intellectual and Relational Disabled.

Recognized by the Italian Paralympic Committee (CIP) as the organization responsible in Italy for the national and international events reserved to all the athletes registered inside the Federation, it was born in 2009.

People with Down Syndrome, Autism Syndrome, Border Line and all the others kind of intellectual disabilities can compete in 19 sports divided into two groups: Official (athletic, bowls, futsal, equitation, judo, gymnastic, swimming, rescue swimming, synchronized swimming, basketball, alpine and nordic skiing, tennis, table tennis) and Experimental (football, volleyball, waterbasket, dips and archery).

FISDIR is both responsible for starting and introducing people in sport, than to afford in competing in top level events. From London 2012 intellectual and relational disabled are allowed to compete in Paralympic Games. Athletic, Swimming and Table Tennis are the three disciplines that the International Paralympic Committee decided to introduce in the Paralympic Programme.

What FISDIR is trying to do is helping people, throw sport activities, in finding a new dimension in life: our athletes are citizens in the world who want to work, study, practice their favourite sport activities.

What this campaign want to reach is the possibility for this people to “Make a Dream Come True”, to have the possibility to compete in a World Event reserved to People with Down Syndrome. The help of contributors is necessary to allow Down swimmers to compete in 2014 World Swimming DSISO (Down Syndrome International Swimming Organization) Championships, event which will take place in Morelia, Mexico from the 7th to the 17th of November 2014.


Our dream is to bring an Italian Delegation in Morelia (Mexico) composed by 16 athletes.

We consider $ 57000 the minimum to encounter the expenses for trips, meals and hotels.

People who will support us will receive perks. What we want to show with our perks is that in FISDIR doesn’t exist the word impossible, but we only know the meaning of the word possible … this is possible only if you #OpenYourHeart.

For this reasons, a part pins and pennants, we’ll share the contributions with fantastic perks branded with the hashtag #OpenYourHearth, the best way in our opinion to represent our daily sacrifices and your economical contributions to support our great athletes that, throw sports, want to destroy barriers and crossing borders.

People with intellectual disability represent an important cost for our societies: therapies are very expensives. But what we can demonstrate is that all the intellectual and relational disabled who practice sport use a low number of medical therapies during the day. It means that more we invest on sports and less we’ll spend in therapies (improving their lives style quality).

But, first of all, they are athletes: just compare the followings world records between Italian Down Syndrome athletes and “normal” athletes in Short Course (25 metres):

100 Fly Man (shourt course):

Paolo Alfredo Manauzzi, Italy :     1’15’’76 (World Down Syndrome Swimming Event - Taipei 2010)

Evgeny Korotyshkin, Russia:     48’’48    (FINA World Swimming Championships - Berlin 2009)


800 Freestyle Man (short course):

Italo Oresta, Italy:   11’’58’’19 (European Down Syndrome Swimming Event – Estarreja 2013)

Grant Hackett, Australia:   7’23’’42 (Victorian Championships – Melbourne 2008)

100 Fly Female (short course):

Maria Bresciani, Italy:   1’35’’85 (FISDIR Italian Championships – Fabriano 2014)

Diane Bui Duyet, France:   55’’05 (FINA European Championships – Istanbul 2009)

200 Fly Female (short course):

Maria Bresciani, Italy:   3’33’’45 (European Down Syndrome Swimming Event – Estarreja 2013)

Liu Zige, China:   2’00’’78 (FINA World Swimming Championships - Berlin 2009)

Maybe these results don’t represent nothing, but please ask to a swimming trainer what does he/she think about these, and you’ll discover a new world, the world of FISDIR!

We know that none can support all the campaigns but - if you can’t -  please underline this campaign to all you friends, you can help FISDIR in “Make a dream come true” … or better making a lot of dreams, the dreams of the Down Syndrome Athletes that will represent Italy in the next edition of DSISO World Championships coming true.

If people will see this sport, they will get impressed … no doubts!


Our speciale perks:



Official FISDIR Pin:


Official FISDIR Pennants:


Polo #OpenYourHearth (Black, white, red, blue)

Sweatshirt #OpenYourHearth (black, white, red, blue)



Polo and Sweatshirt will be branded with the following logo:


Official FISDIR Suit:



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